Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: In Support of A Friend Message-ID: <18400008@convexs> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 12:28:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.18400008 Posted: Mon Aug 19 12:28:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:34:27 EDT References: <1842@aecom.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:aecom.UUCP:-184200:convexs:18400008:000:743 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 19 11:28:00 1985 /* Written 7:49 pm Aug 8, 1985 by werner@aecom.UUCP in convexs:net.med */ /* ---------- "In Support of A Friend" ---------- */ Friends and relatives of Manuel Garcia, a cancer patient who has lost most of his hair while undergoing Chemotherapy, formed an unusual support group: They shaved their heads so that his baldness would not maked him feel conspicuous... Mrs. Garcia said her husband looked 100% better after the show of support, and Garcia pronounced himslef "ready for anything." from AP/American Medical News, Aug 2., p.13. (accompanies photo of ~50 bald people gathering on a step) /* End of text from convexs:net.med */ Now THIS is the type of stuff I like to hear about! Three cheers for FRIENDS!!! blues, II