Fill in the Blanks LL Chapter 12 Gap FillOnline version Gap fill based on first few paragraphs of Chapter 12 in The Last Lecture by John E 1 arsenal unexplained jaundice pancreatic conversations brochure surgery conjured surgeon appointments specialists objective doctors patients scientist MY MEDICAL odyssey began in the summer of 2006 , when I first felt slight , pain in my upper abdomen . Later , set in , and my doctors suspected I had hepatitis . That turned out to be wishful thinking . CT scans revealed I had cancer , ? . I approached my treatment like I approach so many things , as a . And so I asked lots of data - seeking questions , and found myself hypothesizing along with my . I made audio tapes of my with them , so I could listen more closely to their explanations at home . I'd find obscure journal articles and bring them with me to . ? I told doctors that I'd be willing to endure anything in their surgical , and I'd swallow anything in their medicine cabinet , because I had an : I wanted to be alive as long as possible for Jai and the kids . At my first appointment with Pittsburgh Herb Zeh , I said : " Let's be clear . My goal is to be alive and on your in ten years . " I turned out to be among the minority of who could benefit from what is called the " Whipple operation , " named for a doctor who in the 1930s up this complicated procedure . Through the 1970s , the itself was killing up to 25 percent of patients who underwent it . By the year 2000 , the risk of dying from it was under 5 percent if done by experienced . Still , I knew ? ? .
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