Sunday, August 06, 2006

Return of Cancer Part 1

For two months I almost forgot that I have life threatening disease. Getting back into the work, giving solutions, discussing office gossip, drinking free coffee in workplace, all these things are hugely distracting. In a way that is good, my doctor advised me to 'live normal life', well doc this is as normal as it gets. One of my friend commented that working late is 'not-normal', of course he does not know a computer from microwave and the kind of stuff you have to do make computers run.
So there I was happy in my little life, thinking that I survived one big operation and its aftermath, but cancer is like waves of the sea on a sunny beach (pretty ironic, eh?), it keeps coming back at you, wave after wave after wave. After another set of scans and consulting trips, doctor anounces that we have one more operation to go, but he is not sure where. The primary has to be removed.
I asked in my naive ways, "what are you going to operate, if you don't know where?"
He says, "I will feel it by hand".
"No thanks, Mr. Oncology Surgeon, nobody is going to feel my small intestine any time soon".
I mean there is a limit how much physical one can get and I know this guy only for past three months. Even I, a sexually suppressed Indian male, was not going to allow him to do the job on me second time. So now we are exploring alternative treatement, like advanced nuclear medicine therapy. It will take its own time but I will have to do it. I do not know what the end result will be but the fight with cancer now looks like a boring sequel to a good movie. Another consulting doctor told me that it is going to be a really long fight.
Ok, so we are running Return of Cancer Part 1, Coming to the theater near you, and then there would be Part 2, 3, 4, etc. unless of course the hero 'retires' with a large pension and insurance benefits for the family, or worse, survives and writes a 1000 pages biography (I think I have sufficient material to last 924 pages).

2 comments:

Unknown said...

ok - i got this link two days ago - and it has taken me some time to go through all of this - btw - you never told me you blog - come to think of it - neither did i tell you.

but i am glad we know now.

SaneDevil said...

Nice to meet you in the non-co world of the internet.

I had read this book "Its not about the bike" by Lance Armstrong. I liked it and think you might like it as well. I'm assuming that you haven't read it :)

See you in another blog
Kejal