(Dad) Re: 1 and 2

From: "Earl Callen"
To: "Liza May"
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: 1 and 2

answers interpolated

Liza May wrote:
>
> Hi Dad,
> I was wondering about that newspaper article he promised he'd send. I figured he just forgot about us as soon as he left - but I guess I was wrong! What do you mean that "Cleveland" called - do you mean the rabbi himself called, from the hospital?

his secretary called

> He wrote down my fax number right there with us - guess he lost the scrap of paper. He
> looked like the type that loses scraps of paper - in fact he looked like the type that loses
> everything. He looked very dirty, actually. Anyway - here's my fax number:
> 410-451-6105
> As for family doctors - I've just sent you two emails (just before this one) with names of
> doctors to
> choose from.

Thanks. i'll call Cullen tomorrow. too late today.

> And for your Number Three question -- I am doing GREAT!! I am very very very very
> very very very very happy that we have gotten rid of the tumors, and I am now keeping
> my fingers crossed that
> 1. He was actually able to kill ALL of the cancerous material and we don't have to go back
> again to kill off some that might somehow have survived the ablation, and

I suspect that you don't have to kill all the cancerous material, you only have to disrupt the organization. This is not a cell floating in the way it was designed to float in the blood or lymph system, honed by 1 million years of natural selection to do it's thing. Once it latches on normally it is designed to do a job: divert and stimulate a blood supply, multiply, spread, and probably a lot of complex cooperative structure in between to get all that done. we are only now discovering how bacteria do that. It is not simple. But we have a different and novel situation here. We rip that structure apart, incarcerate lots of it, and leave the rest sitting isolated in an alien liver, surrounded more or less by dead stuff.I bet the body wipes that out in a hurry. That's my uninformed guess, as usual. dad

Mommy had enough supper ready for the two of you, in case you decided to come by. It's ok, though. We ate it for a couple days.

Love, dad