Good news indeed! Thanks for keeping us informed. A wonderful man he is. -- Bruce
Friday, March 9, 2007, 11:54:21 AM, you wrote: MR> Good news for those of you who know, or at least know of, Don Nelson, MR> the Pentax-shooter who's the organizer of the Grandfather Mountain MR> Nature Photography Weekend. MR> I expect you'll recall his ordeal with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma a year MR> and a half ago and the nasty recurrence he had last summer. It was MR> quite the ordeal he went through in the fall: Very aggressive MR> chemotherapy and radiation, followed by bone marrow transplant and MR> other nastiness. He's been a long time recovering and staying away from MR> just about everyone and everything, due to the pounding his immune MR> system took (he's had to have all his childhood vaccinations again). MR> I just got an email from him informing me that the test results he got MR> Wednesday show all clear. MR> Now cancer is kind of like a mutual fund: Past results are no guarantee MR> of future performance. But the news was the best news he could have MR> gotten so I'll be raising a pint to him this evening even if *he's* not MR> allowed alcohol any more :) MR> Looking forward to seeing him at GFM! (Which is now only about two and MR> a half months away!) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
