Pain Pain Pain pain Pain
Beginning of 3rd week of my radiotherapy and also the beginning of every cancer patient’s nightmare. SORE MOUTH, PAIN, ULCERS, BLISTERS, FUNGAL INFECTION and MORE PAIN.
My jaw hurts so do my mouth, my throat and my lips. My lips bleed yesterday. I was unable to chew and swallow for the past 2 days. I lost 600g of weight. Currently feel very hungry but unable to eat because it is too painful to chew and swallow. Uuuuuwwwaaaaa~ so suffering. So this is how other cancer patient felt. I can feel it now, I can understand the pain. Perhaps through this pain, will make me a better doctor in future.
I’m too indulge in the pain and sleeping now. So do feel free to drop by Edrei’s blog. He wrote a lot about cancer during the blogathon.
I like this sentence he wrote:
“Cancer isn’t an act of God sent to punish you for your sins.”
It’s a trial for you to make you grow stronger. What can’t kill you will only make you you stronger.
To all the cancer patients out there, please do not give up hope. Cancer is curable with a strong determination to live.
The more I read, the more I realized I didn’t write enough about cancer during the Blogathon. I wouldn’t really say that cancer is curable with a strong determination to live.
A life with cancer has more meaning and quality to it with a strong determination to live. Sometimes, that itself has more impact a person’s life than the treatments alone. There isn’t a reason to endure and keep living if you don’t have a purpose to keep at it.
But by all means, the only way to treat cancer is still with the 3 basic treatments that what you have gone through.
You’re doing fine. Will and conviction, that’s what I always say. There will be a time when you don’t have to go through this anymore. All it takes to get there is will and conviction. So keep at it.
But when a person have a purpose to live, they usually can endure the treatment and go through it successfully. =)
There was one patient i met the other day, the doctor told her u only have 20% of chances to survive for another 5 years. She was pretty upset and very emotional. After talking to her, i manage to comfort her. Negative emotions will only helps cancer to kill us faster.
I believe that everything happen for a reason. =) This is a lesson for me to understand other people’s pain.
Not to sound bad, but the emotions we have and how it affects cancer is a myth without any scientific validation. It does however affect the quality of life we have which in turn can affect the way we deal with the cancer (keep to treatments, exercise, living lifestyle), plus it’s always great to meet someone with an optimistic perception of life.
=)
Really la, Edrei…. I got sick bcos i was in depression for quite some time about 3 years? Then things got worse bcos i keep falling sick every 2 weeks. And thus i decided to come back for medical check up and so. Didn’t expect it turn out to be malignant tumor.
I feel God wants you to go through this alone, for a reason. Did you notice the timing?
“What is incurable is curable from within”
—- anonymous
Understandable, though it should be said I have been suffering from suicidal depression since I was 14 and been in psych treatment for that. If that’s the case I should be a really sick person right now since I’m still under bouts of depression.
Cancer as you know has a genetic basis. It’s one of those bad cards of fate you get handed out and being affected so young, it’s one that was handed out at birth. I explained the mechanism in a few posts during the Blogathon about it.
Lifestyle habits (like smoking or eating carcinogens) do affect the onset of cancer, but not emotions. That’s more…a placebo effect.
True but then hor… no one in my family had cancer. I’m the first one =P and the youngest ehehe. Perhaps is the lifestyle factor (eh but i dun smoke, eat healthy diet) + probably the chernobyl radiation since i’m in russia >_<. Sigh… it’s a accumulated wan la.
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It was probably a mutation when you were conceived. Uncommon, but it happens.
Are we discussing about the cause of cancer now? My favourite exam question is when I’m asked for aetiology… ‘cos you can almost always use “idiopathic” as one of your answers.
Heehee…
Edrei : I’m a mutant…. waaaahhhh-_-”
YP : *lol
I guess you guys are making sense in a way and another. Emotions will definately affect us psychologically and physiologically. So no matter what are the causes, what are the treatments, what’s important is how we react to it. What happen happens, for a reason. It is whether we have the faith to trust and make the best out of the situation. God will decide the rest and for sure it will be the best.