The Whole Idea is to "Live Normally"

People in developed countries, or in well established medical system countries may not know how lucky they are as they did not experience what others may have gone through. Not only is getting a medical treatment considered lucky, the medical professionals are also important, mostly with good and responsible mindsets and the willingness to always go an extra mile to make you more comfortable when you are lying in your sick bed.

Medical management is never easy. Some things like care and love are difficult to be trained in, but it's the most important part of the whole operation. In the past 20 days, I witnessed first hand the differences between good and bad medical professionals. Imagine you are lying in bed and in the middle of the night, you need to go pee-pee. For those that are sensitive and considerate, they will try to set up everything to your convenience. It might considered to be common sense for some people, but for others, this can never be achieved.

Working at a hospital is a very highly pressured job. As you cannot control the workload for any moment, and keep in mind that there are additional and quite some load of paper work. Records inside the file can go for many inches thick and practically no one can read through them all. Then, almost on a daily basis, there are new patients checking in. There are certainly a tonne of things to write about that I see in a hospital, but today I like this statement. Dr. Lee, who operated on me, is an excellent doctor. He is filled with love and care and is always willing to spend more time to answer your questions, or more to remove some of your concerns. (And explaining these to non-medical people can be a difficult task.)

My spine and ribs and chest bones are filled with cancer cells. Like this time, my spine made the slightest complaint and caused bone fractures on my C2 bone, which then lead to the decision of this recent spine surgery. The whole idea, Dr. Lee said, is to try to get back your normal life. You might not want to do anything on the bone fracture and imagine that it will only confine you to your bed and waste your days away. Although there will be bone fracture risks at other spots that may need to be fixed in the future, let's deal with them one-by-one. The key is to have you, the patient, benefit in life and try to live a normal live as much as possible.

Dr. John Wu of BCCA visited me today checking on my body condition and he would like to get started with my radiotherapy soon in order to contain some of the cancer cells.

Thank you for all your love and care, I am gifted to be taken care of.