19/02/2010

I have killed the bastard...please denounce me!

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Radio is finished. Hip Hip hurrah!! 115 posts/118 days after this adventure started I am happy and relieved that cancer is gone and that I a...
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18/02/2010

Any advice?

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Basically what do I take out of this adventure? I don't dare to think what do you take out of it. Life is too short and moves to quickly...
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17/02/2010

What about my hair?

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Tricky subject. Always more for women than for men, so they say. I don't really agree. I look OK bald, but I want my hair back. Doctors,...
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16/02/2010

I do miss gym

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I told already several times: how amazing our body is. The most complex machine. Before having the cancer I was going to the gym quite frequ...
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Their "Fukitol"...my "Fukitol"

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When my friend C. gave me the idea of calling my blog fukitol (in a blunt against cancer) I knew that was inspired in the logo on the pill e...
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15/02/2010

Slightly pinkier

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Getting slightly pinkier as radio approaches the end, especially in the biopsy scar. The doctor says the radio area looks OK and I only need...
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14/02/2010

14th of February

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No, no, no....I won't make any comments on Valentine's Day. Commercial dates give me more nausea than food hospital!! Nothing agains...
13/02/2010

Moving fast into capital sin: gluttony

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From hospital food to home food to restaurant food to successive and close meals goes in just a quick timeframe. At least with me. I found m...
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10/02/2010

Talking about fire

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I think I just found what to do next on the blog world. I aways thought of going Portuguese with a blog against political correctness (which...
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In the line of fire

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Just fired another cleaning lady!! Anyone wants the job? I am an easy employer. No, really. I just don't tolerate paying 4 hours and get...
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Reflex

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Among the possible horrors of cancer treatment, if there is good support available, there can be good things as well. Like getting reflexolo...
09/02/2010

This blog has a few more weeks to go

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If you think that since the cancer is gone this blog is finished, don't rush. I will only close it after radio ends. Until there I will ...
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08/02/2010

I need to teach them how to count

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The radiologists keep surprising me. What saves me from deception is that I am in between doctors and nurses and try to reconcile the things...
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07/02/2010

Getting on with life

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With the exception of not working fully and not gyming yet, life is getting back to normal pretty quickly. Going to cinema, shopping, eating...

A "Samantha Jones" moment

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After several years over the end of "Sex and the City", I have found the series. Thanks to the cancer...too much time in hospital ...
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06/02/2010

Countdown

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8 sessions of radio and counting. 7 more to go. Well, depends who is right. The nurse talks of 15 sessions in total, I say 18 (that's wh...
04/02/2010

Quiet days

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7th session of radiotherapy and still no side effects. I hope it stays like this. Only the scar of the biopsy seems to start accusing the ra...
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02/02/2010

Organization, organization...no organization

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Do you remember my adventure with the PET and the CD-ROM with the results that the radiologist required? If not, I recall you. I had to go t...
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01/02/2010

1,000 visit

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Nothing like good or bad news to increase the audience. My blog reached 1,000 visits. Many thanks to you all for your caring interest.
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Removing the Hickman line...ouch!

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After the good news below, the next thing that comes to your mind is please remove me the Hickman line. This is probably the last link you h...
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This battle is won

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I was going to write THE battle is won, but life is full of surprises and it is better to say THIS battle is won. It is quite a relief to kn...
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I am still writing about the good news. Give me an hour.

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30/01/2010

Calling the "devil"by its right name

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When I was told I had a lymphoma, I was also told that there are different types: Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's and these have sub-typ...
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29/01/2010

There is another me out there

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The other day I read a comment on Sarah Jessica Parker, where she appears to have said that she didn't spend time googling her name. Wel...
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Comparing Divas...a musical moment

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For those of you that know FADO and for those that don't know, it is interesting to compare the same song in the voices of the biggest e...
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3 days on radio and still counting

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Today was the third day on radio. Still no side effects, but everyone says they will come, mainly tiredness. So, I am waiting. I tried to es...
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27/01/2010

What an eventful day...and radio rocks

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Where to start? Oh! yes...another trip to St Thomas Hospital. Third time lucky I got the right CD-ROM with the PET results. Another freezing...
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26/01/2010

Back and forth

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Chemo at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital (C&W). Radio at Charing Cross Imperial College Hospital (CC). PET scan at St Thomas Hospital...
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25/01/2010

Another PET

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No, I did not buy a little pig or even a chihuahua. PET = positron emission tomography. Fancy name for a full body scanner. Boring. I descri...
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22/01/2010

Radio on the go

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The radio planning has been done...in 15 minutes. You couldn't ask for quicker. And the nurse shot all the explanation speedier than Gon...
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21/01/2010

CT scan and released again

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What an anxiety. I want to go home...meaning I want to run away from hospital food. But what is the point to go home if you are not fully re...
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20/01/2010

Wake me up...not

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How quick we forget what happens to us in a hospital. Let me tell you what happened to me since I was re-admitted yesterday. Nothing dramati...
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19/01/2010

Back to hospital...nothing major

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Yesterday I vomited dinner and lunch (indeed lunch had not been digested). Today, regular blood samples showed that the neutrophils are slig...
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18/01/2010

Oh! disgrace....TV is back

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I finally managed to get Virgin Media to come around and install my TV and broadband. With my in and out of hospital it was not possible to ...
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17/01/2010

Me again seen by a photographer in the 30's

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I saw this photo in a book and couldn't stop laughing thinking of my situation. It is a autoportrait by Herbert Bayer: http://en.wikiped...
14/01/2010

Haiti...you can help

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As you know we have everything we want in our developped countries...and we still complain. I have a lymphoma, free healthcare, free food (a...
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13/01/2010

Let's get graphic

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I realized that I tell you about hickman line, radio, but I don't give you a true image so that you get better the real thing. So, here ...
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Putting on weight

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"You have even put on weight!" ... the comment, from a colleague, right in the middle of a conversation that clearly meant that lo...
12/01/2010

While waiting for radio...an exhibition. Overrated!

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Overcrowded, overpriced, overrated. The Victoria & Albert Museum magic formula: a good poster and marketing, a fancy set for the start o...
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11/01/2010

Radio radio radio...not for tomorrow :-(

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After hickman line cleaning at C&W Hospital I had radiotherapy appointment at Charing Cross Hospital. Not in Charing Cross, as I origina...
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10/01/2010

Tomorrow

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Tomorrow, Monday 11th January 2010 is time for another cleaning of the hickman line (they can't take it out until they can the scanner r...
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