*** Quoting mark lewis from a message to Jeff Snyder ***

 ml> what's the difference between this new machine and those that heart
 ml> patients wear that monitor and issue shocks to their heart any time
 ml> it determines there's irregular heartbeats? those have been in use

Hi Mark..

I am not sure of the difference, but I do know the pacemaker sure does help. 
My Father would have seizures due to irregular heart beat, and the heart 
stopping, and it was not pretty. The pacemaker is doing fine and takes pretty 
good care of him. No episodes since putting it in a couple of years ago. Used 
to have to go to dr. for testing it. Now they even do that over the phone.

 ml> now, back to the pancreatic device... where the heck was this info
 ml> during the time that my mother had a cancerous growth crushing her
 ml> ducts between her pancrease and her liver? she barely made it the

Ohh so sorry to hear about Your Mother.. I am not sure the device would have 
been ready as it is still off in the distance for use. But it may have been 
an option in the testing stages. I dunno.. Sad, that more things could not 
become more marketable sooner. Though I do understand the testing stage. I 
know the Doc put me on something for diabetes, I forget, my friends and 
family used to call it snake spit. 8) but that stuff made me sick, now I see 
they are thinking of or already have taken it off the market. It was poison 
venom from the Gila Monster, I just can't think of the name off hand.

 ml> year the docs gave her and this after 3 months of no (repeat *NO*)
 ml> cancerous cell counts in her blood tests but when it came back, it
 ml> came back in 3's and totally took her from us... that was only a few

This is what scares me.. My Brother has actually been told he has pancreatic 
Cancer. The docs just say they can't pinpoint it. Being that it is so deadly, 
My Brother does not believe it as he is still alive after 5 years. Only thing 
he can manage to keep down, in small doses is ensure. The docs just can't 
seem to find it, but they say they know he has it. I dunno, I just don't 
know! Again, so sorry to hear about Your Mom.

Take care,
Mike

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