When I was diagnosed in the fall of 2005 I had two grandkids. This pic was taken a couple of years ago, more grandkids have been added, and now we are up to 23! That's me (curly blonde hair, purple shirt) on the front row holding one of our grandbabies. Right after the MM diagnosis in 2005 I jumped into chemo, then a stem cell transplant 6 months later in March 2006, and went back to work the next August as a high school math teacher. The remission has continued since the transplant, which I know is an outlying event. I don't take any maintenance drugs, but faithfully go in for cancer checks every 6-12 months. I'm grateful every day for the blessing of being alive, for my tight knit family, and for my loving Heavenly Father.