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To: Ilaine who wrote (15254)	3/27/2006 3:36:30 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543022

but if he called Kaiser and told them he had a growth on his forehead it wouldn't take long to get an appointment. It didn't, and they removed it well and quickly. My problem was that it took me to notice it. I'm not trained in medicine nor had I ever seen a melanoma before in real life, only pictures. But when I went to visit him, I spotted it and knew what it was even before I could get close enough to hug him hello. He sees his doctor several times a year. Now wouldn't you think a doctor, any doctor, would have noticed it? The darn thing was an inch across with splotches of blue and red. A stoplight couldn't have been more visible. And melanomas kill. I don't expect everybody to like pushing, or even be any good at it. Sweet ninety somethings aren't good at it, at least not mine. I don't push. My doctor sends me for every test and exam known to medicine, and I'm not kidding. Her latest offering is that I should take some blood test that looks for hundreds and hundreds of potential allergens on the off chance that I might be allergic to something. I had a cardiac CAT scan a few months ago even though I don't have any cardiac symptoms. (And not a bit of plaque in my arteries, as it turns out, but then she already knew that from the thalium stress test and cardiac catheterization she sent me for a few years back.) No, I don't have to push her. She gives new meaning to "preventive medicine" and "aggressive treatment." It's a struggle to keep up with all the places she sends me. <g>