Staten Island

Members of the Staten Island IMF Patient Support Group “Mambo” for Multiple Myeloma Awareness, NEW YORK STYLE! ANN McNEIL, RN, MSN, APRN-C, Multiple Myeloma Division @ Hackensack University Medical Center, NJ, Member of the IMF Nurse Leadership Board, joined the group to help raise awareness and support the Campaign Initiative. Great things are happening in New York for Myeloma Awareness!

The Staten Island Multiple Myeloma Support Group was one of the seventeen recipients of a $1,500 award from the The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation.   Since the foundation’s inception in 2011, it has awarded a total of $161,310 to non-profit organizations and scholarship recipients.  Laura Mooney, SIMMSG co-founder, said that the award money would be used for the groups participation in an upcoming health fair to spread awareness of this rare cancer.

Charlie and I were married in April 1971, 42 years ago.  The interesting thing about Charlie is that he has never been sick….and when I say that I mean, all these years, rarely a sniffle, cold, or flu.  Even when our children were small, I was always the one who got sick with germs they brought home from school.  We used to joke about his being so healthy.