Riding The Wave – Multiple Myeloma

“How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?” – Erma Bombeck Gosh, I really miss Erma Bombeck! I could just sit and laugh reading her quotes all day long! When Dave got sick, it wasn’t in our grand plan. I suspect, quite confidently, it wasn’t in yours either. Nothing unique in that. […]

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When I very tentatively started this blog, I was sure that I had something to say, but I wasn’t sure I would have folks who found it helpful or interested. It was suggested, repeatedly, that I write a book. I’m not a writer and though I thought about it, and even started to “write”, I […]

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“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.” – Unknown Long story short. Jim and I met last year at a Myeloma event in Cambridge. We had both been invited and both were flying in from Sacramento, but didn’t know until the driver picked us up to drive us to the […]

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“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Angie, a MM caregiver I met in Little Rock, asked me to write about caregiver fatigue. Instead, I’m going to write about the value of particular vitamins that are […]

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“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein Boy is that not the truth! I have many people who tell me all the time, how “knowledgeable” I am. I’m not, really. I just have a lot of “information”. I will pass it along to you, but its up to each of us to make sense of […]

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An article I penned, posted over at The Myeloma Beacon on our experience with Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment (HBOT) and Dave’s Stem Cell Collection. 0

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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan I was pounding around this morning and found a paper that Huntsman Cancer Institute provided from the Journal of Clinical Oncology. I’m always grateful when someone will snag the entire paper and put it out there for our consumption. Often you can’t get your […]

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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” – Willam James Pat Killingsworth, an inspirational and long time Myeloma blogger and writer has written an article over at The Myeloma Beacon, where he writes regularly. The article is about […]

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“My life is my message.”  – Mahatma Ghandi Have you tried to help someone get up and down, when they are in a weakened condition or elderly? Handing your hand is not very stable for them. Here is a simple tip I learned from my mother’s hospice nurse that did the trick. I often see […]

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“Fatigue is a daily lack of energy; an unusual or excessive whole-body tiredness, not relieved by sleep.” – Chemocare.com Wow. As I started to do a little research on this subject, so it wasn’t just all about what I think, I was struck by all the information and data about how they don’t know what […]

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“It’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.”  – Abraham Lincoln This is an article on an MD Anderson Study. Complete Remission Predicts for Long Survival of Patients with Multiple Myeloma. I’m not so sure about what is being reported here as being terribly significant and I’ll tell […]

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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917 Wowsa! An Indie movie is being made with a true backstory inspired by the writers’ friend who is battling Multiple Myeloma – Marcie Aboulafia. Her character is the mother of the […]

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“Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of other people.” – David Joseph Schwartz Shortly after Dave was diagnosed, and I had moved to California, he needed to go on a business trip. It was a driveable distance from our […]

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