A safer world for our kids? I doubt it if anything it has becoming worse, much worse!
I don't mean to be cynical but just look around you? Like I said, who knows? 18's Marty On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:11 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, they never told the truth about pesticides back then. I put nothing > in my yard these days. > They also did mass spraying for mosquitoes back then. They would drive by > and have a big sprayer going. > I never knew what was in that spray. Like you said who knows??? > I hope they are making a safer world today for our kids. Love❤️ > > My Motto: Faith and Pills❤️ > With 💗Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Chi > Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia > Started Gleevec 2/2004 > Started Tasigna 9/2009 > Started Sprycel 11/2009 > Started Ponatinib January 2015 > Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center > > On May 22, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Funny you should mention insecticides. Gets me wondering about defoliants > specially agent orange. When I was in Vietnam they were spraying it all > over the place and I was really exposed to it. Gets me thinking about all > of the other guys that were there and now are not survivors because all of > the problems they encountered and we all were lied to... > > 18's, > > Marty > > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:18 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes great news!!! The only thing I was doing different was donating blood >> and getting tooth X-rays and dental work. I did live by a farm that >> sprayed insecticides a lot. I had taken a plane trip on which I thought the >> coffee tasted terrible. >> We were very free with insecticides in the 50s. Who knows??? >> We were all exposed but only I got CML. >> What a great warrior you are Marty!!! >> Love ya!!! >> >> >> >> On May 21, 2016, at 9:37 PM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Kathy, >> >> I actually have had 96 blood transfusions as well as dozens of platelet >> infusions not mention about a dozen Gamagloblin infusions while I was >> having my bone marrow transfusion. Let me explain why. I was born with >> type O+ blood. Since my donor (my sister) was B+ and also a perfect HLA >> match but the only problem was our different blood types. I had to become >> what is called a Chimera. And unlike a solid organ transplant where the >> blood typing must be the same between the donor and that have to be >> reciprocal of each other. >> That is why I had to have so many blood transfusions. >> >> Now it is over twenty seven years later and I had to have a kidney >> transplant and the donor was also a perfect HLA match and even our blood >> types matched. Now one more piece of information. If my Kidney came from a >> living donor then it would be okay to have a blood type of O+ but not from >> a deceased donor. >> >> They are making some progress in mis-matched organ transplants. >> >> So in my case I didn't acquire CML because I didn't have to have all of >> those blood transfusions, I got CML before I got all of the transfusions. >> >> Kathy, I would love to put you into the zero Zavie's list but even though >> I am number 1 on it I am unable to do it unfortunately Zavie is no longer >> with us. >> >> However I am so glad to hear about your progress in getting rid of those >> nasty cells is working so well. >> >> 18's, >> >> Marty >> >> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:43 PM, kathy walls <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Marty >>> Have you heard about one have had mega blood transfusions getting CML? >>> Since 2005 I have over 25 transfusions due to sever blood loss during >>> sugeries? Happy to say now I'm at 0.04!!!! Can I get a Zevia ### >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On May 21, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Jeanie, >>> >>> It all comes down to something that I wrote about the why's... >>> >>> Why me? or Why not me. >>> >>> You asked since no one in your family ever had Leukemia then why did >>> you? Also why me? Believe me I have tons of information that I have >>> collected for over 27 years and I have stumbled into some of them. >>> >>> Since I have been an Electrical Engineer for most of my life I had to >>> work on many projects concerning very high voltages that also included high >>> amounts of radio frequencies especially from some of the power stations >>> that feed radio and television transmitters. >>> >>> I had some friends that used to work for Con Edison in one of the power >>> sub stations which I had to be involved with from time to time. Whenever I >>> would enter the felicity the hair on my head and arms would stand on edge >>> even though some of those high voltage