tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post4116859948966794060..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: The trekDenis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-60377362083907200872013-07-25T06:42:03.204+10:002013-07-25T06:42:03.204+10:00Your English will always be better than my Spanish...Your English will always be better than my Spanish. :)<br /><br />I'm not sure how much is too much, but I do believe in what I regard as good doctors and good medicine. I'm blessed with the best. My medicines are the least I can get away with. <br /><br />I always regard myself as knowing my body best, along with Tracey's observations, but that doesn't mean my judgment about treatment is best. Sometimes I've got that completely wrong.<br /><br />But it's true that you should listen to your own intuition. Sometimes that insistent little voice is trying to say something vital.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-45355197212064316212013-07-18T05:43:38.392+10:002013-07-18T05:43:38.392+10:00Hello Denis, i´m from Chile, and I have read your ...Hello Denis, i´m from Chile, and I have read your history in the newspaper.<br /><br />http://www.emol.com/tendenciasymujer/Noticias/2013/07/16/24394/Enfermo-de-cancer-fija-su-hoja-de-ruta-a-la-felicidad.aspx<br /><br />Congratulations, positive energy, and don´t believe too much in the doctors and medicine. Continue believing in yourself, the intuition and in your inside energy.<br />A big hug from Viña del Mar, Chile.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viña_del_Mar<br /><br />Antonio.<br /><br />PD: sorry, my English is not perfect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-50557852246227352912013-07-17T13:08:57.521+10:002013-07-17T13:08:57.521+10:00You were relieved, Trish! I was even more so. Than...<i>You</i> were relieved, Trish! I was even more so. Thanks for the kind words. Coming from you, that's very gratifying.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-84099129220270895932013-07-17T12:17:46.382+10:002013-07-17T12:17:46.382+10:00Thanks Briar – I suspect everyone has been in a si...Thanks Briar – I suspect everyone has been in a similar position at some time, which is why the responsive chord – even minus the painfully slow march to deliverance adding to the excitement.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-87384624204591433292013-07-17T12:11:12.645+10:002013-07-17T12:11:12.645+10:00I think they are worth the telling, for those who ...I think they are worth the telling, for those who want to understand. Others put up with far greater challenges every second of the day. We'll never know, most of us, Dieu merci, what a young person who finds him/herself made quadriplegic, maybe suddenly, has to deal with.<br /><br />Hey, less of the 'Bozo' Wright, young lady. When <b><i>I</i></b> say it, it sounds ... different. :)Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-14938317990956820462013-07-17T11:57:56.642+10:002013-07-17T11:57:56.642+10:00It came out exactly right, Jackie. Thanks.It came out exactly right, Jackie. Thanks.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-56157278274201647442013-07-17T11:56:55.292+10:002013-07-17T11:56:55.292+10:00Call me Long John Silver, mateys. Or Drop Crotch W...Call me Long John Silver, mateys. Or Drop Crotch Wright? What did LJS say? "Them that dies'll be the lucky ones!"<br /><br />I remember that oath of his from 50 years ago when I read <i>Treasure Island</i>. It always made an impression on me.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-15740186718586381552013-07-17T11:47:25.050+10:002013-07-17T11:47:25.050+10:00Thanks, Dave. The fall is a very big consideration...Thanks, Dave. The fall is a very big consideration. Things went seriously bad for me after those two big crashes I had. Now it's all about risk management and ordering priorities, as you know only too well.<br /><br />Socks well rocked. And your description of the solution will be very valuable for many with long-term physically disabling conditions. This is where our circumstances differ, though it may well not differ so much for future GBM patients who can reasonably expect longer lives. Surgical procedures are out for me and likely to remain so with my rate of tumour progression.<br /><br />Brain transplant - fascinating to contemplate, and a bit scary. Who knows the consequences of putting 'old' brains on 'young' shoulders, as it were? Maybe starting from scratch is best.... Or we could end up with a Davros-like being. Ooo-er.<br /><br />Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-29703641608594766732013-07-17T11:03:03.111+10:002013-07-17T11:03:03.111+10:00Such an excellent piece of writing, Denis,I was sw...Such an excellent piece of writing, Denis,I was sweating from the beginning of the fourth paragraph and can't tell you how relieved I was when you got to the end, mission accomplished. I would have commented earlier but had to get to the bathroom :) Have a better day today I hope. TrishTrish Nicholsonhttp://www.trishnicholsonswordsinthetreehouse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-17765565273449265902013-07-17T00:25:34.476+10:002013-07-17T00:25:34.476+10:00Always almost in as much awe of your attention to ...Always almost in as much awe of your attention to detail in the descriptions as in the execution of what you are experiencing Denis. Thank you for the 'inside' view. I'm actually holding my breath as I read, contemplating what it must be like...willing you to get there in time!Briarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522460183765372883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-25757164725805236612013-07-16T23:07:08.755+10:002013-07-16T23:07:08.755+10:00Even though I know this story (in another guise) i...Even though I know this story (in another guise) intimately, I was entranced by your telling of it. And it is a story which the blow-by-blow details are rarely ever written. But it is important that they are. How, otherwise, is most of the rest of world ever going to get to know what they don't know? <br /><br />Nice work, Dr (aka Bozo) Wright. xx<br /><br />Ros HartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-30789236094173185282013-07-16T22:18:15.289+10:002013-07-16T22:18:15.289+10:00Wow Denis, that's not at all easy is it? Hate ...Wow Denis, that's not at all easy is it? Hate to sound selfish and hope this doesn't come out wrong, but thank you for writing through all of this.Jackie Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06322613989851869319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-20923688433344535422013-07-16T15:42:01.777+10:002013-07-16T15:42:01.777+10:00Brag away Dave! For me, the best part of the three...Brag away Dave! For me, the best part of the three week cycle is the 24 hour urine collection and the not constantly emptying a bottle for a whole day.<br /><br />I thought the prosthetic leg action would get a mention. We were only talking about this yesterday. The only reason the walker is still in use is that Den swings his leg from the hip and locks his knee backwards in a hyper-extended position with each and every step, in the same way that I imagine a person with a thigh-high prosthetic leg would get about. <br /><br />I guess he was in too much of a hurry :-)Traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09920294359715307782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-51473845821402001022013-07-16T11:22:33.549+10:002013-07-16T11:22:33.549+10:00Ah me! So well I recognise this tedious yet ever-n...Ah me! So well I recognise this tedious yet ever-needed traipse. Not to mention the risk of a fall!<br /><br />Would it really rock your socks, and everyone else's, if I bragged about not having had to do this for nearly three years?<br /><br />Some folk may wear their hearts on their sleeves but my externalised organ is my bladder. A plastic bag strapped to my leg (keep it hidden!) is connected to a pipe down which the refills pour.<br /><br />The biggest fear was always of a fall and that prospect is now in the distant past.<br /><br />Other external organs? Hard to contemplate a similar bowel arrangement - too messy. Bionic eyes sound (look?) cool. A mate with a bionic ear is so easy to have lunch with. When will the brain transplant be perfected?David Strattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07108095795511002148noreply@blogger.com