Tag: #survivingcancer
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Patient
An interesting part of this journey has been how sometimes my Drs have to be reminded to treat me fully as “only” a patient and how at other times, it reverses and they are the ones who remind me to be “only” a patient. So, for the first part, it’s about, “You know what to…
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We Do Not Know It All
With everything I’ve experienced so far and the unknown “more to come,” I realise that as a medical practitioner, I have known only a little about breast cancer. And even now, I know less than 50% of what there is to know. The more humbling realization is that I know far less than those who…
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This Experience
I’m leaving the hospital this evening for the second time today. This experience has had me treating severe malaria twice… This second one courtesy of the recovery room post-op. The room I stayed in afterwards was devoid of mosquitoes and so I thought I’d escaped… How wrong I was. What my cousin tells me is…
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Whirlwind
I started this journal because I needed a space to put down my thoughts and emotions, hopefully daily. I had so many questions when I got the histology results and wished I had someone who’s been through this and come out victorious to talk to. And then I thought, maybe I should document my experience…
