Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes! Mango always lets me know I'm special to him.

Over the last five years I have had experimental treatment for an impossible-to-cure blood cancer called multiple myeloma including aggressive chemotherapy, total body irradiation (TBI) and two bone marrow transplants. In a few days it will be 45 months with the cancer in full remission. The City of Hope here in Los Angeles can do amazing things but currently on a very small scale. I hope they have learned a lot from my success!