Welcome back Tall Allen

Seems like more than a month to all of us and I am sure felt like not enough time for my mentor Tall Allen who took a one month sabbatical in November to compose what I expect will be a contest award winning novel.

I am sure he did a better job with his writing in November than I did with Movember but going to keep it a little longer for grand kids to see. I have the beard and the physique, just need a red suit.

Great to have you posting again Allen

LupronJim

Welcome back.

I for one feel better knowing that Tall and his knowledge are there if needed. Thanks, Allen, and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

Allen, Tall,
Missed your insight and knowledge. Glad you've got time to be here again.

Hope you finish your book - I love to hear about people sitting down to write.

and I am sure it will be award winning. If needed, we'll create an "HW" novel of the year award or something. ;)

Andrew

Mel, I posted this on the thread Tall Allen started but will replicatehere since you asked it here ...

Mel, in the other thread, Tall Allen referenced me to his support group as the poster child for the danger of bone scans.

The danger was not any excess radiation but rather a mis-diagnosis by a rural Florida imaging firm not accustomed to anything but slips and falls scans. They wrongly deemed me to have had bony mets, but not lymph node involvement.

It was not until I had the less subjective F18 sodium scan by Dr. Fabio Almeida at AZ Moilecular Imagining in Phoenix that the bony mets were negated and there was a suspicion of lymph nodes. I had the C-11 Acetate scan that confirmed I had 3 micro lymph nodes all contained in pelvic area.

So I was downgraded from state IV treatabel to not cureable to stage 3 potentially cureable with radiation. So that is how I came to follow Tall Allen's sage advice on SBRT and Provenge to leverage the abscopal effect

prostate-cancer.org/abscopal-effect/

LupronJim

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I didn't complete the novel, but got a good start. It's a magical realist family saga set in 17th century and 20th century Romania.

Welcome back! When you do finish that book I want a hard copy! As much as I love kindle some things are better held in my hands, and this book would be one of them!

Hope you are well!