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Good Morning folks, There are a long lines of extended hands across both countries sending positive thoughts, prayers and well wishes to Murray and his family during this difficult and challenging time. Murray's daughters emailed me with this update: Murray was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital yesterday into the Jimmy Pattison Pavilion on the 12th floor Wing 12B in room number 620 . They got to work and immediately did some more blood testing and repeated a chest xray. He has also had a counseling session to talk about best and worst case scenarios. He is in decent spirits. This was followed by a re-examination of the CT scan he had last week. They have now decided to do a bronchoscopy as the next step. This procedure will be done today. [A bronchoscope is a small flexible tube which is inserted through the nose and down into the lungs. It has 3 channels inside : the first channel has a fiber optic channel that delivers light to the end of the scope; the second channel has an optic system that allows the physician to view inside the lungs; the third channel allows the physician to sample tissue, with biopsy tools or aspirate fluid from the different parts of the lungs. ] They have decided not to drain the fluid at this time in anticipation of perhaps having to perform a thoracoscopy later (apparently having the fluid in his left lung present makes the procedure easier) . His daughters did say that they would be with him at the hospital today and they would let me know about any updates. His family asks that we all "Keep positive thoughts flowing in this direction please. " Hugs, Gail Vass ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn