ARGGHHHH!I've spend most of today trying to burn a DVD of a wedding video. It's long, but should have plenty of room on the disk. It gets hung up or just spins. Another time the program just quit. Used
IMovie to make it and trying to use
IDVD (3) to burn it. Any Mac geeks out there have any advice?
Richard went to Mayo for his monthly appointment on August 9. I didn't get to go because I didn't want to ask for time off from my new job. As it turned out, a friend went with him so he didn't have to drive by himself. He even got a print out of his lab results for me. And they are good. M-spike unchanged at 0.4. IgG was 1190. Richard has IgG kappa myeloma.
Drawing of Immunoglobulin molecule
Different types of myeloma are classified by the type of
immunoglobulin (proteins) produced by the abnormal
plasma cells. Immunoglobulins (Ig) are made up of 2 components: light chains and heavy chains and further classified by the type of light (kappa or lambda) or heavy (alpha [IgA], gamma [IgG], mu [IgM], delta [IgD], and epsilon [IgE]) chains.
The most common
monoclonal protein in myeloma is the IgG type. This means that the immunoglobulin is comprised of 2 IgG heavy chains and 2 light chains, either 2 kappa or 2 lambda. When the abnormal M protein is identified in myeloma, it is most often an IgG kappa type. However, any other combination is possible.
Less common, but still prevalent, are IgA-producing myeloma cells.
IgM myeloma is much less common. IgD and IgE myelomas are very rare.
Some rare diseases are associated with plasma cell overproduction of heavy chains only. These are referred to as heavy chain diseases. Heavy chain diseases may or may not be similar to myeloma in their characteristics.
Nonsecretory myeloma occurs in about 1% of myelomas and represents malignant plasma cells that do not produce any immunoglobulin chains, heavy or light.
Richard had the
free-lite this time. Both lamda and kappa were elevated but the ratio is normal. This is a more reflection of Richard's renal insufficiency than of the myeloma. Everything else was good. Now if I could just burn that DVD!
Richard went to Mayo for his monthly appointment on August 9. I didn't get to go because I didn't want to ask for time off from my new job. As it turned out, a friend went with him so he didn't have to drive by himself. He even got a print out of his lab results for me. And they are good. M-spike unchanged at 0.4. IgG was 1190. Richard has IgG kappa myeloma.
Different types of myeloma are classified by the type of immunoglobulin (proteins) produced by the abnormal plasma cells. Immunoglobulins (Ig) are made up of 2 components: light chains and heavy chains and further classified by the type of light (kappa or lambda) or heavy (alpha [IgA], gamma [IgG], mu [IgM], delta [IgD], and epsilon [IgE]) chains.
The most common monoclonal protein in myeloma is the IgG type. This means that the immunoglobulin is comprised of 2 IgG heavy chains and 2 light chains, either 2 kappa or 2 lambda. When the abnormal M protein is identified in myeloma, it is most often an IgG kappa type. However, any other combination is possible.
Less common, but still prevalent, are IgA-producing myeloma cells.
IgM myeloma is much less common. IgD and IgE myelomas are very rare.
Some rare diseases are associated with plasma cell overproduction of heavy chains only. These are referred to as heavy chain diseases. Heavy chain diseases may or may not be similar to myeloma in their characteristics.
Nonsecretory myeloma occurs in about 1% of myelomas and represents malignant plasma cells that do not produce any immunoglobulin chains, heavy or light.
Richard had the free-lite this time. Both lamda and kappa were elevated but the ratio is normal. This is a more reflection of Richard's renal insufficiency than of the myeloma. Everything else was good. Now if I could just burn that DVD!