Thank you for your thought provoking, insightful post, Dorothy. Kelly On Oct 19, 6:53 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't want to start any battles here or even contribute to them but > as someone who has had CML for over 9 years I must admit to having > trouble understanding when people bash our government all the time but > thank Jesus. The researchers who discovered Gleevec were primarily > funded (for many years) by US taxpayers. We have our government to > thank for the fact that we get to live many years after diagnosis. > People were getting CML for thousands of years before we ever lived > and I'm sure many if not most were praying. Why would God ignore all > the people who died because they were diagnosed prior to Gleevec and > then suddenly decide to help those of us now? I don't think I'm > better than those people. If religion gives you comfort that is good-- > as long as it doesn't keep you from giving thanks where thanks are > due. > > I thank all those who have donated to cancer research and I advocate > that this kind of funding will continue. If you are a US taxpayer-- > thank you for funding cancer research! > > Dorothy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com -------------------------------------------------
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