"Surgery Imminent"

9/17-21st

So in last week's installment, our hero was "saved" from an inappropriate(according to the UCSF study) chemo session at the last minute and began to wrap his head around the reality of an earlier surgery. After a sleepless night of "how come my shrinkage was less than 90% of the other study patients(always competitive, nicht wahr?), -this does not bode well?- this sucks- I'm a goner, etc. etc.," I finally came to my senses (with a little help from Drs. and nurses) that my failure to make the study cut-off figure was just THAT-no more nor less and said nothing about my prognosis. So the rest of the week was spent happily playing music with my visiting saintly brother Michael (who will be with me as long as I need him)and friends Anne Lober and George Timson.

My poor S.F. surgeon Dr. Varma, is madly scurrying around trying to find operating room privileges in the Mt. Parnassus campus of UCSF since the Mt. Zion campus where she operates is fully booked to the end of Oct. We temporarily have an Oct. 2nd date that hopefully will be confirmed Sept. 25th. That's all for now! Stay tuned! Cheers, IR