A blog reader with SMM (= smoldering myeloma) asked me to write a post on fear…specifically, on how to deal with the fear of starting or going through treatment or the fear of having our blood tested. He is amazed at how incredibly stressed out he gets before having his periodic blood tests and would like to hear how others cope…

I thought it was a great suggestion. So I began writing this post. But nothing came to me. No words. No comments. No bits of advice. Very few thoughts at all, in fact. Why? What’s wrong?

I have some thinking to do in the next few days…