son of a gun

[C M Reinehr]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 19:48, Bob Hemus wrote:
> Well, all, I'm going to take a couple of weeks off.Going to check off
> the list Saturday evening.  We just got back from Medford, OR and the
> Providence hospital.  Most of you know I got a kidney transplant 9 years
> ago, and from a step-son donner.  Well, had some bad blood tests in
> January ond on and on 'till Tuesday of this week.  Found I've got cancer
> of the transplanted kidney.  Worst part is the story is the cancer came
> with the kidney according to the pathologists.  Puts the Kid in a bad
> place.  He'll need monitoring the rest of his life.
>
> Good news is they think they found it in time that taking it out will
> cure (hahaha) me.  I was on peritoneal dialysis before the transplant,
> now I'll prolly go to hemodialysis.  Think while I'm ther I'll take my
> old laptop and con one of my daughters to buy me the book on Damn Small
> Linux and play with that while I'm in there for a week.
>
> Cross your fingers and knock on wood for me.  They keek telling me "At
> your Age).
> Bob

Best wishes from all of us! Try not to let it get you down. And, we'll expect 
regular updates on your progress with DSL. (If that doesn't keep you busy for 
long enough, there's always LFS. :-)

Cheers!

cmr

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