Before he checked himself into the Sharp Grossmont Hospital emergency room to see a doctor, longtime San Diego radio talk-show host, TV personality and popular emcee Mark Larson phoned the ER to ask about the wait time.
“Sharp Grossmont has one of the busiest ERs in the state. It was mid-afternoon on a Friday, and, fortunately, they said only eight people were waiting. So, I dropped by to find out what was going on in my body,” Larson told Times of San Diego.
The bloating in his lower left abdomen was diagnosed as lymphoma and resulted in a one-week’s stay at Sharp Memorial Hospital followed by chemotherapy treatments every three weeks, which began in April while in the hospital…