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[reedgirl]

My husband who I've posted about on here before, diagnosed in July of 2010, has just had his world flipped upside down.  I thought last July was the worst days of my life, undoubtedly they were, but last Thursday we left for a much needed vacation.  We drove 300 miles or so, got a room for the night to then Friday continue our trek to Florida.  At 6 am we received a phone call saying we needed to turn around and come back immediately.  My husband's father who was healthy died in his sleep.  My father in law owned the family business, a hardware store, and was very well known and respected in the community.  My husband worked in that store with his dad since he was quite young and now has the responsibility of taking over, which he is more than able to.  I am just now worried about the stress he will be under dealing with the changes now and settling of his fathers things.  His parents are divorced and his dad remarried with a step son, who was in his teens when they married and never got along with Greg's dad.  Needless to say there will be friction amongst the family when it comes time to take care of things.  Greg has already made comments about not going back to Michigan to see Dr Talpaz, who wanted us to come there so he could treat Greg.

Anyway, enough rambling....I just am worried about the stress and how it may or may not affect Greg

Audrey

[hannibellemo]

Audrey,

I'm so sorry for your loss!

I'm don't know for sure if stress affects CML or its treatment. I can only say that I achieved MMR in one of the most stressful times of my life. My husband lost his job in a career of over 30 years two weeks before I was diagnosed. One year later his new job was eliminated due to the economy and during that time we were going through a crisis with another family member. Never thought we would be dealing with any of these things and I can definitely say it was extremely difficult.

It made me realize that I am much stronger than I thought I was and it definitely reinforced my belief that we have to be thankful for right now because we are guaranteed no other moment in time!

Good luck to you and your husband in this inevitable, but very sad, transition in your lives!

Pat

[Trey]

Stress can increase the numbers of white blood cells in some cases.  Your husband could use some more, so maybe it would even be a slightly positive outcome of a very sad event and the fallout you described.

http://www.livestron...te-blood-cells/

[Tedsey]

Audrey,

I too am very sorry to hear about your loss.  Here is hoping all goes smoothly for you and your husband with as little stress as possible.

Teds   

[CallMeLucky]

Audrey,

Very sorry to hear about these events.  I don't have much to say in the way of comfort.  My personal thoughts on stress are that they can take a toll on the body physically but from what I have learned about TKI drugs and CML it seems unlikely that stress would inhibit how the drug works at the molecular level.  For myself, I also find that being distracted with things in life, be it good or bad, are often distractions from thinking about CML.

I'll be thinking about you and your husband.....