Update...

[Ben Patterson <bpatterson@stanford.edu>]

Hey there all -

	Just wanted to thank you all for the emails and good wishes 
during the last couple weeks. It's been a major encouragement in the 
middle of this medical insanity. For those that don't know, I went in 
for hernia surgery and came out with 6 inches of stitches, but they 
also found a 3 inch mass in my right lung.
	I'm doing much better. The stitches are healing up, although 
walking is still painful. Gimme a month or two and I'll be back to 
good. Got some good news from the doc about the lung thing though. 
They took 3 sets of x-rays over the course of a week, all of which 
clearly showed the thing in my upper right lung, so they scheduled me 
for a CT scan, blood work, an MRI, etc. Well, the doc did the CT scan 
twice and couldn't find anything. They can't explain it. Nothing that 
size and confirmed to be a solid mass with multiple sets of x-rays on 
multiple days just goes away in a weekend. God must want me here for 
something because I'm supposed to be dead from liver failure a year 
ago, and I should have lung cancer but apparently I don't! (grin) So 
I should be around for the next ND, as long as I don't get hooked on 
the pain killers... heh heh. Anyways, just wanted to let you all 
know, and say thanks for the support. I can't wait till I'm healed up 
to start putting in all the parts I ordered from Potterman while I 
was drugged out of my mind.... Woo hoo!

				Ben Patterson, 86' 16v
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					- The Matrix 
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