How Would You Use $100,000 To Improve Myeloma Care?

How Would You Use $100,000 To Improve Myeloma Care?

 

• People with multiple myeloma may face myriad challenges, including health care disparities and unmet emotional needs.
• The new Target the Future Think Tank Challenge is an initiative that aims to address challenges that members of the multiple myeloma community face.
• As part of the challenge, an individual or nonprofit organization that develops the most innovative idea will receive a $100,000 grant to bring the idea to life.

There was nothing like the “finish-line feeling” of completing a 140-mile Ironman endurance race in a single day. Pride, gratitude, and relief rushed over me. But that memory stands in contrast to the frustration, fear, and uncertainty I experienced just a few months later, learning I had an incurable cancer, one with no finish line in sight.

 

I’m 54 years old, and I’ve been living with multiple myeloma for more than 14 years. Getting my diagnosis was a drawn-out, confusing process, compounded by the next challenge: selecting the best course of treatment. I still get choked up remembering the day I found out I had an incurable cancer — and realizing I had to search for the right words to explain it to my three young children. It was an emotional turmoil I wouldn’t wish on anyone, yet I knew in that moment I wanted to live. I wanted more than anything for my children to grow up with a father.

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