Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/19

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Health report
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 19:52:46 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

That's good news Herbert and here's hoping the news next year is as good.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
http://doug-herr.fineartamerica.com


-----Original Message-----
>From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
>Sent: Apr 19, 2015 7:24 PM
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>Cc: Kate McGregor <kmcgregor at computerhistory.org>
>Subject: [Leica] OT: Health report
>
>I now have the nearest I can get to a final report. Remember, it all 
>started with a lesion in my left femur, whose only symptom was what I 
>thought was a strained muscle in my thigh. The first physician who saw the 
>X-ray was told by three radiologist (so he said) that my hip was on the 
>verge of breaking, and that I should be wheeled immediately to the 
>emergency room as the fastest way of getting into the hospital (Stanford). 
>Eventually an orthopedic surgeon saw the X-ray and told me to go home, that 
>there was no immediate danger of a fracture, and that I would see an 
>orthopedic surgeon the following Tuesday. 
>
>Things then went from bad to worse, because it took about four months to 
>get a definitive diagnosis. The orthopedic surgeon said that drilling for a 
>sample was too risky, and the long wait was to get the critters called 
>?Interventional Radiologists? to do a needle biopsy. This is quite a 
>production, because it is a biopsy guided by a CAT scan, so there is that 
>crew of one or two surgeons, a couple of nurses, a radiologist to tell the 
>surgeons what they are seeing, and a pathologist to tell them if the sample 
>is big enough. They?re all wearing lead aprons. And I?m injected with 
>?happy voice? so that even fully conscious (so it seemed), I feel 
>absolutely no pain.
>
>The result was a very slow-growing prostate cancer, a breed that didn?t 
>raise the PSA. The specialist-in-prostate-cancer-oncologist felt that any 
>treatment more than a pill that cuts testosterone would be over-kill. The 
>orthopedic surgeon, looking at the x-rays that followed two weeks of daily 
>radiation treatments to my hip concluded that the tumor had been 
>sufficiently ?killed? that he made the next appointment to see him a year 
>from now.
>
>Herb
>
>
> 
>Herbert Kanner
>kanner at acm.org
>650-326-8204
>
>Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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