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Hi ,

How are things going by you? I wanted to say that I meant to

respond to your last email from Friday. I think finding a time

when we could get together under good circumstances would be

" awesome " . You sorely tempt me whenever you talk about

walking on the beach. I use that visualization technique

sometimes when I need to turn my mind off.

I will email you with my work phone number as I really do not get

near a phone when I am at home. Work really is not a problem

for talking and if we get interrupted I can always just let you know

that I " gotta go " .

I am hoping that things are going better for you....that all of the

issues are settling down or finding a resolution that is

comfortable for you.

I am feeling not so dizzy or fuzzy right now but I can tell my body is

recovering still from the set-back of last week. I am fairly

convinced that it was a very long attack of biliary colic. It wasn't as

intense as I have had in the past....but definitely the longest that I

have ever experienced. It is quite demoralizing as I thought that

that part of my biliary / pancreatic disease or pain was taken care

of....but it is now twice in the last year that I have had attacks. But

I guess that is better than before the sphincterotomy of the SO -

then I was having them at least twice a month. But I am fearful

that it means it is all coming back.....and with no options

available to deal with it this time. But then, I am being

pessimistic and will not allow myself to do that anymore. I am

truly tryng to apply that " let's not cross that bridge...... " philosophy!

Interesting about your fibrosis - I am wondering if the calcification

part of it hadn't shown up yet or like you said...it all happened so

fast that the imaging studies were done " too soon " . It sure

seems as if your case was an extreme one - both endpoint and

rapidity. Heidi's (?) seems to be another one too. Just goes to

show you that there really isn't that " textbook " case......and it is

somewhat futile for physicians to base their opinions on the

" what should be " instead of what is staring them in front of their

face.

That is my pet peeve from reading this board about members

experiences with their doctors: that is.......I want to shout at them:

" TREAT THE SYMPTOMS, NOT THE SIGNS! " . Oh well......off on a

tangent again...........

Laurie