Upon his return home, his doctors found a tumor on his tibia. When removed, the tumor proved to be a plasmacytoma. Because this type of tumor is usually caused by another form of cancer, dad was put through a battery of tests. The conclusion was that he had multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer. No problem, I thought.
People get cancer all the time now and live.
He obviously just had to have surgery, then chemotherapy, and everything would be fine. I can't explain my shock when I found out the truth. Multiple myeloma is fatal, and it is painful. Treatments can be radical and not without their own risks. Many MM patients die of complications from treatment.