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I check the morning light coming through the window, and then I check my mum. Before I even speak, I am already reading the signs.

Know how Superman gets his superpowers because of our yellow sun? Or how Popeye gets super-strength from just one can of spinach? That’s sort of…

I sit in the waiting room with a half-read magazine on my lap and realize that I haven’t turned a single page. The clock on…

I live in Southern California wine country. It’s harvest season here. Workers are plucking grapes from acres of vineyards, sending them off to the crush…

I sit at the kitchen table late at night with a notebook open in front of me. My mum is asleep in the next room.

“But you look great!” Have you ever heard some variation of that? I have. I confess, I’ve even said it. I think it’s a natural…

I wake up before the sun and start building the day. First the tea. Then the medication list. Then the careful arrangement of pillows…

I sit in the doctor’s office translating between two languages. The oncologist speaks in medical terms — “progression-free survival,” “bispecific antibody therapy,” “osteolytic lesions,” “minimal…

There are many treatments now available for multiple myeloma. Quadruplet therapy, bispecific therapy, CAR T-cell therapy, and cereblon E3 ligase modulators (CELMoDs)…

I hand my mum her morning tea and notice the way she adjusts her grip on the cup without saying anything. In that small movement,…