Hi Russell,
I'm a little put out that you've pinched the title of 'youngest myeloma fella' from me (maybe… I hope not). sorry about the delayed response – i'm usually pretty hot on checking the e-mails but i've been busy boy lately! Don't sweat it and stay positive, if it all gets confirmed then you're fortunate that they caught it early and there is a lot going on with with treatment and the like. It's a bit of a shock of course, Its a bit like winning the lottery in reverse! I was diagnosed late on… Got that flu last winter and just never seemed to get better, went to get myself some new specs and eye test and 2 hours later was at the hospital being told i'd ruptured a membrane behind my eye ( a rather telling symptom of high protein in the blood. 24 hours later got confirmed (that bone marrow thingy was quite sore!). God bless tesco's I say.
It's very difficult to get your head around, I had a couple of horrible complications; namely vision problems ( now cleared up 90% following treatment) and would you believe it, a fractured verterbrae (getting yorkies out of the oven… whilst drunk I may add!) and as these other things directly affected my day to day more than my newly diagnosed condition, to be honest i've only just starting dealing with the myeloma factor as i've been getting bsck up to speed and back to some sense of normality.
I could talk all night about the feelings and experiences I've encountered in the past few months, but this isn't a forum about my life story so I shall stop there! If however you want to ask any questions or get an opinion or even just vent and have a rant, myself and the other folk on here will most definitely listen and help where possible- apologies to those who have earlier offered words of support to no response… I'm not an ass…. all the time! it's appreciated and to be honest I'm only just getting into the zone. thanks for your kind words. I Don't know where you're based Russell, but I'm in Bolton and am recieving treatment in Manchester and if you want to get sloshed sometime…. I'm there… boom!
Cheers and I'm crossing my fingers for you!
Andy
