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Compelled CLarity: February 2013
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Wednesday, February 13, 2013. My New Best Friend . This new best fr ie nd i s actually an old friend that I haven't needed in my life for the last 16 months. Well, I need it now. I will be having lo w do se subcutaneous injections of V. Elcade ( the more familiar and friendl y. My l ast blood work showed that the lambda light chain numbers had climbed again, the ratio between kappa and lam bda is dropping. That "tem porary" would last a long time and I was able to keep a...
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Compelled CLarity: Best of Times. . .Worst of Times
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Friday, January 31, 2014. Best of Times. . .Worst of Times. Happy New Year friends. . . May 2014 be the best of times for you! The Best of Times. Inspired by author and artist Susan Branch. In My Living Room. Peter camping out by the Christmas Tree. The Worst of Times. My next appointment was on December 31 and my new treatment was about to begin. I am now back on 200 mg of thalidomide and 40 mg of dexamethasone on the first, ninth and seventeenth day of the cycle. The v...
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Compelled CLarity: March 2013
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. My book club is reading Rules of Civility. By Amor Towles this month and. I am enjoying it immensely. To paraphrase the description on the cover, i. T is the story of a chance encounter in 1937 and the startling consequences that propel the heroine on a yearlong journey toward the upper echelons of New York society. Since my diagnosis of multiple myeloma, I find that. More often now I find thought s and ideas. But one night near the end, as I w...
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Compelled CLarity: October 2013
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Philosophy of Piglet and Pooh. 8220;What day is it? It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. Had stayed the same and that was a good thing. It would have been more alarming if there was a change in the ratio. So, for now, we are going to watch those numbers carefully and continue on with my chemo regimen. In all seriousness, my doctor said that if that happens, we will probably change my chemotherapy plan. Spend a lot of tim...
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Compelled CLarity: New Hope . . .Bodaecia Rising
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Friday, May 16, 2014. New Hope . . .Bodaecia Rising. Since my last post in January, things have gone from bad to worse and it has been an extremely difficult time. Many times, I tried to begin a post but I was overwhelmed by how I was feeling and the frightening fact that the drugs were failing me and my lambda light chain was going up at a precipitous rate. My warrior spirit had left me and I was beginning to feel defeated. Another phase of treatment was to begin plasma...
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Compelled CLarity: Philosophy of Piglet and Pooh
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Philosophy of Piglet and Pooh. 8220;What day is it? It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. Had stayed the same and that was a good thing. It would have been more alarming if there was a change in the ratio. So, for now, we are going to watch those numbers carefully and continue on with my chemo regimen. In all seriousness, my doctor said that if that happens, we will probably change my chemotherapy plan. Spend a lot of tim...
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Compelled CLarity: January 2014
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Friday, January 31, 2014. Best of Times. . .Worst of Times. Happy New Year friends. . . May 2014 be the best of times for you! The Best of Times. Inspired by author and artist Susan Branch. In My Living Room. Peter camping out by the Christmas Tree. The Worst of Times. My next appointment was on December 31 and my new treatment was about to begin. I am now back on 200 mg of thalidomide and 40 mg of dexamethasone on the first, ninth and seventeenth day of the cycle. The v...
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Compelled CLarity: May 2013
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Sunday, May 19, 2013. True hope is swift and flies with. Kings it makes gods. And meaner creatures kings. Since last October when my lambda light chain moved up out of the normal range, I have clung to the hope that my relapsing myeloma would respond to treatment. I had to work hard to keep the word hope. Last night (Saturday night! At about 9:00 PM, I received an email telling me my results were available online. It was with trembling hands that I went to the websit...
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Compelled CLarity: Aislinn Striking a Pose
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Thursday, July 12, 2012. Aislinn Striking a Pose. In my post, The Fledgling. Thank you to Dom and Nan for your post about your kitties. I enjoyed reading it and it inspired me to write this post about Aislinn. July 12, 2012 at 9:52 PM. Arent the cats a good reminder of living in the moment? I can appreciate this pose as it is something I doubt I could ever do! July 12, 2012 at 10:12 PM. Yes, they are! July 13, 2012 at 11:25 AM. Aislinn is a DOLL! July 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM.
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Compelled CLarity: April 2013
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My New Reality: Multiple Myeloma. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Rethinking the Battle Plan. Bortezomib is not living up to its fierce and aggressive sounding name. I began low dose Velcade (Bortezomib) treatments in January, receiving injections every other week. During that time my lambda light chain numbers kept going up, the kappa/lambda ratio kept going down and the Beta 2 Micro-globulin. Serum continued to trend up. 01/3/13 01/31/13 03/06/13 04/10/13. Kappa Light Chain 7.83 8.25 6.09 6.71. Beta 2 Micro -g.
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