"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Gunner" wrote in message
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Other than that, she is doing well enough. Ive gained a bit of
respect. She keeps a positive attitude most of the time, even though
she is home alone 4-5 nights a week. This week, she will be home alone
10 straight days. Well..the dogs are there.

They finally diagnosed her as having Factor 5/Leiden

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Holy cow. I don't think I've ever heard of that many contrary indications
and interactions. She must be pretty tough to put up with it.

That's an example of where medicine is going. Just trying to balance those
things probably would have been impossible ten or fifteen years ago. So,
it's easy to hate Big Pharma, but they're keeping a lot of people alive.


Ed,
There was a guy here in LA doing venom studies in an attempt to treat
diabetes - Dr. John Eng at UCLA.
Are you familiar with his work?
The drug they were testing had a great deal of promise and among its
benefits were weight loss and stimulated insulin production.
I am pretty sure you know your way around both the disease and the state of
the art in treatment and yes, there is more behind this message than an idle
search for interesting info.


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John R. Carroll
Machining Solution Software, Inc.
Los Angeles San Francisco
www.machiningsolution.com