I Lost Five Inches in Height, But I Beat Multiple Myeloma: Anna Quigley’s Story
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I Lost Five Inches in Height, But I Beat Multiple Myeloma: Anna Quigley’s Story

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Anna Quigley first noticed something might be wrong when she was setting up for a family Christmas party and felt something pull in her lower back. Thinking it was just a pulled muscle, Anna saw a chiropractor. She was eventually sent to an endocrinologist, who realized that Anna was suffering from multiple myeloma.

Anna says that through her experience being treated for, and living with, the disease — she’s learned to trust her own instincts about herself and her health. She also said staying active played a large role in her recovery. “Mentally, it was better for me to still kind of keep moving, and keeping my life as normal as I could while I was letting the drugs kind of take over,” Anna says.

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Even though Anna is dealing with permanent side effects, she keeps a really positive attitude about her disease and her ability to live with it. “The first time I felt that I knew I was going to be OK was when I got that first round of numbers, after the first full month of chemo, and I knew what I was doing was working. And I knew that I was going to be OK … I think we’ve found the new normal here.”

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