It is a milestone of sorts: I had my last chemo treatment of this round today (Sept 21). We are thankful that by all counts it is going well(literally counts --of white cells and hemoglobin and "kappa" cells and ...about 30 more important counts) What's next? What are we praying about? October will be about stimulating my body to give up some healthy stem cells and then the process of harvesting those cells. November will be the challenging month as there will be three weeks of strong chemo and isolation. At the end of November, by God's grace, the stem cells will be transplanted and begin building new bone marrow. Perhaps by Christmas, the word "remission" will begin to creep into our conversation and the isolation can be relaxed! Thanks for joining us in some specific prayers about this next part of the journey. It is both exciting and scary. It gives us great strength to know that others keep the faith and thus we do not journey alone.
Brian’s diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma was in May 2018. The initial treatment was a stem cell transplant. After 30 months there was a relapse, followed by chemo, another relapse, new chemo and yet another relapse. In January 2024, the 4th treatment began. Brian currently gets weekly injections of an immunotherapy drug. Sometimes we keep the faith and sometimes we need family and friends around us to keep the faith for us. This blog is about enabling us all to be kept in the faith.