once a bile duct, always a bile duct......

whipple modified whipple, get a grip people. and if you expect all the answers before the knife goes in, you're damned ignorant. because that ain't how things happen.
and that's it from me, unless you want to PM me. skinners right, y'all can cool your jets till after the 26th.


bettyellen (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-28-05 10:32 PM
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Keep a good thought for Andy when he goes to the doctor tommorrow......


he's a little nervous, suprise.....and he's hoping this man will agree to be his surgeon. he deserves a good one, and i know you guys move mountains with your vibes, so let's get to it.
if that doesn't work, i'll post the doc's fax number. nahh, i'll PM you with it.

andy is still looking at some very risky surgery, and a couple courses of chemo. so please keep a good thought for him. and if you can help:

https://www.paypal.com /

His Paypal account name is Andy_Stephenson@comcast.net

or:

Andy Stephenson
P.O. Box 25624
Seattle, WA 98165-1124

who don't know and love andy as we do, i'll let will pitt explain:

"If you have followed the push for election reform over the last two years, you have probably heard the name Andy Stephenson. Andy, who worked for a long time with the folks over at BlackBoxVoting.org, has been at the forefront of the fight to make sure that every vote is counted, every vote counts, and that our elections do not become a privatized exercise in electronic touch-screen theft....
snip.......

For the last several weeks, Andy has been suffering through a bout of Hepatitis. The word came down yesterday, however, that his situation is far more serious. "I apparently have a tumor growing around the bile duct where it passes through my pancreas," he wrote. "The tissue sample was consistent with malignancy; it could be benign but I am planning for the worst."

Andy has been out of work for several months; he gave pretty much his entire life to the cause of election reform, which doesn't pay, and is now unemployed, without health insurance and staring down the barrel of major surgery......"

more:

http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/24/84720/34...



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we need to pull together for the good of all concerned

It's just so much more difficult because we are an on-line community ~ so many nuances that add to proper understanding are missing from post and emails. But with genuine love and a desire to work this through it should be OK.

We are all mature adults. It takes work to understand all of what is going on with Andy's current challenges and we all miss some of the facts while we are busy living our lives. There is a whole world outside of DU to distract us from what is going on here.

The important thing is for Andy to rest, feel love and support from his DU family and friends ~ because ~ that is what we are to every DU member.

I think we're all scared for Andy.
And recent events on DU have made people scared to trust others.



:hug:

All this talk of Andy Stephenson is not helpful for anyone. We really need to just give this a rest.

I'm locking.