Jan 12, 2007

lifes being a cancer patient (part 2)

seriously, having cancer is so much betta than having chemotherapy. though is quite suffering b4 treeatment, not just constant coughing, and hard to sleep at nite(imagine can oni sleep in sitting position), but all these do not really matter, coz it does not makes her feel sick. the treatment that makes her feel sick, due to the side effects of the drugs that makes her nausea, feel like vommiting. a total of 12 treatments!!! thats equal having sick 12 times in 6 months, once every 2 weeks, now it balance back, coz she has not been sick for so many yrs, she believes this is wut we call "kharma", mayb is just not too fair to be healthy for so long. 

so the chemo is just like a drip, of coz the nurse must make a hole in somewhere on the body to let the drug flows in the body, how terrible it is to poke a hole once every 2 weeks just to make the drip. the health department realise how important this matter is, obviously they don wan to get sued by the patient, so they make a "brilliant" idea (dunno which "brilliant"person invented this "brilliant" product). they put this tube (which they call picc line) in to the blood vessel so the hole can stays there for a longer period. the gurl din realise how scary is this picc line b4 that, she thought is just like a normal needle jabbing and thats all, how naive, but is too late to worry now.

afterall, is just a little more than a needle jab, just that they also insert a line through the vessel on arm to the chest, the whole procedure is easy, but hurtzz! she din watch how the nurse do it, but the pain is really awful. 

 

nurse: "so here comes the stingy bit" (the needle pokes in)

gurl:   " (AAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!)........"

nurse: " i m sorry sweet heart"

gurl:    " (yea, u gonna be real sorry!)  nah its ok....(kill me plz!!)

 

the line was in, and something on the arm to hold the line so it dosen pulls out easily, but it is rather robotic, the arm cant move freely and gotta wrap up everytime when showering, the place cant get wet no matter wut. the chemo goes on for 6 months, every tuesday become the "hospital day", no school obviously for tuesday and sometimes of the week. 

 

finally 12 chemos done, and her yr 12 ova too, anyway, the results is definitely disappointing, haiiz, no point gotta repeat a yr agen to do betta. gd news is the tumour was all cleared, pity that after all these she develop the so call "hospital phobia", due to this phobia she gotta reconsider the aim to study vet and become a doctor (veterinarian is oso a doctor evn though is bit differ).

afterall she is now living happily ever after.........(haha, who knows)

 

~the end~

 

for those who wonder who the gurl is, i tell u who she is is not important, just to tell others who has similar illness, not to give up!!!

the determination to keep this gurl doing all these, is actually the fear of death (is really scary), and for not disappointing those who support her and loved her. finally thanks to frens and family members of the gurl, all staffs in haematology deparment especially dr steve (though apparently he dosen do anything), the teachers in lynwood high and for anyone who helped and supported her.    

Jan 9, 2007

lifes being a cancer patient (part 1)

finally i m worthy to write this....

this is a real story......

it happens abt 10 months ago, theres gurl in perth watching comedy in the middle of a night, then suddenly, she laughs, coz the show is really funny, she cant stop laughing, keep on laughing and laughing, and......choke. due to too much of laughing, get choked and start coughing, that wasnt sumthing special until........the nightmare begins....

 

NOTE: this is not a horror story, and laughing too much is not a gd thing.

 

the next day in the morning, the gurl felt sumthing is not right, she felt aching in the left chest, she wants to cough everytime breathing in and out, anyway, maybe is just nth she thought. so she have some "pei pa kou" in order to smooth the throat. the coughs continues, 1 weeks 2 weeks 3 weeks, and is getting worse, she feel sumthing rubbing in her left chest, she feel sumthing in there, and keep on coughing, not very much but constantly coughing. but she din go for doc, coz she hate being sick, she hasnt been sick for 3 yrs b4 that. finally 3 months ova, that time was during may-june, the coughs din end, she was having exam in the same time. it will be so quiet in the exam hall if she din cough, throughout the exam the gurl is making so much noise, anyway no one seems to realised she was coughing.

she finally go to clinic, actually not because of the coughing, coz at the same time she had serious skin disease(her face looks really bad that time). it is true that woman oni cares abt her beauty but not her health. then the skin disease is cured, but doc cant find the cause of coughing, so he ask her to do x-ray. the results of x-ray, the whole left lung is white, while the right one looks normal.

she was shock, but still think it is not sumthing serious, mayb is just an error of x-ray or mayb theres some mucuos stuck in the lung. contnue folo up to check wuts going on, the clinic doc said "u gotta go to hospital to check out", so she was sent to the emergency in hospital. she lying on the bed for 5 hours doing nth in the so call "emergency ward", waiting to do bronchoscopy, a procedure which a camera is push through the bronchus of the lft lung to c wuts inside. 

 

the doc found nth inside, just that the bronchus is narrower, so sumthing is compressing from the outside(lucky.... not in lung)

no point, gotta do ct scan, spending so much of money doing this and that and still dunno wuts going on, finally ct-scan shows, it is a tumour, that compress the lung, but yet dunno wut type of tumour it is. then do biopsy, agen waiting in the hopsital for more than 8 hours. in this pocedure, the gurl has to stay awake, and watch the doc jab the needle in to the left lung to take a bit of the tumour sample. how dreadful it is, a total of 5 samples r taken, ahhh.

then they check finally found out is cancerous, poor little gurl, in the age of oni 16 getting cancer, sad.....

anyway, she din cry, coz she still think is not that serious (in her point of view), issit becoz she is optimistic, or she is too stupid to realise how serios it is, anyway is a gd sign. but two of her family member tears a little (actually is not a little). so get wut the problem is , now is time to cure.

 

to be continued.......