

On Outdoor Activity
Ask anyone in Wyoming and they’ll tell you that our summer weather and access to the outdoors makes enduring the brutal winters worth it....

Anne Mason
Jun 24


About Yesterday
Month 18 post Car T Cell protocol and my blood numbers are holding steady. Other than the routine monthly shots to increase my ANC...

Mark Pajak
Jun 24


Today – Tomorrow
I go in for my monthly blood draw on Monday at 11:00 am and, as usual, I am a bit nervous about what will be revealed. 17 months post CAR...

Mark Pajak
May 22


On Retirement
I’m nearing one full orbit of the sun since stepping down from a top leadership position at the theatre company that I founded twelve...

Anne Mason
May 20


On Running
In the months after my MS diagnosis, riddled with the WebMD-derived fear of a wholly dependent, disabled future, I ran. A lot. I embarked...

Anne Mason
Apr 25


Just Don’t Know
Sixteen months post Car T and gratefully not much has changed since the last post. Numbers are holding steady regarding the monoclonal...

Mark Pajak
Apr 22


15 Months/Tons
It has been almost fifteen full months since my CAR T cell procedure. December 2023 seems like a long time ago. Again, I am reminded that...

Mark Pajak
Mar 24


On Conversation
In an exciting and terrifying turn of events, I have journeyed into the realm of publishing. A recent artist residency allowed me the...

Anne Mason
Mar 24


On Relapses, Retreats, and Returns
It’s been one year since my health took its latest turn. Perhaps it was a relapse. Perhaps a pseudo-flare. Perhaps the label does not...

Anne Mason
Feb 24


No What!
Forest Service Sign seen on a hiking trail: Warning – Extreme Hazard – No Water, No Shade, No Cell Service HMMM? This past month I...

Mark Pajak
Feb 20


???
Not sure where this is all going, so let us begin here: Welcome to the start of the second decade. I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma...

Mark Pajak
Jan 21


The Trip
“…. This is the worst/best trip, I’ve ever been on” -- Beach Boys, Sloop John B Happy Holidays to all who visit this site. May the joys...

Mark Pajak
Dec 21, 2024


Gobble Gobble
Post Car T cell update at 11 months: Hard to believe that it has been 11 months since my Car T cell procedure. At times it seems as if it...

Mark Pajak
Nov 26, 2024


Just Livin’
OK first things first - A 10-month post Car T cell update: The latest blood draw shows no evidence of a monoclonal peak which has always...

Mark Pajak
Oct 24, 2024


11 Holes?
How in heavens name does one recover and pick up the pieces of what was your life after you hear those words “you have cancer”? That is...

Mark Pajak
Sep 24, 2024


To Fish Or Not To Fish
I am not an angler. In fact, the last time I wetted a line so to speak was…. Well, I cannot remember. It was well before I was diagnosed...

Mark Pajak
Aug 26, 2024


Dream On
“I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our disposition and not upon our...

Mark Pajak
Jul 23, 2024


Better
Happy June! What a month – warmer mornings and evenings begin to become the routine. The start of summer. Sitting outside on the porch,...

Mark Pajak
Jun 24, 2024


It is not about more.
First an update: It has been almost 150 days since I received my reconfigured T-cells and according to the most recent blood draw...

Mark Pajak
May 22, 2024


Here we go!
Day 90 arrived. Three months after I got my reconfigured T-Cells, a PET/CT scan was ordered to evaluate my condition. The results of the...

Mark Pajak
Apr 18, 2024