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Husband And Sister Newly Diagnosed

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Subject: Husband and Sister newly diagnosed
Date: 04/10/2008

My husband was diagnosed in September with CML (chronic myloid lekumia) and it was a big shock to all of us because he has never been sick and never been to the Dr other than one time for stiches. I am not really even sure how to deal with this we have a 3 year old and she is to little to explain what is going on. For the most part right now he is on a new drug called Gleevec and it has really helped him a lot but it is so new that they do not know what the long term effects are. My husband is also hispanic and has no insurance and we have filed for his papers about 3 years ago and we were just called and told that we qualified to move to the next step but that it would include us going to Mexico for 1 to 3 years which would have been fine before but now that my husband has cancer he can not leave the US and continue to get this treatment so we mentioned this to the lawyer and he informed us that if immigration finds out that my husband has cancer then they will not ever allow him to get his green card because they do not want him to draw from our government in the future for his illness. So now we live in fear every day that he could be deported and he will no longer receive the treatment and without the treatment the Dr have said that he will not last long. Then my sister is pregnant with her 5th child and was just diagnosed in March with cervicle cancer and they told her that they can not give her any treatment or do any further test until the baby is born. I am just really having a hard time dealing with all of this and I have no idea what to do. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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