Steve Brown

The plasma cell cancer

Instead of making antibodies like it's supposed to, it makes a toxic misfolded protein, which can destroy my heart and can destroy my kidneys.

So, you know, if I let this go on too long and, you know, don't do the best stuff first, you know, it's like, you know, I actually went to a cardiologist and I'm like concerned about my kidneys.

flattening response.

And the answer is, look, we've got a lot of options here, and there's always heart transplant.

It's like, well, no, I'm here to prevent that.

I don't have that kind of damage yet, and I don't want to get it.

That's why I'm here today.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, so no, that, that was a very, I mean, I, I, I love my cardiologist and I was a super motivational pep talk to like, it's like, you know, I need to get more aggressive on this.

I can't take anything for granted.

And like, I need to get to the Mayo Clinic.

So, so, you know, and a few days later I was at the Mayo Clinic for, you know, the second opinion I knew and I talked to him and I have a other doctor at UCSD and then I have another one at UCSF.

I kind of

found some of the top people in the world for what I'm dealing with.

Everybody has a slightly different opinion among the experts.

Just like with the AI.

I need a lot of different opinions.

I need to synthesize the results.