Habubrat's blog

Well, we are leaving on Wednesday to go back to Little Rock for a short visit. A 4 day chemo cycle and then we get to come home to recover. We have found a new primary care physician (as they are called here in the US and required by our insurance company's in order to get referrals and so on). We selected a general practitioner or Internal Medicine doc for our main guy and he seems to be quite willing to work with…

Some of you know Susie Hemingway on our site. Her husband Hamada has Myeloma and she has a blog that she writes beautiful poems on and talks about her and her husband's journey with Myeloma. She has posted that a deal in the UK for the use of Revlimid to treat Myeloma has been reached. I've posted the link here. http://www.myeloma.co.uk/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=1314&srcid=820 Susies blog: http://susiehemingway…

So we had an appt with what we hope to be our new primary care physician (a requirement of insurance in the states in order to have "managed" healthcare). He is in our new town and we needed to have someone to look after Dave when we got home, be willing to reorder the labs that the LIttle Rock, Ark docs want done, work with LIttle Rock Docs and be the frontman for managing Dave's health at home, all other health issues…

Hi All! I'm recovering well from the long drive and still unpacking. I hate unpacking! But I wanted you to know that Dave is making quick and remarkable recovery everyday. They told us once they stopped the growth factor shots, his stem cells would begin to become red blood cells and that the lack of them was the reason for the fatigue. That he would feel noticeably better each and every day, and this has proven…

It's official! We are discharged! Dave had an incredible Vertebroplasty procedure. It was evidently a very nasty fracture. That was the bad news. The good news is Dave's bones were so hard it made the surgeon's job difficult. HARD BONES!!!!! YAY! The other good news was that the surgeon was really good and he did an even better job than he thought possible and is VERY PLEASED with what he was able to accomplish. He…