It's Myeloma Action Month: What's it like to live with an incurable condition?

It truly is an experience like no other, and for me, I've learned to live every day at its own pace. You also learn the power of prayer and your relationship with faith, because it is a journey of great reflection and prayer for a future you don't quite know how it's going to turn out.

I am at the beginning of my journey. I don't think my friends and family quite understand that "life as we know it" is over. I am by nature a positive person and always try to look on the bright side so I am not feeling "my life is over" but I am unsure of what my life will be like. I have an 11 year old daughter and my biggest concerns stem from how this will affect our life as mother and daughter doing things together. Until now, we go places and do things all the time. It's definitely an adjustment right now for both of us.

For me my 6 days in the hospital on oxygen with COVID and drugs was the worst .. truly thought I was going to die + it took months to recover and probably still am

Hey Dennis, hang in there buddy! Know where you are coming from as I have had Covid 19 starting in 2020 and just recently this past April along with the respiratory things that seem to follow. My Oncologist tells me that MM is not going to kill me, but it will probably be something else! Just take it one day at a time with Faith, Family, and Friends things seem to be a lot brighter.