Metastatic liver cancer

Have you ever listened to the way the US starts a dialog about cancer or health in general?

Yesterday at CNN it went like this:

• malachite green (read: Why did father get liver cancer?) is banned already 25 years in the US, in China only 5 years
• then an American spokeswoman says: China is 100 years behind when it comes to health and banning products

Now 25 minus 5 is 20… that’s why we keep on asking for better education in US!

And if they are on it: why have they been producing malachite green in the first place and after being banned, export it to … China????

Hmmm, point your finger to others when you created the product and problems in the first place/ What a way to start a dialogue…

Ever heard of malachite green? It’s that green liquid they put in aquaria when fishes get ill. So far so good.

It gets evil when you put it in a big dirty pool to breed fishes and sell them. Why ugly? Since the substance has been banned in US for almost 25 years.

How can father get metastatic liver cancer?

• Father dies at 75
• 25 years earlier malachite green gets banned
• so father has been eating fishes with malachite green for about 50 years?
• and the liver tries to clean fathers blood for 50 years poisoned with malachite green?

I can hear a skeptic saying: "hello, you father is a human, not a cat, so his diet was more than just fish".

I will answer:

• go and get a book at the pharmaceutical industry about all substances used in food, malachite is only 1, there are thousands of others that we are eating each day. Our poor liver can only take as much.
• ever crossed a red light? Just to illustrate that because something is forbidden, some people still do it. Same with malachite green.

If your loved one needs an ideal full time palliative care, that means the care taker should have his or her mind fully on the cancer patient and kind of forget about the rest of the world.

Mom was definitely the ideal care taker, but she was not able to forget about the rest of the world. She did forget about herself and now has a lot of pain in the shoulder due to a torn ligament.

Father took all his ultimate energy and started this blog a few days after he was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer. He asked me to type everything down what he recorded on a tape, and asked to write only one passage of the tape a day. (How sad it was when the tape recorder didn’t get updated anymore… )

Blogging during palliative care

For the ultimate weeks I was also full time next to father, I needed ways to get extra money. That’s when I started blogging for money and a few days ago I got featured as Metastatic Liver Cancer blog of the day at PayPerPost.

I am not rich yet, but at least it’s a small relieve to know you can make some extra money in the moments the cancer patient you are taking care for is taking a nap…

I just wish other care takers have learned something from this blog?