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Jonestown
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Don't Tell Anyone
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Bombing of Baghdad
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Our Little Story
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The following is a transcription of Dr. Shively's lecture. *() designates a word or words that are unintelligible, due in some cases to my lack of medical terminology expertise:
This involves an older, say 50-year-old, woman. Younger than me, older than you all. Unmarried, lived alone except for a cat. Now we could do this story, we could have a male, a little older, 60 years perhaps, and we could make it be a prostate story. But it would’nt be such a good story because there are fewer external manifestations of a prostate carcinoma as it develops as a mammary carcinoma. So, we’re not discriminating, but we do have a reason to use a mammary carcinoma instead of a prostate carcinoma.
Well anyway, one day our heroine noticed a small lump in her breast. Right or left, doesn’t make any difference. This thing was about the size of a plum. Wasn’t painful, so she worried about it a little bit then passed it off with well she stumbled over her cat a week or two ago and she hit herself on the chair. So maybe this was the origin of this lump.
And lo and behold two weeks later she noticed this lump was getting a little larger, it was bigger. Didn’t hurt. So again she talked herself out of worrying about it one way or another.
At three months this thing was the size of a tennis ball. It was hard. The skin was discolored. The skin was scaly. This frightened her enough that she went to a physician. She picked a dear old guy who had done a good job taking care of her mother. But really he wasn’t as behind the times as that makes him sound.
He examined the lump. He also examined her axilla. He found a lump there. It was up there in the axillary space, a lymph node obviously. So he suggested “gee you better go to the hospital and have a biopsy”. She didn’t like this idea. She went home to think about it for a day or two. She didn’t go back.
Six weeks later an ulcer appeared over this lump in her breast. Skin started breaking down; ulceration, (), exudate. And this lump was now the size of an orange. So still she didn’t go back for a couple of months. She went around the corner to the corner drugstore and bought, who knows what, some old () and some things like this ().
Well…() got better, but they didn’t and she kept on for another couple of months. Then the lump under her arm started to hurt. And a couple of weeks later she noticed her legs were weak, she had just a little bit of difficulty walking. She was tired.
So she didn’t do anything. She went back to the drugstore and bought a Time, something or another, I dunno, Geritol, whatever (), and took that.
But the weakness was progressing; it didn’t do any good.
Well now we’ve been going on with this story something like 7 or 8 months, and developed to this point. So apparently, she went back to the physician. She was immediately hospitalized for a biopsy, radiographs. And on the radiograph there was a (). The biopsy was positive as a carcinoma. Obviously, well not necessarily obviously, but as it developed the mass in the spinal column was inoperable.
So there was nothing to do. They put her in a nursing home. The only treatment was palatable, palliative, not palatable…(laughter from classroom). Mm, okay well I get one () (more laughter).
Well anyway. She developed an ulcer on the sacrum, prior to this, because of being confined to bed. A decubitus ulcer, a term that you should know if you don’t. The same sore is a bed sore, a pressure sore. Also produced by prolonged impression. Well it wasn’t very comfortable I’m sure () because just a day or two later her physician noticed she could no longer carry on a lucid conversation. Shortly thereafter she died.
Anyhow, they found metastases in the brain, the () cavity, axillary lymph node, (), spinal column, a whole variety of places.
So what had happened?
(A detailed description of the pathology of the disease described follows using medical terminology that I am not familiar with nor qualified to attempt to transcribe. The professor continues:)
Well, that is one very sad story of somebody who did not accept the corrections, didn’t even try. And never had a chance ().
So, () maybe some of you or maybe one person out of every time I’ve told this will not put off going, getting treatment, getting evaluation, when it might be lifesaving.
Anyway. Well lets go on about cancer, we’ve had our little story.
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released March 12, 2019
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Schedule II San Francisco, California
Tape, electronic, sound experiments, 1984-present.
Product of head injuries of varying severity spanning 60+ years.
Solo works of Bill C. (Conflict (US), Faith in Jones, Layer #7)
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