Subj : Childhood Leukemia...  2.
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Fri Mar 02 2018 02:36:56

Hi, Mark!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

     [re hair styles, voluntary or involuntary]
AH>  What's currently fashionable in Suburbia &/or on Snob Hill
AH>  takes awhile to trickle down to the common masses in Vancouver.
AH>  I found it rather amusing, however, when our daughter achieved
AH>  the same results as a side effect.... ;-)

MH>  Same here.  His hair looks really trendy with some areas spiking
MH>  up, etc.


            I can well imagine because our daughter has a cowlick like that... 
[chuckle].  Spiky hair does seem to be "in" these days for boys & young men at 
least.  Dallas & I also know men ranging in age from thirty to eighty-plus who 
shave their heads because they hope they'll look younger if their male pattern 
baldness isn't as obvious as it might otherwise be.  Either way, people accept 
more readily than they once did that another person may have an unconventional 
hairdo or no hair at all... and I see the same phenomenon with women too.  :-)



MH>  Even though things have no been easy by any stretch,


            Ah... a masterpiece in British understatement here, from a USAian! 
IMHO that is one of your strengths.  Both of us have walked through the valley 
of the shadow of death & come out the other side.  While you may not find many 
others who have a clue what you managed to pull off I do & I'm listening.  :-)



MH>  I'm very pleased with how things are going.


            Glad to hear it.  Hang in there....  :-)



MH>  The latest thing we found out yesterday, is he developed C.
MH>  Diff (from an antibiotic treatment for a sinus infection).


            Don't know that one...



MH>  We just started on the Flagyl yesterday evening.


            ... but I remember the name "Flagyl", because I used it many years 
ago.  As I understand your son's situation we all have a gazillion bacteria in 
or on our bodies at at any given time no matter what we do.  Some are friendly
.... some aren't.  As long as the population is balanced we don't get sick.  If 
we tinker with the balance of nature by trying to kill certain bacteria and/or 
by trying to get rid of white blood cells which keep multiplying without doing 
anything useful, things do get out of balance sometimes.  On one such occasion 
our daughter was hospitalized because the culprit was Staphylococcus epidermis
.... which we all have on our skin & mucous membranes.  Because it doesn't make 
other people sick, the doctor can't just write a prescription & send you home. 
The only remedy available at the time had to be administered by IV.  I see why 
there may not be a lot of demand for it.  It worked like a charm, though.  :-)



MH>  Can't wait until we don't have to give him any medicines.  He is
MH>  so used to taking them, he doesn't remember not taking anything.


            I can relate.  Initially I felt as if I was up the creek without a 
paddle... but I soon got over it, and our daughter is still alive & well.  :-)




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