So sorry about your faithful friend. I pray he has a peaceful end. My Motto: Faith and Pills❤️ With 💗Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Chi Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia Started Gleevec 2/2004 Started Tasigna 9/2009 Started Sprycel 11/2009 Started Ponatinib January 2015 Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Norm <norm5...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I am still alive and kicking but one of my kickers is giving me fits. I think > it is plantar fasciitis. > > I haven't posted in awhile and miss Millie may she rest in peace. > Jeanie is my cruise mentor and my wife and I along with a few other friends > just got back a couple of weeks ago from a 7 day cruise to Jamaica, Cayman, > and Cozumel. > > We were busy with one of my cousin staying here quite often while he was > being treated for stage 4 Melanoma, he passed and is walking with Jesus now. > Way too young and such a very good person. > > My beloved dachshund, Hans, turned 12 yesterday. About a month ago we were > given the devastating news that he has lymphoma. I never knew it would be so > difficult to have to deal with the knowledge that one day, much sooner than > expected, I would have to ease his way to a comfortable ending. > I dread this as he was my buddy and comfort while I was recovering from my > relapse of CML. > He is being spoiled even more than ever now and will be until that time > comes. Millie would understand. > > April 1st will mark 13 years since my diagnosis and the start of Gleevec. > As some know, I relapsed and Gleevec no longer worked. > I was fortunate enough to get in the clinical trial for AMN107 during the > phase 1 study. > As you can tell, it worked but not before I entered blast and was one very > sick puppy. I believe that one night the angel of death came for me and for > some reason let me stay. > All I know is Dr Kantarjian tells me to thank God and I do. > > My son has finished his tour of duty with the USMC and has been discharged as > a Sargent with the Achievement medal. We are extremely proud of our son, and > our daughter who is still teaching photography to high schoolers. > > I have been training my replacements at work so I can eventually retire. I am > ready but they are not.....lol.. > > My macular degeneration is stable and I have not had any shots in my eye for > almost 6 months. Still legally blind and that will not change during my > lifetime I suppose. > > I have been playing a lot of golf with my younger brother and we are having a > great time together. He is a good brother that will come and pick me up and > take me golfing even if it means spending the whole day with me. Life is good. > > This past December marked 11 years that I have been on Tasigna. I have never > been undetectable but it is generally only a few cells in 10 thousand. > > I will try to check in more often but life has been keeping me so busy. > > Blessings to all > Norm > >> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 9:00:33 AM UTC-6, wa2yyx wrote: >> Why the silence? I miss everyone. >> >> 18's, >> >> Marty > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
