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After 2 ½ weeks home, I returned to Arkansas for more fun. Upon arrival, they drew labs and checked my numbers. After VDT-PACE and 2 weeks home, my numbers had started INCREASING again. This was not a good sign. The doctor was also taken aback. The expectation was that the numbers would continue to fall…
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The day I returned home was September 27th, three days after Hayden’s first birthday, which I was very sad to have missed. We were going to do her little birthday party with her smash cake first thing but my head hurt so badly from all the hair still clinging to it. I never expected it…
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They set me up for the induction chemo by sending me to the operating room to get a central line put in. This was an interesting little procedure. I was awake the whole time. They numb the area with lidocaine and make an incision at the top of your chest. They insert a line that…
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Somehow, UAMS worked it out with my insurance to come out and get treatment there. They called me on a Friday and told me they wanted me there on a Monday. My parents watched the girls, Chris closed down the shop for the following week, and we headed out the very next day. Due to…
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It was day ? of depression and despair. The days blurred together. “I have a terminal cancer. I am going to die” became the soundtrack to my life. The constant thought of death played over and over. It was the first thing I thought of when I woke up in the morning. It was the…
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Multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell (a plasma cell). It is a blood cancer but also commonly called a bone marrow cancer. The cancer cells build up in the marrow and crowd out healthy cells. The most common attributes are bone damage, a weakened immune system, kidney…
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A bone marrow biopsy. They go into the marrow and pull out a sample from inside the marrow. I have had 8 or 9 of them now. They typically will give you a small vial of morphine to drink beforehand to “help.” I was told it helps with pain in the skin area when they…
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I made an appointment with a hematologist oncologist to discuss the blood results I had done. Nervous doesn’t even begin to describe how I felt about that appointment. My mom came with me to the appointment. When the doctor finally came in, she started with “I’m very happy you came to see me today.” Ok…
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