Many in our community including myself owe much to Chris Dwyer. His death came not so much as a shock to me but a sadness in losing such a fellow warrior who had been through so much while giving so much. He had been long-suffering with so many assaults from various treatments and crippling infections from an ever declining immune response. The last time I communicated with him he had no illusions about his fate, stating that “Wayne, I have no immune system left” and was in hospice.
I first met Chris in the Spring of 2007 at my first Cll Patient Advocacy Group (cllpag) sponsored Canadian CLL Conference that he helped to build into the best informational CLL focused forum certainly in North America if not the world, where Drs. John Byrd and Terry Hamblin were featured speakers. In those early days Chris was feisty and some would say contentious which pushed my learning curve for CLL harder than it might have otherwise been.
We all must deal with the end of life, often unfair, often unpleasant, and I am grateful for the end of his suffering and the outstanding example he set for not only confronting his CLL, shingles and Richter’s but the incredible effort he made to share his knowledge to the very end. Farewell Chris, my fellow warrior and friend.
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Probiotics with ibrutanib
The passing of a CLL pioneer and hero: Joe Greenblatt
Additional Shingrix Vaccination?
I refused Chemo 2 months ago and I am trying the natural path 
