Illness:
From:
Date: 01/05/15 10:33:08
To: Mark Sztanyo
Subject: Painful African Virus Threatens the United
States
Mark,
I got this while visiting Trinidad/Tobago. It is very
annoying for sure- I am now on Month 3. No Doctors here were even up to
what it was- good info I think.
Happy New Year
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Gene Hall Update:
From: Gene Hall
Date: 1/19/2015 6:34:12 PM
To: Gene Hall
Subject: Still Surviving
It November 2011, I woke up in the ICU, and I had so many
lines hanging out of me, that I instinctively knew that the surgery was not as
simple as we thought it would be. I had been fighting Melanoma for three years,
and this was surgery number ten. I was used to waking up in the recovery room,
and going home a few hours later, or at the very worst going to a hospital room
for one or two nights.
Before the surgery, the neurosurgeon had explained to me
that it was “very unlikely that that the Cancer is through the dura and into
the brain.” But it was, and he didn’t take it out, because I statistically had
two or three months to live. It was a quality of life issue. If he cut on my
brain, it would not extend my life, and I would certainly not be able to speak,
and I might be crippled.
In spite of the fatal prognosis, my oncologist at Emory was
not ready to give up - nor was I. In the ensuing three years, I have had two
types of chemotherapy. I was getting along great, but while watching Oklahoma
beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl last year, I lost my ability to speak. The
neurosurgeon said, “there is no downside to doing brain surgery now.”
This time when he came into the ICU, he explained that
rather than finding a tumor embedded in my brain, that it was sitting on top,
which made it easy to take out. He said, “I got all I could see, but there is a
possibility of microscopic cells left.”
Back to March of 2012; the day before I was going to start
the first round of chemotherapy, I wrote a blog which was sent to about a third
of my present mailing list. The subject was “Prayers and Prophecy,” and the
title was “A few of the reasons why I have no doubt about the existence of
God.”
Bear in mind that this just over two months after I was told
that I probably had two or three months to live. It has not been up-dated, and
I think it is more meaningful three years later than it was then.
If you want it - email me, and I will send it in the body of
an email to you.
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