Good news part two (Kendall)

Subject: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 07:35 PM

The other thread was getting a bit long. For those who cant open long threads, the radiologist says 90% or better for full recovery. It may take most of the summer however.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Jeri
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 07:44 PM

Here's the original thread.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Banjer
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 07:50 PM

This is good news....I must have missed the other thread, do keep us posted Kendal, all the best thoughts from here to you.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 07:51 PM

Danged, Kendall, that is GREAT news. Now that you're going to live, you can listen to the tape I sent you before filing it in the circular file. Oh, you all ready filed it. I see... Hmmmmm? Oh well, glad to hear the good news, anyway....

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Alice
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 08:04 PM

Great news, Kendall. Thanks for letting us know.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Nancy King
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:16 PM

Good news indeed, Kendall! Hang in there!

Nancy

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:20 PM

Thanks Jeri, I gotta learn how to do that.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Janie
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:39 PM

Well then--Speedy Recovery--lots of thoughts and prayers for you. Janie

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:40 PM

Damn that's good to hear kendall. Thanks for the update.

Rick and Heather

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Apr 02 - 09:42 PM

Yes!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 12:21 AM

That's wonderful news, Kendall. Just remember the patience you spend in recovery will be well worth it, even if it does take the summer.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Big Mick
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 03:05 AM

I want to be at that shindig in the fall.........in fact, Sins, bring his tired old arse to FSGW. You better git ready if you are going to entertain the Cap'n and his family. The old bastard has more kin than a twenty year old rabbit! (I still love that damn line, Ken........LOL)

Mick

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 03:08 AM

Kendall, great tidings! Keep a wee drop of whiskey handy, so I can toast your continued good health, should I make it up your way again this summer. All the very best,

Seamus

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Morticia
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:09 AM

This is wonderful news on a day when I needed some very badly.....accept a big slobbery snog,two even.I am delighted for you....what do they say about recovery of your voice?

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:05 AM

That's great news Kendall!!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: jeffp
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:19 AM

Good news indeed!!!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From:
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:35 AM

Dear Kendall--

YESSSSSS!

We're looking forward to seeing you at FSGW--take good care of yourself!

V (and Reynaud too!)

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: SharonA
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 09:44 AM

Yay! "90% or better for full recovery"... that's less than a quarter hoarse! (...or aren't we doing horse puns anymore?) *G*

Take care,
Sharon

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:32 AM

Morty, the doctor at Johns Hopkins said I wont be able to sing like I used to, but, the radiologist here said full voice recovery by mid to late summer.

Mick, I was trying to remember what I said at the Cracker Barrel that made you expel lunch from your nose. That was it, the rabbit thing.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:46 AM

I'm so glad, have a GREAT summer!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 11:56 AM

Praise be, Captain!

So the Doc sez you won't sing like ye used ter, eh? shucks, maybe it'll be BETTER! This time next year perhaps you'll be on tour with the Irish Tenors... (Now that I'd like t' see!).

We can empathise somewhat with the patience called for in the recovery process; a couple of weeks ago a nasty hole opened up in the side of me right foot - looks like it took a #00 buckshot, although we don't recall getting in anyone's line of fire - and it hurt like the devil. It's getting treated but I'm supposed to stay off of it and out of work for a couple of weeks. Nothing as ominous as what you've had to deal with, to be sure; the worst that could happen is that the leg rots off and we whittle up a good stout maple or mahogany peg to prop me carcass up on. Now that'd surely be a fine thing to keep time on the deck with, wouldn't it?
Unlike your singing, however, my dancing never was worth a damn to begin with.
Someone suggested that I bore out the anticipated peg-leg and rig it up like a fife; that way I could cock up me leg and play a festive tune on it now and again.
Say; with you singin' lead, me on the musical pegleg, a bull-fiddle and a one-armed banjo player, we'd be a helluvva show, eh?
"...You can have the D.O.W.; jest gimie back my LEG!!!"

Full steam ahead there, Skipper; it appears that a pretty good sized fleet o' Folkies is come along side t' hoot the whistles & ring the bells fer ye - not to mention a couple standin' by t' lob ye a hawser and lend a tow should the need arise!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 03:26 PM

Welcome aboard me harties! What sort of hole in your foot? I had some sort of eruption on my left hand at the base of the thumb. Looks evil, but doesn't hurt much. It will bleed if I bump it.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Noreen
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:00 PM

Wonderful news, my friend. We'll be thinking of you all summer.

