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To: zeta1961 who wrote (46339)	2/16/2004 2:07:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

OT Personal [but here in case anyone's interested] Zeta, as you know, one doesn't really recover from cancer attacks, one survives them, with scars and "character building". I have actually had plenty enough character building now. Our youngest daughter also had cancer several years before, though of a far less virulent form [cervical ganglion neurofibroma excised leaving Harlequin syndrome, droopy eye etc and social consequences]. That was just a warm-up for the more scary event. My wife had melanoma a decade ago. That was undesirable too, but was obviously removed. I had squamous cell skin cancer - so far so good. Hers and mine due to excessive sun decades ago I suppose. That's 4 people out of the 6 in our family - yikes... It is now 6 years since completion of our son's treatment, so his prospects for long term survival have gone way up. If he didn't go snowboarding in avalanche areas! Our daughter is no longer under threat from her problem. Actually, that snowboarding reminds me of a funny episode. He'd been skateboarding and broke his wrist while bald and washed out with CHOP. So it was in plaster. It was summer, so he wrapped it in plastic to keep it dry and went body surfing at Piha. There was a shark alert and he was one-armed swimming back to shore [from a fair way out] and said he was thinking that he really was an evolutionary loser the way things were going. A broken-armed guy paddling for it with lymphoma and a shark after him. Mqurice PS: Now I've had a look at that site planetcancer.org and I did indeed laugh. There are relatively few young people in the cancer wards so I suppose it's easy to feel isolated and prematurely old. So such a site would be good for a lot of young adults. I see they use the word 'survive' too. That's basically what it feels like, but with a constant death sentence lingering in the background, with parole being cancelled without notice.