In article >,
Blinky the Shark > wrote:

> > Did you have leukemia or suspect?
>
> I was in the hospital for three weeks with one or more serious
> infections due to a virtually totally crashed immune system. They never
> figured out what hit me, and this was a respected major university
> teaching hospital. They threatened me with a bone-marrow transplant.
> Right. I had no insurance. I lucked out and a year of self-injecting a
> very expensive ($320 a shot[1]) drug called Neupogen got my white count
> up off the floor and to an acceptable and sustainable-without-drugs
> level.
>
> [1] The manufacturer provided it free, as I proved my hardship status in
> the context of three to five of those injections a week.
>
>
> --
> Blinky

Well done. :-)

I'll have to google for that drug.
You've piqued my curiosity.
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