Multiple Myeloma

10-6-14

Another off-schedule musing which you may be reading in late October or early November.  But I want to comment about last evening while I remember some of it; were I to wait until much later, I would have forgotten what little I recall this morning.

Mary Ann and I attended the celebration last evening of the "Miles for Myeloma" bike ride.  Led by Dr. Abonour, many riders rode 300 miles in three days, ending at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis (I was tired just driving to the Cathedral.)

Hundreds attended the dinner, so many that we were siting too far from the podium and speakers to understand what was being said.  We were at one of two tables otherwise occupied by family members of one Multiple Myeloma victim - many such family members were there.

In the "misery loves company" context, Mary Ann learned from the mother-in-law of the sufferer at the table next to ours that he has feet problems and is frequently too fatigued to work - I learned I am not a total wuss.  We did not mention that my fatigue prevented golf from time-to-time - didn't seem pertinent.

Some of the sufferers did evidence the disease, primarily by inability to walk and by casts on broken bones.  But, despite that, the crowd was amazingly up-beat.  It was not an occasion of misery.

We were pleased we went.

I don't see Dr. Abonour until November 19.  If you are hard up for reading, you might want to look here in the interim to see if I am hard up for writing.

Peace