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	<h2>Bonnie/Jean- Esophageal Cancer</h2>
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<h3>I found Dr. Mary Maish at UCLA.</h3>
<p><strong>What a world of difference between a very highly trained and experienced surgeon who told me I had a 5% chance of survival, and a young MD professor at one of the leading teaching hospitals in the world-Dr. Mary Maish who looked at my records and told me that if SHE had been able to advise me, she would have put the surgery first, not last in the treatment sequence.</strong> This path was on the cutting edge of new and modern treatment. Nonetheless, Dr. Mary said that the surgery which could remove the remainder of the tumor and restore my eating function had a 95% chance of success and there would be nothing like a month in ICU.</p>
<p>I know that many people, already carrying around MD degrees, follow Dr. Mary around on her rounds and in her operating room-they learn the medical stuff-I can only report on the human stuff.</p>
<p>Dr. Mary has been a friend as well as savior.</p>
<p>Sure I lost weight and have a funny tummy now, but my husband loves the new look and I've joined him for Kung Fu class! I will take those for the rest of my life as well as I will treasure my wonderful friendship with Dr. Mary.</p>
<p>I'm known to my family as "Bonnie J. Troescher," but to the thousands of people who know me on our web sites, I'm Jean Ross, the "Friend of Goodwill," and with that title I offer this heartfelt testimonial to UCLA and Dr. Mary Maish, and offer to continue to answer phone calls to answer any and all questions about my experience.</p>
<p align="right"><a href="body.cfm?id=38">Read more on Bonnie's story &gt;&gt;</a></p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;">Nancy- Esophageal Cancer</h2>
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<h3>My first meeting with Mary Maish was soon after I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2007.</h3>
<p><strong>I was scared and not at all sure of what was going to happen to me.</strong>&nbsp; I was at that point of.....Yikes, this can't be happening to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was also at the point of.....Why me?!&nbsp; I was both angry and in a way resolved.&nbsp; I couldn't help trying to think of reasons this was happening.&nbsp; What had I done so bad in my life that I was given this awful disease?</p>
<p>I don't really know what I was expecting Dr Maish to look like, but I was certainly surprised to see this attractive, young and petite woman who is a world renowned thoracic surgeon.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="body.cfm?id=59">Read more on Nancy's story&gt;&gt;</a></p>
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<h3>My story has two main parts, Achalasia and my Esophagectomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span></h3>
<p>For<img class="sm6generalwizard" src="images/site/IMGP2066.JPG" border="0" width="285" height="206" style="float: left;" /> most of my life I had trouble swallowing and never knew why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>I had an upper GI done about 10 years ago and got a call a day later from my doctor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>I knew that couldn't be a good sign!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>He told me I had difficulty swallowing at times because I had Achalasia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>I had never heard of it before and was told it was a progressive disease and to expect my swallowing to only get worse.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>I found that Achalasia is a rare disease.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><a href="body.cfm?id=62">Read more on Sandy's story&gt;&gt;</a></span></p>
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