I was diagnosed with CML a little over a month ago and had a bone marrow biopsy and started taking Gleevec last week. I'm trying to learn as much as I can about CML and my oncologist is great about giving detailed explanations and answering questions. But I was wondering if anyone else ever got what I consider a strange reaction from others about my news. In the past week, I've had people say the following things to me which upset me a lot.
"So what's the big deal? So you have to take a pill...I have to take this antibiotic for my tooth infection this week too." "There is so a cure for leukemia. Plenty of people are cancer free. You don't know what you are talking about." (This after explaining about the drugs and "response," vs. "remission." etc.) "Well I hope you have a speedy recovery. Good luck." I know I can't put my energy into dealing with this right now but it is weighing on my mind anyway. It made me happy to find this group online where I know people can at least "get" it and where some of you have been living with CML for quite a while. Anyway, that's my first post. Nice to meet you. Sue -- -- [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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
