I wonder what would have happened...

… had I carried on with chemotherapy treatment?

Regular readers will recall that last May I started on some chemotherapy to help slow down the progress of my relapsed multiple myeloma blood cancer.  And you'll also recall that things didn't go well, and that within hours of my second dose I suffered a really bad heart arrhythmia. 

I found out at my pacemaker clinic check-up a few weeks ago that so bad in fact was the episode that my heartbeat machine-gunned away at an average of over 180 times a minute for over 16 hours!  And it wasn't just the speed.  Its rhythm was also akin to a Lars Ulrich drum solo so erratic was its timekeeping.

a jolly old picture of something that is dying!!!  a tulip

Now, call me something other than a cardiac expert here, but I know my own body and I seriously doubt I'd have managed to survive episodes such as this every 2 weeks and then monthly over the past year.  And I was (unofficially) told the same thing by someone who I do regard as knowledgeable in matters of the heart!

Ah, but not having chemo, I was sternly warned, would lead to me becoming terminally ill.

Ah, but (again sorry) I've just had the results of my latest blood tests and although my myeloma is still very much active, it hasn't progressed in any alarming way since my relapse last February. Yes I feel more and more fatigued, and yes I experience more and more bone pain, but as for being on death's door?

Well, let's just say I'm not knocking on it just yet!

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Another thing that just keeps chugging along is my M2 Pro Apple Mac Mini computer.  If you want to know why I consider it to be the perfect computer for me then wonder no more.  Just watch this week's tech video by clicking, you guessed it, below…

And if you're curious to find out how I took and edited the image of the tulip, and frankly why wouldn't you be, then watch this one as well!