My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet di...
Four years ago, my Uncle Creighton was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called multiple myeloma, which is a cancer affecting plasma cells. With no available treatment for his unfamiliar disease in Chicago, Creighton moved to Houston to undergo an experimental stem-cell procedure that saved his life. The cancerous Plasma cells, which are a kind of white blood cells that produce antibodies, accumulate in the bone marrow and disturb production of red blood cells, casing a number of problems.i Like most cancer treatments, his procedure was painfully slow. Since the cancerous plasma cells accumu...
