-SHINE,

I'm sure that this process of effort and failure has not been easy for any of the MannKind team . It is not a pretty sight to see all of these powerful men and women of industry sitting silent and not really able to support Mann.

It's not a pretty sight for us shareholders either. For our part, the decline in value of our savings accumulated over many years (40+ in my case), may involve more effort than that by the MannKind team. Plenty of pain to go all around.

Forget the past failures, I still am a huge believer in the science. The question now is will there be any future benefit after approval and do we believe that the current MannKind management can execute the tasks ahead. Now we need a good benefit analysis assuming further dilution, additional debt offset by the risks we can identify .