[Lani]

I suggested the colon lesion might be something inflammatory like diverticulitis, that her rib lesion could be a hairline fracture if she coughed too hard and her hip might be a similar stress fracture if she had had some trauma...TB is indeed the "great impostor" but from what I understand the chances of that developing in that way were less than her having developed a second cancer like lymphoma with that picture (but I didn't want to offer that non-authoritative impression when it would not have been helpful) I don't recall that you had mentioned anything about her bladder at the time, but I have been told that that is a "bermuda triangle" of misinterpretation area as it normally lights up near the end in tests where the radioactivity is urinated out in the end and can obscure other lesions in front or in back of it, hence the need for PET/CTs to clarify in 3 dimensions where the area of "lighting up"lies.

Too much medical "waywardness" has resulted from people "jumping to conclusions"--often the scientific method (make a hypothesis, do experiments or tests and see if they support or refute it) gets forgotten.

I am "pleased as punch" that your mom continues on her "benign therapy"

Lessons to learn--don't jump to conclusions, knowledge is power, it is good to question and to have in sotre a big arsenal of knowledge you may need in the future(to fall back on when things seem to be at crisis level), and the help of others, including those on this board, is invaluable.

None of us know the importance of the multiple dietary interventions you have so carefully researched and undertaken, but it is wonderful to know they were not in vain!!!! And then, again, there were those prayers...

Congratulations again!!!!!