Greetings My Family & Friends It's Monday, November 28, 2005, 12:28am and I want you all to share in my celebration of life. Two years ago today I was diagnosed with CML. This is a glorious day and celebration of life for me. By the grace of God a doctor named Dr. Brian Druker was given the talent to come up with a life saving medication, Gleevec which has kept me alive and not always so well, but "most importantly" alive! I feel so blest to be here and have the opportunity to email all of you and share this moment, this day in my life. God bless all of us who are still here in the battle to survive. Please think of me today and share my joy.
Prayers for Noah and his family...... I want to welcome the newbies I've failed to make contact with in the past week or so. I'm usually johnny on the spot, but due to the loss of my beloved mother and much activity with my son since his release from jail, going to AA and AL-NON meetings and catching up lost time with him, I'm afraid I haven't had the time to personally welcome you. I realize only too well what you are going through but please know that you have found the perfect place for love, kindness, understanding, information and knowledge concerning CML. Don't hestitate to post to the group with anything whatsoever, no question you have is too simple or too hard, nor is it a dumb question. I had heard of leukemia prior to my diagnosis, it took my daddy's baby sister's life at 21 back in the 1930's. I have no idea which kind she had or anything about it. When I was told I had a form of leukemia, called CML and it was the "good kind", well I was just stunned and had no earthly idea what to think, what to feel, except sheer terror and I got on the internet immediately and looked up everything I could find about it, bookmarked it on my computer, transferred it from computer to a journal. God led me here to this YahooCMLSupportGroup. I read it only for some weeks to find out all I could, I was skeptical about writing to the group but... one day I felt the need, I needed someone to talk to who knew exactly what I was going through since my family and friends didn't know what I was going through. God pointed me in the right direction and I have been here for almost 2 years. I have recieved so much love, friendship, understanding and what treatment I needed, what kind of doctor I needed, what to expect from the Gleevec and all my thousand of questions from my CML friends and family. I have recieved so many response posts, private emails, letters, cards, phone calls, I don't know where to begin to thank everyone by name. I know that what I found from this group, you will also. I wish the newcomers, and all of us continued success and life. Please feel free to email me privately for any reason. The winter season is upon us now, and with CML and COPD, I will be spending much of my time at home away from the public and germs, bugs, flu and so forth. So I need some extracurricular activity(can't spell or type well.) Just know that I am here should you feel the need to need someone. I hope everyone was able to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday's as much as I did. It was sad and at times very heartbreaking as I just lost my mother the 15th, but I was very happy to be with my husband, children and sister-in-law for the day. We had a wonderful day aside from being worn out trying to cook too much. We've come to a mutual agreement that I and my sister-in-law are just no longer able to cook for hours, so we are having Christmas dinner catered. It will be the third time in 23 years that I did not prepare my family a meal. I was diagnosed Nov. 28th 2003, and I just wasn't in the holiday mood to cook that year, and in 2004 my son was in jail on Xmas Day so I certainly wasn't in the mood that day, and I was also very sick. So this year's holiday's will be very special to me. I hope they will be to you. God bless everyone Love, Peace, Hope & Prayers, Pat ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. http://us.click.yahoo.com/JrD4fD/lbOLAA/xGEGAA/8zSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: cml@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
