Metastatic liver cancer

Archive for December, 2006

Dec 08 2006

Cancer and liver pain

Published by Liver Cancer under Cancer treatment, Metastatic Liver Cancer, Metastatic liver cancer facts, Metastatic liver cancer prognosis, Pain management, Palliative care

I am in pain because the metastatic liver cancer in my liver is growing. My liver is growing, pushing against other organs and my ribs: all causing me pain. The more the cancer in my liver grows, the more pain I will have.

What are pain killers

pain killers don’t let you feel the pain, yet the pain is still around
(which is something I tend to forget: no pain means no more painkillers and then suddenly the pain that has always been there is felt again…)
pain killers make you constipated
pain killers can damage your stomach

Top 10 painkillers

In my case it is a top 3 only:

started with Dafalgan: paracetamol
now taking Tramadol (supposed to have the least side-effects concerning stomach and constipation)

15 ml every 6 hours
next week prognosis 20 ml Tramadol every 6 hours
next week prognosis 30 ml Tramadol every 6 hours
next week prognosis 40 ml Tramadol every 6 hours

morfine

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Dec 07 2006

Funny metastatic liver cancer pictures

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

stage 4 liver cancer

Smile! You are entering a cancer zone

If you know a person in your life who has cancer, you probably say:

"gosh I should visit him or her,
but I do feel so uncomfortable about cancer…
what am I going to say anyway?
Better I don’t go…"

So here I am: having cancer and no visitors… How to enjoy life in bed on your own? Pretty difficult… Yet all I need are:

a few good :-) to forget what’s happening for a second
another :-) for the next second.

If I want to be serious, I just have to think about my cancer, no need to hear from others: how is your cancer? As my cancer is doing pretty fine, meaning it’s growing like a mushroom… No, cancer is no fun, Iraq is no fun, Saddam Hussein is no fun, nor is the war on terror, and I don’t know what is worse: the Iraq study group or cancer? But no need to remind me of all these: especially not by coming in with a gray pale face as if you have the cancer and not me.

How to visit a cancer patient

Remember yourself before you heard about the cancer of your friend and loved one.

Remember your friend or loved one before he/she got cancer.

You are both the same persons now,
so visit each other
the way you used to do
with the words, presents … you used to share.

I love to crack jokes but my daily cancer care takers: my wife and son know my jokes all already. But whoever I haven’t seen for a long time I love to crack a joke and get a joke on me.

And if you are not funny, then just look for the things that could put a smile on the face of your cancer friend or cancer beloved one. Like my youngest when they drop by: they brought me my favorite greasy pastry… not the first thing you think is right for a person like me with a terminal metastatic liver cancer. Yet that brought a big smile on my face and some extra appetite as well!

Bless those who have the courage to visit a cancer patient and try to put a smile on their faces. Don’t be a clown though:

the smile will come if what you do is
what you and your loved one loved to do together
before one got a cancer

Remember that a cancer patient is angry that he has cancer, see my angry reaction on the 5FU chemotherapy in the previous post.

:-) Yet the best medicine to relief this "cancer"-anger is a smile :-)

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Dec 06 2006

Metastatic Liver cancer: Fu like in F you!

Published by Liver Cancer under CANCER STORIES, Cancer treatment, Metastatic Liver Cancer

Ok, let me explain…

5FU chemotherapy

This was a "no brainer" for me:

5FU chemotherapy: F you!

Funny to say now, but I had tears in my eyes when I got the news that 5FU/Oxaliplatin would be the logical adenocarcinoma treatment for me. I am 75 and very weak, have bad lungs and the chemotherapy side effects would be that I will be more prone for infections… My life would be longer maybe, yet my quality of life would be less for the days I am suffering the chemotherapy side effects: probably 3 days in bed due to vomiting and so, as if I am not vomiting enough already without the chemotherapy. This every 2 weeks… I am already mostly in bed now, so what quality of life are they talking about?

Adenocarcinoma treatment with 5FU cancer story

Visit this girl who is now undergoing 5FU chemotherapy. Follow her story if you feel that you are young and strong enough to take chemotherapy! I will probably not live to read the outcome of her 5FU chemotherapy.

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