yak651
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Not sure why I’m sharing this here but it seems to have helped others, so here goes...
Back in March my wife got the J&J covid shot. About 6 hours later she got sick, throwing up & nausea. This was on a Saturday. She was still dry heaving Monday (nothing in her) so I took her to urgent care. She was extremely dehydrated so they gave her a couple liters of Saline and took some blood samples. Dr came in and was very concerned with her numbers, saying Kidneys were at failing state. They debated admitting her to hospital but finally decided to let her go home but had follow up blood draws. This follow up same issue with numbers, they set additional follow ups. My sister told my wife to see a specialist so she set up an appointment with a Nephrologist. This guy tells her that yes kidney function is not normal (high protein levels) and don't know what is up, more blood test, kidney biopsy and appointment with an Oncologist. Go see him and take more blood, comes back and says you have Multiple Myeloma. What is that?? Cancer, ugh not what you want to here at 48 and feeling healthy minus what these blood labs are saying...Need to do a bone marrow biopsy and a PET scan. This is crazy, while she is getting the biopsy I look up MM. 2-5 year life expectancy. WTF??? We are both shook up, bone marrow biopsy confirms MM diagnosis. PET scan comes back clean from any other cancer areas so that is good. She started treatment last week with revelimind (sp?), velcade (sp?), Dex something...going to do this for about 4 cycles and then going to get a bone marrow transplant. Continuing to read up, think the 2-5 is from most people not getting diagnosed until they have had major issues so hopping this is the case. Quite a shock from feeling healthy and planning our next vacation to now we need to put you on a program that is going to make you feel like crap and hope you get better . Happy 2021 to me (oh yeah, my mom passed away in April and my brother's company just closed their doors, I would do anything to be back into 2020...)
Oh the Dr said she is lucky to have gotten sick. If this wasn't found for another 6 months her kidneys would've shut down and she would probably had needed a transplant. Kidney doc feels confident after treatment that her kidneys will be fine so will take that as a positive. Also the cancer doc seemed much more positive at our last appointment so going to take that as a positive. Need to research more about her numbers to try and figure out how advanced this is. Just looking to see if anyone else has gone thru this? Also just needed to get off my chest, she's been an emotional roller coaster and I try to reassure her things will be ok but how do you tell that to someone that has been told they have cancer and the first google search results show grim prognosis??
Back in March my wife got the J&J covid shot. About 6 hours later she got sick, throwing up & nausea. This was on a Saturday. She was still dry heaving Monday (nothing in her) so I took her to urgent care. She was extremely dehydrated so they gave her a couple liters of Saline and took some blood samples. Dr came in and was very concerned with her numbers, saying Kidneys were at failing state. They debated admitting her to hospital but finally decided to let her go home but had follow up blood draws. This follow up same issue with numbers, they set additional follow ups. My sister told my wife to see a specialist so she set up an appointment with a Nephrologist. This guy tells her that yes kidney function is not normal (high protein levels) and don't know what is up, more blood test, kidney biopsy and appointment with an Oncologist. Go see him and take more blood, comes back and says you have Multiple Myeloma. What is that?? Cancer, ugh not what you want to here at 48 and feeling healthy minus what these blood labs are saying...Need to do a bone marrow biopsy and a PET scan. This is crazy, while she is getting the biopsy I look up MM. 2-5 year life expectancy. WTF??? We are both shook up, bone marrow biopsy confirms MM diagnosis. PET scan comes back clean from any other cancer areas so that is good. She started treatment last week with revelimind (sp?), velcade (sp?), Dex something...going to do this for about 4 cycles and then going to get a bone marrow transplant. Continuing to read up, think the 2-5 is from most people not getting diagnosed until they have had major issues so hopping this is the case. Quite a shock from feeling healthy and planning our next vacation to now we need to put you on a program that is going to make you feel like crap and hope you get better . Happy 2021 to me (oh yeah, my mom passed away in April and my brother's company just closed their doors, I would do anything to be back into 2020...)
Oh the Dr said she is lucky to have gotten sick. If this wasn't found for another 6 months her kidneys would've shut down and she would probably had needed a transplant. Kidney doc feels confident after treatment that her kidneys will be fine so will take that as a positive. Also the cancer doc seemed much more positive at our last appointment so going to take that as a positive. Need to research more about her numbers to try and figure out how advanced this is. Just looking to see if anyone else has gone thru this? Also just needed to get off my chest, she's been an emotional roller coaster and I try to reassure her things will be ok but how do you tell that to someone that has been told they have cancer and the first google search results show grim prognosis??
. Happy to answer specific questions as I worked for 20 years at an NCI cancer center treating these patients. 
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