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Called mum this morning. Her number of neutrophils, white blood cell still low, so lung infection still there. Finally, talked to her a bit today. She even cant manage a full sentence without out of breath.Coughing badly at same time. I hold my tears just let her listen, i talked. Telling her how my daughter cut her hair and i already send it to my sister's phone for her to look at. But i think she feel really bad even she said she's ok, even talking about grandchidren didint cheer her up much. i have...
Called mum, talked to my sister. I haven’t talked to my mum for three days now, she doesn’t feel well with all the side effects. Her white blood cells still very low and she's having an infection in her lung, difficult to breath. I think my sister just try to be calm and I told her over and over again, don’t call me until last minute. In Chinese culture, when problem happening in the family, people tend to spare out those not around or close by. To my parents, if they can solve the problem by themselves...
Further to my last post, I've just remembered that another, very dear and close, friend, whom I shall call X, got in touch with me a couple of weeks ago to tell me about some cancer therapies she'd heard about, and would they be any good for me? She had heard from another friend (Y) who is 'supporting' someone with a brain tumour (Z). Y is pretty alternative, and she was telling X how she was advising Z to follow something called German New Medicine (GNM). Apparently the theory behind...
At the weekend I received an email from an old friend. I'm sure that many people here will have seen it as it has been going the rounds for some years. It's about the miraculous power of lemons. The first part was innocuous enough - all about how if you put your lemons in the freezer you can grate the peel and use it on food. It's tasty and full of vitamins. So far, so good. But if you scroll down the page, there comes the fatuous assertion that lemons are 10.000 times more powerful than...
As I approach my next team medical checkup day tomorrow and am now nearly 40 days and nights AFTER Radiotherapy treatment finished I am disappointed to state that the throat pain sees me way behind my recovery plan. After drinking a pint of watered down milk shake last Monday via mouth I really thought I had hit the nail on the head and was on the road to all being sorted. Trouble was I tried to do too much and I now need pain relief to swallow anything,so frustrating as I want to ge my life back...
Time to try and assess where I am and how I'm doing. Lots on the Macsite for me to think about. Concluson is that we are all different in the disease we have to face. Nothing is standard and variations from day to day in this person make no sense sometimes.
Good day yesterday. Walking better so that I went out without a stick. Went to the supermarkets for the weekly shopping with my wife who is finding walking extremely difficult at present. She never gives up and insists on doing things to...
i haven’t been here much. Have been busy with my study and calling mum every day
to cheer her up. Also, it is Chinese New Year, busy cooking nice food for the
two. Since i came here, don’t really celebrate Chinese New Year anymore. I don’t
really keen on Christmas either. Not because i don’t like the holiday and
family gathering. I just really dislike the drinking business. I have grown up
in a culture that alcohol only for celebration usage, its icing on the cake. In
China, there...
Another month has begun. It is less dark now except under heavy rain. Today I managed to do some useful work in the garden the first for many weeks. All at ground level, but I was able to use a saw and long-armed secateurs to good effect to prune a large buddleia bush. Next task will be to use the shredder and reduce it all to small pieces for compost.
My pelvic pains continue to improve on abiraterone. The clinic has advised me to stay on injections of tramerin (decapeptyl) as well as abiraterone...
