Important Research on Relationship between Natural Wine and Brain Cancer

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Joe Dressner

Joe Dressner
Just a small note to let you all know that I was feeling weak recently and took an MRI and EEG on Friday.

I saw my oncologist yesterday and my original tumor of two years ago remains reduced and dormant.

Unfortunately, I have two spanking new tumors in roughly the same spot.

I feel great, because I have been put on steroids and the energy is surging through me as if I am in a computer animation. Tonight might be the night to finally rent Avatar. I just tasted a bottle of Jean Maupertuis Cte d'Auvergne blind and guessed it was Harlan. That's right, everything around me is buzzing with power.

The steroids make me 28 years younger. I am the young man at NYU's Graduate Journalism School the day I met Denyse Louis, who later became my wife, mother of my children, business partner and dog co-owner. I went today to eat the Muffin Shop on Waverly Street, where we used to hang out with Belgians, Brits and Brazilians. The Muffin shop is now a pizza joint.

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I am meeting with my Neurosurgeon tomorrow to figure out what to do. He is a distinguished physician and loves Ren Rostaing's Cte Roties from 1995.

Under his guidance, I might enjoy what all the cool kids do and have Gamma Knife Surgery!

After two years, I'm back to being a cancer newbie. I enjoyed it so much the first time and am looking forward to once again sampling the free coffee and graham crackers at the NYU Cancer Care Center. I can't say enough great things about my doctors and am purposely sparing them the humiliation of being outed in public on this blog.

The steroids are great.

I'm stoked!

Getting rid of the new tumors would also be nice. .

Include me in your prayers and wish me a speedy recovery and tell me how your thoughts (and prayers) are with me and all my loved ones.

Send contributions to Partners in Health to people who really need help. I'm a wealthy wine importer with good doctors and a good health insurance plan. I'll get the best care possible, unlike people suffering with horrible medical care all over the world when we have the capacity to do better.

Stay tuned here for hourly reports. Cancer puts me in a foul mood and maybe I'll even feel compelled to revive Dr. Barbara Hirsch, the famous Great Neck Endocrinologist. Many of my readers have been asking me to bring her back.
 
Now you are making me feel bad that I could not make it to the Wine Bottega to meet you a couple weeks ago.

I hope the steroids will keep you going until I get another chance.

In the meantime I will pray for my colleague who is treating cholera victims in Haiti.

By the way, the Ppire 2009 Muscadet with actual cork sponsored this post.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Getting rid of the new tumors would also be nice.
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We'll gratefully settle for nice, then. You have every good wish I can think of. Pretty much makes the election seem totally insignificant. Or piling on, depending on how you look at it.
 
I'm really sorry to hear this, Joe.

You are one of the real greats, and it is tough to know that you have to go through this again.
 
...who kept working on his farm in Pennsylvania all through the damn brain tumor thing. I've been enjoying your wines for 20 years here on the Left Coast. Tumors: Funny how our bodies are not in cahoots with inertia and entropy, sometimes.

I visited Baudry in 2009 and he commented on my cache of 1996 La Crois de Boisee, a bit wistfully. I was enraptured on a forlorn old bicycle at the time that constrained my travels to a 12 mile radius of my lodgings. Oh, the joys of constraint and attention to small details in les Hameaux des St. Nicolas de Bourgueil and Benais and surrounding environs. Been visiting with vignerons there for the last 3 years.

I have not had the privilege of meeting you nor have you enjoyed the unfettered delight of my company, but I wish to acknowledge our individual and communal curiosity and devination of vine and soil, culture and climat. Say Hi to the Louis side of L-Dressner.

Thanks for acknowledging the many people who have no access to good health care in our country, the us of a. There is no excuse for this.
Avarice is not an excuse.
 
Please get rid of these interlopers, Joe. You and I must continue trading barbs for a long time still. Best wishes.
 
I am very sorry to hear about additional health problems. I hope that things go well and that you can put these new tumors into remission as well.
 
By all means, bring Barbara Hirsch back, but spare Great Neck, my home town, the hate.

On the other hand, if it helps you get better, I'm all for it. I will be uttering meaningless ritual sentences into the void for you on the principle that it can't hurt.
 
Joe, Your classy note here reads well. Keep up the strong spirit and faith!

All good wishes with your treatment and recuperation.

. . . . . Pete
 
I'd glad that in such difficult times you have the steroids to prop up your spirits. Real Wine may come with fewer side effects, though, so perhaps you shouldn't neglect the alternative therapy as well. Best of luck in dealing with this latest setback.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:

The steroids make me 28 years younger.

Gamma Knife Surgery!

The steroids are great.

I'm stoked!

Getting rid of the new tumors would also be nice. .
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As it turns out, I'll be getting a epidural steroid injection in my neck! After reading your post I'm totally stoked. I just wish I could have Gamma Knife Surgery. It seems like I'm always on the outside looking in on the cool kids.
 
Since Joe sometimes seems a little bit averse to outpourings of concern from people who really care about him (but mostly know him from online stuff), I will just note that Joe's impending viewing of Avatar brings me one person closer to my goal of being the last person in the United States to view the movie, in any format. Thanks Joe!!!
 
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