Here’s what you call a lousy choice:
* Have brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of a golfball. They should be able to remove between 75% to 90% of the tumor, but getting to it will involve cutting through areas of the brain that control speech and language. This will increase your life span to maybe a year or two.
OR:
* Don’t have the surgery and get to live in pain for the next 30 days or so.
Andrew’s surgery is scheduled for five and a half hours from now. Good luck, big guy.
My sympathies and hopes are with you and Andrew. For those of us new to this board, can you tell us a little more about him and your relationship to him?
Andrew’s a buddy from my high school days, which are a while back, and yet not all that long ago– Andrew’s younger than 40, in other words.
He’ll be showing up in a Star Trek story sooner or later, because literary immortality is better than no immortality at all.
Glenn,
Keep us posted. My prayers for Andrew.
How did things turn out?
Here’s hoping for the best.
I never did hear how things turned out. Since I emailed Andrew and haven’t heard back – I am assuming that either:
– Things didn’t go a well as hoped.
– He just doesn’t want to keep in touch with me
For Andrew’s sake I’m hoping for the latter.