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Hello, I have been lurking a long time  and learning much from the list, but the

cancer I was diagnosed with, multiple myeloma, has never come up in discussion. 

Just want to introduce myself so I can add a post or ask a question in the

future.

I thought i was very healthy 77 year old until blood started leaving my body.  I

was in ICU 3 days while the docs looked for the bleeding source, which was a

large gastric ulcer, Then I had a PT CAT scan and they noted the 'suspicious'

cells in my bones.It took awhile to get over the shock because there was no

pain.  I didn't want chemotherapy but the on-call oncologist said I'd better get

with. In the short time of treatment with him and no success, I was fortunate to

be accepted for a stem cell transplant at the Huntsman Clinic in SLC.  I did

very well with that and  the 70% myelomw cells went down to -1% when I finished

the treatment in Jan.

My biggest challennge is to find food I can eat, because  there's sugar in just

about everthing, and I hear that wheat, corn and bread which were my staples,

are on the 'bad' list.  So I am hoping to learn more here about what can be

eaten by a cancer patient.

                               Joan Archiba