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September 13, 2021

Despite doing everything right, CLL patient Rick Field still contracted COVID-19, likely due the double hit his already impaired immunity took from his trial of the dyad of venetoclax which lowers the neutrophils and obinutizumab that wipes out the B cells and with them, the body’s ability to form
Soon after my retirement and relocation to Northern California, I had a “new patient” visit to establish medical providers in my new community. The new patient visit led to an obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis which resulted in the recommendation to have my tonsils removed. As part of the pre-operative