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Mérito Municipal Prata a 28 de Junho de 2006
Life has another meaning!
In August 2008 was me diagnosed an adenocarcinoma of the rectum. This was a terrible months in my life. I had a cancer within me, something evil, which in my opinion would steal in my body if it wasn't removed! I was willing to do everything possible to annihilate "this thing".
Author - Maria Irene Carvalho
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In August 2008 was me diagnosed an adenocarcinoma of the rectum. This was a terrible months in my life. I had a cancer within me, something evil, which in my opinion would steal in my body if it wasn't removed! I was willing to do everything possible to annihilate "this thing". However this is not so simple. Had to wait! Wait for the examinations; wait for queries, wait, for the final verdict. The wait is terrible. Wait one day appear years, one hour days and a second, hours. Before removing the tumor had radio treatment and quimio. Another shock! Now I was a oncologic patient! And this was harrowing. I was aware of what was happening but didn't know nothing would happen to me. I no longer controlled decisions. I lost the power to decide. I was in the hands of doctors! Had to rely on its competence to stay, as said, almost good!. And so on. I was subjected to three surgeries to remove the tumor, another surgery due to a complication and another to close the Ostomy. During this walk experience feelings of anxiety, suffering, doubt, pain, dependency, which often led me to despair but also experience feelings of true compassion, help, friendship and love? For that helped people in my family, friends and friends, and strangers, that became friends, some doctors who supported me. Every on send to me the message "I was alive". "I was alive" and I would do everything possible to not forget it. Yes, because, despite everything, many patients with this diagnosis does not have this luck. This is the most fatal cancer in Portugal. It is also one of the cancers that are more likely to increase in the coming years in developed societies, due in part, not only to heredity, but also because of the settled life styles and poor feeding fibers. It´s the most painful suffering type of cancer. This experience has led me in these holidays, one year after the success, read a book, an international best-selling, called "Tuesdays with Morrie" Mitch Albom. It describes how a person, a teacher with exceptional human qualities with terminal disease epidemiology addresses the remaining life and able to make this process a lesson in life. So when I was asked to write a few words on the experience of being ostomy, I like Morrie that instead of the word "pour guy" prefers "lucky person". Since that time to rationalize the experience of suffering makes us stronger, able to select the essence of life, to live as if it were the last day, give value to people and the "human relations cultivation" rewarding. The latter procedure is the more important because they are people who help make the suffering in motivation to overcome. The disease and suffering resulting allow us to achieve another read for life. And how Morrie rename the thought "for so many people us live have no sense. Appear to be sleepless, even when they are busy doing things they consider important. This is because chasing the wrong things. The way to give meaning to our lives is dedicate it to love others, dedicate ourselves to the community around us, and dedicate ourselves to create something that gives us a purpose and a meaning. "I know that this is the motto of the Hospital League of friends (LAHDB) from the mire and now becomes also a priority of mine, in the present and in the future.
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