Carol Meyers, 72, knew exactly how her daughter was feeling.
Her daughter, Carley Yelyashov, 44, was in the hospital in June 2024 for a bone marrow transplant, when healthy stem cells are infused into the body to boost healthy cell production.
Meyers had the exact same treatment in September 2022 to treat the exact same disease.
The mother and daughter received identical diagnoses just over a year apart of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs when plasma cells become abnormal and produce dangerous proteins that can cause damage to our bones, kidneys and other functions.
"I knew what it entailed," Meyers recalls. "It was breaking my heart that she had to endure it as well ... (but) I got through it. She got through it."
