[Magdalen] What today's Stanford appt yielded.

[Marion Thompson]

(Playing in the background,  'I got plenty of nothing.  Nothing's plenty 
for me....')  Lots of prayers ascending for nothing and a good end to 
your worries about all this as well as complete healing of all the 
blotches and blains currently afflicting you.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 1/27/2016 12:03 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Prayers and an amen for what Scott and Ginga wrote. And strength for this journey Mike.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mike,
> I am praying, and like  Scott, for 'hopefully nothing.'
>
> Ginga
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Catharine Phillips <revcphillips at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>> Praying, Mike.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Praying for nothing, Mike. (As in "hopefully nothing.") Clarity and
>>> effective treatment followed by relief and good health. I guess that's
>>> something...Praying, in any case...Scott
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:04 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I just wrote this to a friend who was greatly desirous to know how
>>> things went.  See after that for more comments.
>>>> [begin quote]
>>>> Today's specialist opinion is that the rash on my trunk is still
>> looking
>>> and behaving like lymphoma, AND -- get ready -- the vasculitis on my legs
>>> and feet is looking and behaving less and less like vasculitis.  Why?
>>> Because the biopsy on the foot, which they're not done with yet, showed
>> up
>>> lymphocytes like on my trunk.  But they're not totally sure yet.  More
>>> molecular testing on the biopsy.  But it's dermatology specialists'
>>> considered opinion that it's very likely they are already redundant, and
>> my
>>> wounds no longer need wound care per se.  I'll be hearing very soon from
>> Dr
>>> Kim at Stanford Hospital for setting up an appointment.  Dr Kim is a
>> cancer
>>> specialist.  They also took more blood, and had me do a chest x-ray.  At
>>> this point, the feeling I got when leaving today was that I possibly
>> won't
>>> be seeing my friends in Redwood City again.  I was also encouraged,
>> HIGHLY
>>> encouraged, to get my Clark appointment (currently 02/23) moved up post
>>> haste.
>>>> [end quote]
>>>>
>>>> (Clark, by the way, is my GP.)
>>>>
>>>> I'm waiting until the Dr Kim appt to know more before I tell Everett,
>> so
>>> hopefully I have something good to tell him.  I won't deny I'm worried,
>> but
>>> I also won't deny my own dance with mortality-thinking over the last year
>>> has had me prepared for a while now.  Prepared for what?  Hopefully
>>> nothing.  "Here, pop this pill and all will be well."  One never knows.
>>> But that's just it.  One never knows.
>>>> Please pray.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott R. Knitter
>>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Catharine Phillips, MA, MDiv, CADC*
>>
>>
>> *All will be well.  Period.  (Thank you, Julian of Norwich)*
>>
>> allwillbewellperiod.blogspot.com
>>