Brenda Johns was diagnosed with multiple myeloma on her 50th birthday. As she and her husband commented, the news was very sobering and brought them closer together. After undergoing combination drug therapy and a stem cell transplant, Brenda experienced a remission. In 2015, the doctors noted that Brenda’s illness was in a “slow relapse.” However, the couple handles this by pointing out, “Don’t live by the numbers,” when it comes to lab tests.
Michael Tuohy was diagnosed with myeloma in 2000 while in his mid-30s. He and his wife, Robin, who is Senior Director of Support Groups for the International Myeloma Foundation, immediately worried about how this would affect their children, who were 2 an