A dear friend of Terry's, her art mentor Joy Hartsfield, has been diagnosed with a tumor on her tongue. She will have surgery on September 25th. Please keep her in your thoughts on that day. Hopefully the surgeon will have clear margins and Joy won't lose too much of her tongue--and she can avoid chemo + radiation down the road. Joy is a true "starving artist" and works a part-time job to survive on and keep her in art supplies. She has limited health insurance, so it's important that she can avoid long-term treatment and care.
We have not seen Winnie in a while, but hear that she is doing well, even as her cancer spreads. Please keep her in your thoughts, too.
We have started a series of tests, scans, and appointments that will lead to the jaw resecting in April. All of the doctors are on board with our plan to wait until we get back from New Zealand, but the tests and other preparations are being done now just in case this turns into an emergency--and to allow it to be done soon after we get back.The prep time is long, due the the number of doctors involved (5 or 6) and the making of the 3-D model of my jaw to help with the bone sculpting that's needed.
Finally, I am having more eye surgery on the 28th. After noticing some severe degrading of my vision the eye doc did an exam and told me that the little bit of the lens that's left in to hold the new lens in place has gone bad in both eyes, so he needs to remove the old lens bits. Why does that not surprise me? So, one will be done on the 28th and the other in October.
Mike
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