I am running this marathon because it will take lots of training, which involve waking up early on weekends for my morning runs when I'd much rather stay in bed and sleep. At some point during my morning run, I will get tired and want to give up (as I have previously trained for other marathons and know this will occur). Similarly, I know that sometimes patients want to give up, not come to the clinic and not receive any treatment. I thus want to encourage MM patients to not give up, as I will also not give up and will continue running. So please help our non-profit institute (IMBCR) and donate what you can so that we can continue to find better therapies, monitoring methods (i.e., soluble BCMA) and to help scientists better understand how MM develops and thus how to prevent its growth.