Wife (56) Newly Diagnosed
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She is one of the healthiest persons I know (fit, works out, clean diet, no smoke nor drink, never gets sick).
Originally, incidental finding/ routine bloodwork showed elevated total protein 10.1. Thanks to ChatGPT, I immediately insisted for SPEP. Unfortunately, while calcium, hemoglobin, kidneys (blood+urine test) and liver are still perfectly fine, the results came back as:
Gamma gobulin 4.1
Abnormal protein band 1 3.9
Kappa Light Chain 81.8
Lambda light chain 3.8
Kappa/lambda ratio 21.53
Urine protein results were fine
Only physical symptom she has is pain in her left rib/shoulder area, but because it coincided with a water slide "fast turn", we did not think much of it.
Bone marrow biopsy confirmed diagnosis. Regular Dr very surprised of how good rest of her bloodwork looks, considered the M Spike of 3.9.
I was able to get an appt in 10 days at Univ Of Miami Sylvester Myeloma Institute (again, thanks to ChatGPT for telling me exactly what to say on the phone to jump all the silly red tape). Apparently, that's the place to go to if you live in SoFlo. By then, we'll have the CT Scan results. Because calcium looked so good, hoping not too much damage yet.
Anyhow, this all feels like a nightmare. I still can't believe it. Just hoping we caught it early enough to have a good prognosis. She feels perfectly fine energy wise, was at the gym up until last week (on hold now to protect bones til we know CT scan results).
As John Lennon once said, "life is what happens while we make other plans". Freaking unbelievable.