My Mother Schedules Heart Surgery

An illusive cyst: should my mother have had her surgery?

An ultrasound showed about 2x1 cm cystic lesion in the body of pancreas. This followed by a referral for the abdominal CT scan that was done 1-month later and showed a “2 cm lobulated cystic lesion in the neck of pancreas with no pancreatic duct dilatation”. Due to a suspicion of MCN, she was referred for a pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) with biopsy. EUS (#1) was done soon after at the ...

My mother the gardener.

M Y MOTHER DIED AT AGE 90 YEARS FROM complications of a fall at home. The “at home” part was the triumph of her last decade. Having spent 3 years in a German slave camp during World War II, she was terrified of institutional settings. Assistedliving facilities and nursing homes were tantamount to prisons, in my mother’s view, and woe to anyone who suggested otherwise. As a HIPAA (Health Insuran...

My mother, the wave

The checkpoint of death ells that fail to turn on a signaling pathway as instructed go on to commit suicide, according to Olivier Micheau and Jürg Tschopp (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). This checkpoint mechanism may ensure that aberrant signalers do not survive to form tumors or inappropriate cell types. The mechanism explains how death and differentiation are coordinated from a single ...

To My Mother Моей Маме

1 Introduction Today, peer-to-peer technology has reached the peak of its popularity. Currently, P2P file sharing represents the dominant usage component of Internet bandwidth. Moreover, P2P networks enable sharing of other different computer resources and services, including distributed (collaborative) computing, processing cycles, instant messaging, CPU and storage resources, etc. Peer-to-pee...

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children