RE: [Philmont]: Adventure Completed

You are in are prayers! Good Luck and Best Wishes! God Bless! YiS. Jerry D
Bailey, ACM, Pack 722, (past/future Philmont vet) Las Colinas Dist. WLAAC

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hedglon [mailto:explorer@twcny.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:46 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Adventure Completed

Hi John. Wonderful news. My wife and I are going through a rough spell
with our 24 year old daughter that has a lot of history to it. But, it
might be turning around. In that context your report on your daughter
touched me. I can relate to your sense of relief that your daughter is OK.

----- Original Message -----

From: John <mailto:philmontjohn@yahoo.com> LeBlanc

To: Multiple <mailto:philmont@troop47.com> recipients of list philmont

Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:15 PM

Subject: [Philmont]: Adventure Completed

A heartfelt thanks to all of you who expressed concern, offered words of
encouragement and prayers during the last few weeks concerning my latest
adventure.

While hoping for the best, I was working my way through a very nasty tasting
medicine regimen but prepared for the worst. Through Gods grace, the
absolute best came to pass.

Last Monday evening, while settling in for a quiet evening before surgery,
we received a phone call that our oldest daughter had been found unconscious
at her home and was being rushed to the hospital. By the time we could get
there, she was conscious and in intensive care.

That changed a quiet, relaxed evening into one of intense worry and concern.

On Tuesday, I checked on her in ICU just fifteen minutes before I headed
into surgery. At that time her prognosis was unknown. By then, we were
stretched pretty thin and our platter was full.

With the help of a wonderful friend from my childhood days and the finest
pastor I have had the privilege of having in the last thirty years, we were
hanging in there

As for me, the thyroidectomy went well and the growths removed passed both
preliminary and final lab analysis as being benign. The cells that at one
time looked suspiciously like those of follicular cancer were located and
identified as not being so. For those not familiar, take it from a
biologist, there is a big difference in microscopic analysis of thin needle
biopsies and cross section tissue analysis.

They removed the right lobe which had manifested quite largely beneath the
collarbone into the chest region and somewhat over the left lobe. As is
always the case, early detection was the key to successful treatment.

For those who havent heard, I had absolutely no symptoms or complaints at
all. This condition was found through routine physical exam by a very
astute and superbly competent endocrinologist I go to for diabetic
monitoring. He is the one who felt the nodules. I never could even when he
showed me exactly where they were. For that I am thankful.

I was released from the hospital on Thursday evening and have been resting
well at home ever since. It surely is nice to just sit and watch the cold
rain on the window and see someone else put another log on the fire.

My first visit to the doctor is Tuesday for further testing to see exactly
what medication regimen will be required.

As for my daughter, she is doing well. The diagnosis is not complete, but a
lot of bad things have been ruled out. Further tests are scheduled. We are
hoping and praying for the best. She just called me and is being released
from the hospital and along with her husband is going to be here for supper.
Its been a rough eight days, but things surely do look better today than
they did last Monday.

Something I am very proud of is that I am told, but do not remember, that
when in recovery after surgery when the attendant medical personal were in
the process of trying to arouse me and asking how are your doing Mr.
LeBlanc? and just try to rest that I said I could not and would not
rest at all until I knew my little girl who was in intensive care was OK.
After hearing that the third time, one of them took a family member to ICU
and found out first hand during non visiting ours so they could get that
word to me.

According to my family, after I was told that information, I rested calmly
the whole night

The next day my doctor told me thats a pretty remarkable cognition for
someone who had just been through what you had been through. I guess he
doesnt really know me. Having ones throat slit for four and a half hours
is no big deal. Well, not as big a deal now as it was before they started.

Again, thank you one and all for your thoughts, shared words of
encouragement and prayers. Im gonna be just fine and my daughter is gonna
be just fine.

Sincerely,

John LeBlanc

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