For Jan Lupton, yes, it is very scary, but you can make it through. The Mayo is the best place in the world for you to be getting treatment. If they offer you a place in the Revlimid study—that is what I am taking—grab it. Though of one thing I have been certain since very early on with the Mayo. If one treatment doesn’t work, they will always be ready with something else. The keys are two-fold. First, never give up. No matter how bad things seem today, you just don’t give up. You don’t do it. As long as you believe that things will get better, they will. I don’t know why or how that works; it defies logic; but work it does. It is when it begin to believe that there is no hope that things start going bad. So DON’T GIVE UP! And second—this one puts a burden on you, but based on how my own wife has taken that burden, it seemed to help her—his job is to keep breathing. Your job is everything else. If someone at the Mayo hasn’t told you that yet, I’m sure they soon will. I’m just jumping in ahead.
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