Hang in there Mike! God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform.

Eight years ago I was diagnosed with Polycystic Kidney Disease. It like 
wise has no treatment, no cure, and is always fatal. I was bummed out 
for about a year, but then the tests started to came back with the same 
numbers. The disease has not progressed in me, and nobody knows why.

Shortly afterward I learned of the oldtools list and took an interest. 
I do not attribute the remission to the oldtools list, but the list 
sure helped take my mind off my troubles.

I hope it will do the same for you.  Keep on keepin' on!

On Jun 8, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Michael Rogen wrote:
>
> It is terminal and there are no drugs to take in fact there isn’t even 
> a
> single test to confirm that one actually has the disease.  So after 
> finding
> out this wonderful news I went into the hospital and went through a 5 
> day
> infusion process that just made me worse.  Last year I went on another 
> home
> infusion program this one for a month and I developed an infection and
> became septic and almost died.  But a funny thing started to happen. 
>  About
> a year ago I stopped degenerating.  My legs stopped getting weaker, my 
> hands
> which have been affected the most also stopped getting worse.  In a 
> nutshell
> the disease was halted.  Last week my doctor said that I was the first
> patient that he has ever diagnosed with ALS and then had to change the
> diagnosis.  We were all pretty happy.  But, (there is always a but), 
> but the
> question still remains – what do I have?  The long and short answers 
> are, we
> just don’t know!

>  Jim Thompson, the old millrat in Riverside, CA.

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