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CML

Good News Day

October 15, 2009

Last visit to my haemo in September I wasn’t able to get any results. It seems Medicare are tightening their belt and decided that they will only pay for the leukaemia marker test every three months. I’d seen a different doctor the time before and he’d ordered the test a month early, so it wasn’t [...]

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Living with a chronic illness

June 19, 2008

After getting over my initial shock at being a couple of years ago, I’ve never really thought about the implications of living with a chronic illness. For the most part I feel well, with only minor side effects from my medication. I don’t need to do a lot to manage my illness [...]

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My CML Journey – Diagnosis Day

May 18, 2008

I had planned to do a single post about CML and my experiences with the disease. However, I think writing about it has been somewhat cathartic for me and I have ended up with much more than I’d anticipated. So today is the first part of my story – diagnosis day. [...]

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Checkup day

May 15, 2008

Today was checkup day with my haematologist. I got my first leukaemia marker test back since I started my new medication. I’m happy to say that it seems to be doing the trick and the tests are once again headed in a downward direction. Woo Hoo
That means I don’t have [...]

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