Message from Pritchard

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> From: KPSB2@...

> Date: 22 February 2004 11:19:36 PM

> Subject: Hello again

>

> Hi :-)

>  

> Hope everyone is doing well this winter and that you are all doing

> well. I wanted to let you know that I had a growth on my face removed

> last Tuesday, on my left cheek.  I had an open sore there for at least

> 6 months.  They did a biopsy and I do not have the results yet. They

> put in 5 stitches and those will come out on Monday. It looks like it

> is healing up OK and I will find out the results of the biopsy in a

> couple of weeks. My Doctor does not think it is cancerous, he thinks

> it is related to my autoimmune disorder, so I am not too worried.

>     I have also been having trouble with my eyes. I have had an

> increasingly harder time reading and seeing and saw my Eye Doctor on

> Friday, and he said I have cataracts plus some kind of bubbles growing

> in my eyes, so my vision is a lot like looking through a dark and

> dirty broken windshield into a sand storm which is pretty well correct

> as I have a hard time seeing faces clearly or print. 

>      This Doctor has been my eye doctor for the past 10 years and is

> considered the top eye surgeon in this area so I am very fortunate

> that he agreed to do my eyes. We are hoping for the best. Everything

> seems to have a high glare on it. The videos I have shot in the last 6

> months have all turned out blurry, and I have had to stop shooting

> film for the last several months because I cant focus a camera. I

> forgot to ask the Doctor about driving. I don't drive at night hardly

> ever, and have not even had close calls with the driving, but I

> probably should check to see if it is OK to keep driving before I have

> the surgery.

>    There is some good news. They are going to operate on my eyes and

> remove the cataracts, and put in implant lens and they are also going

> to do something about the bubbles growing in there too, what ever they

> are. It is not laser surgery, it is scalpel surgery, but I will be an

> outpatient and it will be done in the hospital.

>   I am very excited about the eye surgery and I am looking very

> forward to being able to see well again. The Doctor says colors will

> be more vibrant, the world will appear a lot brighter, without hurting

> my eyes like the glare does now. The doctor says with the surgery I

> will be able to focus my cameras again which is way important if you

> want to do film.

>      They will do the surgery in about a month. By then they will know

> what is up with the growing things on my face, and hopefully my face

> will be all healed up by then.

>   Oh yeah, in case you had not heard, I also made the honor roll this

> semester, and will be honored at a little ceremony on March 1st, and I

> will get another degree in the spring, which will be an AA in Liberal

> Arts.

>   School is gonna be a lot easier when I can see! I cant wait!

>  

> Love,

> Pritchard

> Be the Peace