good luck Kyle Karin >From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List" ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Hey all >Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:29:38 -0400 > >I got some particularly bad news yesterday afternoon, so to take my mind >off >things I went to the local bookstore that sells publisher overuns and used >books. I came across an interesting-looking tome in the "current events" >section. The book is called, "Fighting for the Future: Will America >Triumph?", written by Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, USA (Ret.). I gotta tell you, >even though the hardcover was published in 1999, and the foreward of the >paperback was written only ten days after 11 September, 2001, his analysis >of the current world-order is incredible. Virtually every sentence could >be >a quotable sound-bite; half the book is prophecy come true. I don't >usually >gush about somebody's opinion besides my own, but this guy--who appears to >be neither hawk nor dove, conservative nor liberal--has got his finger on >the world's geopolitical pulse like no one I've read before. If you're >interested in the world situation (as many of us on this list seem to be), >find this book! > >Ok, now for the bad news. About a month or so ago (I think I let Kat know >around the middle of June) I went to see my physician about a lump on my >right breast that had been there a while wasn't going away. The initial >diagnosis was "gynecomastia" based on an ultrasound and the fact that it >was >painful. Some things have happened in the meantime to warrant further >investigation, and the tentative results I got yesterday that it is, >indeed, >breast cancer. I see a surgeon tomorrow after a mammogram (NOT looking >forward to that--the tech I spoke with said that they are very difficult to >do on men, very painful, and she's only done a couple on men in the >thousands of mammograms she's performed). The good news is they think the >tumor is "encapsulated" and is enclosed in a "sac". If that's the case, >there won't likely be any treatment past surgery, and even the surgery will >not involved cutting the underlying muscle or lumph nodes. If it's >attached >to the pectoral muscle underneath, that's a completely different >ballgame... > >So, to those of you who believe in the efficacy of prayer, I'd appreciate >it >if you'd shoot a couple up on my behalf. If not, I could use a "virtual >hug". LOL! > >I told Laura about it last night. Since she has to go out-of-town on >Friday >for follow-up treatment of her own cancer-related problems, it was, >needless >to say, a pretty difficult evening. > >Thanks, y'all. > >Kyle _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963