Saturday, November 27, 2010

It's a busy life

Not much blogging this week. It has been the post-irenotecan week when I get a lot of intestinal colic which makes thinking difficult. I saw the oncologist on Friday and he gave me a good report. The CT scan was rather better than I had hoped with virtually all the disease except around the stricture disappearing. I get an extra week off over Christmas, but there are still 7 courses of chemotherapy to go.

I have spent the week advising on a medico-legal case that was very difficult to disentangle because the patient's hospital notes were lost, and have been missing for three years. It strikes me that if a hospital can't find notes after three years that they are not lost but hidden.

I have also been advising a marketing company on a marketing strategy for a drug in CLL. They didn't think much of my suggestion that it should be given away free until it has been shown to cure anyone.

Anyway I hope the next week will be easier to cope with.
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7 comments:

  1. Brian Koffman28 November, 2010 02:20

    Terry,

    I gotta love ya. You get hired by the marketers for Revlimid and you tell them to give it away. It makes perfect sense from so many angles, but I am sure it was not what they were expecting. Good for you.

    Be well

    Brian

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  2. Anonymous29 November, 2010 00:43

    Good to have you back, and with your sense of humor intact, after all your battles.Glad you had a hopeful report to buoy you up for future chemo.

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  3. Anonymous29 November, 2010 03:20

    If your criterion is that a drug must cure CLL before it can be sold, wouldn't, like, all drugs be free? There is no cure for CLL as you know.

    Or were you just being snarky?

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  4. Carter29 November, 2010 03:55

    I second Brian's comment, particularly the "be well". I continue to pray for you.

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  5. Anonymous01 December, 2010 05:32

    I think the notes are in the hospital's lost and found department- which is cleared out every six months by the in house legal and insurance staff.

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  6. Anonymous07 December, 2010 14:01

    I am 48 years young and discovered last year I have CLL. Recently found out that I am 11q del, unmutated, CD38 20%. My ALC was 7.3last year now it has jumped to 18.5Would Revlimid help me at this early stage and would I be able to purchase it if not given on the NHS?

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  7. Terry Hamblin07 December, 2010 15:35

    You would be eligible for the clinical Trial. Contact Dr Adrian Bloor at The Christie Hospital, Manchester.

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