Jan and MIchael Rynne

Jan Rynne was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2011, when she was just 39 years old. She and her husband Michael are founding members of CLL Ireland and live in Dublin with their four children who were under 11 years old at time of diagnosis. She started a trial with ibrutinib (Imbruvica) in 2014, and her bone marrow went from 96 percent cancer to .01 percent today and CLL remains stable.

 Jan has been documenting her experience as a CLL patient during the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first in a series of journal entries we will be sharing.