If any of you are familiar with Dr. Phil, you've often heard him say "today is going to be a changing day in your life". February 19 of this year was a changing day in my life. That's the day someone I dearly love was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
Call me ignorant but, until that day, I had never heard of multiple myeloma. Well ... actually that isn't totally accurate, I had heard on the news Tom Brokaw was recently diagnosed with it ... but I really didn't know what it was.
I decided the best way to be supportive is to do my research and learn all I can (hence my joining the forum here
). I am still quite naive when it comes to multiple myeloma and, try as I may, I don't think I'll ever understand what kappa free light chain really means 
but, I'll get there.All that being said, I am not a doctor or a medication person. I believe in the integrative, alternative approaches. That being said, in the case of my loved one, chemo is necessary. He will soon be starting his 3rd round and it has produced good results so far.
He is looking at the big meeting with his myeloma specialist tomorrow to mainly discuss SCT. I'm not going to lie, SCT scares the beejesus out of me. Not the actual transplantation of the stem cells, but the mega doses of chemo prior to the procedure. Just makes me wonder if this is truly necessary and if there is a better way to manage this.
I'm sure there are those of you reading this who would be able to share your experiences on this very subject. I would greatly appreciate hearing them as I know they would be very benefical to me.
I look forward to getting to know everyone and learning of your journey with multiple myeloma. Knowledge is power and you can never have too much!
God bless!
Kim
