What would you do if you were told you had a couple of years left to live? What would you drop from your life and what would you refocus on? These are questions I asked unemployed youths, retrenched adults or people who had reached an impasse in their lives. The echo of those questions has [...]
As a ‘busyness exponent’, the most difficult task I have in managing my treatment is rescheduling my life to be less busy. When you are raised having the good old Protestant work ethic drummed into you, it is difficult to amend the habits of a life-time. My doctors, oncologist and other advisors all stress that [...]
I’m back to normal after my 7 days as a radio-active liver. But frustration builds upon frustration. I was supposed to have chemo on Friday but my platelet levels were way, way down. Platelets affect blood-clotting and according to the Oncologist suggest I have been bleeding somewhere. There are two possibilities: One is that I [...]
While I am learning what it is like to be a leper (albeit only for 7 days) I remembered reading that touching is essential for life. Lack of touch can kill – chilling tales A tragic fate befell a group of babies in the 1940s. At that time, when the theory of disease being spread [...]
All you stoic, non-’touchy-feelly’, hide-your-emotions, males out there. Reach out and touch your wives and children while you can. I am serious! For the past several days I have been radio-active and no-one is allowed to stay close to me for more than a few minutes and then can only come within 2 meters of [...]
On Wednesday I had the spheres inserted into my liver. There was a slight hiccup from the week before with one of the embolisms ‘leaking’ so they had to plug that artery further. There was another artery that also needed embolising so that was done as well. Because some other vessel was misbehaving the Radiologists [...]
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