King of the Hill

[Guest guest]

Dear Skip,

When I noted your longevity at the bottom of your post, I immediately thought of

you as King of the Hill. No one can come close to your record, so you are at

the very top of anyone's scale. I know you must wonder sometimes why you have

lived so long. I think you said once that the doctor had come to the conclusion

that you had a different kind of CML that no one else had. There you go, for

want of a better explanation, you will have to go with that explanation, but to

us, you are like the Statue of Liberty, with her beacon saying its possible to

still have a life after CML.

It changes your whole horizon and from day 1, it changes your whole perspective,

too. Every day we wake up is another bonus day that we have been given and we

have to wonder what we will do with it - live it or bitch about it. I look out

into the world, with my CML friends in mind and think if they can get through

it, so can I. You serve us well by continuing to tell your story, because there

are newcomers who have not introduced themselves, so we can't call them by name,

but they are out there and learning from us, just as we learned from others. We

are like one giant textbook and in it are the secrets of living with CML.

Carpe Diem

Lottie Duthu