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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear?
XOMA 32.18-0.4%12:59 PM EST
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To: Bluegreen who wrote (7637)11/4/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: jackie  Read Replies (1) of 17367
 
Bluegreen,

Your words brought some very vivid and bad memories to the fore. When my son was two, he contracted subacute bacterial endocarditis with a serious tricuspid insufficiency (his valve was leaking.)

Of course, that first night we didn't know what the problem was. We just had a very sick baby with elevated white blood counts, low grade chronic fever, and general listlessness. No one knew what was going one. The night was a blur of requests from the doctors for permission to do one risky procedure after another. Tapping the pericardial sac, spinal tap, etc. Almost every case of "fever, unknown etiology" will suggest a spinal tap. Several friends and acquaintances with serious trauma or fevers have had spinals done. These were almost always done to rule out meningitis. Believe me, under those circumstances costs mean nothing if it will minimize danger.

Jack

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