Hello and a big thank you

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I've only just discovered this site having mainly hung out on the LLS forums

since my dx in Feb of this year. As with many of us I have become something of

a Leukaemia geek since then, reading everything in sight and generally putting

myself through Haemetology 101.

I'm 43, married with 2 young sons, live near Salisbury in the UK and have been

on 400mg Glivec since diagnosis with thankfully not too many side effects other

than fatigue and the usual gastric issues.

PCR was 40% at dx, 8% at 3 months, 0.065% at 6 months - classed as MMR by the

lab (yippee!)

In all the reading I've done just about the most uplifting thing I have found

(apart maybe from the good news coming out of the Ariad trial!) has been Zavvie

and his Zero club - so as soon as I got my results I dropped him a line to apply

for my number - which is how I found out about this site.

Postings on the various forums naturally tend to concentrate on people who are

having poor responses or particularly bad side-effects and it is so important to

celebrate the good news too, especially for those starting out on their CML

journeys. Zavvie does such a wonderful job of this and I consider myself

honoured to be part of his club. Thank you.

Phil Beardsmore

#1277 in Zavvie's Zeros