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To: 5,17,37,5,101,... who wrote (167)	11/10/1997 12:10:00 AM
From: John McCarthy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 756

Jackson, Forgive me for jumping in. I want to change your focus. How fast can you discover: (a) The important AIDS organizations on the internet. (b) Draft an E-MAIL to them that says the following: The FDA has not voted on Paxene to the delight of Bristol-Meyes Squibb. (BMY earns approximately $1.7 mil. dollars a day in sales as long as it is delayed) Below is the story of Mr. XXXXXXXX as spoken by Mr. XXXXXXXX at the FDA Advisory meeting on Sept. 19th. Today is November 9th. Isn't it time the DARK AGES ended? Please help Mr. XXXXXXXX receive the Paxene he requires. From the FDA advisory meeting of Sept 19th. MR. XXXXXXXX: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Eric XXXXXXXX. I am not being financially rewarded for being here today. I'm here out of a heartfelt concern. Since I was 15 years old, I have worked as a fashion model. This allowed me to move away from home at 17 to support myself through college and to pay for it and I was a taxpaying citizen where I contributed to society in general. This was until two years ago. In the fall of 1995, I was diagnosed with AIDS. More devastating was the fact that I had Kaposi's sarcoma, KS. After an endoscopy to show that the KS was rampant throughout my insides, after a couple of weeks lesions began to appear all over my body. My world began to collapse. I was 30 years old. I relied on my physical appearance as the basis of my existence. This was my means of livelihood. Why was I being tortured? I had been completely healthy all my life. I was a vegetarian. I didn't smoke. I never did drugs or alcohol and I was not promiscuous. I wanted to know why this was happening to me. My doctors immediately started me on chemotherapy. This scared me because I had seen the faces of people on chemo and in my experience those people didn't have a long chance of survival. Reluctantly, I started a clinical trial of Donozone. I was concerned about hair loss, but I was assured that this would not be a side effect. This made a vain man happy. I remained on the study for about six months. I experienced nausea, vomiting, sleep loss, loss of appetite, subsequent weight loss and a host of other problems. My heart infraction rate became too low. I couldn't tolerate the drug any longer. Early in 1996 I had to stop treatments. My doctors decided to start me on ABV. I was told that I would definitely experience hair loss. Around this time I started to experience edema, my features grew beyond recognition, my lesions grew worse. They became open ulcers and wounds. I needed my bandages cleaned and changed three times daily. I went from 170 pounds down to 125 pounds. I couldn't walk. I used a wheelchair because I didn't have the strength to move, or to bathe, or to even go to the toilet. Obviously the ABV wasn't working. Needless to say, I gave up hope. I reached a low in my life I had never known. I considered suicide. I asked my primary care provider about assisted suicide. I started to give away my life souvenirs and treasures. I prepared myself and my loved ones for me death, or they prepared me. They were so tired of seeing me suffer that they said that if God was ready and if I wanted to, that I could give up. My hopes, my dreams were all gone. I considered myself a monster. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror. KS had taken away my pride, my dignity. In all my misery, however, the one thing that I didn't lose was my spirit. My soul is good and joyously in all my darkness I attracted many wonderful people into my life. Many doctors, nurses and the support system. One of those doctors highly recommended that I try this new protocol. I had no choice. It was either Paxene, ICU or death. At this point, what was there to lose? My hair? I started Paxene in June of 1996 along with a triple antiretroviral protease inhibitor therapy. I cut my hair really short so I wouldn't see it fall out. Surprisingly, my hair never fell out. In actuality, I never experienced any side effects. My doctors told me I wouldn't see the effects of the triple therapy for about three months to a year. However, after my first cycle of Paxene, I began to see and feel a positive difference. I am now up to my 30th cycle. Treatments are every two weeks. My lesions have faded. Many are barely noticeable. My ulcers have healed. I have regained all my weight, plus some. I have regained -- I have my normal energy level. I am even running three miles a day. More remarkably, my appearance has improved so greatly that I am back to work as a fashion model headed for a career in television. Now, here is my plea. Paxene is not political with me. Nor is it a miracle drug. It is simply my life. It may not be a cure for this dreaded disease, but it makes life a whole lot more manageable. It has given me the ability to once again look in the mirror to see what's really there, a person full of life and love and has given me the ability to share that joy. I hope you will immediately approve Paxene so many other people will have a chance to once again have dignity and self worth. But more importantly, as only a person who has seen the face of death will ever know, the true miracle of this drug is its ability to allow one to appreciate every moment that they once again have been granted and to lead a more fulfilling and rewarding life. I greatly urge you to immediately approve Paxene for the treatment of KS. A small company like Baker-Norton cannot survive another couple of years, therefore they will have to discontinue operations and I will no longer have the drug. Ultimately, the promise of my future will be taken away again. Thank you. Jackson, you have a REMARKABLE ability to find information. I am envious. But please understand we are in a POLITICAL situation here, not a medical one, not a poor management one, etc. Lets just do it. Regards, John McCarthy