Multiple Miles for Myeloma 2019 is just over a month away. Once again, a team of people has come together to walk/run in this 5k/10k event. This year's team, as we did last year, will go under the name #Thankful. This name is even more appropriate now than it was last year when we participated only a month after I finally got out of hospital and began chemotherapy. Since then, we are thankful for God's faithfulness seen in the support of so many people. We are thankful for the knowledge of doctors and pharmaceutical researchers. We are thankful for effective chemo treatments and a successful stem cell transplant. We are thankful for access to leading edge chemo maintenance drugs. We are thankful to be in remission. We are #Thankful .... Many of these things could not have happened without research into myeloma. Doctors that have helped me this past year are directly involved in that research through the University of ...
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.