Gum Disease and life

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If you have ever been in a dentist office chances are high that you have seen the poster of gum disease.
Recall the bone where teeth are attached? It is porous -not solid but full of holes. No two bones are the same - each one of us (maybe with the exception of identical twins) are the same. No bone structure is better or worse, just different.
But fundamentally, at the DNA level, we are the same.
Think about you refrigerator (for the older of us) or your iPod. Fundamentally they are the same but we have made them unique. I have my
Juanes and Vives songs, lots of the classical music I like and
photographs of Machu Picchu that give me great pleasure when my day is not going well. I would be very surprised if anybody in the world had
the same content on their iPod.
My iPod is no better or worse than anybody else's. It is just different
just like the bone in the Gum Disease poster
When the iPod came out of the box it was like our shared DNA- exactly the same.

To be continued ...

2nd Embolization

Done on April 3rd 2008. Overnighted in Hospital. Went well - better recovery than 1st time around.

Results were good and next step is the radiation treatment.

Key is timing given the busy schedule of Dr Rossenwasser- but this is important because he suggested no backpacking until AVM is gone.

Anyway, I am happy this is over with as Radiation is not as invasive as embolization. I was told no overnight will be required!!!