Radiation Vacation in Germany - Sounds Great To Me !

Thank you, dear fitfeet, for your wonderful story and good health with your broken leg ...

Being a doctor from Germany myself I am very pleased to hear that "we" are considered friendly and equipped with good infrastructure (streets, traffic, hotels, etc.) and apparently well suited with good doctors ! I personally chose Prof. Seegenschmiedt in Hamburg for his excellent scientific reputation, but he is not only a good scientist but also has a very warm personality, good humor and is also quite alert to many details of life. He would be a good teacher to many of us physicians and lay people to bring alertness to the community about clinical signs and symptoms in the early stage ...

It would be great if this knowledge could spread more easily around this globe ! Larry

This ought to be OK. I would not like to publish personal email addresses on the Internet but if you don't get a response from the clinic address you might contact me via email or personal messaging.

Wolfgang

sheygetz:

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... Would one use the general email-addy of the clinic (info@szhh.info) or do you know of a personal address for him?

Hendrik

fitfeet:

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I am starting to turn my attention to what I am going to be doing next.

I really want to take on another renovation in France ....

Yes it would be another old French farm kind of thing.
I really enjoy the work, get great pleasure out creating something rather special from a wreck. But your advice SB is common sense, although I do hate to admit it. I was told to wear gel protected gloves if I undertook rough work, but I really wanted to get some feedback on what others thought and the time scale involved.
I had my second round of treatments in July, and like you at times my hand does hurt a little.
If I were to purchase a wreck it would take 3 months to go through the system here, before I became the owner. So I suppose I should consider such a purchase early in the new year. (By then my leg will have started to improve too!)
I think in light of your reply to my question, I will spend some more time looking around the regions of La France....to find a great location, which is a good excuse to travel.
Thanks

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Hi TxMike,
my recommendation would be to go as soon is practicable for you.
If you have made up your mind to get the treatment done then why wait for spring?
Remember after the initial treatment you will need to have a second treatment after 3 months, so if you wait until spring, lets say April next year, then treatment would not be completed until around late summer 2012, whereas if you went now, all treatment would be completed by late spring/early summer.

The significance being that you can start to plan your life and move on. Until you have had the treatment you will have this hanging over you.

Just a note of caution, I wasn't too sure after the initial treatment, I didn't notice a huge difference, except the tingling and aching feeling has reduced significantly. But now I have noticed a huge difference. The growth has stopped completely, I do get pain if I bang the two nodules I have left. One nodule on my small finger has vanished. The remaining two nodules have reduced in size and I have significantly less puckering of the skin in my palm. This is after just 2 months of the second treatment, still a long way to go, but initial thoughts are - I made a really good decision and I received my treatment in the best place possible.

Good luck with whatever you decide.