Skip: Thank you for your reply...........it's amazing......& yes, sometimes just a good old down to earth family doctor is better than all the specialists lined up in a row. I've been blessed with having a couple of those in my life time.......my last recently gave up his practice. Since my diagnosis Jan. '04.....I've had five different Onc./Hem. & out of all of them, the second one I truly loved and felt that he was probably the most knowledgeable of all.......he moved to Atlanta about six months after I started seeing him. I'm still going to the same place......& the doctor I have now is a young woman who began her practice a couple of years back. I studied up on her before & saw where she worked along side the doctor that I loved during the trial phase of Gleevec while she was an intern. So, I decided that was enough to convince me to stay.......plus, I've pretty much been "healthy as a horse" (my husband's saying) since Gleevec took over and did it's job.......I sort of figured they would have given me over to someone else if I had been a lot sicker. (smile) The last two visits I've made.....I only saw the nurse practitioner that works for her......I told my husband that pretty soon they may just have me "phone in".....(smile). But, I do love where I go at the Sitemen Cancer Center at Washington University in St. Louis...the labs are great......the last couple of times I've had blood done....I didn't even feel the "stick" which is good because I am a big baby when it comes to needles and blood.....I have passed out so many times in my past, I use to ask if I could lie down somewhere. LOL In the beginning after first being diagnosed, I took someone with me to keep me focused on them instead of what the lab tech was doing and that helped. But, sad to say, I think I have gotten use to it now and it's a "breeze" unless I get one of those that lets you sit in the chair too long and think about it before hand. I can get myself pretty worked up then. LOL! My blood work has been good.....a little on the anemic side....but nothing to extreme. Only one time did they take me off my Gleevec for a week to allow the counts to come back up and that was about a month after I started it.
Thank you for sharing your story as well as some of the others who have survived CML for years before Gleevec. You inspire us. Keep Looking Up, Suzieq --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
