March Data

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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:32:02 -0500
From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
To: tass@tass-survey.org
Subject: March Data

Not much, only one night, but the March 2007 data is up on dan as the
contents of directory /home/tom/data/tp19

Usually it is not worth trying to run the early months of the year.  I
missed a couple of days in March because I was too sick, but I am better
now and will run tonight.

Last Wednesday I went to the oncologist and the news was good.  My PSA
is down to 1982.1 from the high several months ago of 4533.6.  This is
not supposed to happen.  When it went down from 4533.6 to 3653.2 last
month the doctor mumbled something about a mini-miracle.  This month he
mentioned discussing my case with University experts.  Let's hope I can
continue to amuse the experts.

In the reference data column is <OR=4.0.  This means that anything over
4 is to be considered bad for a PSA.  I am amused that the medical labs
can measure something in the blood to 5 significant figures.  I don't
know how to measure anything that accurately and I have been in the
measurement biz for over 50 years.  Shucks, and I was planning to go for
the record which I understand is around 20,000.

The upshot of all this is that I might be around for a while.  If so, we
will just keep taking data until we can't keep any camera going.  We
might even get tom4 and tom5 working since they are nearly complete.

Tom Droege
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  Thomas F. Droege
  droege@fastmail.fm