Cancer: The fifth stage is determination
There’s nothing like a life-shortening disease to alter one’s perspective. I always thought I was indestructible, and I guess I think I still am. But last September when the good folks at Northwestern Memorial’s Oncology Department pegged me as an anemic enigma, gave me a bone marrow biopsy and diagnosed multiple myeloma, it did make me feel vulnerable for the first time in my life.I had …
