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		<title>Mixed Blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I was told by my oncologist that I survived the critical 5 year period. For the next 5 years I will have a yearly blood test. No scans anymore. My oncologist called it a medical miracle. Nevertheless a mixed blessing. For he acknowledged that all after-effects very probably might be permanent. Hardly being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=415&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, My C-Brain Returned</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday afternoon and I feel like I have been set back in time for 2 or 3 years staring at my computer screen with a serious headache. Chemo brain is back. It happened quite suddenly last Friday during my presence at a congress where I was invited to give a presentation. That presentation turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=405&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2 years since I had my own personal explosion, my open leg. The scars are hurting ever more. My feet are such that I can hardly stand or walk. Nevertheless I try to make the best of it. Even went to Siberia for my work, although it took me more then 1.5 weeks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=397&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still holding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago my oncologist told me that I was upsetting all possible statistics. My yearly scan did not show any lymphoma activity and my blood was plain good. However, he had no answer to all the remaining problems that I described in extenso in my previous posts. So I will continue the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=390&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering with Sifrol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weeks I more strongly than before developed the feeling of near cramps, especially in my legs. It is a continuous feeling that at any moment your legs can get into a cramp, but they don&#8217;t. I can assure you, it&#8217;s no fun. So I decided to ask my GP (PCP) if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=384&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the south of Spain, attending a conference on invitation. The organization as gone beyond all means to make this stay as agreeable as possible. There is always someone to drive me to my hotel or the venue whenever I need to go there. I really don&#8217;t know how to thank them for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=373&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemo brain. Recognition?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 06:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week ago, this appeared in the New York Times: Chemo Brain May Last 5 Years or More. I quote: “Chemo brain,” the foggy thinking and forgetfulness that cancer patients often complain about after treatment, may last for five years or more for a sizable percentage of patients, new research shows. The findings, based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=367&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessings in Disguise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m well into the fifth year post-diagnose. If everything goes the way I hope, in less than half a year I will even be officially post-cancer. However great that news is, it has its downside. During the last couple of months I have learned to accept that I do need a wheelchair when a walk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=357&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5th Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did not write for a long time for a number of reasons. Frustration, anger and the feeling of being a record put on repeat. For the actual situation does not really change. I still can hardly walk; chemobrain stays out of the loop more often, but any kind of physical &#8220;engagement&#8221;, even walking twice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=351&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>55</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every medic during the last 2 decades told me I would never make it. I am 55 today. F*** them all ))))))))))))))))))))))))) I got my record and I&#8217;m still wondering what to do with it as much is wrong and much is missing. But I am feeling quite well, as long as I don&#8217;t move. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lodewijkbos.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5595284&amp;post=346&amp;subd=lodewijkbos&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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