The second phase of Project Stellar
Looking back on the experience since the illness, there are mixed tastes of sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty.
It's time to write a summary, for yourself, and for all the patients who are fighting against pancreatic cancer. Starting from today, I will continue to publish for the past two years, from onset, diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, ......From despair, resistance to facing cancer, I share with patients bit by bit, and I hope that all friends who are as unfortunate as me will come together to communicate, summarize, accumulate experience, fight against cancer, and create miracles!
May 25, 2018 was my 49th birthday, which, according to Chinese, should be my 50th birthday. God actually played such a big joke on me, and the birthday gift to me was that I spent this day in the operating room of Changhai Hospital.
In the spring of 2018, I often felt vague pain in my upper abdomen, and went to the hospital for a gastroscopy. By May 15, the unit organized a physical examination, and found liver hemangioma, hyperlipidemia, prostatic hypertrophy, and other normal. But it always felt like something was wrong.
On May 18th, I made a cup of tea in the office and didn't drink it, I always felt uncertain, and the ghost sent me to the county hospital to find Director Cao of the oncology department, opened a strengthened CT, and chatted with Director CaoThe two young doctors in the CT room didn't dare to draw conclusions easily, I called my cousin-in-law who worked in the county hospital, and he quickly found an old director of the county hospital to see**, and only said: Go to the big hospital to see. In a nutshell, it is equivalent to a death sentence for me. At that time, my mother was in the fourth year of lung cancer, and this bad news was really unbearable for our family.
After two sleepless nights, I decided I couldn't give up. I searched the Internet for pancreas experts, and finally decided to go to Shanghai. At this time, there is still a trace of luck, what if it is benign?So I hurriedly began to prepare for the trip to Shanghai. I completed the referral procedures and booked a hotel in Shanghai. The itinerary is ready, and the most difficult thing left is how to talk to the family.
May 20th was a Sunday, and my brother-in-law's family came to visit my parents. After eating with them, I found an opportunity to talk to my sister first, and I may need my sister to pay more to take care of my parents in the future. I told my sister not to tell the old man first, and then I lied to my old father and said that I was going to Shanghai to study Xi for a few days. On the way home, I told my wife about my condition, and my wife had already found out that something was wrong with me in the past two days, but she didn't expect it to be like this. Packing up, my wife and I arrived in Shanghai on May 21.