Even though I’ve been in HK for quite some time now and I can’t wait to get back to MC, I know the most important thing is to get myself completely cured. I’m not in a rush but at times I get impatient as these treatments I am doing take time, slowly but surely!!
Seeing “November” on my calendar however does remind me “All This” has already been ONE year.
It was on Friday November 6th 2009 I went to see Dr. S, for the strange feeling I got on my chest. I don’t remember if I’ve written about this on the blog. Usually when I go to bed, I would sleep all the way through to the next morning, I rarely wake up in the middle of the night. For about 2 weeks towards the end of October 2009, I was awake around 2 am every night for about 10 minutes, during which I was still half asleep but could feel some tension on my chest. I had no problem falling asleep again and the next day everything seemed normal again. I thought I pulled my muscle as I was going to the gym every morning and pilates twice a week, obviously it turned out that was not the case.
So Dr. S sent me to have an an X-ray done that same Friday afternoon. The next day I went to Zurich as planned for the weekend to see my dear beloved friends. On the morning Tuesday 10th when I returned to Dr. S for the X-ray report he told me there’s a shade on the X-ray and that I should go see the oncologist at Centre Hopital Princesse Grace immediately that afternoon. I met with Dr. G at CHPG, he made me do a CT scan and after seeing the result a needle aspiration biopsy was scheduled for the next morning. I began to get worry as it seemed very serious that everything had to be done right away. A week later on the 18th I received a phone call from Dr. S, who had just spoke with Dr. G, and the conversation started like this, “Gerald, listen to me carefully, I didn’t want to tell you this over the phone. You have Lymphoma, but you are not going to die, let me repeat you are not going to die. It’s going to be a tough time for you and will take about 6 months…” My mind went blank for a minute, phoned my parents while doing a search for LYMPHOMA on Google. On Nov 19th, the day of Fête Nationale Monégasques, I boarded for HK.
Writing the previous paragraph I felt like I was watching the beginning of a movie, a rare one that would start with so much emotions.
Only few people knew what was happening during those 2 weeks. I never expected something like this as I felt fine the entire time, I didn’t even have any of the regular symptoms.
Now almost 1 year has passed, I have done many treatments, both conventional and alternative. They are both worthy as long as you believe in them, so the human mind is definitely a fundamental factor of the formula.
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