I wish you could meet Mr. Nagy. He prefers to be called “Jewells”.
He is wearing his Corvette t-shirt since he is recruiting for volunteers at church for a neighborhood outreach event at which car guys will bring their cars and eat at food trucks and do other stuff. This is a target-rich environment for car guys.
Jewells no doubt will bring what he affectionately calls his “Frankenvette”. It was brought back to life by salvaging parts from other Corvette model years and assembling it into a beautiful new monster. (Photo in link below).
https://wholehealthblog.is/grit-gratitude-open-letter-battling-cancer-myeloma-survivor/
Jewells has fought myeloma for over ten years. Jewells is the “Cool Hand Luke” in the match. He gets beat up by his treatments and he keeps getting up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0mgkaEGQc
Jewells’ resilience has resulted in a wealth of information about myeloma for him, for his doctors and for his fellow myeloma fighters. I asked him if he is the “six-million dollar man”. He responded that his treatments have cost more than that. He has become the patient doctors want so they can learn from him. He has become one whom other myeloma patients from around the world contact. They know he is fighting their fight with them.
For me, he models how to live….
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