Metastatic liver cancer

Archive for December, 2006

Dec 17 2006

Metastatic liver cancer cause

Published by Liver Cancer under Cancer, Liver Cancer, Metastatic Liver Cancer

How my metastatic liver cancer can serve a bigger cause?

Since I have been diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer, I started this website. First I wanted to bombast my anger on the health care social worker who refused to help me. But then I decided not to take 5FU chemotherapy: meaning I decided not to fight my cancer. After that, I decided not to fight that cancer of a social worker either, my way in being consequent towards cancer.

Yet I have been thinking how my cancer can serve a bigger cause. My first idea is by taking cancer out of the taboo by talking about my metastatic liver cancer to the rest of the world. Today I found the pink website button on the left: sponsored moms walking and raising money for breast cancer. Big money that is! Now for me how to make money? Walking from my bed to the toilet is already a big task for me, so walking for money won’t be an option, unless I get donations for each step I take… Yet I am still thinking for ideas how I can help other people with cancer, liver cancer, secondary cancer or metastatic liver cancer like me. All ideas are welcome in a comment, as the painkillers sometimes make me too blur to think.

Please tell me who you are in a comment and
invite your friends at Metastatic Liver Cancer to leave me a hug!

2 responses so far

Dec 15 2006

Cancer and memory loss

Published by Liver Cancer under CANCER STORIES, Metastatic Liver Cancer, Pain management

I wanted to write:

I got my first hug in this blog!
(hug from Jane at: Metastatic Liver Cancer : Happy Days)

But my wife, always monitoring me if new women step into my world said:

"you already have another hug from Kim at Cancer and liver pain"

So I forgot 2 things:

Kim’s hug

Jane… I remembered visiting her site as she was talking about how health customers with cancer really are left in the cold. So I agreed to that: my health insurance came and visited me 2 weeks after I had called them under the pretext: "you are old and wise enough to get your own help organised…"

But what strikes me is: I don’t remember that Jane’s site looked like that, nor do I find my own health cancer comment back… What is happening to me???

Cancer memory loss

I surfed the Internet and it is said that chemotherapy damages brain cells, leading to memory loss and confusion in cancer patients. Testosterone deprivation, a prostate cancer treatment for men can also be a factor in memory loss. But I have metastatic liver cancer and don’t take any chemotherapy, so what is happening to me?

Causes of short memory loss

painkillers can impair memory
old age gives you more wisdom so less memory needed…
just plain forgetfulness : who never lost his or her key ( if you answer yes on this question, I salute you ! )

Well, from the above causes of short memory loss, I do have a big amount of painkillers and age, so I would say for once I am not going to blame my metastatic liver cancer.

Please tell me who you are in a comment and
invite your friends at Metastatic Liver Cancer to leave me a hug!

2 responses so far

Dec 13 2006

How much cancer costs

Published by Liver Cancer under Anger management technique, CANCER STORIES, Cancer, Cancer treatment, Metastatic Liver Cancer

A lot!

A lot of money goes into chemotherapy cancer and then there are the cancer treatment side-effects. In my adenocarcinoma cancer case without a cancer treatment: the side effects of my metastatic liver cancer also cost lots of money.

Costs for cancer diagnosis

I don’t have to pay for cancer treatment as such, since I am not having chemotherapy, nor surgery. So what did I pay for?

First of all the cancer diagnosis: or the lack of cancer diagnosis. I underwent a lot of tests without much result until they finally made my cancer diagnosis: an adenocarcinoma cancer.

Then trying to find out where my adenocarcinoma cancer was coming from: again lots of scans and a liver biopsy, yet no significant result. So expensive expenses spend for a poor cancer diagnosis: metastatic liver cancer, undifferentiated adenocarcinoma cancer.

All the money spend here + all the money spend for education of all these specialists and all this high tech equipment scans… you better call my cancer diagnosis:

metastatic liver cancer, undifferentiated adenocarcinoma cancer.

Sounds better (more expensive) than the plain embarrassing truth:

there is some cancer in your liver and we have no clue where it comes from But no problem, you are dying and we charge you a bomb for that!

Anyway, more tomorrow as this ridiculous way I have been treated with by giving my cancer names that took me ages to decipher… and I have to pay for all that nonsense!

I am not angry that they cannot cure my cancer, I am angry that I have to pay a bomb for something that doesn’t give me anything back. If I go to the bakery: I give 1.5 $ and get a delicious pastry. I get what I pay for. This cancer diagnosis costs a lot of $$$ just to say: "euhm…. dunno really" I don’t get what I paid for!!!

How to make money? Act important, wear white shirts, tell people they are on the right way, tell people words they don’t understand and charge them big time!

Please tell me who you are in a comment and
invite your friends at Metastatic Liver Cancer to leave me a hug!