Albrecht Niekamp wrote:
After some severe operations and about 3 months hospitalized I move and live like a zombie and find it more and more difficult to go on polluting this planet with my presence, especially in this time of year.
You are lucky you are so well of, Albrecht. :-) I have been battling cancer since January 2008. I have had over a dozen surgical procedures, numerous sets of radiation treatments (where my skin was so "burned" it begin to liquefy), and years of chemo-therapy so intense at times, I had to be sent to Emergency because the "poisons" they gave me were killing me (such as my nails turning black and falling off). And now my newly grown liver (which 80 percent was cut out a year ago) has more lesions and is now failing, causing me sever edema. Plus, the additional lesions in my lung and lymph nodes are creating their own set of problems. The Palliative Care doctor this past afternoon says I should have about six weeks left to live, and if lucky, I might be able to stretch that to four to six months if they can control the fluid retention and keep what little functionality my liver currently has going that long. So, you do not not have that much to complain about. There are others who are much worse off than you. Sincerely, P.N.L.