May 24, 2024

Yolande Paine

Living well with myeloma

My name is Yolande Paine and I was diagnosed with myeloma at age 58. In June 2012, while waiting to board a plane at Vancouver International Airport, I received a phone call that would forever change my life.  The hematologist wanted to see me the next morning to perform a bone marrow biopsy for suspected multiple myeloma. I did get him to agree to wait until the following Monday and, in a daze, I boarded that plane to Montreal.

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