Metastatic Liver Cancer

Guest writers about pain and cancer wanted!

I keep on getting inbound links from my friend Colin who bogs about Chronic Pain Lifestyle. Now it’s nice to have a big blog, but it is even nicer if your blog about cancer or pain gets even more readers!
That’s why I invite all bloggers blogging about pain or cancer, or anybody who has a [...]

Colon Cancer Staging

This is a follow up on my previous Colon Cancer Staging post. I had some more questions about it related to dad’s colon cancer, but thanks to the Dad cancer update by brother, I still have the same questions and no answers yet.
First and foremost, let me show you the list of cancer types or [...]

How to prevent colon cancer

With dad having colon cancer and metastatic liver cancer father most likely having had colon cancer as well, I am beginning to think that the universe is telling me to be aware that I can get cancer as well, even sooner than later. Seems that when you are about to become 50, you need to [...]

Dad cancer update by brother

Since me and my sister already took some days off and our brother lives the closest to the hospital, we sent brother to meet the surgeon and ask some follow up questions.
The result is that brother tells us that father has a bad colon… Euhm: if dad had a good colon, he wouldn’t have colon [...]

Update from mom over the phone by me

Mom went to see her surgeon yesterday and sounded quite depressed or tired on the phone today. Seems that the people who promised to help mom out are not really helping her out the way she expected. This can only mean that mom asks too much or the helpers give too little.
Seems that her [...]

Colon Cancer Staging

Why Cancer Staging
Cancer staging is a way of identifying the cancer according to:

size of the cancer
has the cancer spread or not
if the cancer has spread: how far has the cancer spread

Cancer staging is done in order to have a better idea of which cancer treatment should be used. For the patient, their family and [...]

Colon cancer prevention

The best colon cancer prevention is to cut down on meat and do a regular colonoscopy once you get about 40 or 50 years old.
First and foremost, cut down on processed meat. Colon cancer just occurs much more in people having a diet with lots of processed meat in it.
It’s not easy to just change [...]

Stage 4 colon cancer

Although most people already faint when they hear the word cancer, what you really don’t want to hear is a stage 4 cancer.
Stage 4 colon cancer means that the colon cancer has spread to other organs, generally that’s to the liver but it might as well go to the lungs or any other organ. [...]

Cancer prevention: 3 ways to boost your immune system

According to the doctor from the hospital where dad did his surgery, one of the reasons why some people get cancer and some don’t lies in their immune system.
This doctor says there are 3 simple ways to boost your immune system:

get enough sleep. How much sleep is enough, you should feel for yourself. Main thing [...]

Dad out of hospital

We are at this moment taking dad out of the hospital (after his colon cancer surgery done last Monday).
Our main concern now is… who’s car makes the least bumps on the road
Father looks ok, just that his hands and feet are a bit swollen. Surely not as bad as with metastatic [...]

Update about mom

Seems when people reach a certain age, doctors love to perform surgery…
Anyway, mom’s arm has undergone surgery about 5 weeks ago now. She still has the companionship of her 2 sisters who are retired nurses, but you can feel that the sisters want to continue their lives as well.
So far it seems that mom’s [...]

Dad has colon cancer update

Short update what is going on now that dad has colon cancer and has undergone surgery as cancer treatment.

we take turns so dad never is alone in the hospital (its good when you have a bunch of kids if you need somebody to take care of you, at least a few will help!)
dad has some [...]

Pain medication for felines

To keep my mind a bit occupied with cancer yet also away from dad’s cancer, I was wondering what to do when my cat would have cancer? Since we don’t go for colonoscopy on our cat, would we ever know he would ever have cancer in the first place?
Googling things up I was very [...]

Too close for comfort

Unlike with father’s metastatic liver cancer where I blogged a lot about each and every day in the life of father dealing with his liver cancer, I am reluctant to write about dad (dad has colon cancer).
It does make a difference when you are talking about your real dad in stead of your father [...]

Colon Cancer Signs

According to dad’s surgeon (dad has colon cancer), dad’s cancer was already 2 years old, so we should have seen the red flags in stead of thinking that dad had yet another food poisoning…
Dad is my biological dad, father who died from metastatic liver cancer is hubby’s father…

Dad was chronically constipated (due to the tumor [...]

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