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I have multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable, universally-fatal blood cancer. The average survival when I was diagnosed in 1998 was three years with conventional chemo, five years with a autologous bone-marrow transplant. Through a combination of diligent study and miraculous luck, I'm in good shape more than thirteen years later.

I started blogging just before I was scheduled to have a second transplant in early 2009, but there was too much cancer to proceed: I was devastated. By November, my tumor burden was astronomically high: I had run out of time.