Category Archives: cancer

my prezzie!

25 Thursday Dec 2008

Posted by in cancer, christmas, friends, gadgets

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my-iphone

My very own iPhone – can you believe it? f_somersault.gif

Yes I know that I was supposed to wait until I had well and truly overcome the cancer, but here’s what happened. A couple of weeks ago I received two text messages from my mobile phone provider.  One said that I had received 22,000 points for ‘customer loyalty’ and could use them before the end of December to upgrade my phone, and the other said I was being given an extra 50,000 points to use towards the purchase of an iPhone (or Nokia 5800, or Samsung Omnia), again until the end of December. So the other day I went to the Telefónica store to see exactly what this meant, dinero-wise…

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progress report (5)

13 Saturday Dec 2008

Posted by in cancer, friends, health & happiness, progress

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It’s now 23 days after my last operation (liver resection and removal of one out of two peritoneal lesions) and I’m finally getting my strength back. This one really took it outta me, and getting that nasty infection last week didn’t help. But I am definitely on the mend and of course the amazing biopsy results have helped a lot. Though I remain cautiously optimistic…

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biopsy report

11 Thursday Dec 2008

Posted by in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals

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biopsy

All three biopsies came back negative!!!

So it was back to the hospital this morning with Pipocas. I was supposed to get my belly looked at again after last week’s emergency trip due to having an infection.  I was worried because something gross had ruptured through the incision and was looking rather nasty, but it turned out not to be anything serious and I was even told I could stop taking the antibiotics now.  And while there I asked Amazing Nurse Person if she could check and see if my biopsy reports had come back …

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