When Jamie Hart first went to the doctor for neck pain in 2016, he felt like his head was going to "fall off". Before he had an X-ray, he still didn't know what could be wrong with him but he soon found out it was bad news.
"My C6 vertebra had collapsed," Jamie, now 55, told WalesOnline. "All the bone and everything was pushing against my spinal cord which was out of shape, and with any stupid movement if I'd have fallen over or banged my head I could've been paralysed.
"I had an operation and the surgeon said it went well but she said the biopsy showed I had cancer - myeloma." Myeloma is a type of blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow and harms the immune system by creating abnormal antibodies that don't work and crowd out your body's usual effective ones.
