Help Hugo Drax Beat Cancer

My name is Nick James Hahn and I'm raising money to help the American Disc Jockey Association's President, Kim Rogers whom you all know by his stage name, Hugo Drax. (Kim) Drax has spent my entire time knowing him (21 years) trying to help the DJ Industry in any way he can and he needs our help NOW!

ALL proceeds will go directly to Drax to offset the TREMENDOUS costs already incurred for chemotherapy, stem cell transplant, etc... He will be the person to withdraw the funds and use them to pay his medical expenses. I've asked him to write his cancer story so you can learn more about what he is going through and what he will continue to have to face.

The three hardest words I have ever heard are the words “You Have Cancer”. In that moment time seemed to stand still. Everything seemed to move in slow motion. The three hardest words I have ever said are “I have cancer”. To that end I am writing my story.

I was diagnosed in early January of 2021 with an incurable plasma cancer called Multiple Myeloma. For the past 8 months I have had weekly Chemo cocktails delivered via IV with a third chemo drug delivered by injection. In addition, I have had radiation therapy for 10 weeks. One of my several cancer drugs is so poisonous that you are warned not to be close to people because the drug can be passed to them from contact, so you are isolated.

When you have cancer, your world stops. Now everything is scheduled around your Chemo schedule. Life begins to slow down as everything revolves around treatment. Cancer is a frightening thing to deal with. The weekly blood draws, the hopes for better numbers each week, and the worries that they will not improve. Multiple Myeloma, as I stated, has no cure. It attacks your blood cells, trashing your immune system as well as creating chronic anemia.

Added to that is the release of a protein into your blood that causes your bones to dissolve. A dime sized lesion on my lower spine, and smaller ones throughout my entire spine, as well as the degradation of both hip sockets and the sciatic end of my spine. This produces chronic pain from which there is little escape. The treatment for this is 2 years of IV bone building drugs with awful side effects. I might be looking at double hip replacements in the years to come. If you are diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, the best that can be hoped for is remission for a time, typically a few years. Five years is about average, then you start the whole process over again. There are advanced treatments that exist but they are expensive and do not come without risk.

I am having a Stem Cell transplant in the next 2 weeks. During that time I am completely isolated and quarantined to bed for approximately 30-45 day and I will have no immune system at all. Kind of scary to say the least. With the mounting financial, physical and emotional strain of cancer, everything you have known is stretched to the breaking point.

Cancer is a horrible taskmaster from which there is no escape. This is my Cancer Story. I know that I will beat this and beat the odds. I already have beaten them significantly, now is the biggest fight of them all. - Hugo Drax aka Kim Rogers