When John Simison went to see a doctor in September 2012 for severe mid-back pain, he figured it was just a backlash from a summer of full-bore, hard work at Bouse House Enterprises, the septic service and portable sanitation business he cofounded in 1983.Unfortunately, his self-diagnosis was woefully incorrect. An MRI scan revealed a crushed lumbar vertebra and a fractured sacrum, significant injuries in and of themselves. But the cause of the injury was exponentially more serious: The bone was weakened by multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that affects plasma cells in bone marrow.So instead of actively managing operations throughout
