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Tuesday, May 3, 2005

   Life is not fair.


My mom as been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. It is a cancer of the plasma cells. There is no cure, just treatment to deal with the disease. The only thing I can do is try to educate myself on the disease, this is one of the things I found:

"The 5-year relative survival rate for multiple myeloma is around 30%. Survival is higher in younger people and lower in the elderly. Of course, 5-year survival rates are based on patients diagnosed and initially treated more than 5 years ago. Recent improvements in treatment often result in a more favorable outlook for recently diagnosed patients."

My mom is in her 60's. I pray and hope with the advancements in medicine that she will live much longer than 5 years. I don't want my mom to have to go though weeks of chemotherapy sickness. I don't want her to be in any pain. I don't want to loose my mom to cancer. I feel angry, mad and sad all at the same time. I wish I would have been the one diagnosed with the disease. I would rather deal with it so she didn't have to.

Please put my mom in your thoughts and prayers.



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