Trying to get attention

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Interesting little adventure this morning. I'll leave out the long part. But, I wound up getting the # of someone at the bigger newspaper in Western NC. I called the lady there, and they may, at some point, be interested in doing a story or series on Orphan Diseases, one of which is Erdheim-Chester. It's possible, and I certainly hope likely, that this would increase knowledge of these illnesses, then jack up funding and attention. She seemed very interested and asked lots of questions. I'm a writer, not an orator. But, hopefully I did okay and tweaked her interest. I've begun a cause at Facebook:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/97118?fp=fb003&recruiter_id=16154293 , and am looking into that writing I talked about.

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Walter Comer,

I am a writer as well (not by trade; I'm an English teacher) and my husband was just diagnosed with Erdheim Chester. I have been thinking about the best way to get the word out about this disease and would love to help in any way I can. Let me know if I can ever assist you in your efforts. I'm sure the more people that speak out, the better.

Jennifer
jraedutra@yahoo.com

The Doc did put your husband on Intron-A, right (Interferon)? It has done wonders for me. Did take me a year to get accustomed to it, though. It doesn't hit me nearly as hard as it did in the beginning, now.

No. They said they want to "wait and see" what happens next. The possible treatments they said were chemo injected into his eyes (for the eye infiltration), immunosuppresants, and a bone marrow transplant. They didn't say anything about interferon.

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