Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information