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SUMMARY: First diagnosed with myeloma October 2011. Recruited onto clinical trial Myeloma X11 (Lenalidomide) at Bristol Oncology and Haematology Centre. First High Dose Therapy and Stem Cell Transplant (HDT&SCT) in July 2012. On maintenance until June 2017. June 2018 recruited onto Myeloma XII trial (Ixazomib). December 2018 Second HDT&SCT. On maintenance until February 2020. August 2020 Commenced treatment involving Daratumumab. April 2021 relapsed. June 2021 recruited onto Cartitude 4 clinical trial and infused with CAR-T cells in October 2021. My own immune system is now fighting the cancer . I am exceedingly fortunate.


Friday, 27 November 2015

A Busy Month

November has proved to be something of a busy and satisfying month.

Again my role as a JP enabled me to participate in the Bristol Remembrance ceremony.


Despite a poor forecast, the rain held off and the sun came out. It seems that this is the 30th year that the weather has been kind to the ceremony. That very same evening we treated ourselves to a meal out to celebrate our 40th (Ruby) wedding anniversary.

We then spent just ten days in Cyprus for our autumn visit. Again the weather was kind to us. Although I needed to spend much of our time working on the house, we did manage to see our friends, to eat out every evening and had an enjoyable trip north to Latchi; a fishing village in the north west of the island. Lunch in a water-side restaurant and then a walk around the harbour in the warm autumn sunshine was just perfect.


Another very enjoyable lunch was had at oiur favourite beach restaurant at Avdimou. For me, and as if to prove my good health, this always involves a bracing walk of over 3 miles from our home to a waiting glass of shandy!

And, of course, I attended my consultant's appointment this week. My results remain most satisfactory.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend
and far happier is he that finds his true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert


Keep well and YOLO
Stephen