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Bob's Miracle Journey
In 2014, at age 53, my doctor uttered those five words that no one wants to hear: Get your affairs in order.
I was diagnosed with Multiple myeloma, a form of cancer that forms in the bone marrow and makes the production of blood cells difficult. The myeloma had advanced to a more stubborn, deadly form of cancer, Myelofibrosis.
Almost nine years later, I’m still alive!
I’ve created this site for anyone going through cancer or taking care of a loved one who is.
I’m here to offer compassion for what you’re going through, share how I’ve coped, and express how faith has kept me alive. Along the way, you’ll also see how I’ve navigated the medical system and maintained relationships with loved ones.
Above all, I want you to know that miracles do exist.
Facing Cancer Together
Sound Out The Noise
Each Day Begins A New
How My Journey With Cancer Began
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I had just turned 53 years old, for years my wife and I had talked about when we retire we would like to have a small farm with some livestock and a garden to live off the land, I guess a lot of people have similar thoughts and dreams.
The area where we lived was becoming very congested with a lot of new construction and heavy traffic and so we were looking for something a little further out away from all of the craziness and we decided, why should we wait until we retire because because so often people retire and they never live long enough to realize what they have thought about most most of their life so we bought a little farm, we bought some sheep, some chickens and planted the garden... I was still working and it seemed like more and more I had less strength and less energy but as most of us do I of us do I discounted that in my mind to the fact I was getting older in addition to my full time job and we were now taking care of a farm so I didn't think much of it especially since I was visiting my primary physician every 6 months and being told that other than being overweight and being under too much stress I was otherwise in pretty good health so I was told that I should eat more salads get rid of the stress get more rest and come back in 6 months.
In February of the following year I had traveled to the West Coast on business I was going to be there a week. I was traveling with our company's safety director and and that Wednesday we took our entire construction team out to lunch, while walking back towards the job site I physically could not take another step. I was exhausted beyond anything I had ever experienced. I called out to the safety director who was just a few steps ahead of me and said Mack something is really wrong. He went and got our rental car came back and picked me up and took me to the hotel where I slept for the next 36 hours. That Friday morning Valentine's Day 2014 We flew back home and our lives have never been the same since.
