Alumni Sandstorm ~ 11/08/14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 Bombers sent stuff: Don LYALL ('52), Mike CLOWES ('54) Dan HAGGARD ('57) and Marj QUALHEIM ('60) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Dona McCLEARY ('54) BOMBER BIRTHDAY Today: Spencer HOUCK ('71) BOMBER LUNCH Today: Patti's All Bombers, 12:30, JD Diner, W.Richland (every 2nd Saturday) COLLEGE FOOTBALL TODAY: 2:30 (CT) ~ ND(#10) @ Arizona State(#9) ~ ABC 3:00 (CT) ~ WSU @ Oregon State ~ PacN 5:30 (CT) ~ FSU(#2) - VIRGINIA ~ ESPN 6:00 (CT) ~ UW - UCLA(#18) - FS1 7:00 (CT) ~ LSU(#16) - ALABAMA(#5) - Death Valley - CBS BOMBER CALENDAR: Richland Bombers Calendar Click the event you want to know more about. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Don LYALL ('52) Re: Medical Information This is just a blog of what I call medical information. It is not to generate any "I am sorry" type responses, please do not send any to these entries. My purpose is to pass to my bomber friends my knowledge of the subject and how I feel I got the disease. I am talking about Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), which is hardening of the lungs where they cannot move oxygen from the lungs to the blood stream to other organs in the body. Without O2, you suffocate. Supplemental oxygen helps in later phases of the process. I am not on oxygen yet, which is good. In September of 2012, I had an annual physical. My chest X-ray showed some hardening of the tissue in the lungs. Further tests (pulmonary function and CT scan) identified IPF. MY local Pulmonary specialist sent me to St Louis (STL) to Barnes Medical (Jewish) Center where I see who I consider the best Doctor in the world. This was over two years ago when they identified IPF and gave me two to five years. The good news I have learned since then, my progression (digression) is, has been and continues to be at a slow pace. Due to its slow movement, I did not qualify to enter into clinical studies that they have been doing for nearly 10 years. They wanted only patients who were progressing at a fast pace. Also, I am way too old for a lung transplant. The drug under test is called Pirfenidone, not a cure, but supposed to slow down the process and extend you life. In the USA, the FDA is very cautious on approving new drugs. This drug is approved in Europe, Asia and in Canada last April of this year. I told my Doc in STL that I would buy it in an approved market if she would monitor me on it. She could not do that and said suspected side affects could be bad for me so I backed off. I have followed the drug through it's USA manufacturer InterMune, Inc.. Last month (October) my STL Doc told me she was to put me on the new drug on a new test program, seems it was about to be approve by the FDA in the USA. It was approved just after that, so now I am on the drug and have little or no side affects. Hopefully it will work and give me a little more time. I will continue on this program until all the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies get it in stock, likely to be about 4 to 6 months when my local Fayetteville doctors can get it for me via prescription locally. OK, now the real reason I am sending this to Bomber land. Doctors say IPF is not hereditary, my brother Bob ('49-RIP), died of the same thing several years ago. Also, Mack RICHARDSON ('52-RIP), who I played FB and BB with, died of IPF some time ago. His widow, Joanna, and I talked at length trying to determine a cause to no avail. If there is no hereditary factor between brother Bob and I and with Mack, I wonder if maybe something was in the milk, or what ever, from HEC days? I have ruled out smoking, I quit in 1969, brother Bob did less then I and I do not remember Mack even smoking. I know COPD and Asthma are some other lung problems but have an identify as to maybe why they occur. I called and talked to the HEC people about the radiation and their commission, they absolutely said NO to any relation to IPF. THIS I DO NOT AGREE WITH... there has to be some common ground as to WHY and I feel something in the old HEC days has to be a potential cause to IPF. If anyone in the area sees a pulmonary doctor there, would you ask him what he thinks. -Don LYALL ('52) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) Gollee!!! Some one's cheating here. Coulda swore I did this not too long ago. Not that I mind doing it, but I thought these things only came once a year. Nevermind! The time has come for the tip of the ol' propeller beanie in the honor of a fellow classmate and Bomber Babe. To say I knew her back in the day might be stretching things a bit. Knew who she was, might even have ordered a side of fries from her on the odd occasion that I have sufficient coin of the realm to do so. Got to know her better through Club 40, where she is now the Vice President. Let's have a real hearty "Happy Birthday!" for Dona McCLEARY ('54) and hope her current husband takes her to a real nice dinner at someplace other than Burgerville. -Bob Carlson, aka Mike CLOWES ('54) ~ Mount Angel, OR where the battle with falling leaves continues. **************************************************************** **************************************************************** >>From: Dan HAGGARD ('57) and Marj QUALHEIM Haggard ('60) Re: Bomber Tears Jim TADLOCK (58) called this morning to inform us that Carole Jean WICKSTROM Tadlock ('59) passed away Thursday evening, November 6, 2014. Obituary and service details to follow. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jim and family. -Dan HAGGARD ('57) and Marj QUALHEIM Haggard ('60) **************************************************************** **************************************************************** That's it for today. Please send more. ****************************************************************