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Love those two... watched them play at the Masters a couple of times... and elsewhere. I just might go visit SA soon. I've been counseling a couple there (they actually moved up to Namibia now)... and they said they'd love to have us visit. So we're thinking about it. My wife and I flew to Australia last October to visit a patient I've been counseling for over 20 months. I promised him we'd come visit if he got to surgery and was doing well. He did get to surgery, but things didn't look good with his post-op pathology (9 positive lymph nodes). But after some adjuvant nasty chemo and immunotherapy he is somehow showing NED... so went ahead and flew down under. Had a blast. We stopped over in New Zealand on the way back. I think Roy and his family will come visit us in California this Christmas.
I'll tell you Luis... EC is horrific... but I've sure made some great friends and I wouldn't change a thing. Sure... I have no clue why I'm still here... us T3N1M0 stage 3's have less than a 25% chance of making it to 5 year OS.... but I have a shot now at 4 years. Time will tell.
Be well Luis.
Gary