My name is Megan, I am 23 and live in Australia. My mother-in-law (age 55) has just been diagnosed with CML.
She also has CIDP (an autoimmune disease) which required regular blood tests to monitor complicatons from it's treatment (such as liver and kidney degradation and infections from immunosuppression). As a result we were able to watch her white blood cell count climb over the last 2 months to 49, at an exponential rate, her platelets are also around 800 count. Tests have shown that the Philadelphia chromosome is present in 100% of cells. As soon as the forms have been processed she will commence treatment with Glivec (gleevec). I am hoping that this group will provide me with a better idea of what to expect as this disease takes it's course. Her hematologist is reluctant to talk about what can go wrong, untill it happens (doesn't want to scare us?) and has said that this pill will make her go into remission and hopefully she will never enter the accellerated phase of this disease. ------------------------ 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: [email protected] 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/
