Word: sinusitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Pressures. In the fall of 1958, not long before the divorce decree became final, Lavrinc enrolled in the Washington Bible College. The pressures of study, family worries and flying were growing. He complained of headaches, was operated on for a sinus condition. He spoke of a reconciliation with his wife-if only he could bring her to religious ways. A solution, he thought, would be to become a flying missionary in South America and to take his family there. He even asked Piedmont for a two-year leave of absence so that he could train for the work...
Assisted by local surgeons, the doctors treated sinus cancer by cutting into the external carotid artery, inserting a thin polyethylene tube, and stitching it in place. They hooked this up to an infusion bottle and a pump, which delivered a quart of saline solution every 24 hours. So potent is the drug that this volume contained only one six-hundredth of an ounce of Methotrexate. Every six hours, a nurse gave an intramuscular injection of CF. For women with cervical cancer, polyethylene tubes are set in arteries on both sides of the lower abdomen...