When words fail: The silence that falls after a myeloma diagnosis

When words fail: The silence that falls after a myeloma diagnosis

I still remember what happened in 2022 after my mother received her myeloma diagnosis. I was sitting by her side in the hospital room. My grip on her hand might have been a little too tight, but she didn’t seem to mind. We both sat there in silence and stared at the wall as if it were going to burst open and hand us an instruction manual. “Incurable,” “malignant,” and “treatment plan” were some of the words the oncologist used that day. They hun…