Good news again today. The Cancer marker in yesterday’s blood test is down again by more than half to just over a hundred..
Statistics so far
Date Marker
11.10.07 : 911.7
8.11.07: 381.3
29.11.07: 102.7
I hope the trend continues!
Minna asks me if I will help with more research. It involves another blood test and questionnaire; I don’t hesitate. If I can contribute to a cure then I am happy to help. She explains the next expectation in research, which is to develop an injection of a gene that prevents cancer. Apparently we all have these genes but they are not always strong enough.
The questionnaire looks at ethnic origin. I tick Ashkenazi Jewish; it is more than likely the reason that I have the cancer. There is a genetic predisposition in that group. That is frightening in itself.
There are delays with every one’s medication today. I have to stay on the glucose drip an extra hour. A 77 year old man that I spoke to three weeks ago is told he has to wait another two hours for his Chemo so he sits at my bedside and starts talking to me.
“I have learnt so much from you. I can’t talk to other people because they haven’t a clue where I’m coming from. They say it will be alright, but what to they know?” I find myself listening to his story. He repeats himself several times. Perhaps the ‘normal’ me would be bored by this, but I have all the time in the world and can help him feel better. He has had a full colostomy and finds it embarrassing to talk about to outsiders. He doesn’t want to know how many lesions they found in his liver. He is surprised when I tell him I like to know everything!
So today when I finally leave the hospital after eight hours I know that I have helped someone to feel better. I also realise that compared with him I am one very lucky person!
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