[Magdalen] Glad news, if puzzling

[sally.davies at gmail.com]

It seems that the final description is "nodular hypertrophy".

If a nodule is a bump and hypertrophy is something that's outgrown its
normal size then this doesn't really seem like a diagnosis. More likely
just medicalese for "we don't know what these things are but they aren't
doing anything dangerous".

Once again, thank you all so much for your love and support.

Keith has managed to lose 4kg through avoiding sugary stuff and red wine.
This is very good and needs to continue!

Sally D


On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 at 17:04 Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad of the news, and of many companions walking with you through the
> mystery. Prayers continue.
>
> Georgia
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:34 AM,  <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Finally, we got the call...
> >
> > Definitely not cancer.
> >
> > No cancer.
> >
> > What these weird things might be, the boffins haven't yet figured out,
> but
> > they can say for certain that it's not malignant...
> >
> > That's really all we needed to know. The rest may or may not be academic,
> > and Keith still has to have some other health checks in his near future
> > (colonoscopy being the most important) but at least we now have a result
> we
> > can trust.
> >
> > The laboratory will puzzle over the samples for another couple of days;
> > next week, the academic surgeon who did these tests will be here in Port
> > Elizabeth and my sister will have a chance to discuss his conclusions if
> he
> > has any by then.
> >
> > I am so relieved, and so grateful...and yet strangely upset still. I
> guess
> > it takes a while to revert to complacency. Perhaps we never will
> completely
> > and that's probably no bad thing either.
> >
> > Sally D
>