Tim was diagnosed with multilple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow) in August of 2009.  He is at a stage 2 with 50% of his bone marrow cancerous.  Tim has started his cycles of chemotherapy with the hope of having a stem cell transplant within the next 4/5 months.  While mulitple myeloma is currently incurable, it is treatable.

Tim is participating in a clinical trial that hopefully will put him in remission longer.  He is starting his final round of chemo and then goes to Karmanos for the infusion of his own T-cells.  Hopefully these T-cells (which were harvested from him in early January then grown in the lab) will train his other cells to fight the cancer when it comes back.  Tim's numbers have been great and currently are in the normal range.  He is still looking at the early part of March for his stem cell transplant. 
The ony bad news Tim received is that he cannot come back to work this year because his immune system will not be all full capacity to work in a school environment.