[Magdalen] Belated medical update.

[Christopher Hart]

Yes, what Marion and Judy said.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> what Marion said.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Onward and upward, Mike!  We're walking with you and looking for the good
> > news.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 3/11/2016 12:31 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> >
> >> Monday's visit to Doc Kim was eventful.  First, I was right about the
> PET
> >> scan, that it did indeed indicate nothing more than we already knew,
> which
> >> was good.  Second, I was able to show her what had cropped up since I'd
> >> last seen her a month ago, namely, the spread of the "tumor-like" (based
> >> merely on how they feel to the touch) nodules on my legs and feet all
> up my
> >> legs and to my hips, and mainly on the right side.  I directed her to
> them,
> >> and when she started feeling them, and particularly the largest of them,
> >> she got a glimmer in her eye and a smile on her face, and after she'd
> >> mumbled some medical gunk back and forth with her research fellow
> >> assistant, she looked up at me and said "I'm so glad you came in today!"
> >> "Oh?"  "Yes!  I want one of these!"  I said "Get your own!"  A futile
> >> conversation in which I tried my best to get it put off a week (which I
> >> always do when it comes to needles and miniature razor-sharp cookie
> >> cutters, my 7th by now), which ended after she and her staff finally
> looked
> >> at my ride for the day (a dear nurse friend, whom I love dearly) with a
> >> "Please do something!" look, and my friend came over, put her arm
> around my
> >> shoulder, laid her head on mine, and said "Michael, it's happening
> today."
> >> And it did.  With me shaking and sweating and holding onto my friend for
> >> dear life as the largest chunk of me yet was removed from me.  But you
> know
> >> what?  It was, after the first few seconds, literally nearly
> pain-free.  I
> >> learned later it's because on my feet and shins there was a lot of bone
> so
> >> the lidocaine spread laterally, away from the site.  This time, it was
> my
> >> thigh, lots of nice fat cells, so it stayed put and did its appointed
> job.
> >> Also, the research fellow assistant who did it shot me maybe ten or more
> >> times (I was told later) all around the site, such that by the third
> shot I
> >> already wasn't feeling anything.  Such genius.  When it was done I said
> >> "Let's do it again!"  I still call it medieval barbering at its best, so
> >> the research fellow told me she'd make sure and do the next one herself
> as
> >> well, if needed (and you all know as well as I do that it will be, my
> luck;
> >> that time, it'll be on my torso re the potential lymphoma).
> >>
> >> After reading the write-up of the procedure online, I can say they're
> 90%
> >> certain that hips down is vasculitis, though still of a perplexing sort
> >> (the write-up literally begins with the words "This is a challenging
> >> case."), and torso up they're apparently not at all certain about
> >> lymphoma.  They've got me on a topical steroid right now to see if the
> rash
> >> responds positively to it, and if so they'll steer away from lymphoma.
> If
> >> not, back to the drawing, and cutting, board.
> >>
> >> The good news is that my shin and feet wounds are healing, slowly, and
> >> more shin than feet.  Which means less pain, though still constant
> >> discomfort and daily "redressing of my grievances", ala Brud.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN
> Western Michigan
>



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