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EAST HANTS\/HALIFAX:<\/strong>\u00a0Scott Huntley, a Learning Design Officer who creates online training modules, was born and raised in Nova Scotia and lived there until he moved away for college. Eventually, he met and married Caryn, an Australian native.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Caryn returned to Australia in 2003, Scott followed, and they have lived there ever since. In May of this year, the couple had a trip booked to Tasmania, however, a week before their trip, Scott broke his arm after throwing a ball; an injury he now refers to as his \u2018lucky break\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the weeks prior to breaking his arm, Scott was feeling pain in his hips, back and arm.\u00a0Initially, he\u00a0assumed that the pain was related to poor ergonomics and layout of his home office. However, when Scott broke his arm, the emergency room doctor was concerned that the fracture was caused by something more serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scott was admitted to the hospital the same day for further investigation. Within 24 hours he had met with an oncologist who suspected that the pain Scott had been experiencing and his fractured arm where symptoms of a little-known and incurable blood cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two weeks later, after two bone biopsies, Scott was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is just 47 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scott was completely shocked by the diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0\u201cThe first week I was in hospital, I didn\u2019t want anyone to know that I had cancer. I can\u2019t explain why, but I felt ashamed, like it was something I wanted to hide,\u201d he says. \u201cThe three emotions that I oscillated between were denial, fear and anger. It\u2019s hard to be angry at cancer as it\u2019s intangible but I wanted to punch it as hard as it had punched me. I wanted to do something, anything that I could to hurt it back\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scott underwent surgery to repair his broken arm, which included inserting two plates and 10 screws. Since then, he has also received a bone graft, undergone several biopsies, 10 rounds of radiation, and has begun chemotherapy in preparation for a stem cell transplant that he is set to receive next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The hope is that the procedure will place the myeloma into remission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although he now lives in Australia, to Scott, Nova Scotia is home. His three sisters, Nicole, Shelley, and Pamela, along with their parents, Agnes, and Ken, live in the Maritimes and Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Immediately after his diagnosis, Scott became very active in raising funds and awareness for myeloma<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want to do everything I can to pay it forward to future myeloma patients in order to improve their treatment outcomes. Someone had made my journey easier, so I want to try to make someone else\u2019s journey easier too,\u201d Scott adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n For these reasons, Scott\u2019s team in Halifax, Scott\u2019s Walking Matildas<\/em>, will be lacing-up to raise awareness and critical research funds at Myeloma Canada\u2019s 11th<\/sup> Annual Leo Senz Memorial Walk for Multiple Myeloma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, the event will be taking place, virtually, on September 26, 2021, at 9 a.m. The financial goal for the Halifax 5 km walk\/run is set at $16,000. Scott and his team have already raised close to $4,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 5 km event has been modified to help stop the spread of COVID-19. In compliance with physical distancing measures, participants are encouraged to hold their own walk in their neighbourhood at the same time as the regularly scheduled march on September 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Multiple Myeloma March<\/a>, Myeloma Canada\u2019s flagship fundraiser, is now in its 13th<\/sup>\u00a0year with a national fundraising goal set at $600,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Funds raised by the March will support\u00a0Myeloma Canada\u2019s\u00a0Myeloma Research Priority Setting Partnership (PSP)<\/a>,\u00a0a unique initiative that uses community input to\u00a0identify and define future investments in myeloma research, as well as the\u00a0Canadian Myeloma Research Group<\/a>\u00a0(CMRG) to help further Canadian research, clinical trials and the National Myeloma Database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”133″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”78″] EAST HANTS\/HALIFAX:\u00a0Scott Huntley, a Learning Design Officer who creates online training modules, was born and raised in Nova Scotia and lived there until he moved away for college. 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