Having Hard Conversations With Your Children When You Have Multiple Myeloma
It is a challenge to be a parent with cancer, especially multiple myeloma. The trip can be especially difficult because this disease can and often ...
Latest Posts from Beth Ayen
After 24 Years With Multiple Myeloma, I Have a Lot to Be Thankful For
I want to be thankful. I am thankful. Thankfulness restores the soul. It helps take us out of our own selfishness. It gives us a place to count all of those blessings ...
What I Wish People Knew About My Myeloma Diagnosis
Right now, I am struggling with the very trite phrase “my cancer journey.” It doesn’t really address the terrifying, encouraging, hard, insightful, painful ...
How I Worked With My Doctors to Control My Pain
Pain. It is an important issue that needs to be addressed beginning at diagnosis and continuing throughout the course of the illness…
How I Resolved My Conflicts About Food and Nutrition
Food and nutrition play an important role in the life of a cancer patient, but they’ve also been a source of conflict for me since my diagnosis. I know adjusting my diet ...
What It’s Like to Work With Multiple Myeloma
When I talk to others with multiple myeloma, what to do about work is on almost everyone’s mind. I think this is probably very common across all cancer patients ...