Lorelei Dalrymple was sick for four years, with no answers.
She said extreme fatigue and numbness made her look like a multiple sclerosis patient. But her bloodwork was normal. Yet the symptoms kept building.
“I couldn’t even work full-time, took a medical leave to see if that would help. And it just didn’t. It was just it was getting progressively worse,” she said. A complete 180 from the life she was living before.
“I was living a reasonably good life. I had a lot of fun, I was working full-time, raising my kids. I was 43 years old when this happened.”
Then, 15 years ago, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — cancer of the blood.
She was just 47 years old.
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“Nobody wants to hear the word that they’ve got cancer. But it was an absolute relief to know this is what was going on, and that we could start making an action plan to …