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LEARNING TO LIVE AFTER CHEMO
I'm DC (David Charles) learning to live again, starting again after losing everything. In 2011, I was living in Japan, in a small town between Sendai, and the coast of Miyagi. On March 11th 2011 we were hit by a 9 plus Magnitude Earthquake, and Tsunami.
After 9 months of scrounging for food and water, cleaning up, rebuilding and helping others. I visited my family in Australia for Christmas. While there I was diagnosed very high stage 4 Follicular Lymphoma, that has no cure, the best I could hope for is a remission. It is a relapsing type of cancer, that will return no matter what, and the more you treat it, the shorter the remission periods, and the stronger it gets.
This left me homeless, my career and business gone, and in limbo, my wife in Japan had to leave it all behind to come and support me. After chemo and radiation, then 14months of more "maintenance" chemotherapy, and 2 years to the day of the first diagnoses I was diagnosed as very high stage 4 again!
After going through more chemotherapy in a clinical trial that almost killed me, the cancer continued to grow, the tumor around my aorta grew faster than ever, so then I had to go in to a stem-cell transplant that almost killed me, and did briefly, I stopped breathing a number of time. I was bed ridden for 5.5 years total.
Now I am trying to start a new life, and continuing the battle against this relapsing cancer, trying to find a permanent home for my family, and I am trying to help people manage theirs, and support them through their journey too.
Any small donation is very much appreciated. Thank you all in advance, I hope I can deliver awareness, and help for those who are going through very tough times in life. I do not know how much longer I can fight this, but I will do my best to help others avoid it while I am here.
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