X-Message-Number: 21589 From: Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:15:55 EDT Subject: medical condition of Jerry B. Lemler, M.D. --part1_c1.30f464f3.2bc9b1db_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please post this to Cryonet. Thank you so very much. Paula Lemler Many of you within the Alcor community are already aware of the health status of my husband, but this is my opportunity to inform cryonicists at large of the current situation. Last Thursday we received the surprising and shocking news that Jerry has potentially terminal cancer. Surgery is not an option because the cancer is widespread both above and below the diaphragm. Doctors in Arizona did not give much hope, but due to the generosity of one family of Alcor members, Jerry is travelling to Houston on Monday morning and checking into M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Although Jerry is genetically predisposed for cancer, we were completely blown away by this. He is only 53 years old. This remarkable man came to be a physician through an unconventional route. While in high school he was visiting in a hospital when he happened to pass by the newborn nursery. In that precise one moment in time, a compelling force came over him in which he realized how little he had counted as a person through the early years of his life. That very night he decided to become a physician, and give something back to the world instead of merely existing to see how much he could take from it. He has lived his life doing just that. Since coming to Alcor he has worked tirelessly, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else (including me!). He has many long range goals for Alcor still to accomplish, and I am certain you all join me in hoping he will hvae the opportunity to continue his work. --part1_c1.30f464f3.2bc9b1db_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21589