It was good to read about the his  fight.  Great news.
Zoltan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Hecht" <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: Mike Collum update

> Mike and Mary, you are both an inspiration.  I'm delighted that things are
> going so well!
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Jake de Villiers <
> crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good news - thanks David!  ;)
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Mary says:
>> > We saw the surgeon for a follow up appointment yesterday and the area
>> > where the tube comes out of his tummy has finally started to
>> > heal.  The long incision where they inserted all the tubing healed in
>> > a few days but where it comes out has taken a longer time.  Looks
>> > like we will be ready to start our training on November 8 as
>> > planned.  He is counting down the sessions where he has to sit for 5
>> > hours, only has 4 more sessions.  After seeing the surgeon yesterday
>> > we went to the dialysis center that is going to be training us and
>> > they flushed the catheter and it works very well.  We were told that
>> > he will be coming off some of the meds he is now taking and that his
>> > fluid intake will be unlimited. He will have to change doctors for a
>> > short time until the dialysis center closer to home is up and
>> > running,  I am not too happy about that but since it is only until
>> > Spring I suppose I can handle it.  I have just become so dependant on
>> > Dr Henry to guide us in the right direction and changing doctors in
>> > midstream to me is not a good thing.
>> >
>> > Yrs,
>> > d
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>>
>> 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX 'The Grey Van'
>> 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Suby 'Dixie'
>>
>> Crescent Beach, BC
>>
>> www.thebassspa.com
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
>>

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