Living with Multiple Myeloma

One year ago today I was told that I had a cancerous tumor that had cracked my T4, and so my adventure with Multiple Myeloma began.  Today I feel stronger and happier than I did a year ago.  I feel lucky to have had kind people all around me, making me feel like I mattered to them.  I've learned a lot about many things.  DIET MATTERS Fats store toxins.  Animal fats store more dangerous toxins than plant fats do.  Try to eliminate animal fats to reduce the sources of pernicious toxin in your body.  Sugar feeds cancer, especially fast sugar.  Avoid both as much as possible.  Cruciferous vegetables, root vegetables, green vegetables, even soy all have important chemicals which help your body fight cancer.  Eat as much of these as you can.  Coffee helps detox your liver.  Alcohol just doesn't have a place in the life of someone with cancer, due to the damage it inflicts on one's liver.  Once I lost the habit of a daily glass o...

My experience with difficult times is that the people in my life reshuffle and declare themselves, for better or for worse: THE PHOSPHORESCENTS - The lightening bugs.  These are the people who light up everything around them.  They step up in life.  They have come (back) into my life with love and support and kindness in their hearts.  These people make me feel lucky.  I have had the great pleasure of hearing from people who I thought didn't even really like me.  Their kindness and vote of confidence has been a pleasant surprise.  I had one amazing friend who made me feel so special while she was fighting a terrible battle within her own family, silently.  I feel fortunate that most of the people that I have chosen to keep in my life have been phosphorescents.  I pray that I have an occasion to reciprocate their kindness.  THE BULLIES - there are very few people like this on earth, I think, but I have found a few of them during my sickne...