Tough kayakers do better! Between my sporadic bouts of irriligiousity, I have been asking the Man upstairs to keep an eye on you Gordin. Not that Victoria needs more grizzled old kayakers on the kayak scene, but we do kind of think of you as special. :-) Hang in there buddy! Doug L > Good news came my way yesterday. My friend and urologist Dr. Iain > McAuley > gave me the news - there was nothing on the scope. This means that after > a > seven month battle I am now cancer free. > > The flip side of the news is that there remains a one in four chance of > the > cancer coming back; that's if I do nothing. If I continue with the BCG > treatments I can greatly reduce those odds. > > The hard part will be completing the treatments. Only 18% ever see the > treatments through to the very end. Of the 82% that don't complete the > treatments many are forced to quit after developing the TB side affects > associated with BCG. Others pack it in fed up with the invasive and not > very > pleasant experience. > > I've signed up and will resume the treatments in October. I'll have to see > how > far I can make it down this road. > > Apologies to my good friend Martin. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 16 2008 - 22:59:51 PDT
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