Life goes on

Never think of I will rest from Chemo treatment for 5 1/2 months .

Beside of the back pain disturb me, some breathless at times, basically, I have no complain.

Praise the Lord !

I have delay my ct scan since April this year and finally get it done two days ago, and yesterday meet up with doctor to discuss about the result of scan.

Overall, not much changes to my brain and bone , consider stable . But, compare with previous scan, tumour in lung show some 30% progression .

Doctor advise me to proceed for Chemo by next week to get situation under control. Tentatively schedule for early next week . Anyway, there are things for me to consider and I pray to Lord to guide me and show me the way for the treatment .

My main concern is back pain that disturb me almost every night with the pain moving from one to another place at my back. Life now is with daily pain killer and because of the continue taking pain killer, I often feel tired / weak .

Spoken to doctor about getting opinion from Orthopedics to have some idea is the pain due to my spine, but, doctor told me that it is not necessary .

Well, I will arrange appointment with doctor in another hospital and have fix it on coming Monday, hopefully can have some solution.

Life goes on, but, no more normal for the last couple of weeks and I hope that Lord will take away all the pain and restore my body with strength and energy .

No worry be Happy . Believe and have Faith .

God Bless !

Pain is part of my daily issue

I anticipated that  pain will be part of my daily issue since the first pain strike me hard early last year.

Start with  panadol and now Ultracet daily , sometime once a day and quite frequent now 3 times a day.

It's strange that some of the pain have schedule and some not. I can handle schedule pain without much problem, but, unschedule pain that strike on me without any warning is hard to deal , especially the pain that strike on my left chest , it's very painful and will make me breathless, as I can not have any deep breath. 

Thanks Lord blessing and healing, I manage to get thro' the sudden hard strike pain and regain my stable breath.

One thing I've learn in dealing with pain is to stay calm , pray to Lord, ask for his blessing and healing to relieve me from all pain . Meantime, listen to music is good and it help to calm us .

Never let the pain make us panic, as it'll make situation worst, especially when it cause shortness of breath.

Lord, I pray for your blessing and healing to relieve pain from our body and keep us alert and calm us .

Thank you Lord Jesus , Amen.

Less pain for the last few days

Feel good with less pain for the last few days .
Beside of the pain in right chest, especially the lower rib, back and other area is well under control.
Still continue with pain killer, as when needed .
So far works well , nothing much for me to complain ... :) .
Next week will make appointment with oncologist and plan for my 3 months schedule CT and MRI scan.
I am praying for a good scan result, where I will be allow to continue taking rest from treatment .
Meantime, I am trying my best to have 30 minutes brisk walking everyday and with some light exercise. So far it work well, just hope that I can continue with it .
Today feel very tired, not sure of what reason, I nap for more than an hour after morning brisk walking ( feel very tired ) , then, another one over hour nap by late afternoon.
Hopefully, tonight I can sleep well ... :).
I manage to maintain my plan to attend Hospice weekly day care for the last couple of week, feel good when I am there to join other patient for exercise , karaoke and sharing with each other . Thanks Hospice KL for organizing the daycare program.
Time to have my rest again , good night.
Lord, I feel so thankful for your healing and blessing, and pray for it continue to touch upon me and take away all the pain and treatment side effect.
Thanks Lord.

One day at a time

There is so much things happen to us in our life journey. .

There is no way we can handle all at one time .

Let's relax and listen to the song " One day at a time "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnZ8bmEOTM

Wish you Enjoy the song and Enjoy your life .

Pray to Lord to bless us with NO STRESS life .

God Bless !

Pain !!! What's next ?

What's next ? I am not sure .
Since back from Vietnam on last Sunday, back pain; chest pain; rib pain; stomach gas pain, you name it I have it.
I am using Ultracet ( pain killer ) to deal with it .
I am praying to God to bless me with wisdom and guide me how to deal with it.
I am glad during my stay in Vietnam last weekend, God bless me to have pain under control .
One main issue I am facing now is constipation, it is side effect of pain killer.
The other issue disturbing me is I am not having good sleep at night, most of the time, I wake up every two hours.
Anyway, I am glad that with the guidance from God and my experience dealing with pain over the last one year, I manage to deal with it and plan my day.
I believe and have faith that everything will be under control with God blessing and guidance.
If you ask me beside of pain killer, is there any other solution ? I have no answer yet and trying best to search for it. But, looks like pain is something can not be avoided in cancer journey, the solution is find a way to deal with it , so far I find that beside of pain killer and prayer, light exercise and brisk walking is important, as it improve our blood circulation.
Whatever will happen next is beyond our control, what we can do is stay on with HAPPY and JOYFUL heart.
With or without pain, everyday is a GREAT day .
Believe and have Faith .
God Bless.

This is an article in The Star Online today.

I hope the Government of Malaysia will seriously look into the increase of survivorship for LUNG cancer too, while working hard for other type of cancer .

Meantime, we are all looking forward to have latest update of statistic for cancer in Malaysia, as all the existing information we have from various NGO or Government agencise are all years old .

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Published: Friday March 29, 2013 MYT 11:28:00 AM

The number of Americans who have survived cancer is on the rise and is expected to reach 18 million people in the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday.

That would be a 30 percent increase over the latest figures in January 2012, which showed 13.7 million people in the United States had survived some form of cancer, according to the American Association for Cancer Research.

The forecasted increase is mainly due to the aging population, with two thirds of cancer survivors expected to be 65 or older by 2020, said the study.

The trend represents a new challenge for the health care industry and for longer-living survivors, who may face other health woes over time.

"How to ensure that these patients lead not only long lives, but healthy and productive lives, will be a vital challenge to all of us," said Julia Rowland, director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The AACR's report shows that women with breast cancer account for 22 percent of survivors, while men with prostate cancer make up 20 percent.

However, those with lung cancer make up a slim three percent of all US survivors.

"For patients with prostate cancer, we have a nearly 100 percent five-year survival rate, and breast cancer has made tremendous strides as well, with five-year survival rising from 75 percent in 1975 to almost 89 percent in 2012," said Rowland.

"However, we clearly need to have better diagnostic tools and better treatments for lung cancer."

A report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released in January showed that fewer people were dying from cancer in the United States, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s.

The CDC study found that from 2000 to 2009, cancer death rates decreased by 1.8 percent per year among men and by 1.4 percent per year among women.

Cancer kills more than 1,500 people a day in the United States -- a total of 301,820 men and 275,370 women in 2012, according to the latest estimates by the American Cancer Society.

About 1.6 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year.

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