I know that anything to do with radiotherapy is not a pleasant topic to talk about. Do I like it? Then I can merely reply in a simple argumentation; its necessary.
For these past weeks I have been dealing with at least 3 persons needed what I called as the necessary to talk about. The first person came in the shape of patient, laid weak with vividly slow eye movement. He was not that bad actually, yet looks very weak. He has to have the therapy because it’s the only last chance to ‘help’ him with the uncontrolled malignant ball he had at his prostate.
The second person is a young lady. I say young because she had just finished her golden years at the college. Then her unexpected Medical Check Up results saying that something ‘unfriendly’ is spotted at her left lung. This brought her to her ever darkest dreams and put her to be hospitalized until about 2 weeks later.
The last one is about an elderly person with so called adenocarcinoma. What sort of creature is this? In our daily colloquial we say that its an uncontrolled sprouts of cells (then forming bizarre meat) originating in glandular tissue. Boy, I really hope that what I am saying here is right.
And the tree persons were just ordinary people like you and me. They never expect to have such experience in their lives. They tried hard to never think, mention, or even wanted to know what cancer is.
The good thing is that they all needed radiotherapy for the first step to help. Did you by any chance know what is it? Google tells us that It involves the use of radiation which is targeted to the cancer site in order to destroy cancerous cells. Treatment is planned meticulously in order to minimize harm to normal cells. Treatment is usually carried out as an outpatient procedure, and lasts for several weeks (depending on the nature of the tumor). There are different forms of radiotherapy for the prostate available.
My only intention is writing this here is so that I myself made aware that any kinds of illness my occur to you, me and anyone. And such illness has its powerful strength to change the direction of you and your family’s plan. How do you cope with your life if everything you have planned is changed?
Guys, life is about choices and changes. You have all the capacity to cope with everything that comes to you. Be wise in taking them.
Jakarta, 5 November 2009
