Dear Jack
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Ty

Active LifeList Participant

I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable but treatable blood cancer, in December of 2021 when I was 36. I had been exhausted and there was a pain in my leg that wouldn’t go away. The best way I can describe the sensation is like a cramp that you could try and ‘walk out’, but no matter how many walks I took or stretches I did, it wouldn’t go away. Sometimes my back would spasm and I couldn’t move for a full 24 hours without excruciating pain, and there seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to when it would happen. It turns out that I had lytic lesions in my hip and spine, but that’s not what actually got me diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Those were just symptoms that I had attributed to coming out of COVID lockdown and needing to move more. My naturopath does a complete blood count (CBC) test with my annual physical every year. In 2020, she noticed that the proteins in my blood were elevated. In 2021, they had doubled so she referred me to hematology who then diagnosed me with multiple myeloma. From December 2021-September 2022, I was treated with radiation, induction chemotherapy, and then a stem cell transplant. I got “very good partial response” from the transplant,  and began a maintenance regimen of immunotherapy. Unfortunately, my immunotherapy has failed. I start CAR T therapy this January.

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