[TheForge] Another generic update OT:

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

You ain't generic at all, so cook that tumor completely please!
The standard strategy of poisoning and frying both you and the cancer on 
the premise
that it dies and you survive...is awful damn clumsy and crude.
But it's still the best we have...And we know you are a tough cookie.
I don't look back on my own heavy chemo with any pleasure at all;
But that was 30 years ago now, may you be able to say the same!

On 11/17/2010 6:18 AM, John Husvar wrote:
> Sorry for the impersonal messages. I'm still oxygen dependent and tire
> easily. The upside is: This might finally break my internet addiction.
>
> Here's the latest hot off the CAT Scan report.
>
> Ve are drivink ze cancer zells bevore us und hearing ze lamentations of zere
> vimmen! (Idiot! Cancer cells don't have women. They reproduce asexually,
> dumbkopf!)
>
> Zorry. Too badt vor dem. Ich like mein vay better.
>
> I had a 3-D Cat scan Monday and saw my Radiation Oncologist yesterday. I
> only have half a tumor left and no visible collateral bits or pieces after
> 21 radiation treatments.
>
> There are still 14 or so treatments to go, then a reevaluation and decide
> whether any further chemo is indicated. (After the last round, I'm not so
> sure I want to do that again.:)
>
> The radiation machine is bloody awe-inspiring. It's a Synergy Elekta. Think
> of a computer-controlled machine tool that shoots subatomic particles with
> darn near cellular-level accuracy. ( I should have a rifle that good!) Looks
> kind of like the Starship Enterprise revolving around you dropping photon
> torpedoes.
>
> What it really is: A multi-megavolt linear accelerator. It's programmable to
> the shape and thicknesses of a tumor and focuses and masks it's output so as
> to minimize damage to healthy cells. The beams can even be focused to
> interact within the tumor and only attain their full energy when they do. So
> far no side effects worth noting.
>
> All I have to do is lie there while it moves around my body blasting cancer.
> When it's firing all I hear is a high-pitched whine for 2-4 seconds. The
> total on time works out to about 20 seconds or thereabout.
>
> Quantum Mechanics at the local hospital! Whoda thunk?
> A really elegant piece of engineering.
>
> Vote of Thanks to Uncle Albert, Nils Bohr and the rest of the Quantum
> Physics guys!
>
> Hmmm. Isn't that just like me, mor interested in the gadgetry than the
> results. Figures.
>
> So that's it up to now. I find I don't miss any of the missing cancer cells
> even a little bit.
>
>
>
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