At least Larry got a kinder note from Wirt than
I did for my hernia.

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Signing Off
> 
> 
> John writes:
> 
> > For everyone's information, Larry will undergo surgery 
> tomorrow for liver
> >  cancer.
> 
> If there's any good news in that announcement, it's that the 
> liver is the
> most regenerative, self-repairing organ in the body. You can 
> get by with a
> small remaining piece of it for quite a while as it regrows.
> 
> And the associated good news is that we're better beginning 
> to understand the
> mechanisms that accelerate that regrowth, thus partial 
> hepatectomy is by no
> means a death sentence.
> 
> Wirt Atmar

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