Thanks Everyone!
Richard, I am sending you an e-mail right now for the
Virginia Mason contact. Tina, I am so glad to hear everything worked
out for your family. Best of luck on the second baby. I am very
familiar with Erin Z Ruddy, she's really great, and her glamour blog
was wonderful. I'll keep you posted as we go along here.
Erin
On Sep 15, 7:24 am, Tina Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Erin,
>
> My name is Tina, I live in Florida and have been a member of the "club"
> for almost 7years in March 2011. Four years ago my boyfriend (now husband)
> and I had an unplanned pregnancy while I was on Gleevec 600mg. My onc
> isnt conservative but she doesn't have any children and tends to be a little
> stay to the program type of doctor. We chose to keep the baby as we dont
> believe in abortion, came off all medications right away. I was not in
> remission at the time, by the end of my pregnancy my counts were WBC 50,000
> RBC 30,000 ish and my platelets were very elevated. On Aug 4th 2006 I gave
> birth to a healthy 8lb 2 1/2 oz baby boy (exactly 40weeks that day lol). We
> are making plans to have another baby next year, our son just started
> pre-school and is very healthy absolutely no abnormalities. I
> highly suggest you read Erin Zammett From glamor Magizine, she is a few
> years old then I am about your age and now has 2 children with CML. We also
> thought about adoption but I know I am more then capable of having my own
> children and with a lot of prayer we made it happen. Email me anytime if you
> need any help on this journey as I am now fighting again for baby #2. Follow
> your heart :)
>
> Tina
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Richard H
> <[email protected]>wrote:> Hi Erin. I don't have any real answers.
> I do have family that works
> > for Virginia Mason and if you are a member, you could call their
> > customer service and present you concerns and what other ONCs that are
> > available to counsult you. If you want to e-mail me personally I
> > would be happy to give you a specific name to call. He has been there
> > almost 15 years and truly believes in helping the members.
>
> > Richard H.
>
> > On Sep 12, 12:05 pm, sweetbluemusic2002 <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > > I'm usually just a reader, but I'm starting on a new journey and
> > > need some advice. I'm 33 years old, I was diagnosed with CML a little
> > > over 3 years ago. 400mg of Gleevec every day since has worked fairly
> > > well for me. We went to see Dr. Druker in OR to ask his opinion on
> > > starting a family. He felt my numbers looked good, and that physically
> > > having a child was an option for me. My local oncologist in Seattle is
> > > more conservative and would rather we just go through the adoption
> > > process. We've looked into adoption and gone through some of the
> > > required classes for adopting through foster care. I'm not opposed to
> > > adoption. However, the further down the adoption road we're getting
> > > the more it's bothering me that I haven't fully examined physically
> > > having a child. I'd like to find a local oncologist that's more
> > > supportive in Seattle, because if we did go the pregnancy route,
> > > driving to Portland regularly would get to be a lot. So I guess I have
> > > two questions. 1) For those of you who have gone off their medication
> > > to have a child, how did it go short term and long term? 2) Does
> > > anyone have a Seattle oncologist recommendation who might support this
> > > decision?
>
> > > Thanks!
> > > Erin
>
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