Episode 53 – Eric Gelber, Running 200 Miles In Central Park & Fundraising $1.7 Million for The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

“In 2006, I started running for a friend who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which is a rare blood cancer. She had been diagnosed years before but she had always seemed fine so I never really thought about it. When I saw her go through a stem cell transplant, where they basically beat your body down, strip you of your immune system, do the stem cell transplant and build you back up again. It’s a brutal process.