Anne, so very good to know that you're up, around, and have rebounded from surgery so well! Must have been all those JMDL candles simultaneously lit at the hour of the procedure (<g>): that, and your own good heart and fighting spirit.
Jack, I'm so sorry to hear about your accident. "Heart and humor, and humility, will lighten up your heavy load." Well, at least the first two will! I know you've got plenty of both. And Walt, what GREAT news about your experience with tenofovir! I did a little checking, and discovered that this medication is being marketed by Gilead Sciences as VireadT tablets. I also skimmed the summary of a study, Gilead 902, which started out with 189 "antiretroviral experienced patients" and continued with 135 in an extension. In the extended arm of the study, resistance mutations associated with tenofovir were infrequent even at 96 weeks, and even in those showing resistance to other antiretrovirals they were receiving at the same time, such as protease inhibitors (Source: Medscape). How wonderful for you and so many others!! I wish all three of you good luck and good health for a long, long time to come. Warmly, Mary P.
