Hi Rolf, My cousin, at forty six, was also given 6 months to live. That was
the prognosis by local doctors fifteen years ago. All I remember about his circumstance was that I went to see him and offer my sympathy and he would have none of it. He was sure he could beat it against all odds.
He researched the best facilities in the U.S. and chose MD Anderson at the University of Texas. They hit him with every conceivable toxin to kill the cancer. He lost 40 pounds.He lost his beer belly, but continued to wear his old clothes that hung from him like a kid wearing his parents clothes, convinced he would live to one day fill out those clothes again. I report to you he is today cancer free and living a much healthier life today than before his diagnosis. His attitude is what I will always remember about those trying times. It woke me up about the strength within him. Here is their website. Good luck and stay strong.
http://www.mdanderson.org/
Heather dear, I hope you were quoting
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Originally Posted by
hjames
I don't know if this will help your friend, but author and science writer Jerry Pournelle just went through a similar occurance with an inoperable brain tumor that he had worked over through targetted radiation therapy ...
"For those who don't know, I get Zapped with hard X-Rays daily at noon. They are burning out some growth near Broca's Area (extremely inoperable). Scans of the rest of me show it is unique: I don't have multiple myeloma that metastasized, and they can't get a biopsy so they are killing this thing on the grounds that it don't belong there even if they don't know what it is."
His weblog is a mess to wade through - but he blogged the whole process
starting around Feb or so through the end of the summer (2008)
Start around here where he is learning about and getting medical test ...
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/view505.html
I believe he had Kaiser Permanente out around LA
Prayer for your friend!
Jerry Pournelle in your post.
William