About this Website

This website was created by a wife and her husband. The husband was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera in March, 2003.

Images used on the site were created from photos of blood cells and bone smears of patients with PV, color enhanced and edited for the site in Photoshop. These images were selected as a playful way of creating a graphically interesting site without a lot of irrelevant art.

This site is not for profit. It is not the official site of any organization. It is the creative work of two individuals with the intent of providing others with the information that they have gathered.

The husband and wife prefer to remain annonymous at this time, but you can contact them through the "contacts" button of the site. The wife is a mathematician and a scientist, though not in the medical field. She is comfortable reading and interpreting for other the contents of scientific articles and often acts as an informal "translator" from mathematics and science to others in her professional and personal life, and so provides the brief "findings" for each of the articles linked on this site. The site is designed to make it easy to find information, but with the intent that you would print out the scientific articles and bring them to your own doctor. Your doctor, unless she/he is part of a research on this topic, will probably not be very informed on the current research. As your own best health advocate, you can be proactive by bringing the information to your doctor's attention. (If your doctor shows no interest in the current research that you bring to him/her, find another doctor!)

The husband is very spiritual and in touch with nature, and wants to help others understand healing and treatment from a holistic perspective. Both found too many of the websites on polycythemia either too clinical or depressing, rather than uplifting. This site should be informative but also provide a positive, welcoming approach to management of the disease and the symptoms. Feel free to assist us by sending us additional links to information that you have located and found to be useful on the topic of polycythemia vera and its treament. Thank you!