November 21, 2024

Jérôme Goulet

"Come on Jé, it’s time for war”

It started in the summer of 2019, nearly five years ago, after having spent a night on a wooden plank in the emergency room for a broken rib.

On January 11, 2020, after months of medical consultations and tests, two doctors, courteous but not exactly “white glove service”, told my wife Annie and I that I had cancer.

It was the first time I’d heard the term ‘myeloma’. I was 44 years old. 

I remember looking at Annie, seeing the fear in her eyes, but also her determination as she said: ‘Come on, Jé, we’re going to war’.

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