{{{{{{{{{{ Kyle, }}}}}}}}}}
I am so sorry to hear this news! I wish nothing but the best for you
and your entire family . If there is anything at all I can help with or if
you just need to vent feel free to contact me on or off list.
Susan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: Hey all
> 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
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