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    Overcoming the Odds: This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity
    Overcoming the Odds: This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity
    Overcoming the Odds: This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity
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    Overcoming the Odds: This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity

    By Keith Guernsey

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    This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKeith Guernsey
    Release dateMar 20, 2019
    Overcoming the Odds: This Is My Story Of Triumphs Over Cancer, Life-Threatening Brain Surgery Twice And Obesity
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    Keith Guernsey

    Keith D. Guernsey is retired and living on Lake Lanier with his lovely wife Susan and his four-footed son Harley (who really is the king of this castle!). He had a 40 year career in sales and sales management with Comcast, Motorola and Cahners Publishing. Susan and I are proud to  announce the birth of our first grandchild, Harrison Anthony "Harry" Guernsey to our son Keith and daughter-in-law Kate.

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      too!

      This Can’t Happen to Me

      I was 44 and what I thought I was reasonably healthy. Or at least as healthy as a perpetually overweight, party-hardy kinda guy could be.

      Then reality set in. It was early 1995 and my girlfriend Kathleen was complaining that I was having trouble hearing her. I made light of it by telling her I didn't want to be interrupted watching my beloved Pats to do my household chores (which those who know me will tell you I'm lousy at anyways!) Fortunately, she persisted and the bad news was about to get worse. After many rounds of tests, it was determined that I had a benign brain tumor called an Acoustic Neuroma on my eighth cranial nerve (left side). I had no idea what any of this medical mumbo jumbo meant, but I knew it wasn't good. After the first several rounds of tests proved inconclusive, my doctor told me that I needed any MRI to see what was really going on. I had never had one but from all the negative things that I heard about this test I knew it would not be a lot of fun. I remember driving down 93 south to Stoneham Massachusetts to see what fate had in store for me. Little did I know that what was about to happen was worse than I ever could have imagined! The very pleasant young technician pointed to a long, cylindrical (and very confining!) tube and said just hop up on this table and slide on in. She said you have to hold yourself perfectly still while you hear a constant loud banging. I asked her how long I would have to do this and she said 45 minutes. My answer was along the lines of "you are not going to put this big body in that little tube for 45 seconds , never mind 45 minutes!

      I didn't realize how claustrophobic I had become over the years but just knew this was not going to happen. I jumped up, thanked her for trying and flew out the door. I called my doctor to find out what my options were . She said we had to try a CT scan, but if that didn't work I would have to have an MRI. She said that I could take a valium to get me through it and I told her that it would have to be as big as her head for me to even think about

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