The original Star Wars saga is written like a three act play, (Eps. 4,5 and 6).
The middle act is often sighted as being the darkest and the most engaging act, as it contains the major trials and obstacles the hero must overcome before they can achieve their goal.
I am currently in my own dark second act. Actually, my second act started long, long ago…in 2012 and has been extended until today; 2021. I will be going back under the knife for my fourth tumour resection surgery to the right side of my face. More accurately, it is the 49th medical procedure, not counting tests, scans and biopsies.
It’s rather hard to believe I endured all of the following, and still have cancer.
- 5 Bleomycin injections (under anesthesia x5) intended to shrink my vascular tumour; did not work
- Surgery #1 - to embolize the tumours to prevent excessive bleeding.
- Surgery #2 - to remove the two tumour masses.
- After a new tumour appeared 6 moths later, I had a surgery #3 to remove it.
- This time the tumour pathology came back as cancer (Malignant Melanoma). To attack this cancer I was told traditional chemotherapy is not effective. So I was given 15 immunotherapy infusions.
- After the infusions were completed, I received 20 radiation exposures to my face, which mad half my face look like I a cooked ham.
- From Spring of 2020 to Feb 2021 we all enjoyed the COVID-19 lockdown. Mind you I got a head start on the lockdown.
- As of June 2021, my cancer returned to the same area (thankfully nowhere else), I will be undergoing my 4th surgery. This time I’ve been told I have no other option but surgery, because we’ve tried the latest-greatest treatments and they obviously didn’t work. I will need aggressive resection-facial reconstruction surgery.
- So now, while most people will move out of lockdown and return to their normal-ish lives, I will play the part of Han Solo and willingly submit myself to being frozen in carbonite again , while my poor own Princess Leia waits for me.
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