Hi Min,

All I've got to say is:

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 😀 🙂 🙂 :-)…[Read more]

ITY = YETI

ETI to you.

Dai.

Hi Shirley,

I'm sorry that you are going through the mill with GVHD. I hate not being able to breathe freely so I really feel for you… but as long as it clears up and gets you on the road to full health then all well and good.

Dai.

Okey dokey..

As Steve Nash he could be:

[b]Seven Hats

or

Ten Shaves[/b]

With Stephen:

[b]Then He Snaps

or

Hen Spat Hens[/b]

Dai. 🙂

OUS = MOUSE

Leaving USE

Dai.

A couple of name anagrams for Gill:

[b]Was Lead Girl!

Swig All Dear.[/b]

Of course, if your first name is Gillian… then:
[b]
Wild Ale Sangria

Nil Earwig Salad

Awarding Allies[/b]

And three for Stephen:
[b]
Preheated Swans

Depth Awareness

Awards Ten Sheep[/b]

I'd like to try a few more but I would need a surname……[Read more]

I'm doing a happy dance… 😎

Dai.

Excellent news David – not only holding firm but still dropping as well. 🙂

I wouldn't mind having heavy chains… the Kappa Light Chain/Bence Jones MM may be exotic but it is also complicated. I like the idea of 1, 2, 3 – nice and simple to understand.:-D

Enjoy the next 3 months sojourn and here's to many, many more of them. 8-)…[Read more]

Hi Gill,

I agree that the news is devastating… but I'm surprised that the prognosis is so definite. What if the Revlimid works? Velcade is reactive, i.e. you take as many courses as you can and then hope for a bit of remission but Revlimid is proactive… you take it, it works… repeat ad infinitum (ish).

Stephen has had some pretty…[Read more]

Hi Gill,

While every word you speak is true… alas these are not mine… just examples of famous anagrams.:-D

I do like making anagrams of friends names… perhaps I'll try a few here. 😉

Gladnost.

Dai.

Hi Linda,

Nice to meet you. 🙂

I just wanted to say hello and to echo Bridget's excellent point about not allowing MM to define who you are and everything you do.

I tell my children that the best thing they can do to make me happy is to be happy themselves… that knowing they are healthy and whole and engaged in life, for the long…[Read more]

Good news is good news and I am delighted for you Jet. I hope that your remission is both long and trouble free.

I appreciate that it is difficult to both remain positive and to gain an equillibrium of physical and mental health when faced with experiences that do not reflect your personal status.

The stories about problems, decline,…[Read more]

NCY = CYAN

YAN up for grabs.:-)

Dai.

Hi Peter,

Good to meet you.

I find the duration of your Velcade remission most interesting. 3 years seems a long time… (so I appreciate your collywobbles at each clinic meeting). 🙂 I achieved CR (0) after 5 Cycles and I am going on to complete the 8 Cycles (Just finished 6). 😎

My consultant was looking at 6 to 12 months…[Read more]

Ah… life on this planet. 😀

I was getting worried… no messages or replies from anyone about anything for a good 24 hours… I know there was some maintenance done at the week=end… but I tried coming on board only to find it like the Marie Celeste… floating quietly along with no one on board.

Back to normal now… 😛 I hope.;-)

Dai.

Hi Helen,

The thing, for me at least, is that we do have choices and options in the direction and management of our Multiple Myeloma. But… these choices and options, the ones that will dictate our medical/clinical paths through MM, arise when we are at our most ignorant, our most vulnerable… and inevitably, our most frightened.

In…[Read more]

Happy Anniversary Jo!

Good grief, 46 years is a long time… but you are still here and hopefully celebrating. 😀

Anniversaries, high-days, holidays and birthdays are good to look forward to… especially those milestones… whether they are naturally occurring (like a Golden Wedding etc.,) or set in the road ahead as a marker… in my…[Read more]

Hi Gina,

That is good news. You can tell your Mum from me that I have often felt at my absolute worse after getting good results… it just means that the medicine is doing its work. Unfortunately she is feeling the double whammy of the chemo being active and the accumulated side-effects, especially fatigue, that accompany the drugs at work.…[Read more]