Two months ago I was leading a fairly normal life when I made the mistake of going to the eye doctor to complain about the trouble I was having reading out of my right eye. The eye doctor walked into the exam room, took one look at me and referred me to an opthamology specialist. I had not noticed it but my right eye was popping out of my head.
That referral has set off a chain of events including meetings with numerous doctors, an MRI, multiple CAT scans, being injected with radioactive sugar water for a PET scan, a series of over 25 bone x-rays and an encounter with an ENT who I believe could teach the Marquis De Sade a few lessons. Tehse events have led me to where I am today, on the eve of going to see a specialist at Dana Farber to get a second opinion on my diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma.
Multiple Myeloma is a form of cancer that I had never heard of a month ago that attacks the white blood cells in the bone marrow and in turn causes the bone to start crumbling and also produces tumors from the various sites where the bone has begun crumbling. This is a link to the wikipedia page that gives an in depth description of Multiple Myeloma. According to Wikipedia (which has been known to be wrong in the past) the actuarial tables give me a life span of 3-7 years. I am aiming for a little longer than that.
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