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Shitty news
My mom has been in hospital for a week. She's been sick for weeks, but thought it was just related to a vertigo syndrome she has. Finally was losing too much weight and not drinking enough, so Dad took her up and they kept her, waiting for a free bed in our major hospital to do some pretty aggressive testing.
Got the diagnosis yesterday - multiple myelomoa, which is cancer of the plasma cells. She starts treatment as soon as possible, and that treatment may include everything from chemo to stem cell therapy to a bone marrow transplant.
It's treatable, but incurable. 49% of people hit the 5 year survival marker, but most of those are diagnosed early. For Mom's stage (I'm guessing based on her symptoms), the average life span after diagnosis is 29 months.
Hopefully she is well above average.
Got the diagnosis yesterday - multiple myelomoa, which is cancer of the plasma cells. She starts treatment as soon as possible, and that treatment may include everything from chemo to stem cell therapy to a bone marrow transplant.
It's treatable, but incurable. 49% of people hit the 5 year survival marker, but most of those are diagnosed early. For Mom's stage (I'm guessing based on her symptoms), the average life span after diagnosis is 29 months.
Hopefully she is well above average.
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Of course cancer is never good news, but there do seem to be multiple lines of effective treatment for MM.
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She's home now, which is good. Hopefully she'll be able to do her injections locally (the tiny hospital in our town of 2900 is a regional cancer center. The hospital network is tricking the gov't into keeping all the small town hospitals open by making each one a 'specialty center'. Very clever!)
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Gabrielle
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Not the same kind of cancer, but Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been posting recently that when she was diagnosed, a Republican Senator said that she was obviously not long for this world, and good riddance. That was five years ago, and meanwhile the senator has died of a stroke.
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I used to work for a healthcare software company. Our software allowed medical images to be stored, compressed, moved around - all without any loss of image quality on uncompression. There are lots of companies that do the same thing, but just having the ability within the hospital network is a hell of a game changer.
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That’s scary. Praying for you and your family, especially your mom!
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Gabrielle
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Gabrielle
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You know, I'm a cancer survivor myself. I'm here to tell ya, it can go MUCH better than what you fear.
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I know it's going to be a miserable road navigating treatment, but hopefully she responds well.
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I navigated the shoals myself, and it was not fun.
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It means we'll have to be super careful about our own germs, which should be fun with 4 little girls 10 and under.
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