tunnels required everyone in those >>> high voltage areas had to wear something called a Faraday shield and some >>> of the power coming into that felicity from the main generating station was >>> around 500,000 volts. >>> >>> As it turned out there were six people working in the facility but not >>> every time in those high voltage tunnels, but I guess enough for everyone >>> to have acquired cancer of different kinds, mostly Leukemia AML but also >>> brain, lung and Myelodysplastic Syndrome which proved fatal to all of them >>> except for the one with Myelodysplastic Syndrome which had no cure. >>> >>> Amazingly he seemed to have beaten it without any explanation from the >>> doctor, and I actually recommended him to that doctor because I knew one of >>> the doctors at the time that I had my bone marrow transplant 26 years ago >>> that specialized in Myelodysplastic Syndrome so I asked him does >>> this ever happen? He told me that every once in a while it does happen. >>> >>> That man never returned to working with anything to do with high voltage >>> electricity. Eventually when I moved to Florida we lost contact with each >>> other. >>> >>> There was another article that I read about power lines that ran through >>> the back yards of peoples homes and it was found that a small percentage of >>> those people that lived near any power lines that had about 13,000 volts >>> did in fact have a higher chance of them getting cancer then those that did >>> not live near ant power lines. >>> >>> Also how about what is in the our water or air or the food that we eat >>> and drink? So let's say that if you are not the one that has the then >>> it May not >>> happen to you. Who knows? Only time may tell? >>> >>> 18's, >>> >>> Marty >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, 'Icandoallttc' via CMLHope < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes Marty I've always wondered why I got leukemia. I am the youngest >>>> of 11 children and no cancer in family except lung cancer and 1 breast >>>> cancer in my older sister. >>>> I didn't even know much about leukemia when I was dx. >>>> Even with fighting cml for 12 years I have had a full rich life. >>>> I got to go to the mountains with my daughters and granddaughter. We >>>> stayed in a beautiful cabin high in the mountains. >>>> We toured the Great Smoky Mountains and they are beautiful. >>>> I am now spending a week with my daughters and we are enjoying our >>>> visit. >>>> Yes we are born and then we die but sickness teaches us to live each >>>> day as it comes love each other with the time God gives us. >>>> Blessings to all >>>> ❤️❤️ >>>> >>>> My Motto: Faith and Pills❤️ >>>> With 💗Jeanie 🐟🐟18,s Chi >>>> Dx 1/2004. CML Leukemia >>>> Started Gleevec 2/2004 >>>> Started Tasigna 9/2009 >>>> Started Sprycel 11/2009 >>>> Started Ponatinib January 2015 >>>> Dr Balducci Moffitt Cancer Center >>>> >>>> On May 20, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Marty Gartenberg <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> *I was thinking about most of us that have been through a mirage of >>>> illnesses, myself included, and in thinking about it I have come to the >>>> conclusion "why me" syndrome. However rather saying this, even though we >>>> may be suffering in our own ways why not say "why not me"?.* >>>> >>>> *In effect anyone that has had any health disturbance/s in their lives >>>> are in fact a wounded solider, however, it has also become that wounds heal >>>> and this makes us go on. * >>>> >>>> *I remember two movies that put an impression on me. One was the >>>> Shawshank Redemption. One of the characters, Morgan Freeman told an inmate >>>> that "you either get to living or get to dying.* >>>> >>>> *The other was Forrest Gump, played by Tom Hanks. He was sitting on a >>>> bench at a bus stop and was talking to a woman who was a total stranger to >>>> him. One of the remarks he made, and this was after his mother had passed >>>> away. He said she once taught him a lesson about life, "life is like a box >>>> of chocolates you never know what you will get" * >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *When we think about it the one thing that we still have is life. We >>>> also know that every person in this world will have already been borne and >>>> eventually will have to die, it is just how we live our lives in between >>>> those times that really matters, and makes us what we are.* >>>> >>>> *Try to be kind to most people, be compassionate, say hello every one >>>> once in a while.* >>>> *Remember, that life is what you put in to it, and get out of it. * >>>> *18,s* >>>> >>>> *Marty Gartenberg* >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> [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 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