Caro diario Page #6

Yes.

Here, good.

Doctor Yang

leaves me alone in the room.

He leaves me alone

for a quarter of an hour

and I fall a little asleep too.

Then he returns all of a sudden.

How are you?

Fine.

Can you feel the heat?

Yes.

So far, the acupuncture

hasn't helped either my itching,

or my insomnia.

But everyone is kind

at the Chinese centre,

the atmosphere is nice

and so I make other attempts.

Grab it well, strong, this way.

How are you?

Fine.

Does it hurt?

Yes.

Can I increase it?

Yes.

To take care of my itch

they give me electric acupuncture

with a tool called:

"needle of the flower of the plum tree".

But Dr. Yang hears me cough

and says that this cure

is not good.

He thinks the best thing

is to have my chest x-rayed.

Put off your jacket.

Also the T-shirt?

No, only the jacket

because there are buttons.

You have to hug this.

Chin up, just a little.

Take a breath and hold it.

Stop, without breathing.

The technician develops

the plate immediately.

He talks to Silvia,

says that there is something

around my lung, a mass,

and advises me for a CAT.

Does it taste bad?

No, it tastes like anise.

Okay then.

Stop, don't breathe.

Stop.

Breathe.

Don't breathe, stop.

Breath.

Stop, don't breathe.

Stop.

Breathe.

During the CA to my head

the radiologist looks

at the CAT to my chest

and talks to Silvia and Angelo of it.

He says that, according to him,

I have a sarcoma in my lungs.

They ask him

for what it is and he answers

that it's lung cancer.

He says that, according to him,

there is no cure.

Oh, luckily the radiologist

was wrong.

I was operated two days

after the CAT.

My doctor friend

to whom I had asked

to be present to the operation,

later told me that the surgeon,

looking in a slide

and watching a bit of the stuff

he had just removed from my lungs, said:

..."I bet a testicle that this is

Hodgkin's lymphoma."

"Not both, but a testicle yes".

Hodgkin's lymphoma is a tumour

to the lymphatic system,

a curable tumour.

Then, one day, at home, I skim through

"The Garzanti Medical Encyclopaedia",

and checking "lymphoma", I read:

...symptoms are:
itch,

loss of weight, perspiration.

However I learned something

from this story, maybe two.

The first is that physicians know

how to speak but they don't know how to listen..

...and now I am surrounded by all

the useless medicine that I have bought.

The second thing that I have learned

is that in the morning,

before breakfast, to drink

a glass of water is a good thing.

I was told it's good for the kidneys,

or for something else.

In short, it's good.

Then, please, milk with a dash of coffee

and a croissant...

...and a glass of water.

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