Posted by MAR on June 05, 1999 at 05:56:40:
In Reply to: Re: anti-cd40L/anti cd154 posted by Sandra Silvestri on June 04, 1999 at 21:05:35:
Sandra S wrote: " Iam becoming known as a public cryer and sometimes this is a difficult role to play even if it is not planned on my part."
There is certainly plenty to cry about when you witness, daily, your child in the grip of this monster, diabetes. I share your awe of the researchers minds, hearts and souls. Any opportunity I've had to be in their presence has been a spiritual experience for me (an athiest!) The word "hero" leaps to mind.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to the terror of a patient struggling to take her first chemotherapy pill, a nasty drug callded hydroxyurea. She's dying of Chronic Myelogenic Leukemia and has no match for a bone marrow transplant, a terrifying procedure/cure. My hope is that anii-cd40/anti cd 154 Ligand will offer her and millions a more benign solution than the near-death experience of bone marrow tx, (IF she finds a donor._ How far-reaching are the applications of this immunosuppression?
MAR