"Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
...
> 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 RLU 297263

Dear f-i-l had cancer twice. The first cancer, he had chemo every three
weeks. After each chemo treatment, then for 10 days, he injected himself in
the stomach with Neupogen.

I can't recall off the top of my head now how many chemo treatments he had,
but it was a bunch.
This cancer was lymphoma.

Later he had a totally unrelated colon cancer, chemo was not recommended,
and no Neupogen was given.

Just for yours and anyone-else's information.
Dee Dee