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Finding Strength in Love: Cindy Capps’ Journey as a Caregiver for Two Myeloma Patients
HealthTree (2024) – Cindy Capps’ journey as a myeloma caregiver is one of heartbreak, hope, and, most of all, love. Her story is unique—not only has she supported one loved one through the trials of multiple myeloma, but she has also navigated this challenging path twice. Cindy’s experiences highlight the incredible strength of caregivers, the importance of connection, and the beauty of life beyond a diagnosis.
Get Social With These Multiple Myeloma Advocates
Patient Power (2024) – Before the advent of social media and the internet, people with rare diseases struggled to find others who could understand and relate to their journey. Now, support and connection are just a click away. Read below to meet four multiple myeloma advocates who share knowledge, inspire hope, and create community on Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms. And then get social with them!
The Role of Physical Activity in Managing Multiple Myeloma Symptoms
HealthTree (2023) – Misguided friends, family, and possibly some of your healthcare providers might exclusively encourage rest only during your cancer treatment. However, recent studies suggest that purposeful physical activity can be incredibly beneficial for multiple myeloma patients. Exercise, within safe limits, has been shown to improve both physical and psychological well-being.
Measuring Frailty and Impact on Treatment
HealthTree (2022), written by Kenny Capps – It has long been assumed that physically “heartier” patients are more able to withstand cancer treatments. Patients who are less active, struggling with maintaining active lifestyles and suffer from multiple ailments or “comorbidities” (not to mention the challenges caused by cancer) are often ineligible for harsher treatments that otherwise might benefit how long they live and how much they enjoy life.
Kenny’s Story
Medical Stories (2022) – Medical Stories, is a new documentary film series produced for PBS / Public Television – taking viewers on an emotional and inspirational journey through cinematic storytelling, as the lens focuses on ordinary people going through extraordinary measures of courage and triumph. Kenny’s friends considered him the healthiest guy in the room and were shocked when the long-distance runner learned he had Multiple Myeloma. See how Kenny finds the strength to go the distance. Featuring renowned expert, Dr. Sagar Lonial, from Emory University School of Medicine.
Running Towards a Cure for Multiple Myeloma
Patient Power (2021) – You might say Kenny Capps was running for his life. In 2018, the lifelong endurance athlete ran 1,175 miles in 54 days across the length of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in North Carolina to raise awareness and funds for the disease he’d been diagnosed with a few years earlier, multiple myeloma.
In an eye-popping Patient Power article about his cancer odyssey, Kenny takes you along for his run, (basically a marathon per day!), starting from Jockey’s Ridge State Park in the Outer Banks.
Benefits of Exercise for Blood Cancer Patients
Patient Power (2021) – As Harvard Medical School explains in an online article, “There are hundreds of studies showing real, tangible benefits of exercise for patients with a variety of different cancers and at different stages.” Physical activity, even in small doses, can help improve bone density, balance, and stamina throughout the day.
Throwing Bones to Multiple Myeloma
Conquer (2018) – By the end of 2016, I completed 16 races, including 3 half- marathons and an intense 18-mile trail race with 5,000 feet of elevation. My disease wasn’t in remission, and I continued with maintenance chemotherapy and doctor’s appointments after the transplant. Staying alive, more than ever, meant being persistent, and adjusting to a new normal. It’s not easy, and next to impossible to do on your own.
Local Trail Run Raises Awareness for Multiple Myeloma
Black Mountain News (2018) – There is no cure for multiple myeloma, the form of blood cancer Kenny Capps was diagnosed with in 2015. But that won’t stop the Black Mountain man from embarking on a 1,000-plus-mile run from the Outer Banks to Clingman’s Dome in April. The Throwing Bones Trail Race was designed to give runners a brief glimpse of what daily life will be like for Capps once he begins his nearly two-month run.
Kenny Capps is All In on a Death-Defying Run
Black Mountain News (2017) – He was diagnosed in 2015 with multiple myeloma, an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer. His many friends, including David LaMotte, hosted a benefit concert in his honor at White Horse Black Mountain in 2015. Kenny’s bone marrow transplant at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta has slowed the progression of the disease. And he threw himself into running! Why does he run?
A Healthy Dose of Music and Friendship to Help Kenny Capps Battle Cancer
Mountain Xpress (2015) – Five days before heading to Atlanta for surgery and a month of isolation to combat an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer, Black Mountain resident and Kudzu Printing Co. owner Kenny Capps will be enveloped in the sights and sounds of friendship; White Horse Black Mountain hosts a benefit concert planned by a group of his loved ones on Thursday, Aug. 13.
Man Trains to Run Mountains to Sea Trail to Help Raise Money for Cancer
WLOS 13 News (2016) – Five days before heading to Atlanta for surgery and a month of isolation to combat an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer, Black Mountain resident and Kudzu Printing Co. owner Kenny Capps will be enveloped in the sights and sounds of friendship; White Horse Black Mountain hosts a benefit concert planned by a group of his loved ones on Thursday, Aug. 13.