Subject: [Harp-L] Tulsa Read's Cancer Progress Report

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Absolutely, Tulsa....you've got it.  I'm sure I speak for just about  
everyone reading your posts that you're in our thoughts.  I'm so glad  you're through 
the surgery and on your way to recovery.  It will be a rough  few weeks and I 
feel so badly about the pain you're having to endure, but just  the fact that 
you're trying to warn and help other musicians right now shows  that you're 
looking outside yourself to be involved with the world and  caring about other 
people.  You're staying strong...the most important  thing of all.  You will 
get through this...I'm sure of it, and that the  worst of it is behind you.  
Elizabeth
 
Tulsa Read writes:
"I would like to first of all, thank all of my harmonica friends,  students  
and colleagues for their Emails and prayers. I had two  operations last 
Wednesday 
afternoon to have the Cancer cells removed from  the entire left side of my 
inner  wall of my cheek, and from the back  of my top lip. There is some 
nerve 
damage,  along with some loss of  feeling in the lip, so that will effect the 
quality of  my harmonica  playing. I still have to go through a series of 
tests 
to see if the   doctor was able to remove all of the Cancer cells. My mouth 
is 
very swollen,  and  it hurts. I have stitches in it from my left jaw to my 
top 
lip. I  don't want to  go through what my friend Doug Tate went through. If 
any  
of you harmonica  players ever have any type of lumps (no matter what  size) 
on 
your tongue,  gums or in the inner walls of your cheeks, have  an oral 
surgeon 
examines them right away. Don't put it off. Please keep your  prayers coming. 
Many thanks, and God  Bless.         Tulsa Read 
_www.harmonicaonline.com_  (http://www.harmonicaonline.com)"