One year has passed. 14th of June last year, I was diagnosed with cancer of the right parotid gland. At that time, both of my parents and my doctor advised me to take 1 year leave from studies because of my health but I insisted to continue. Though it was difficult for me because my body is weak and I gets tired easily after chemotherapy but I made it to complete my 5th year studies. Now I’m officially final year medic student. Yay! v^^v

Now still got 1 more year to graduate. I hope everything will go smoothly. I’m paranoid with brain cancer issue lately. 5 years of remission is a long period of time, anything can happen during this 5 years. Someone added me on msn. His mother survived breast cancer 2 years ago and recently they found metastasis of cancer cells to the brain and she is udergoing treatment in SJMC now.

The distance of the neck and brain is shorter than from the breast to the brain lor. Some more symptoms of brain cancer is so general that one might not even notice it. Headache, slight memory impairment, nausea, loss of appetite etc. Talking about headache, occassionally I have headache on the occipital region for no apparent reason. Sometimes I worry that something might goes wrong somewhere. And memory impairment… I forgotten about a lot of our ex-schoolmate names but they remember me… is this consider something bad?

Hmmm… I think I need to get a brain scan this time. I couldn’t imagine that if I had to go through the whole process of treatment again. The unbearable pain, the ulcers and blisters and unable to eat and taste for 4 months. So suffering.