CANCER, AND LOSE WEIGHT

CANCER FOR WEIGHT LOSS HAS LIMITED APPEAL

PET SCAN:

I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT

AMY IS ON THE FREE-RANGE LEGUMES DIET

DRAW!

thank you Nancy Morgan, Director, Arts & Humanities, 

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center,

at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

MAD

HEY:
I WAS CERTAIN I'D LIVE A LONG, LONG TIME.

BUT NOW I JUST DON'T KNOW.

RAGE IS SO EXHAUSTING!

I GUESS I'M OKAY.

  I'M STILL HERE!

WHY DID I GET CANCER?

THERE'S NO CANCER LIKE NO CANCER

WHAT DOES "NEUROPATHY" FEEL LIKE?

 I DON'T KNOW IF MY RUNNING SHOES FIT, BECAUSE I CAN'T FEEL MY TOES.

 

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is a set of symptoms or problems caused by damage to peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves are nerves that control the sensations and movements of our arms and legs.  Chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy is caused by the chemotherapy drugs used in cancer treatment.

 The most common symptoms are
 Pain
 Burning
 Tingling ("pins and needles" feeling)
 Shrinking muscles
 Muscle weakness
 Trouble using your fingers to pick up or hold things; dropping things
 Balance problems
 Trouble with tripping or stumbling while walking
 Loss of feeling (can be numbness or just less ability to sense pressure, touch, heat, or cold)
 More response to pressure or temperature (mostly cold), so that things hurt more than usual

Sometimes the symptoms are short-term. They go away over time after treatment is done. In other cases, it can take up to 2 years for the symptoms to totally go away.

American Cancer Society

neuropathy is SO FUNNY!

MULTIPLE CHOICE:

IN DECEMBER 2008 I FELL DOWN.  
I FELT CERTAIN THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH ME.


IN JANUARY 2009. I WENT TO MY DOCTOR, GOT TESTED, AND SAW A SPECIALIST, WHO PUT ME ON ANTIBIOTICS AND A LIQUID DIET.


ON MARCH 30, 2009 I HAD EMERGENCY SURGERY FOR A PERFORATING COLON.  

I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH COLON CANCER THAT HAD SPREAD TO MY LIVER.  IN THREE MONTHS, I HAD LOST 35 LBS.


HOW DID I FEEL?




A.  SICK AS A DOG

B. END OF THE WORLD

C. GOOD!

IT'S GOOD TO HAVE AN OUTLET.  THANKYOU BLOGGER.COM

FRAIDY

i'm invited to talk to a group of palliative care professionals about blogging for health.  i'm scared of groups. my brains fall out.  i stammer and die when i have to leave a phone message on an answer machine, let alone speak to people who can see me.

PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE TO MAKE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS

I'LL PRAY FOR YOU

PRAYER:

ATTENTION:

ENERGY:

BLURT!

IT ALL REALLY HELPS.

MY WONDERFUL DENTAL PLAN:

WTF????

I'M LOSING IT:

WHAT SHOULD I DRAW FOR MY THIRD PANEL?

what do you DO all day?

i dunno.

"O" NOTHING CARE

my health plan costs $1655/month and covers 80% of my medical expenses. 
one round of chemo costs $16,000. 





I hope my doctors and the hospital give me a break.

I refuse to stress out and die!   

Let my death panel deal with it, I'm going out.

SHE LOST HER BATTLE WITH CANCER?

When they say, "she died after losing her battle with cancer," I think they've got it wrong.

I think if you never get cancer again, and die of something else, you WIN.

If you die of cancer, you've FOUGHT IT TO A DRAW.   Because guess what suckkka, once you die, the cancer dies too.  It's not contagious, it can't jump to the next guy and it can't eat you anymore, so you haven't exactly lost. 

Think of fighting Alexander Hamilton in a gun duel.  If he kills you, he wins.  But if he kills you and you fatally shoot him, you didn't lose your battle with Alexander Hamilton, you fought him to a draw.  If you shoot him and he misses, you win and get to die of something else.

In the bigger, global scheme of things, cancer is a beast that still lurks, so you could say that it's winning.  But I still think of any and all triumphs v the Beast as a Victories for Our Side. 

Now that we have that settled, win, lose or draw in the battle v cancer, there's not much point in keeping score against Death!

WASSUP? THE DOG ATE MY GRANDMOTHER

hi everybody, i'm still here!  

no new cartoons this week because i'm working on publishing my comics as a book.

but i'll post a new one, soon!  i promise.  no excuses. 

WHERE'S MY CENTER?

BIOETHICS HAIKUS

ensolvent means souled

when does human life begin

we can not decide


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one more thing and then

we need to turn to brain death

my teacher said this

VACCINE TRIAL FOR COLON CANCER, FUNNY?