On 7/4/2009 10:39 AM, gloriasfirst@gmail.com wrote to All:

I agree with your comments, Gloria.  A good man.  Gloria Nanny

-> Harve, you've been a hero to me many times over.  Thank you for your kind
-> words and I admire your determination to keep 'doing what you gotta do' to
-> fight this damned disease.  You're a good man, dear friend.
->
-> Take care,
-> Gloria
->
-> "Harvey R. Stone" <hrstone@swbell.net> wrote in message
-> news:NLr3m.3644$Jb1.909@flpi144.ffdc.sbc.com...
-> >
-> > "Gloria" <gloriasfirst@gmail.com> wrote in message
-> > news:h2l9sr$of8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
-> >> From one who knows drug trials very well, Harve.  In a trial, you are
-> >> volunteering your body to test their drug, and the FDA is watching their
-> >> every move.  It HAS to be a controlled trial so certain protocols are
set
-> >> up.  If participants don't follow the protocol, to the letter, the
-> >> results of the trial will be invalidated.  That can be disastrous to all
-> >> involved in the trial and to all the patients waiting for a new drug for
-> >> their disease. Drug companies spend billions of dollars investigating
new
-> >> drugs and they have to trust he results of any clinical trials they run.
-> >> You are not in this trial for yourself, as much as I understand your own
-> >> personal reason for being in the trial, your body belongs to the drug
-> >> company and their trial.  Harve, think about what the outcome can be if
-> >> you don't follow the protocol.  They can and will bump you out if you
-> >> continue to violate the rules of the trial, then where will you be?
Just
-> >> be good, dear friend,  and play fair with them and something will be
-> >> learned from this trial, perhaps something very good that will help you
-> >> and many, many others.
-> >>
-> >> Because I care,
-> >> Gloria
-> >
-> > Back when,,,, You were in the Enbrel trials and did help to make a
-> > difference for many, many people.   You were in it when it had not been
-> > OKed by the Gov.   All of us that used Enbrel for many years have you and
-> > people like you to thank for what took place.   In short,,, you are my
-> > hero.
-> >   This drug has already been OKed by the gov.   I am not taking the
chance
-> > that you did.   I am helping with the information if it works for me with
-> > all the years that I took Enbrel in the back ground or history.   I
-> > understand what is taking place in the trials and will have no other
-> > changes in medicine.
-> > thanks
-> > Harv
-> >
->
->

Harvey,
How are you doing?  Do you think the med is kicking in?  I think it has been
a few weeks hasn't it?

Thinking of you.

Kelly