Please forgive me, a typo error on the price of the stock from Novartis. I typed in $12,000 when it should have been $1,200 a share.
Sorry about that. Marty Gartenberg On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Martin Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marcie, > > I am sorry to have to welcome you into this CML group. I would much rather > welcome you to a wonderful party or cruise, but the fact remains that you > have this disease and I think that you have come to all of these wonderful > people on this site, and their knowledge will be of great help to you. > > Thank you for the compliment of you saying that I said something brilliant. > Marcy, maybe you would like to tell this to my wife Shelly? [?] > > All kidding aside, there are a lot of people on this site that know a lot > more then me about Gleevec, one being my good friend Zavie Miller. You have > to remember that I had a bone marrow transplant and never used Gleevec, so I > can't know about anything other then I see or read about. > > When Gleevec first came out it was called STI-571 and it was in limited > production by a company called Novartis. In those days I was on another CML > group and asked everyone that would like to support Novartis buy their > stock. Since their stock at the time was about $12,000 a share I suggested > that they buy the American Registry shares that were selling for about $20 > at the time. > > Not so much for making money on this stock, but to support the company. > Shortly after Novartis started marketing it and it was approved by the FDA > and was given the name Gleevec. I purchased a lot of those American Registry > shares at $20 per share, and would never sell them. I did this as I also > asked everyone to do it to show support for Novartis, and it is now $54.430 > a share (as of my last statement December 31St) I will never sell this stock > because of my support for this fine company. > > When I had CML it was in the year of 1989 and Gleevec was not yet > discovered. I would have chosen Gleevec over that bone marrow transplant > hands down, but it was many years later that Dr. Druker discovered it. If > you want to call someone brilliant then Dr. Druker should be the one... > > In any event, I again wish all those with CML and any other cancer for that > matter; to become healthy and happy once again. > > Marty Gartenberg > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Ahmed and Marty: >> >> I think this is the first time I have posted to this site. I was >> diagnosed in March '09 and I am on 400 Gleevec and doing well. I wish I had >> something brilliant to say but Marty said it best. To all of you on this >> link and to all of your families as well, best wishes for a happy, healthy, >> peaceful New Year and many thanks for the advice and encouragement you give >> to those of us who are newer members. >> >> Marcie Goodman >> Baltimore, Maryland >> >> >> -- >> [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 >> > >
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