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Cancer Diaries: Playing the cancer card has surprising benefits

Kuala Lampur, July 9 -- I could never say that cancer is a gift. No, it's a disease that's painful, the treatment is also painful as well as expensive and - 10/10 zero stars would not recommend it. ... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Please don't take my EPF for insurance, learn from other countries instead

Kuala Lampur, July 2 -- There are things that irk me about Malaysia sometimes but I'm grateful our public healthcare exists. If it hadn't, faced with charges like RM4,000 for a biopsy and nearly RM3,... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Pain still a constant companion as I prepare to be (gently) nuked

Kuala Lampur, June 25 -- I am back at work after a month of recovery leave. My mental faculties are surprisingly a lot better than they have been since I first started cancer treatment. It feels lik... Read More


Cancer Diaries: When cancer is your part-time job

Kuala Lampur, June 18 -- Being a cancer patient feels like a full-time job sometimes, what with even my leisure time being used for "beating cancer activities". This week I met the surgeon who excise... Read More


Cancer Diaries: EPF comes through, while I start turning into the Tin Man

Kuala Lampur, June 4 -- Last week I talked about the unexpected challenges of getting my EPF medical withdrawal application approved. The good news is that it's sorted and for the moment, I can set a... Read More


Cancer Diaries: When having cancer is still not enough for EPF to approve my claims

Kuala Lampur, May 28 -- Since I'm still in the dark about how much my next 13 Herceptin infusions will cost in total, I decided to withdraw some of my EPF money "just in case". It has reached a point... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Carrying around a bottle of blood and other hospital horror stories

Kuala Lampur, May 21 -- Good or bad news depending on how you feel about me: I survived my surgery! Facetiousness aside, as per usual my hospital escapade was a horror-comedy. Let me list down the f... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Might lose the boob after all and finding comfort in Michael Bolton

Kuala Lampur, May 7 -- While you are reading this I will be in the hospital spending another day doing immunotherapy. My latest tests show my heart is holding up despite all the cancer drugs it has h... Read More


Cancer Diaries: The horrors persist and I will file a complaint

Kuala Lampur, April 30 -- When my grandfather was dying, he climbed a ladder and fell off it. He passed on not long after. It wasn't from the fall however, it was mostly from complications of late-d... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Where I picked a fight with a church

Kuala Lampur, April 23 -- If someone had told me I would go to war with a church over Easter weekend, I would have laughed. It all started Friday morning when I went to the hospital again and had a r... Read More