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Hi all,
I will not be able to participate in this years SHTP. I would like to continue to participate in the SHTP forum as at some point I will be able to finish getting the boat ready for future races, and I have found the forum to be very helpful.
While waiting to catch the plane back from Oakland on November 13th, after attending the Power management seminar, my wife was hospitalized which what was diagnosed later at Mayo Clinic as stage 4 lung cancer, with other complications. We are getting treatment at Mayo Clinic, and she is doing better, but obviously, the prognosis is not encouraging. We will make an effort to make every day count.Attachment 1294Attachment 1295
I have appreciated the interaction with other forum participants, and meeting some of you at the seminar. Hopefully the future will include a SHTP. Sometimes the lesson that life is what happens after you make your plans, does get your attention. In any case, I have come to believe fully in the old cliche, "eat dessert first, life is short".
Jim
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Hi all,
I want to thank you for your kind expressions of sympathy. We just got back from Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville Florida, where Ke underwent brain radiation, targeted to the five small spots that showed up on her first MRI. They had disappeared after 30 days of taking Tarceva, a new drug that prevents the cancer cell from dividing, and the radiation was a prophylactic measure. At the same time, the cancer in her lungs uwas 90 percent gone. I am hopeful that that positive trend continues in one month when we go back for a follow-up lung CT SCAN. THE DOWNSIDE TO TARCEVA IS THAT A TERRIBLE acne like skin disruption goes with it. Ke was not recognizable for a while. But, when beauty or death is the choice, there isn't much to think about. I have not even been on the boat behind my house to check the water level. I content myself with looking at the waterline. Battling cancer is a full-time job it seems like, when combined with trying to have a life and work. It's kind of like an ocean race where you go from periods of joy, and sorrow, slogging upwind, with occasional respites of the wind at your back. We are thankful for what we get. As a criminal defense lawyer, I have been humbled by the extreme kindness shown to me by judges and the various district attorney's I deal with. Generally they are a hard-bitten bunch of wolves who all want to put my poor clients in jail, and we have a contentious, yet symbiotic, relationship. But every one of them has bent over backwards to accommodate my needs for continuances of hearings, trials, etc., and have been so kind to me.
We are all humans under the job description after all.
Jim