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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

"""YOu will never hear that from anyone but your doctor."""

He's the greatest!

Not like those assholes at Vancouver's Cambie Clinic who took my $700 for CT scanning my lungs, and when they found two lesions (one of them measuring 3 millimeters) told me (to protect Canadian Medicare I'm sure) that there's nothing to worry about.

When I later found out that after Canada's ex-prime minister's, Brian Mulroney's, CT scan showed two small lesions like mine they immediately hooked him up to a PET scan machine to make sure those suckers weren't cancerous, I was angry. Very angry. But, realizing he IS a somebody and that his nodules/lesions might have been larger I cooled down a bit.

BUT, listening to Tammy Faye Baker the other day telling Larry King about how when her doctors found a lesion on her lung that measured only two thirds of what mine was (2 millimeters) they immediately attached her to a PET scanner to find out if her sucker was cancerous, I was fuming. And I still am!


49 posted on 08/10/2005 2:25:57 PM PDT by RedwineisJesus
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

"""BUT, listening to Tammy Faye Baker the other day telling Larry King about how when her doctors found a lesion on her lung that measured only two thirds of what mine was (2 millimeters) they immediately attached her to a PET scanner to find out if her sucker was cancerous, I was fuming. And I still am!"""

I lied.

Rereading the CT report I got from the Cambie Clinic I have found that it was only my SMALL lesion that measured a measilly 3 millimeters. The big one was 4 millimeters. That's DOUBLE Of Tammy Faye's! DAMNIT!!!

Dr. B**s F**k's impression of my test was, and I quote:

"Two small and peripheral noncalcified lesions are identified. These are very likely to be benign with an extremely low risk of malignancy but a repeat chest screening study in one years time for follow-up purposes is recomended."

My interpretation of this crap?:

"Look, RedwineisJesus, let just wait a year or so and if those damn things grow that would mean that it was cancer to begin with and we'll deal with it then."

Is that fair?




53 posted on 08/11/2005 11:27:17 AM PDT by RedwineisJesus
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