Living n Dying

Tag: cancer treatment

  • the beauty under the eyelids

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    savini
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    Maybe a blog post will come today, I suddenly thought. I am sitting here by my window in a rehabilitation center close to the hospital. Last week I started daily radiation treatments of the brain. From yesterday, radiation of the tailbone and hip was included into the schedule. The view from my window is beautiful…

  • nowhere to go

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    savini
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    The oncologist calls me, with shaken voice, and he does not go straight to the point. The MRI results shows five tumors in my brain. Three of them are very small. Two are big. He asks me to take cortisone at once. It will not shrink the tumors, but hopefully it can release some of…

  • not in my hands

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    savini
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    There are only sounds. Footsteps in the corridor. Voices. The wheels of the trolley towards the floor when they come to measure the blood pressure, temperature, pulse – or take more blood tests. I cover my eyes every time the door opens. The energy in the room is changing when someone new enters. And when…