The following poems have been written by me for my husband Hamada, who is suffering from Multiple Myeloma – a bone marrow cancer arising from the plasma cells. After many months of chemotherapy and contracting pneumonia twice, (once given only twelve hours to live) and now having two bad fractures to his spine, and only a small percentage of kidney function left, we have made it to three years. He never complains using his most amazing smile even when I know he has severe pain. Hamada achieved a Stem Cell Transplant, using his own ‘harvested cells’ during October 2007 he spent seventeen days in the Centre For Clinical Haematology at Nottingham City Hospital UK. He obtained a good partial remission and managed just over a year before tests showed ‘the beast was back’ Hamada is weak and tired but with his amazing courage he continues his fight against Multiple Myeloma. I hope you enjoy these poems of love telling of our life together and all latest updates posted, to help raise the profile of this rare 1% of all cancers. I hope you follow as Hamada makes this journey.
