Comments on: Cancer Help Equipment Supplied By Insurance So Far

By: emmie

emmie — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:41:06 +0000

this is really heart touching article which I don’t think that i have ever read….it brings tear in my eyes….i am doing business of laptops, because of it ..i was totally far away my religion but just by chance visit this site…..i cant tell you my feelings at this time…i just want to say you THANK YOU so much for all of this….u wake up me from ignorance of my GOD

By: Strephon

Strephon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:52:45 +0000

Arthur – trying to keep the record going coherently as long as I can.
Dr. came to check my condition and changed the medication to to morphine a day. She defended her nurse heartily and said she was in charge and with a threat, if we can’t work together. At least that is what I heard. So the nurse and I discussed it out, but I could see from the nurses face she did not like my saying I lacked confidence in her for lying to me about having a cell and not having one. The doctor says she has one now. So we reconciled but from the nurse’s face I could see she was not happy though she tried to smile. So I wanted to have my confidence restored that I would not be hasseled in the future by any one of them. I said the patient comes first and they agreed to that. So you can feel the chess moves.
Now I can feel I finally got up the phlegm has come up after all the hacking coughing going on in my throat. So many people coming in and and out on a day

Dr. increased medication to two times a day morphine after consulting with someone. See how that goes now. Had next third shot of Iscador. The fearful thing is the constant coughing now. Seems like I am going down hill a bit day by day. I could not get married on Oct 19 just passed, so good to marry early on Sept 30. That’s lucky that worked.

Equipment list let us see how it works here.

Now maybe I put the last half of the book together from blog entries? Okey? I have half of it done full of blog entries.

By: Arthur B. Treadway

Arthur B. Treadway — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:09:26 +0000

Dear Strephon,

Thanks for this entry. I’m pretty sure that the health care you are receiving in the Netherlands is vastly superior to what you would receive in most parts of the U.S. That doesn’t mean that it is perfect, that people don’t make mistakes or that the conventional mindset is not psychologically backwards, though. And it doesn’t mean that dying or nearly dying is easy, either.

In an earlier but recent entry you seemed to be asking yourself for a criterion for “giving up”, but I don’t think that is a useful formulation. It’s too theoretical, as if you really were interested now in a mind game. What you are already doing in practice is what matters, taking experiences as they come, up and down, looking behind appearances as best you can, asking for help when you see you need it, using whatever inner resources you have available to keep on living as purposefully as you can, recognizing that probably you are dying but maybe you are not, in short, facing up to the the great mystery of living life here and now, even under the most trying of circumstances. It is a privilege to read your entries about it.

Best wishes,
Arthur