Metastatic Liver Cancer

Halloween is near

It’s almost Halloween: the time when we commemorate the souls that went to heaven.
Mom is definitely going to have a tough time… Previously her blood pressure would go up big time around these days, because she and her father were very close, even after so many years of mom’s father being in heaven.
So now without [...]

Dreaming about an Hawaiian vacation?

Since father passed away from metastatic liver cancer 8 months ago, me and my hubby didn’t take any holiday. And last year we were supposed to go on holidays with our parents… which of course got cancelled as soon as we knew father had cancer.
So we are really looking forward to a relaxing holiday, and [...]

Mom is stressed out

Exactly 8 months after father passed away and 1 week before the Christian celebration of the ghosts (Halloween), mom is pretty stressed out.
Not only because of her grief, but also the nephew and niece who agreed to stay in mom’s house and keep her company: well, their company is more stressful than being on [...]

Sad secondary liver cancer news, please give your support!

We got a comment on our post Liver cancer is a killer, which we have to highlight more.
Liver Cancer Story from Pammy
My younger sister has just been diagnosed with aggressive secondary liver cancer she is poorly and can only have chemo to try to keep pain at bay,(that’s all they can do).
Her time is precious, [...]

Breast Cancer Awareness Gift

Hubby being overseas just sent me a great breast cancer awareness gift: a pink camera! (better than a postcard, mind you…).

Due to the main sponsor of my cancer story blog, I am not allowed to tell you the name of the pink cancer camera, nor a link where it can be found, but the picture [...]

Love your parents, you only have 1 pair of them!

It’s as simple as that: you only have 1 father and 1 mother, which is something I learned the hard way after father passed away of metastatic liver cancer.
You think you are slowly growing over it, until you see your daughter talking about love and wedding anniversaries. Mom and father had celebrated their 50th wedding [...]

Breast cancer survivors

As you know by now: October is breast cancer awareness month.
If you want to know more about breast cancer survivors, and you don’t have time to skim through a vast number of posts about "daily ramblings", then have a go at Jacki’s blog.
The blog is in father’s blogroll under the personal stories and it covers [...]

Secondary liver cancer unknown primary

For people having metastatic liver cancer, there is the bare reality of this blog that metastatic liver cancer can kill you.
There is also hope given by Patti that you can fight this cancer with chemotherapy. Unlike father who was supposed to take 5FU chemotherapy, Patti is taking a Carboplatin/Gemcitibine combo and also Taxol.
What I found [...]

How to teach kids about cancer

With October being breast cancer awareness month, I was just thinking that this month will reach almost everybody except children.
So I am on a quest to find some cancer awareness games for children and stumbled upon www.makewish.org/ben.
Ben, a kid with cancer made a wish to create a video game that could explain other children what [...]

Loving partners follow each other, even on the road to heaven

We were discussing in our previous post: Is mom depressed?
Now what do you expect when your loving partner of 50 years dies of metastatic liver cancer?
When father died, I had a long stroll on the graveyard. It was amazing to see how old partners are buried next to each other with a date of death [...]

Is mom depressed?

We have quite a discussion going on in our family whether mom is depressed or not. According to my brother (married to a doctor, so very sensitive when you discuss medical matters…) mom is depressed.
According to my hubby who used to teach "how to give good therapy": mom is grieving, therefore not necessarily in a [...]

Games for breast cancer awareness

Unfortunately I am not a big football fan, and with hubby overseas, football is the last thing that would cross my mind these days.

NFL games for breast cancer awareness
Yet it seems that the NFL has dedicated the weekend of October 8 towards breast cancer awareness.
Which gave me the idea: why don’t people use NFL to [...]

Update from mom

It has been ages since I posted an update from mom, and a surgery of the shoulder looks so minor when you read the story of Patti in one of the previous posts.
But no good is good news, and in the case of mom this is quite true.
Mom’s arm is getting better by the day [...]

How are you involved in the breast cancer awareness month

This month is all about breast cancer awareness. Mainly get as much people as possible talking about breast cancer this month.And since money talks as well: during the breast awareness month we want to raise money for breast cancer research. But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this post.
In my case: [...]

Do you go pink?

At Linky Love, there is a meme going on about Breast Cancer Awareness, but the follow up is poor.
As long as people don’t have cancer themselves, it’s as you can see not on their priority list. That’s life… And mine was no different before father was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer.
Or is it that [...]

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