> From: Bob Lemeshka <lemeshka@mindspring.com>

> To: vianet@i-2000.com

> Subject: leiomyosarcoma

> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 7:52 PM

>

> Hi! My name is Pat and I am a survivor of two bouts with the ole leio. The

> first was in 1990 when I began to hemmorage from the rectum. They said that

> it was a very large mass.After extensive surgery and 7 weeks of radiation

> Iwas o.k. Five years later while having my annual CTscan it was discovered

> to have reappeared in my liver. I was very lucky to be close to Emery

> University hospital where I was seen by a pair of fantastic doctors. A

> medical oncologist named McGuire who suggested a couple of rounds of MAID

> (chemo) to be administered at Emery for 4 days. In the final analysis iy

> didn't shrink my tumors. My surgical oncologist is Dr. Wm. Wood. He is a

> terrific man and an even better doctor. He removed three fourths of my

> liver. That was on my 21st anniversary on June28,1996. I am happy to say

> that in August I aws back teaching. I see Dr. Wood every 6 mos. and so far

> so good. I highly recommend that anyone who has this terrible disease treat

> it as aggressively as possible and most important, keep a good attitude. I

> don't know if this will always be a part of my life but I guess that's in

> God's hands. PAT