Noreen
xx

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:07 PM

Good news indeed. Keep us posted.

(I don't have any jokes just now, but I'm sure you do! Keep laughing.)

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 04:43 PM

OK, so how many of us can sing like we used to? And now that we're older and wiser (???) would we want to? Of course, it's different in England from the USA or even other parts of the British Isles because our source singers were mostly only recorded when age and experience were triumphing over power and technique... but see separate thread on Dan Milner and songs coming first and singer afterwards.

I'll just keep my fingers crossed that the treatment will empower you to sing the songs you want to and enjoy the experience.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 06:28 PM

Congrats on your good news, and I hope I'll be able to hear you sing when you're fully recovered.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 10:24 PM

I hope to be able to sing at Old Songs. If not, the Getaway.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 11:50 PM

I hope your doctor has checked out that lesion on your thumb there, Capt.; folks who have spent a lot of time outdoors exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays are at a significantly higher risk for some nasty skin cancers than the more indoorsie types. What you describe there sounds a little suspicious to me. Lately I get weird little things like that all the time, but fortunately my elder Brother is a skin Doc (Dermatologist) practicing in Augusta, so we don't waste any time having him check them out. So far a couple of them have been wicked tough to pronounce, but none of them anything to get exited about, which is certainly a relief.
He does have some horror stories, though - like the teenaged girl who showed up with a "funny spot" under her hairline which her Mom didn't know about until it started bleeding. Despite Dan's quick diagnosis and referral to the experts down in Boston, within 7 months she was dead. Nothing to monkey around with, to be sure!

The circulation in my feet has long been mediocre at best, and we had vascular surgery a couple of years ago which helped some. Then last month apparently there was a blood clot and a chunk of foot just died off and proceeded to rot out; a chunk of skin about a quarter of an inch around simply collapsed into the hole left by the decomposing flesh, and it felt like a red-hot poker was jabbed into the side of the right foot about an inch; the whole leg burned and throbbed all the way up to me belt - buckle, and I couldn't stand or walk enough to do my job at the lantern factory. Only with the help of some high - octane painkiller pills left over from the last tooth extraction was I able to sleep a few hours a night.
I told the Doc that it wasn't all that bad, as there did not seem to be maggotts crawling in and out... and it seems that they actually do use "sterile" maggots to debride or clean out serious wounds, as they will eat only dead tissue and leave viable, living tissue alone much more precicely than any Surgeon can. Now how one goes about "sterilizing" a maggott is beyond me; seems like a contradiction in terms, don't it? Actually I'd be open to going that route; one of my Civil War Ancestors was wounded at Cold Harbor, VA in June of 1864 and forced to lay on the Battlefield for 3 days before they brought him in. It is speculated that the maggots may have actually saved his life by cleaning out the dead flesh in his wound before it could get infected. An Uncle who survived Nazi POW camp told of the Prisoner Doctors & Medics who would intentionally expose wounds to the flies to infest them with maggots for the same reason, and it no doubt saved a number of lives.
Our Doc seems to think that my lesion is healing well enough (although way too slowly for me) that such drastic measures are probably not neccessary, and besides, he tells us, it really grosses the Nurses out!

Well, time to take a final hit of prescribed Percodan (a pretty serious narcotic, we're told)and hit the rack.

Sometimes, drugs can be GOOD!

Peace and Healin to ye, Captain! Since then I've been

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:47 AM

I finally got tired of this thing bleeding when it felt like it,so, I poked at it 'til it began to bleed like a stuck pig. Went to the E.R. and they decided it was a Plantars wart. They cauterized it with silver nitrate to stop the bleeding, and today it just smarts a bit.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: KathWestra
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 01:10 PM

Well, Kendall has informed me that he won't be able to do the June gig for the Folklore Society, but that he's ready and rarin' to be rescheduled for the fall. Since our September program is booked, and since the FSGW Getaway precludes us having an October program, it's looking a whole lot like Saturday, November 16, pending approval by both Kendall and our new program chair, Lisa Harmon. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I've invited Jerry Rasmussen and the Gospel Messengers to come to Washington for the June 15th slot formerly occupied by the Cap'n. They have graciously accepted, so local folks yearning for a June concert by a fellow Mudcatter won't be isappointed. I'm not sure Jerry can begin to compete with Kendall in the tall tale and outrageous humor category, but it should be a fine concert nevertheless.

