"Charlene" <charlene.vickers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Aug 13, 4:35 pm, RadioactiveSeat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Poster "Dave", directly above, is exactly correct.
>>
>> Actually, while following the late Ms. Allen's story over the years, I
>> wish the coverage had more emphasized her being the victim of a
>> (nearly) life-long illness, rather than always focussing on that
>> condition's most conspicuous consequence (i.e., her record-setting
>> tallness).
>>
>> I mean, it was nothing larger than a pituitary tumor which caused her
>> profound plight, which to her everlasting credit she seemed to deal
>> with remarkable poise and dignity.
>>
>> While anatomy has never been my strong suit, is it not true that the
>> pituitary gland is about the side of a pod's pea? And if that's the
>> case, the tumor (assuming it was of her pituitary, rather than merely
>> adjacent to it) was likely tiny, yet with virtual life-ruining
>> capacity.
>
> You're right about the size of the pituitary, but a pituitary adenoma
> is often not caught until it's much bigger than the gland itself. This
> was even more true back when Ms. Allen was diagnosed.
>
A late friend of mine (whom some of you might recognize) had the same
predisposing condition, pituitary adenoma, which caused his acromegaly.
It
was said that he knew about the pituitary adenoma early in his life but
didn't want it treated. He made the most of his condition and knew he
would
die pretty young.
Just by coincidence, I had been thinking of him recently and put him as my
profile pic on a couple webpages (I'm the short one in the photo):
(from the way-back machine)
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q122/nilita2004/iluvandre.jpg
-nilita
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