[Leica] OT: Health report

[leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)]

Wonderful news, Herb!

Jay

On 4/19/2015 7:24 PM, Herbert Kanner 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