Gyles Brandreth, the queen's biographer, passes along the latest scuttlebutt about her final days:
I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma — bone marrow cancer — which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those 'mobility issues' we were often told about during the last year or so of her life. The most common symptom of myeloma is bone pain, especially in the pelvis and lower back, and multiple myeloma is a disease that often affects the elderly.
Currently, there is no known cure, but treatment — including medicines to help regulate the immune system and drugs that help prevent the weakening of the bones — can reduce the severity of its symptoms and extend the patient's survival by months or two to three years.
This is all true, though I confess I never quite got the straight story on those bone drugs. I took them for several years, and when I was through with them I asked if my bones were now fully recovered, totally healthy, etc. The answer was yes, but I'd have bone lesions forever.
But the lesions don't matter? Yes, they matter. Then I'm not fully recovered? Your bones are completely healthy. But....
And that's about where I left things eventually. These days my bones are fine except for whichever bone I injured tumbling off a low berm a couple of weeks ago. I really have to stop doing that. Nothing was broken, but it sure hurts.
As for multiple myeloma, I recommend we rename it The Royal Disease. It has a ring to it.
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Are incidents of multiple myeloma on the increase?
I seem to hear about it a lot more these days. It may only be because Kevin has it that I notice it when I see it, but I don't think so.
I'd never heard of it until my dad was diagnosed about 20 years ago. I think Geraldine Ferraro had it as well. It used to be a death sentence, but there have been huge advances in treatment in the last 20 years. When my dad was diagnosed, they said about 1/3 of the people went quick, 1/3 lived for maybe six months to a year, and 1/3 lived for 3 to 5 unpleasant years. My dad ultimately went into remission and lived another 10 years until a number of ailments contributed to his death. But if he only had the myeloma, he may still be with us.
My guess is you hear a lot more stories about people living with Myeloma rather than people who just "died of cancer".
Treatment can extend a myeloma patients’s life for “two to three years”? Nonsense. Survival can be much longer than that— as you are living proof, Kevin.
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As to falling down. It does seem to get easier as you get older. And of course if you break something they will have to operate to fix the break: your chances of throwing a terminal/debilitating blood clot now goes up. As Sgt. Esterhaus was wont to say: "Let;s be careful out there."
As I have mentioned before, I just block people such as jeffrey myself using a browser plugin called Tampermonkey. I added a "window.jQuery('.comment-author-jeffrey').remove();" and now I never see those posts.
"I recommend we rename it The Royal Disease"
There's already one of those - scrofula - tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck.