It’s 3:00am. According to my schema I take my 7th dexamethasone in about 6 hours. This morning I was red as an Indian and I itch all over my body. After 2 hours my sleep medication had worked out and I followed my clock about an hour.  Then I… Read more

I guess I’m not done with the pneumonia. It’s hanging on a lot longer than my previous bouts with bronchitis. The most annoying part of it all is the way my heart seems to thump away inside me, pumping hard to make the most of the… Read more

Here’s my endeavours at this week’s arty photo… Can you tell what it is?  Give up, it’s a Victoria sponge – cake, cream, cake and I’m just up to the icing!  It’s actually one of my entries for the… Read more

This morning I received a very cute cartoon from a blogging friend (thanks!) who told me that she had thought of me as soon as she had clapped eyes on it. It reminded her of the recent post I wrote on the refined fructose and pancreatic… Read more

Well, it’s been an eye-opening few days with our new pup. She is a total love but housebreaking is going to be tricky. She does know what she is supposed to do outside but because this poor thing had been stuck in a cage, she is not even… Read more

I am happy to be off meds for a couple of weeks right now.  Velcade interferes with the bone marrow biopsy process so I halt Velcade a week before my visits to Little Rock.  Revlimid requires aspirin to combat the potential side effect of… Read more

I don’t know quite how to start this post. I had some bad news yesterday….no tragic news….a friend from the Under 50 Myeloma site died after 6 months of fighting infection and GVHD (Graft v Host Disease) after an allo transplant. She was a… Read more

This morning I woke up to a great night of sleep. I am thankful. At 7 am , Paul was up and we decided to go exercise, we put our 2 bikes on the rack and headed off to East Coast Park. It was still cool and breezy by the time we arrived 8 am at the… Read more

Those of you who follow us in the UK will probably already have read the bad news about Amanda. Being a bit behind (in my case major behind) it wasn’t until this morning that we read about her on Myeloma UK. For those of you who never read her blog… Read more

So, not content with actually wearing my me-made clothes, I am cooking up plans to stitch some more! I cut out my capelet. But I am waiting for lining and buttons, so I have stalled. And I have cut out a blouse. It is Simplicity 2501 again. This… Read more