Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to all who expressed good wishes. Herb Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. > On Apr 20, 2015, at 2:50 AM, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote: > > > Sounds like excellent news indeed! > > Barney > > Barney Quinn, WK3Z > C: (301) 775-1386 > H: (301) 654-0938 > >> On Apr 19, 2015, at 10:24 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >> >> 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 >