[Magdalen] Bittersweet medical update.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

thoughts and prayers with you Mike as you ponder the enormity of this 
all.... take a bit of a rest in the golden hammock

peace
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 10:53 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Bittersweet medical update.

> Things are still doing okay (except for needing to ramp down the 
> colchicine for its side effect of "singing the die-aria"), but I finally 
> heard what I think I'd been told before but now believe it.  Namely, these 
> wounds and nodules of mine will take months, possibly years, to heal, and 
> in many cases healing takes place when the disease simply "burns itself 
> out", as per my Stanford dermatology doc today.  Wow.  All I can say is, 
> Thank God things are better enough such that I only change my dressings 
> every other day now.  Point blank, I keep CVS in business these days.
>
> A little depressing that it will take so long, but I long for, and hope 
> for, the day I can scratch my legs and feet again.  Can't do that to raw 
> flesh.  Why do I say that?  Because it itches sometimes, to high heaven! 
> Eek.
>
> Signed, Wanting to be well in Salinas.