[CMLHope] Valentine's Day.

2016-02-13 Thread Richard H
Wishing each of you a Very happy V-Day tomorrow. I am doing Okay with the meds. I am living in a weather convergence that has been the pits this month. I am having cold weather 2 days and warm weather a couple more. Snow has gone north of me and then it goes south of me. We are mostly c

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2016-02-13 Thread Marty Gartenberg
Hi John and of course each and every one of you. John, I went to the hospital yesterday morning for my usual blood work and also saw my infectious disease doctor. Since my CMV virus has been dropping off he decided to drop my anti virus medicine to half the amount and then hopefully these terrib

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2016-02-13 Thread 'Susan Zimmerman' via CMLHope
Dear Beth and Marty, Sweet Beth is one of my inspirations, in case you didn't know. I pray all is well with you?! We need an update. Happy Valentine's Day. Marty, I sure hope your dire circumstances have improved this week, even just a tiny little bit. A tiny bit is to rejoice over! I lo

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2016-02-13 Thread John Barrons
Hi Jeanie: my ponatinib was increased in the hospital to get the wbc count down. My oncologist did not think I had gone into Blast phase and he was right. He did not do a pcr test, but the counts came back down to my normal fairly quickly. Thanks for asking. JohN B Sent from my iPad > On Feb 1

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2016-02-13 Thread Marty Gartenberg
*DON'T FORGET, WE ARE ALL PART OF THIS.* *EXPECT THE BEST, MIND OVER MATTER. SUCCESS IS A FUNCTION OF SELF CONFIDENCE. TO HAVE SUCCESS AT ANYTHING YOU MUST FIRST LEARN TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. IF YOU EXPECT THE WORSE THEN THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WILL GET (MIND OVER MATTER) IF YOU EXPECT THE BEST T