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Minimalist wrote:Well...I'm more of a cheerleader



than a member of the team....




but, yeah....it's cool.

That's far from true, Min. You moderate this board, which has produced 38773 hits, alone, on material from the central Texas site I'm researching...in less than a year. I'd say that's being very much part of the team. Then factor in all the exposure this board has produced for topics such as: Mike Waters' revised Clovis 14C dates; Mike Collins' Wilson-Leonard and Gault research and the implications for the peopling of the Americas, and many other topics in this vein. You're very much a part of the team. Oh, and you do make a very cute cheerleader...

Digit wrote:Count me in!

And the same goes for you, Digit. You've provided much relevant input and fresh perspective.

Any news lately on your condition?

Hope all's progressing well, bro.

My MD showed me the clinical report yesterday and it's not quite so gloom and doom. The consultant stated to me a 'large and aggressive tumour' but wrote in his report, 'possible prostate carcinoma'.
My MD was angry and stated, and others have confirmed, that aggressiveness could not be established other than by a biopsy.
The PSA levels are well below normal alarm bell level at 6.5 and my MD thinks it has been found very early.
Fingers are crossed Charley and I'm waiting for the biopsy and possible MRI scan to be done.

Digit wrote:My MD showed me the clinical report yesterday and it's not quite so gloom and doom. The consultant stated to me a 'large and aggressive tumour' but wrote in his report, 'possible prostate carcinoma'.
My MD was angry and stated, and others have confirmed, that aggressiveness could not be established other than by a biopsy.
The PSA levels are well below normal alarm bell level at 6.5 and my MD thinks it has been found very early.
Fingers are crossed Charley and I'm waiting for the biopsy and possible MRI scan to be done.

Excellent news, Digit.

Don't you just despise alarmists!!

Dig,

My wife had a breast cancer scare a year and a half ago. Large lump, sudden appearance, all the doctors preparing for chemotherapy and radiation, never even a thought that it might not be cancerous.

Needless to say, when they took it out it was just a cyst...

Scared her into a health craze though and she ultimately dragged me along for the ride.

So, until they go in there and get some hard data you really don't know what you're up against.

My dad has had prostate cancer for 15 years. He's 90 and his PSA levels have gone as high as 14. The doctors are no longer terribly worried about it.

I'd say that's being very much part of the team.

That's just me being a heretic, Charlie!

That's about how my MD explains it Min. The problem is that as soon as you're told you have cancer every ache and pain tends to take on a life of its own. Being positive is the hard part, but I'm working on it!
It doesn't help when people start telling you about some one they knew who died of it!
And yes Charley, I do.

Minimalist wrote:

I'd say that's being very much part of the team.

That's just me being a heretic, Charlie!

It doesn't help when people start telling you about some one they knew who died of it!
And yes Charley, I do.

Zero sensitivity...the SOB's.

Charlie Hatchett wrote:

It doesn't help when people start telling you about some one they knew who died of it!
And yes Charley, I do.

Zero sensitivity...the SOB's.

People tend to say lots of stupid things in awkward situations.

Minimalist wrote:

Charlie Hatchett wrote:

It doesn't help when people start telling you about some one they knew who died of it!
And yes Charley, I do.

Zero sensitivity...the SOB's.

People tend to say lots of stupid things in awkward situations.

Yeah, I guess I've been guilty of that in the past.

Charlie, thanks for the link. Now that's the kind of class I would love to get involved with.

Leona Conner wrote:Charlie, thanks for the link. Now that's the kind of class I would love to get involved with.

Right?

I would go back to school if there were a nearby school with an up to date syllabus like Indiana's. I've asked myself to date, why go to school: everything I would "learn" would be wrong or outdated? At Indiana, I could actually make my dissertation: "Evidence for Homo Erectus in North America" and actually receive my Ph.D.