Nantucket Magazine: Healing from Within

In 2019, Nantucket Bake Shop’s Louise Hubbard was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that forms in plasma cells in bone marrow. In April 2022, nearly three years after her diagnosis, Hubbard was chosen to join a trial for CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital. But between going back and forth to Boston and developing side effects like plantar fasciitis (an inflammation of the plantar fascia that causes sharp pain in the heel or bottom of the foot), one thing was clear: Hubbard needed to take care of herself in more ways than one. “One of the things that was stressed to me by my oncologist, Dr. [Andrew] Branagan, was to have massages and do things that made me more comfortable,” Hubbard says.

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