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Will you still love me to-marrow - John Mycroft and Multiple Myeloma

In February 2016 I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - cancer of the bone marrow. This blog tracks my progress through medical treatment, chemo-therapy, the impact on my job and daily life and pretty much anything else I fancy putting in here. I try to stay upbeat and keep away from getting mushy but also "tell it as it is". I should also mention that there is some mild bad language in here - I'm not inclined to say "Oh dearie dearie me" in such circumstances.

Day +7: Ouch

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December 13, 2025

Something has caused my right wrist to hurt abominably - feels a bit like my left wrist did a few years ago when i nudged it with a 4 pound club hammer. So I will be trying on a dictation program later

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Oh how I love bone marrow biopsies

November 12, 2025

A longish day today, most of which fell upon the shoulders of Susan , my wife, driver, emotional support and generally wonderperson. A not very early start got us to Charlotte a bit early to have a dollop of marrow and a chip of bone removed from my pelvis for lab examination. All done at Atrium with amazing skill, kindness and gentleness, it was all over in an hour. The twilight sedation left me feeling a bit dopy and they loaded me into a wheelchair rather than have me stagger around the place drunkenly. I dozed most of the two hour drive home so I can see why they insisted on me having a driver. It's now 8:30 and I can barely keep my eyes open. I've also got typos in about 20% of the words so I will call it quits for tonight. Another 3 hour trip to Messino Cancer Center here in Asheville tomorrow accompanied by a handful of steroids so tomorrow night may be a Flying High and rugby marathon. It actually turned out to be half a night'...

All quiet on the Western front

January 12, 2017

Now that the drama is over, I'm backing off the daily bog entries. I'll keep the blog going and record any significant events (like today's farewell to what was left of my beard) but, other than that, it's going to be an occasional update. Today saw my first serious venture outside since Christmas - about a half mile walk on the concrete paths at J B Lewis soccer ground. I've spent many happy afternoons there, reffing soccer, and doing around 10 miles on a good afternoon. Today's half mile walk darn near did me in so my fitness has a way to go. At a more appropriate level, I started the 4 dimensional map of London (it includes time) that Susan gave me for Christmas. As I lived there, using the picture this time really would be cheating though I'm hanged if I know where various companies' head office buildings are unless they are vaguely notable / ugly (talking to you, Lloyd's Bank). I also forgot to thank someone very important yesterday but n...

I'm not in elementary school any more

September 28, 2017

Yesterday, Susan drove me to Wake Forest for another checkup and a load of shots. (She drove because I have managed to catch an evil cold which has rendered me more moronic than usual.) On the way there and back, we both developed a deep loathing for people driving large pickups which seem to come with a "road ownership certificate". I got about 2 hours sleep last night, crumbling into bed and going to sleep almost instantly but waking up at 12:30 a.m. convinced that was all the sleep I needed. I beg to differ. Anyway, I have a comparatively busy day at school today. I suspect some of the robotics class will need a hand getting some of their monsters operational while I want to start working with the programming class on making their programs idiot-proof (I wonder if I am allowed to use that term). My upper arms hurt from the barrage of 8 shots I had yesterday (the nurses work in pairs, shoving their needles in at the same time from opposite sides which ge...