Tim, I wish your aunt and your family all the best and my prayers will be with the family through your aunt's procedure. Kim Gordon >From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GAGEN] my aunt - catching up >Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:14:09 -0400 > >Since several folks have asked - I find this is the best way to answer all >at once: > >Funny thing with visiting my aunt who is dying of cancer - I come away from >seeing her enriched, rewarded and refreshed for she has the sweetest spirit >regarding her future of anyone around her. > >On 4/21 they will try a one time procedure called 'gamma knife' where they >inject cobalt directly into the center of each of her 3 brain tumors in >hopes >of killing the tumors. Two are in the front, left and right and one at the >base of the brain in her neck. This procedure is a new one recently >approved of by the FDA and supposedly they've had remarkable success with >it. > >Of course this is all a delaying of the inevitable but we're grateful for >such time as she has. > >May 19th will be her 74th birthday. > >Tim > > >PS - I'm also posting replies to messages sent to the list as long ago as >4/8, >as I play catch up and wading through the snow...! > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve > the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching >their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals >with just this type of research. Please refer them to: >http://www.adoption.org > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail