Enjoying a Dartmoor walk, April 2019
When I was first diagnosed with myeloma, I read that people were expected to live from 3 months to 3 years, and I didn't know where I fitted on that scale. Since then, we have heard more encouraging accounts of people living with myeloma for a decade or more.
Being a 'young' patient, I hoped that my fitness and vigour would help me fight off the disease, its symptoms and the short-term and lasting side effects of the treatment, however I'm not sure if that is the case.
Just over a year after I completed the course of chemotherapy and stem cell transplant, signs of the cancer returned, and another year later, in September 2022, I started another course of treatment.
I've been really pleased to have gotten so much of my strength and mobility back, enjoying walking, cycling, swimming, driving and moving around the home easily again. Now in 2024, I've become even more active, lifting things without too much thought, and even getting back into running.
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