Confusing - thinking back on this experience I realized that it had been coming on for a long time and I just did not attribute the pain I was feeling was anything other than the aging process. I am 68 years old now but when I first felt this coming on was 2018. That is when I first started to experience the lower back pain, not being able to walk a fair distance without my back hurting. Struggling to keep up with others when they walked and having to sit down every 10 minutes or so just to get enough rest to continue. I have been anemic most of my life and the fatigue and shortness of breath came later. Whereas the symptoms can be attributed to aging they are also symptoms of multiple myeloma. I must say that the back pain is the worse. I can deal with the other symptoms but the lower back pain keeps me from doing other things. I have a standup walker now (which I call my Cadillac) that I use when I have to walk longer than 5 minutes.

Enlightening. It has helped me to make more decisive decisions and, too, to let go of a LOT of things that have just been in my way. I look at the world and my life through a different lens and I try to live in a better, more thoughtful manner. I try to be intentional in my friend/relationships. It doesn't define me, but I don't deny its existence either.

tedious

Deviation

Hey this is me with my walking cane. And weigh loss .