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The media we did for UAMS/MIRT on the CAR-T. Click the link to take you to the story.    First Myeloma Center Patient Receives Revolutionary New Therapy, Responds Well 0

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Wow, what a wild ride we keep having. Good stuff, challenging stuff, crazy stuff, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME STUFF! Every once in a while, I say, “Can we just go back to Little Rock?” 1

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“The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s hard to believe that we are winding down our journey here in Little Rock at UAMS, Myeloma Institute! From all appearances in our […]

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“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” – Roy T. Bennett What a lovely and yet another unexpected gift as we are here for such a long Arkansas stay!  We had a Thanksgiving invite to Memphis with friends of my family I hadn’t seen in over three decades. But […]

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“There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.”- Anonymous We had a very long day today. Starting very early in the morning. A bone marrow biopsy and then off to get a PET Scan. Neither thing allowed Dave to eat past midnight last night, so I came home and made him a sandwich […]

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Car-T Infection Risk

“The article discusses infection risk for the hematological malignancies for all the illnesses listed in the first paragraph but, somewhat unfortunately, to a lesser extent for MM considering the very limited patient experiences with the anti-BCMA products. Still, a number of observations and conclusions are very relevant for us, myeloma patients.”… A topical article over […]

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“Lymphodepletion before CAR T-cell therapy effectively prolongs the persistence of infused cells and increases the effectiveness of the treatment of tumors. Fludarabine is a critical component of a lymphodepletion regimen and greatly contributes to the efficacy of the procedure.”… Ok, today is a little technical stuff for those of you interested and perhaps considering Car […]

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard Looking back is an interesting mental exercise in being liberated and going forward with more understanding, purpose, and confidence. At least that’s been my experience. Being STUCK in the past is nowhere I want to be. Second-guessing decisions is not […]

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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington What an unexpected day we had today as we got our labs and waited to meet with […]

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Grit, /grit/ noun, strength of character; perseverance, and passion for long-term goals. Dave didn’t need any support today. Everything is recovering nicely. But nothing was sweeter than getting this lab result today!  The handwritten number is what they did before we headed into the Abecma Car T. We are on Day 11 post T Cell […]

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“Looking at our old friends is all the therapy that we need in tiredness.” Unknown Popping around in Infusion B the other day, meeting up with the other two Car T patients, I spotted Jean Ann the same time she spotted me, getting her husband Bart settled into a room. We met at our new […]

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“Be strong enough to face the world each day. Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.” – Author Unknown It’s so much EASIER when you share an arduous journey with others who are in your boat. I’ve often written about the whole “misery loves company” saying. What does it mean exactly? I […]

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“We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.” – Eric Offer Well, not precisely to the fire, but a new routine that will feel arduous over time. It feels good to be OUT of the hospital and back at our Goodness Village Home Away […]

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“Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.” – Kim Collins It is common in the Myeloma community to say “It’s a marathon, not a sprint!” This is so true.  Changing Dave’s antibiotic did the trick to stopping the cough and getting a STELLAR night’s sleep for both of us. I barely woke up when the […]

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“Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead. – Kara Groucher” The day before yesterday, Dave started to have a dry hacking cough. Then yesterday it became worse, and last night almost unbearable. After eliminating some important things, we decided […]

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“The voyage was uneventful.” – W.E. Bowman, Author And when a person has both knowledge and a heart full of love and an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others, it is a genuinely GOLDEN experience! A shout out to our two Car T nurses on Floor 7 in the F […]

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“Begin with the end in mind.” – Steven Covey Well, yesterday was T-Day! Four tiny little bags that seemed as if there was nothing in them at all! Each bag took about 10 minutes to dispense, and the cell lab expert was waiting with them in a frozen cooler. As each bag was dispensed, she […]

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“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne We went in today for labs and a check-in with our team. Quick in and out early this morning. We did not expect the rest that came, but it was all outstanding—meeting with the Bristol Meyers liason at UAMS, who does an […]

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“The greatest wealth is Health.”  – Unknown One of many challenges we face in any cancer journey is how to better our odds to overcome the disease, survive the toxic chemos needed to push the cancer into remission or cure it. And then, how do you restore your schnockered immune system. Many myeloma cancer patients […]

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“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” ― Oscar Wilde Years ago, when I wrote my opinion piece at The Myeloma Beacon on our incredible success with HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy), it garnered considerable attention from those in that world. It […]

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