CLIVE JAMES AND CLL

Clive James, the Australian personality has CLL.

His wife is quoted in the Daily Mail, 'He is suffering from CLL - Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia - which if you must have, the condition is the kind you want because they can monitor it.’

Clive himself is quoted as saying, 'I got hauled in for kidney failure.
I was immediately diagnosed for everything else as well, including several lung diseases and a version of leukaemia that is supposed to develop slowly but in my case couldn’t wait to get started, mainly in my lungs'.

What a contradiction, 'the kind you want?' No cancer is 'the kind you want' and everytime a celebrity or doctor is quoted using words such as these about Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia or any other cancer, it gives a false, benign impression of the disease. Of course it is doctors who tell the patients this when they are diagnosed. Then, as in Clive's case (and mine), when all hell breaks loose we remember what the doctor told us and wonder why we weren't told the truth in the beginning.....many cases of CLL can be, and are, much more agressive and many will fall between.

There is much on-line information about CLL and later I will post web addresses of such sites that are so helpful.

To Clive I say 'may you be well'.