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Hi All,

I have been catching up on about a months worth of posts, and wanted

to check in. Things have been very busy as I have been doing a lot

of traveling this year although I am hoping for it to slow down as

the whether gets warmer so I can spend more time hiking on the

weekend. (of course we are suffering through our 3rd rainy weekend

in a row here which doesn't make people very happy, especially when

monday's tend to be beautiful). I also just received a promotion as

work which adds to the crazinest as I am currently doing both my old

and new jobs until I can hire someone.

I had my quarterly PCR tests last week so I am patiently :-) waiting

for the results. I saw some discussion probably a few weeks back

about freq. of testing. I actually only have my cbc and chem done

every 3 months now, and have been since PCRU over a year ago. I am

actually comfortable about this as all of my counts have been good

and stable since about 2 months post dx.

I am really interested in the studies with INF and IM and the

possibility to stop IM at some point, but don't qualify as I am

already PCRU and most than 6 months post dx. I would also be very

concerned about taking INF as I tolerate IM very well and don't want

to risk the side effects impacting me day to day. I have also been

reading about the peptide vaccine and was wondering if that was

another option in combo with IM for possibly stopping at some point.

I hope to be able to join the chat again in a couple of weeks. I

have missed the conversations.

Sharon