Well, I had some bad news from this last set of labs 😔. My lambda light chain went from 10 (normal) to 100 (abnormal) in two months. So that was a big jump for me. For non-myeloma people, having your light chains rise like this means the cancer is active again. In the past, my light chains went up 8 to 10 points a month, so 45 points a month was a change.
I wonder if my stem cell transplant killed off something in my that held it better in check. Or maybe my frozen shoulder with its inflammation contributed. Hard to know, not that it matters a whole lot. It is what it is. I already had a regular scheduled appointment with the myeloma specialist next week, so that will be an enlightening conversation.
I feel like a treatment change is on the horizon for me. I feel a bit conflicted or discouraged by it. Meaning that the treatments that I have been doing for maybe a month or more haven’t been doing much, and I’ve been miserable for a few days each time for nothing. As well as the new treatment is probably going to involve staying at a hospital for a little bit, no matter what route I take, so that’s a bit of a bummer.
That’s how my life goes, I’ll just keep walking……
You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you react.
Carrots Over Cancer 