Re: Re: Getting on the Defensive

[Guest guest]

These drugs are absolutely chemotherapy and you will never convince me

otherwise.

He actually went ahead and got his bachelors and now working on his MBA,

and then tossing the idea of going in as an officer. The door is still

open. He certainly misses the Air Force!! Thanks for asking!

hugs

Jen

In a message dated 10/4/2010 12:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

no_reply writes:

,

That is exactly what I said about Gleevec being a Chemotherapy drug, and

she replied back that it wasn't????????????? I guess if she has only been dx

a year she still has much to learn. Too bad she turned us off because this

is the best place to learn about CML

Regards Donna

PS Did your Husband re-enter the military in the end???

> >

> > My dear ,

> > You created a firestorm when you stated that women who didn't

breastfeed

> their infants were poor excuses for mothers. I hope you understand why

> people were offended by such a statement. You became defensive in your

> position and proceeded to become even vitriolic and offended even more

people and

> distanced them from your cause. No one said you were not welcome here

and

> if you have that feeling, it is your way of fending off the mistake that

was

> made by trying to shame the very women who have upheld you in your right

> to free speech. This is not the I envisioned you to be.

> >

> > It is not enough to say you have the right, with it comes

responsibility

> and allowing them to have their say, that's the way freedom works. You

do

> not gain friends by name calling and I think that the women in this

group

> have used great restraint in replying to your accusations. What about

> adopted children, are they different because they were bottle fed? What

you have

> done is condemned all women who did not breastfeed their babies and

painted

> them all with a broad brush, not even knowing the reasons they did not.

> For many it was not an option. In some countries you might be labled a

> zealot. Your statements appear to be saying that it's your way or the

highway.

> When I had my first child, there was a woman breastfeeding her baby

while

> smoking a cigarette, with ashes falling on the baby and blowing smoke so

close

> to that baby's face. Now would you call that a good mother, just because

> she was breastfeeding her baby?

> >

> > Please be fair and admit that you have offended some and others who

have

> remained silent, offer an apology and mend the fences that have been

> broken. You will be thought of as a much better person than you have

come off to

> be by your censure of other's rights t speak out. This is not a

religious

> or even a political issue, it is personal and because it is so personal,

it

> has roused the many who are tolerant. When you cross the line, the

natives

> get restless, they want to shield the very liberty you attack. I never

> perceived you to be that sort of person.

> >

> > China is correct, if you were in the US, your doctor would probably

have

> reported you for child endangerment based on all of the warnings

> documented by Novartis. That was all included in my first post to you. I

think she

> also made a very good argument in your defense that we are all united

> because of CML and no one is forcing you off, it is of your own

volition. Play

> fair, don't pick up all of your marbles and go home just because you

lost the

> first game.

> > Carpe Diem,

> > Lottie Duthu

> >

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>

> RN

> Wife and mother of 3 (14,11,9)

> CML 5/13/05

> Gleevec 800mg until 8/07

> Sprycel 100mg since

>

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