I'll let you all know when Kendall's re-booked program is definitely rescheduled. Cheers, Kathy

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 01:31 PM

90 percent! That's purty good!!

Don't give up on the singing voice. Unless the your sawbones direly insists that you'll fall off you perch if you try to sing again, a good voice teacher--one who's worked with voices that have had problems--might be a great help. Way back when, I had a bad bout with chronic laryngitis, and after a couple of months of complete silence (not even whispering, which is harder on the vocal cords than talking), between my ENT quack and a good voice teacher, I got it all back. Took awhile, but I wound up sounding better than before.

Onward and upward, Cap'n!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 07:41 PM

That thing on my hand was a Pyogenic granuloma. What the old folks called, Proud flesh. November 16 sounds good to me, if you can clear it deah!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 02:01 AM

Oh, good, Kendall, I'm glad you got another opinion. A plantar (not "Plantar's" or "Planter's") wart is, simply, a wart on the sole of the foot. So I was a bit concerned that your ER doc, making that diagnosis for something on your hand, might be somewhat, uh, challenged in the area we med school faculty types call "fund of knowledge". A pyogenic granuloma is an ugly but benign overgrowth of tissue that usually starts with a bug bite or other minor injury. They don't usually go away by themselves, but they're easily treatable. Given your earlier scare, though, it might be reasonable to have a dermatologist take a look at it and even consider a biopsy, just to be sure. (But what do I know, if it isn't diaper rash, I'm lost!)

I'm so glad you're on the way to recovery. Make sure you're eating well and getting plenty of rest. Radiation therapy takes a lot out of you, and you'll need to be extra kind to yourself. Use those friends!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 06:42 AM

Thanks Mark. I did have it biopsied, it is a pyogenic granuloma. The dermatologist removed it, then, cauterized it with a tiny electrical wand. The nurse at the E.R. was guessing at what it was, the dermatologist knew right off.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 06:53 AM

And, thanks for the correction on the wart thing. If I'm walking around with my fly open, I would appreciate someone telling me!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 04:20 PM

I'ts been my experience that a Friend or Loved one will tell me when there's mustard in my moustache right off, while folk who could care less will politely write me off as an Idiot and go away disgusted.

It was our custom in the Military Police, held to a higher standard of military trim than most grunts, to regularly "check out" each other as well as ourselves; rather than picking on each other or being vain, it was how we kept "squared away". "Looking out for your Buddy" used to be (and I hope it still is) one of the central tenets of military esprit' de Corps, and some of us old Veterans sort of stick to the habit long after the War... or at least OUR War... is over. I get the distinct impression that some salty ol' Vets of "Hooligan's Navy" are not at all unfamiliar with the tradition, Glory be.

Allow me to join the legion of fans greatly releived to know that said boo-boo on the thumb has been duly diagnosed and dealt with! We'd hate to see you picking your nose with your toe.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 05:59 PM

Maybe not you, Unc, but I'd love to see him try!

I used to drive one boss crazy by picking lint off his uniform while he was in it. I'd get the fingers ready, go for the grab, and he'd stop me: "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Me: "You got a big wad of something fuzzy on your..." Him: "Oh, alright...go ahead." I got pretty good at sneaking extraneous matter off his back without him noticing. In the military, it's considered your responsibility to keep your boss and co-workers from looking stupid, and you get into at least some degree of trouble if you don't try. There's only so much you can do, though...

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: GUEST,Bedazzled
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 07:28 PM

EEEEK! Your fly is open Kendall!

Oh, no wait...it's an elephant. Sorry, my mistake!

signed, Bedazzled

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 08:23 PM

Hooligans Navy? boy, are you asking for it!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Apr 02 - 08:41 PM

Warts and all. It gets pretty graphic on the Mudcat at times, don't it?

The trouble with plantar warts is they are all flat and you can't get a grip on them and yank them off root and all, which seems to get rid of them.

Otherwise a spot of blood from the wart on half a potato buried when the moon is waning is supposed to do the job. But I'm no expert on that. A friendly witch is what you need. We've got a few of them round the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 12:49 PM

It turned out to be a pyogenic granuloma.

