Hi Richard,
Thanks for posting your positive story on here, it is great to hear the good news stories… how are your level now?
I live in Cape Town, South Africa and was diagnosed this year in April (43yrs) and have had radiation to relieve pressure on the tumour that had encased my scaitic nerve going down to my right leg, and chemo for 6 cycles. My levels have not come down enough yet to have an stem cell transplant and so i have just been put onto another two months of chemo with Velcade in the hope that it will reduce my numbers enough to justify the stem cell transplant. Unfortunately or fotunately i’m not sure 🙂 my only sister is not a match so i’ll be having the Autologous transplant if and when i get there.
I was just wondering how people handled work during this phase of their treatement? I am (was) in a very demanding industry and have had to stop working while i go through this treament, but was wondering how others have handled it… is it usual that one has to stop working, becuase it is obvioulsy quite a financial strain with on a family when soemthing like this happens?
Cheers
Grant
