A Caregiver's Inspirational Journey Through Cancer
Posted in Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Aug 11th, 2011
“I’m healthy and still in remission. I know this may not be a permanent condition, but I decided to declare victory and assume that I had won.” – unnamed patient fighting leukemia for 15 years. It seems it has been a bit of a banner couple of weeks in the research area of blood cancers. […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Aug 6th, 2011
For those of you who are looking for a management route for your Myeloma, Dr. Berenson is a physician to consider. He has long been a “less is more” physician in treating Multiple Myeloma and seldom a proponent of SCT. Good data in this interview on a myriad of aspects concerning Myeloma. No matter where you […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Aug 6th, 2011
“Conclusion, in MM achieving CR after autologous stem cell transplantation is a central prognostic factor.” – Article excerpt in Blood I’m really loving the new Facebook Myeloma Support Group! Maureen mentioned this article and I looked it up (I’m getting good at that part these days). You can see the whole article by selecting the […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Aug 5th, 2011
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectations of something better than tomorrow.” – Orioson Swett Marden Great article, “The Role of Autologous Stem Cell Transplant in Multiple Myeloma” over at The Myeloma Beacon authored by S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D. (a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic […]
Posted in Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Aug 5th, 2011
“Researchers Find Way to Help Donor Adult Blood Stem Cells Overcome Transplant Rejection” – Science Daily Article Margaret posted this story link over at the Multiple Myeloma Support Group (Facebook), which I continue to encourage you to join, that would be AMAZING if it pans out in reality. 0
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Aug 4th, 2011
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan There is a terrific blog post over at Margaret’s Corner on the continuing debate over Cure vs Control of Multiple Myeloma. I urge you to have a read and maybe you will understand further for those of you newly diagnosed the importance of more dialog […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Jul 30th, 2011
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Susie Hemingway shared on her facebook page that one of her poems has been “selected to be published in an anthology – Midlands & The East – “The Gentleness Of Your Silence” written in 2010 […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Jul 22nd, 2011
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.” – Gerald R. Ford I will leave this up for awhile, so look for newer posts below… I have a stats program on my blog that tells me what folks are reading when they […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Jul 20th, 2011
“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.” – Thomas Bulfinch “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” – Carl Sagan A fellow TT-er and I were corresponding recently about an article we read and […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Jul 16th, 2011
“Fatigue is a daily lack of energy; an unusual or excessive whole-body tiredness, not relieved by sleep.” – Chemocare.com A great article at The Myeloma Beacon on a recent study (by Nurses, of course!) regarding fatigue. As I was reading this article, which goes a bit round and round, I was feeling a bit validated […]
Posted in Misc, Multiple Myeloma, Our Life on Jul 8th, 2011
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” – Flora Whittmore I haven’t had much to espouse about on the MM front, though that is not to say that a lot doesn’t continue to happen – good and bad. I enjoyed Sean Murray’s recent posting at The Beacon. Just to validate […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Jul 1st, 2011
“Twenty-one percent of patients required a second course of these stem-cell mobilizing agents because they failed to collect the target collection number of four million stem cells per kg.” Myeloma Beacon article here I admit I get VERY FRUSTRATED when I see articles like this that I know generally, doctors out there, occasionally treating a […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Jun 26th, 2011
“Dr. Elias Anaissie of the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences presented these guidelines at the International Myeloma Workshop (IMW) in Paris last month.” Excerpt from The Myeloma Beacon (click link for article) 0
Posted in Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Jun 14th, 2011
“…To overcome the anxiety associated with cancer and to foster patient participation, the MIRT has a longstanding open medical record policy; ie, patients have instantaneous and unlimited access to their own medical records.” Little Rock’s Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy (MIRT), at UAMS, founded and directed by Dr. Bart Barlogie as made the […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Jun 10th, 2011
Myeloma Clinical Trial Uses Natural Killer Cells YAY!!!! UAMS has formally announced the next phase of this research effort! This is what Jan & Bruce have embarked on. He is high risk aggressive and relapsed after enjoying a year in CR. It’s great to see a formal announcement about this research. I […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Jun 8th, 2011
“What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.” – Joel Siegel It felt good to be away, but nagging in the back of my mind as I was enjoying my family back east and little to no connectivity when at the farm, was “How is everyone doing? […]
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on May 17th, 2011
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan Over at the Myeloma Beacon they have announced that Dr. Nair at UAMS is recruiting high risk myeloma patients for this trial. 0
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on May 17th, 2011
“The charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research hopes to speed up the delivery of new drug treatments by linking together 13 UK research centres.” The mission of our Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) is to resolve some of the very issues that this story presents for the patients in England and market obstacles to get new […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma, Our Life on May 9th, 2011
All is well, no worries… Sarah chided me (rightly so) for using a sensational headline! Sorry. It’s just we never really are too far from “Myelomaville” and I have been ‘away’ doing other fun and meaningful things in my life of late… a good thing. Thus, ‘Back to Myelomaville’ to check in and write… 2
Posted in Multiple Myeloma on Apr 25th, 2011
“A Cancer Institute researcher thinks the most aggressive myeloma tumors may soon meet their match.” – UAMS I’ve been really busy this week on a large scarf order where the yarn took way too long to come in and now I’m backed against a very hard deadline for a dear friend. So I will keep […]
