"It was a total war: months and months of chemo in which I was more over there than over here. But I said to myself: it's not time to die. I reacted tooth and nail, I did the treatment exactly as the doctors said and for now we are saved. Even with many aches and pains and a chronic illness: I am a man who needs assistance. But I have no intention of hiding: I lived through the entire AIDS era, when the disease was considered a fault, something to be ashamed of, and I said to myself: I speak from the rooftops about myeloma. And I show myself: I place myself in the wheelchair and let myself be pushed."