Thursday, August 25, 2005
The Questions about Chemotherapy
Just finished my dinner... as usual... Vegetables and lots of fruits. My mom has been blending some vege and fruit juice every morning some formula supposedly to cure cancer patient. I lost 3 kg after 3 weeks since the operation. Ive been taking lots of supplements and vege protein... trying to get used to it...I have to. It will take 3 months for my liver to grow back according to the doctor. Apparently doctor suggested me to do Chemotherapy during the check up yesterday. Suspicious cancer cells still running in my blood stream... I dont know what to say about that. My family members are very doubtful about chemo... coz it doesnt give full guarantee that it can kill my cancer cells at the same time it will kill good cells and my imune system will be extremely low during the treament. Ive done lots of research on my liver cancer.. which is Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Only 5% of survival will live more than 5 years. http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/dc/cen/canc/livc/liver.jsp <--- this link to tell the basic of what Hepatocellular Carcinoma. I should be a Vegetarian for life if I ever want to live longer... I will not stand down... I have to be cheerful and positive thoughts are also important. There are chances for me to get fully cured as I am still young... I believe that if I got faith to myself... anything is possible. At the mean time I will do more research on how to improve my survival. And also Chemotherapy, we have yet to decide if I should do it. Will discuss more with doctor for the next check up.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Im back....
Im finally home... but have to sleep near my kitchen in the hospital bed coz i cant walk up the stairs. The operation lasted for 6 hours. I was at ICU for 2 days and the rest of the days at the wad. It was a painful experience... Thank God the nurses are friendly and helpful. I had needles poking my both arms and neck, draining tubes connecting to my stomach. There was a tube going through my nose into my stomach....huge scar with stiches on my stomach. Luckily lots of friends and relatives came visit me...helped me going through all these. Thank you for the wishes and support. Im glad that im free from all those needles poking all over my body. Will be back to the hospital next week for some check ups. OK Im just too tired to write.... body still very weak...write later.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Life is so fragile
I told some friends that Ive got diagnosed with Liver Cancer but they thought i was fooling around. I just got discharged from Sunway Medical Centre, went through Androgram Operations..not sure if it's being spelled that way. It hurts badly... doctor punctured a small hole at my crouch near my dong... and insert a long wire into my artory vein... they had to make sure all wires reaches to all my organs through the veins. It lasted 2 hours. As a result, they told me that half of my liver has to be removed. I will be admitting to the same hospital on Monday morning. Big operation on Tuesday. Some of my friends,relatives and colleagues have visited me while I was there... there will be more friends coming to my house today also. I wish to say I am glad that everyone came and really appreciate the donors effort and support. My biggest challenge now is the coming Operations on Tuesday. To be honest, Im really scared. I know I can be strong... will see what happens. I will be okay and update this blog once I get myself recovered. Before I stop here, thank you Mun Mun :)... I will keep my promises.