A Catalyst for Change

From Diagnosis to Purpose

When a terminal Multiple Myeloma diagnosis shattered David Lennard's world at 57, the collapse exposed more than mortality. It revealed the emotional isolation, medical fragmentation, and financial brutality that patients endure behind the scenes. This documentary story is the lived origin of CareHub.

Diagnosis

Terminal Multiple Myeloma at 57

Crisis Point

72 hours to live after missed warning signs

Loss

Home, vehicle, stability, and nearly two years unhoused

Transformation

Personal collapse became a founder story with global intent

Outcome

CareHub born from lived failure in the care system

The Care Gap I Lived

I'm David Lennard, a terminal cancer patient with Multiple Myeloma. I've been treated by HonorHealth, Arizona Oncology, and Banner Health. My firsthand experience with catastrophic care gaps informs every decision we make at CareHub.

Ignored Warning Signs

After my MGUS diagnosis, I reported body changes and sensations of rib fractures. I begged my practitioner for pain relief and Revlimid treatment. I was refused. Weeks later, I was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae, ribs, and sternum. At one point, I was given 72 hours to live.

CareHub response: Continuous symptom tracking with provider visibility for earlier intervention.

Medical Records Nightmare

Four providers in seven years. My original treatment at Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center generated 1,000 pages of documentation. By the time I reached my fourth provider, Banner Health, I discovered my accessible records had been reduced to a fraction. Requests for scan details and treatment history at Arizona Oncology went unanswered. I still haven't had time to recover what was lost.

CareHub response: Patient-owned portable medical data you control.

Financial Catastrophe

I was bedridden or hospitalized for 8 months. I fell through insurance cracks. I lost my mortgage-free home and fully owned car, with assets sold at 30-40 cents on the dollar just to maintain treatment, food, and shelter. I spent 2 years homeless in the Arizona desert. Without the Affordable Care Act, I would be dead.

Why We're Building CareHub

Every feature we build addresses a gap I experienced personally. Providers must see what happens between appointments. Patients must own their data. And no one should lose everything because the system failed them.

The Power of Purpose

When a terminal cancer diagnosis shattered his world at 57, David faced the cold reality that this final journey begins alone. A childhood in boarding schools, years of family estrangement, and a grueling corporate climb left deep wounds and profound emptiness. So he packed his car and headed off-grid to Montana's wilderness with his dog, Rupert, as his sole companion. What began as escape became transformation, his spirit growing more vibrant even as his body weakened.

Within days of returning to Arizona, he was hospitalized with a fractured spine and given days to live. Insurance had lapsed. Savings evaporated. He and Rupert spent nearly two years homeless. Yet even when everything was taken, purpose remained. CareHub was born from this journey, proof that the darkest moments can become meaningful change.

Transition

At 57, a Multiple Myeloma diagnosis brought a lifelong search for purpose into sharp focus. Ten exhausting days on the road led him to a remote 20,000-acre ranch in Montana's Centennial Valley, fulfilling a childhood dream sparked by a National Geographic article. As a storm chased him off the highway and the sky opened up over Lemhi Reservoir, David felt an unfamiliar strength rising within.

Montana became a temporary home, a six-week crucible of transformation that stripped away lifelong insecurities and revealed a raw, authentic self. The founder story did not begin in a boardroom. It began in silence, isolation, and a confrontation with mortality.

ReGenesis

Three major challenges had driven him north from Phoenix in complete silence: the cancer diagnosis he could only come to terms with, a business venture now on the back burner, and the clear realization that he had to unpack five decades of suppressed emotions. Being alone in this great wilderness gave him the opportunity to go back to the beginning, to confront what had plagued his family, and to discard decades of resentment.

Watching Rupert revel in newfound freedom filled him with indescribable joy, teaching him how to worry less and smile again. The man who returned from Montana was not repaired, but he was reoriented. That reorientation became the emotional and ethical foundation of CareHub.