RE: Re: Sinus Surgery Question

[Guest guest]

It was about fifty years ago when our mother took my late sister and me

to Boston Children's Hospital for our maladies.my sister saw Dr.

Barenberg for her lungs, and I saw Dr. Flake for my sinuses. No video

games and not even a lollypop. My polyps were a mess, and though they

were removed several times by the time I was in my early teens, I had my

first Caldwell Luc surgery at age eighteen just before I went off to

college. At nineteen, I had my second. If you don't know what a

Caldwell Luc is, you don't want to hear about it! It was Dr. Flake

(Carlyle Flake, M.D.) who led me to the dean of CF doctors at the time,

Harry Shwachman, M.D. Harry tested me and then a month later he tested

my sister and made the diagnosis of CF. Children's Hospital became a

factory known as the Children's Medical Center, then changed its name

back to Children's Hospital. I marveled at the many physical changes the

hospital went through during the years I went there, and it is probably

one of the best children's hospitals in the world. The Yale CF adult

clinic takes an hour less driving for me now than my driving to Boston,

but the hour on I 95 sends my blood pressure up at least twenty points.

Hal

Re: Sinus Surgery Question

>

> His ENT is Dr. at Children's in Boston who told me that he

may

> require surgery again as polyps recur.

My son saw Dr. on a consult last year. My son loves Children's

He likes to play the free video game whenever he was there. He had

the best person put in his PICC line when he was hospitalized for

lyme meningitis two summers ago. I'll never forget her. She was so

patient and gentle when he was scared to death.

jan

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