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	<title>Life&#039;s Journey with Multiple Myeloma</title>
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		<title>Up and Down We Go …</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/08/20/up-and-down-we-go-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly we wanted to thank you all for all your supportive and encouraging messages after the fabulous PET scan results we got in July &#8211; we were inundated with feedback. Thank you so much! So, here we are in hot, hot, hot August. We had a wonderful time in beautiful Costa Rica with our friends. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medically speaking… “Negative” is my favorite word ….</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/07/13/medically-speaking%e2%80%a6-%e2%80%9cnegative%e2%80%9d-is-my-favorite-word-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With that title, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that this post is packed with good news! So here’s a quick snapsnot of what happened after Alpesh’s tests in June. The MRI came back indicating that there was some kind of growth in the coccyx area. If you remember, that was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June Update</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/06/30/june-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well June whizzed by just as quickly as May and I suddenly remembered yesterday that I had not put a June update on the blog! Of course, nothing like leaving it to the last day of the month. June’s been a fun month – we managed to go away for about 8 days with boys, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six-month check up time is here &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/05/26/six-month-check-up-time-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/?p=484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Florida, May is typically a crazy month for most us. Exams, end of school parties, end of sports seasons, award ceremonies, graduations, the list goes on and on. For Alpesh and I, we had some additional activities which made May disappear on us in a blink of an eye! At the beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Side Effects</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/04/16/side-effects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloodwork remains fairly normal, in fact the free kappa serum has gone back down to 17.4 mg/L. However, the free lambda serum has gone up to 21 mg/L … who knows what’s going on inside that body of his! The good news is that the M protein still appears to be at bay and both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Well??? What about those free kappa lightchains?</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/03/10/well-did-it-go-down/</link>
		<comments>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/03/10/well-did-it-go-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes I know this post is long overdue especially since I promised to let you know the results of the serum free kappa lightchains as soon as we got them! Anyway better late than never &#8230; we got the latest blood results a few weeks ago and the serum free kappa lightchains are still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Test</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/02/12/one-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, nothing major &#8211; things are same old, same old &#8211; we actually like same old, same old &#8211; so no complaints at all … Only piece of news that I felt I should share is that in the last blood report, one of Alpesh’s myeloma markers (the free light chains) was a little high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January Update</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2010/01/21/january-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope your New Year has got off to a great start. We met with Dr Ansara, the Endocrinologist, last week. She got the results from the thyroid ultrasound and the left lobe is nodule-free and everything looks normal. With hindsight, we probably should have just had Alpesh’s whole thyroid removed at the time of surgery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Year Over</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2009/12/31/another-year-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/?p=454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are … teetering on the edge of 2009 … it always amazes me how quickly the Holiday season whizzes by and how rapidly we get to this point – it is almost as if someone presses a fast forward button as soon as we hit December 1st and before we know it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All is Well &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2009/12/15/all-is-well/</link>
		<comments>http://alpesh.healthblogs.org/2009/12/15/all-is-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alexfl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To all our friends and family in the US, we hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. We certainly did! A wonderful array of delicious food and wine in delightful company was a perfect combination for lots of fun and laughter – what more could we have asked for? To all of you who [...]]]></description>
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