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[Bob Heiser (w7ikt]

Shaving the way to Conquer Kid's Cancer
Bob & Carol Heiser

 

Hi Gene & Jean,

I'm taking this method of trying to say "WOW" after receiving all the get well wishes from so many wonderful people.  Thank You Everybody.

  I am still weak but progressing much better.  My problem is I have such weird things that I come up with.  A year ago I was diagnosed with "Temporal Arteritis" which is a branch of Giant Cell Arteritis.  With steroid therapy, I got better and went off the steroids.  About three months ago I started having some symptoms and my specialist put me back on a low dose Prednisone 5 mg daily.  I was still having the symptoms and some were getting worse, so on the next visit I was going to talk about raising the Prednisone and that's when the fever started.  I was on antibiotics from May 9, to May 13 with very little change when I got my "Hospitalist" to call in a Pulmonary doctor.  He came in Friday afternoon, visited with me and we discussed the Giant Cell Arteritis and the possibilities it might be a factor.  He went and checked my X-rays and CT scan came back and told me I didn't have a normal Pneumonia and started me on high dose IV steroid (Solu medrol) and I began to get better.  He said I had an Atypical Pneumonia called "Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonitis"  (COP) with an incidence of less than 0.01% of the population.  They also feel that it is more prevalent than what is being reported.  Yu can Google either COP or BOOP for information on this subject.

 

Sorry to be so windy and you don't have to put all this in but it just shows that at our Maturity, we have to pay attention to our body signs.

 

Again thanks to everybody for your Prayers and thoughts and STAY WELL.

 

Bill Buck