Dear Ron,
Pls excuse me I find it very difficult for me to articulate as you do,
so pls forgive my ignorance and hope this makes sense. I believe your
oncologist who will be at a conference in Baltimore is located near
Bethesda which is the main location of the National Cancer Institute.
Just for your info.
Now, I promise if and when I play for you and John one day, and I hope
that to be soon, I WILL NOT PLAY "And I will Always Love YOu". :) and
lol. I, personally, like the song, but like any song that you hear over
and over again, like the one they are playing quite often by Celine Dion
from the movie "Titanic" can be played to the point of unnerving
annoyance, just as you said. I am glad you are a conossieur of fine
Latin/Spanish music. I know you will enjoy the music that I play. That
is not to say I am a good player, but the music is passionate and the
usual Spanish verve and fire. I am looking forward to that. While I am
in Chicago, I am playing a concert for about 150 men and women at my
Mothers senior citizen home and hope they enjoy this type of music. And
Ron I do appreciate the din or position you described. I have been in
that mode myself a time or two.
Take care my friend and it sounds like the news about your tests and
your oncologist are so very positive, as we have prayed for. STay well
my friend
God Bless
marty auslander
HewRon wrote:
>
> To my friends on MOL:
>
> Diana, sorry to be late submitting a report on last night's visit to the Upper
> East Side where I had blood taken from my arm instead of my finger (so much
> easier!) Things turned out pretty much the same way as last time -- a very
> desirable outcome. So a prayer was answered! My whites were 15.8; my H/H
> 8.7/25, my platelets 28,000. Of course these are not optimum numbers but they
> are pretty good for me, and the doctor saw no need for me to have transfusions
> today. However, knowing my history, he thinks that I should probably get a
> refill or two on Friday, and has booked a space for me in case I need input.
>
> He also took some other tests from the same blood -- having to do with
> checking on how my organs are operating in general, in comparison with the
> last similar check-up taken I not know not when -- in hospital probably. I
> hope we get good news here too, because I would like to stay away from chemo
> as long as possible. These last few days I have sensed a swing to normalcy --
> for me anyway! -- and have actually been sorting my hospital bills. The
> insurance company has left small balances for me to pay on some of them -- and
> some of them not so small, but then the amount the company paid was huge in
> those cases. I am terrible with papers, as I proved when I was a pre-call-up
> clerk in a London lawyer's office -- Parker, Sloane and Pinsent -- and no, I
> didn't live in a Dicken's novel. That was one of the worst times in my life. I
> was afraid about being drafted, because I thought I was a shy type. One of the
> things I learned after induction into the British air force was that I was not
> shy at all and just loved having people around me. The only drawback was that
> they put bromide into the tea kegs -- they do the same in the USA I believe,
> only I'm sure it's coffee here -- which has the effect of taking a young man's
> fancy away from thoughts of love. I remember the evening when we were sitting
> on our bunks chatting about this and that, and somebody asked if everyone else
> was like him: devoid of lust. And we agreed we were. That treatment was
> restricted to what was called the squarebashing weeks (boot camp). After that,
> the lust came back and all hell broke loose!
>
> Our bootcamp was up in the hills of what I now think of as the western
> midlands, near the border with North Wales, at a camp called Wilmslow, and I
> remember getting up at the crack of dawn to go romping around the square in
> formation, with the distant hills topped with streaks of cloud, and the air
> cool and damp, and the frenzied screams of the NCOs who were running the show.
> Believe it or not, I became completely happy in the service and signed up for
> another year, because I had never laughed so much in my life, you got higher
> pay, and you had a choice of job type. I chose shorthand-writer because I had
> been told that would lead to my being placed with commanding officers, to deal
> with their correspondence, a cushy job. (What's more, you got 6-months
> training, and I already had a rudimentary knowledge of shorthand and typing.)
> It was all true, and the entire three years were several hilarious educations
> all rolled up into one. Now who asked me to tell you that?
>
> Of more pertinence to this site, I guess you all heard about the AIDS
> discovery, which may have important results for us here at MOL. Apparently
> they have discovered in the urine of pregnant women a substance (HAF) that
> stops the AIDS virus dead in its tracks. It has to be tested out over three
> years or so *naturally*, but could have profound implications for cancer
> because this substance also "returns the bone marrow to normal". This was new
> even to the Wizard, my oncologist, and he said that last night he was going on
> line to find out all about it. He is also going to some conference or other in
> Baltimore this Friday, and I think I can guess the facility at which it is
> taking place, and no doubt this discovery, even if not on the agenda, which it
> should top, will be discussed under Other Business. All of this is guessing,
> of course. But I saw his eyes light up when I mentioned the bone marrow. And I
> felt mine light up when I heard the item on CNN at 4 p.m. yesterday as the
> lead item.
>
> I hope everything's going well with your Brother and you, Diana, and with all
> members of the congregation. The plate will be passed around in a few minutes,
> and we shall sing "Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow".
>
> By the way, I dropped by the coffee shop on the way home from the doctor's
> last night, and guess the first song I heard over those nice little speakers.
> You guessed it: "And I will always love you". Concerning which, thank you for
> your music letter, Marty. I have nothing against either of the singers with
> which the song is identified, but I would much rather not hear it. I would
> much rather hear guitar music, guitar all by itself, as I plow into my meal.
> (My appetite remains very much intact.) As I munched away, I thought if only I
> could hear Marty right now, I might get up and do a solitary tango.
> Incidentally, I would hardly expect you, Marty, a musician and a musical
> person, to appreciate the kind of din I was trying to describe when I said we
> went into Virgin Records on Times Square, where, by the way, my friend picked
> up a Chinese CD containing music discovered in a tomb I think four thousand
> years old. The musicians concerned of course did not know exactly how to
> interpret the old manuscript, but we listened to the results as we toured
> Manhattan the other evening, and it was gloriously restful and uplifting --
> just as tomb music should be!
> No, the noise that made me uncomfortable was the sound of different kinds of
> music all being played at the same time over the speakers in different music
> sections: if you happen to be at a crossroads where you have three or four
> different musics playing at once, well, that must be very close to hell. In
> which I don't believe, of course. Did I ever mention that? Too much for the
> congregation perhaps!
>
> Up towards health, everyone.
>
> God bless you all.
>
> -- Ron
>
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