The radiation treatments are going well, and I hope to have my voice back by Old Songs.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Kim C
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 01:25 PM

Yippee!!!!!! :-)

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: MMario
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 01:29 PM

Good to hear things are going well Kendall. Wish to hell I could *be* at Old Songs - the lineup looks incredible - and that's without counting in the other benefits of attending -

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 02:06 PM

Not to be outgrossed:
A pyogenic granuloma is a rapidly developing vascular (blood vessel) growth that usually occurs in children and occasionally in adults, particularly pregnant women. It frequently appears on the head and neck but also appears elsewhere on the body. Causes The exact cause is unknown. Pyogenic granuloma often develops at the site of a recent minor injury, such as a puncture wound from a pin, but there's no conclusive evidence that injury results in its development.

Signs & Symptoms It first appears as a small pinhead-sized, red, brown, or blue-black papule and develops rapidly to a size that is anywhere from 2mm to 20 mm in diameter. A pyogenic granuloma bleeds easily and may ulcerate.

Diagnosis & Tests Diagnosis of pyogenic granuloma is based on its appearance.

Treatment Treatment usually involves destruction of the lesion with a laser, electrocautery, or liquid nitrogen. Recurrence after treatment is common because of its conelike extension of blood vessels into the skin. When this happens, it is simply treated again. Occasionally, a pyogenic granuloma is surgically excised (cut out).

I attended two cauterizations...who says the Captain doesn't know how to show a girl a good time? The silver nitrate one was much more interesting. No pain killer. I have it on good authority that "It smarts".

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 07:19 PM

It dont take much to tickle some folks most ta death!

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 09:39 PM

If you take a pyogenic granuloma and cut it three parts, process the middle part through a regimen of formalin and alchohol, and mount the tissue in parrafin til it hardens, you can then cut the piece into a ribbon of sections from 8-12 microns thick. Mount these sections on a slide and then stain it through a series of dips in alchohol, xylene, and other reagents like hematoxalin. Apply a coverslip, dry the slide and label it then send it to the pathologists for diagnosis. The pathologist will see your Pyogenic Granuloma like THIS. Big deal huh?

This is what Karen (my wife the Histotech) and her 3 buddies do every night to the tune of about 400 cases per night with an average of 3 slides per case. I gotta' admit I admire her tremendously as she has been doing this job (Histologist) for about 18 years now. Additionally they do "specials" which are done to show specific cells or nuclear structure.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 09:55 PM

Gosh Spaw, that's lovely. Kendall, you should have found a nice scarf to go with it. Was yours lavender?

I had an actual wart on my foot for about 10 years and had it repeatedly frozen off. I spent a few weeks in Texas, and that did the trick.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: bet
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 10:18 PM

Glad things are looking up for you. Thanks for sharing with us. bet

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: GUEST,Steven Sellors
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 10:57 PM

90% ? What's that in Canadian?

Way to go, Miracle Baby!

Steve

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Genie
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 02:24 AM

Fan-f*!@!-in'-TAS-tic, Kendall!

I can't say I can empathize with the cancer [except by virtue of my close relatives], but I can with the [potential] loss of vocal ability.

Soooo glad you're doing better on the oncology front, and I do hope you recover most, if not all, your singing ability.

From what I've heard [I haven't been privileged to hear you myself], 90% of Kendal would be worth more than 100% of most singers!

Luv,

Genie

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 02:41 AM

A kitten of mine once inserted a claw under my thumbnail and yanked while chasing my hand when I was making the bed. The sore didn't heal and finally I went to the doctor.

He burned it off with silver nitrate- and said that had I known, I could have done the same thing with a styptic pencil. Never had occasion to try it.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Escamillo
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 05:34 AM

I'm so glad to see that you're doing well, Kendall. I hope to hear you soon.

Un abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: kendall
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 08:17 AM

It's also 90% in Canada Steve. Some things just dont change, like your sense of the ridiculous!

Genie, I dont know who you have been listening to, but, it must be someone with a huge intellect! Thank you.

Subject: RE: Good news part two
From: Night Owl
Date: 18 Apr 02 - 08:55 AM

AWESOME Kendall!!!!!! still standing in the circle surrounding you here.......