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Hi All

We are new to this forum but have read with interest and some trepidation your threads.

My husband was diagnosed with MM in Jan which as you are all aware comes as a huge shock. We currently live in France so diagnosis was speedy. John sees the specialist every three months for checks. The last one was not good so chemo and stem cell harvesting was discussed as a treatment if the results continued to be poor, we will now more at the next beetling next month.

My really big question please, is , we have put our house up for sale here and are planning to return to the UK, we thought it would be easier to communicate and understand specialists who speak in our own language. Obviously we cannot move until we have sold our property but meantime I am trying to research the best areas for us to live which have excellent MM units. Not an easy task as we hate large cities and certainly couldn't afford to live in London.

Does anyone have any experience of Royal Devon hospital in Exeter, or perhaps Somerset. Any ideas or suggestions of where we can successfully combine quality care for John and rural ish life style would be so much appreciated. At the moment it feels a lonely old world.

Thanks
Kathy

[MishaParticipant]

My husband has just been diagnosed with MM, currently we live in France and although the treatment here is first class inevitably language becomes and issue. We intend to return to the Uk and have the luxury of being able to move anywhere in the Uk, apart from London …too expensive. My question is recommendations please , outside of London and major cities where with your experience can you recommend? We had wondered about Devon, I believe Exeter has a unit there but can find no information on patients views on level of care and progressive initiatives.

We would welcome any information please, it is enormously difficult coping with such a condition in a foreign country and will look forward to a support network in our own language.

Many thanks for any replies.

Kathy

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