Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 Lluis El 20/04/2015, a les 22.09, Philippe <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> va escriure: > Yup, keep ? doing whatever you like or fancy :-) > > And sharing with us too! > > Amities > Philippe > > > Le 20 avr. 2015 ? 04:52, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> a > ?crit : > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information