Thanks for your thoughts, Patti, and I hope your doctor visit went well. I am being optimistic, but I think philosophically as well. Everything that lives eventually has to face its own mortality, and now I have to face it more closely. So I will go from six months to six months (hopefully) and will make sure I do everything that is important to me. Reading some of what Dr. Kyle wrote, it seems there are a lot of people with MGUS out there, and many of them do not know it. I am ambivalent about whether it was a good thing that my doctor told me about it, since there is nothing to be done but watch it. But it is never bad to assess your goals and hopes for your life's journey and make sure that you are doing the things that are most important to you. I will try harder to exercise each day and eat right and stay healthy!!
Best of luck to all!!