The Ultimate Marathon

The story you are about to read is being told by me, the patient, who lived this experience. It also includes information from the caregivers who gave of their time to help out in any way that they could. This book will show where my family spent the better part of four years of their lives, sleeping in hospital waiting rooms, waiting on me, worrying, and researching all the possible treatments that could help in my case. When you have a Mum and five sisters who are persistent,...
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The story you are about to read is being told by me, the patient, who lived this experience. It also includes information from the caregivers who gave of their time to help out in any way that they could. This book will show where my family spent the better part of four years of their lives, sleeping in hospital waiting rooms, waiting on me, worrying, and researching all the possible treatments that could help in my case. When you have a Mum and five sisters who are persistent, relentless and don't accept the word "No", it makes for interesting stories. When I was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma, my family started keeping a daily journal of everything that was going on in my presence and behind the scenes. My family filled several journals, which included medical information as well as their thoughts about what they witnessed during this journey. This book contains information from those journals, and how I made it through with their help and a lot of other supportive people. In the end it wasn't just a marathon, it was the ultra marathon; not only for myself and my family but my oncology doctor as well. He has never had a patient like me and probably never will. This is my story.