What started as a personal journey of a doctor turned patient morphed into a way to share what’s universal in dealing with cancer, in my case a nasty leukemia (CLL), a failed transplant and a successful clinical trial. The telling of my journey has become a journey to teach about CLL, related blood issues and all cancers. Please visit our new website http://cllsociety.org for the latest news and information. Smart patients get smart care™. If you want to reach me, email bkoffmanMD@gmail.com
posted by Brian Koffman at
1:42 PM
BkoffmanMD@gmail.com A family doc and husband of 1 and father of 4 and grandfather of 3 who loves his family and his work. I live with no TV and no microwave, but wouldn't last a minute without friends, art, music, books and the beach. Hockey, good jokes and exotic travel are pretty important too. Writing, Talmud and Zen give meaning to my life. My diet is organic vegan, often raw. I hope the blog makes the load lighter and the path both safer and more fun for those who read it or are going to similar places. I want to help. I crave your comments. If you are new to the blog, check out the portrait my son Will painted (it is the first post), and my very first text post.
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3 Comments:
Dr. Koffman, I have been reading your blogs daily and know the fight is on. Glad to read that music is part of your fighting artillary. You are from the sixites! Grow it long or shave it off. The big question of the last 4decades. I say rev up that razor. Hippiness is an attitude and a lifestyle anyways...:) Sending you my best, everyday.. Tracey
Maybe a good boring book will help you sleep at night. I have a one bookshelf full of them if you need!
Dear Brian,
I check in every day. Wow! As you probably remember my neutrophils have been almost nothing for well over a year. 400 not 4000! I am not tired, so maybe your being tired is from something else. Also, at 400 I don't get sick or have infections. The T cells or the incredible body can find ways around things that are not working right. Don't get me wrong, it is very scary to live with a number of 400. As in any big pneumonia or etc. and I might be toast. However, one can live very well with 400, and not be tired.
I can't believe you really did it. It is such an amazing frontal assault! And, then to have the timing turn out to be on the heels of the beloved PC's passing.
My prayers and love are with you each day. The journal is indeed awesome and amazing because for the first time, ever, I thought to myself....I could do that.
Nancy
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