My oncologist left. I had a different oncologist in the beginning. A search on my insurance’s in-network doctors sorted by distance from my house gave me my first oncologist. He was fine. There was nothing wrong with him. But my autologous stem cell transplant introduced me to another oncologist — and his team, and his … Read more
Update: I got my booster (third covid shot) last fall. I didn’t have any side effects from it, although my wife seemed pretty beat up for a day or two after hers. After my January meeting with my oncologist, I’ve learned that as a multiple myeloma patient, I’m considered immunocompromised, and they now recommend another … Read more
My oncologist said this would happen. More specifically, he predicted this would happen following my autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT or just SCT). At my 100-day post-stem cell transplant appointment, conducted as a virtual appointment thanks to coronavirus (we weren’t calling it Covid yet), my oncologist said, “Let me tell you what is going to … Read more
This is one of those things that I’m going to put into a nice graphic when I have the time. For now, hopefully this table proves useful as a thesaurus of myeloma drugs, and their brand names vs generic drug names. Myelo – A prefix meaning marrow or of the spine Myeloma – a tumor … Read more
Cancer. It’s as scary as a word gets. For millions of Americans it’s one of those things that happens to other people. There is maybe a friend or a family member, maybe a friend of friend with cancer, or maybe just someone you heard about that one time at your company or on Facebook. Until … Read more