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...Melinda (my wife) at the hotel. We walked up Pennsylvania Avenue so I could show her the boardinghouse I stayed in when I was a page in Congress. We walked up the steps of the Capitol. I showed her the flagpole where they run flags up and down all day so they can send flags to people all over the U.S. mentioning that they flew over the U.S. Capitol. We had a quick pizza for dinner. I went to bed early so I'll be fresh...
...plane on Tuesday, there were two cars waiting. One was a white stretch limo. I got into the other car, since I think large cars are pretentious. Went to my hotel off Central Park, where I changed into my tuxedo. I don't wear a tux very often. Melinda helped me with the cuff links--they're so hard...
...brain tumor had shown up 10 years ago, Melinda Schuler would not have had much of a chance. Few doctors would even have tried to remove the malignant growth, located in her right frontal lobe, that had already taken over one-sixth of her cranium, pushing her brain down and to the left. Leave it alone, and the cancer would keep compressing useful tissue inexorably, robbing the patient of speech, movement, consciousness, life itself--all within months. Try to cut it out, and there would be the risk of taking too little, leaving cancerous tissue to grow again, or taking...
That's how Melinda Schuler ended up on Black's operating table at the UCLA Medical Center. (This past summer Black became director of a new neurosurgery institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, also in Los Angeles.) The neurosurgeon in Reno, Nev., who performed the original biopsy would not touch the tumor, which was sitting right in the middle of her motor area. He could have taken it out but feared that Schuler would be left paralyzed. "Most of the tumors I see are like this," Black says in his soft Southern voice...
...With reporting by Sylvester Monroe and James Willwerth/Los Angeles, Melinda Spaulding/Washington and David E. Thigpen/New York