Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hear, hear! Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 20 Apr 2015, at 04:52, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Nathan Wajsman (gmail) nwajsman at gmail.com http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>