Eating again, with ongoing wound concerns

2556 · Zhao Wenbin · 58 · Breast cancer Patient update after more than one month: lump reportedly smaller, with peeling tissue around it. Voice message: 57 seconds. 57″ Your medicine seems to help. After taking it, these millet-sized bumps appeared in layers. At some point they went flat, the skin peeled, then another layer appeared. I keep preparing the medicine promptly. If I cannot finish it in one… …day, I throw the rest away. It is cooler now, so one preparation lasts me two days. After I wiped it with a cotton swab, the bleeding stopped by itself. In Shenyang, when I first took your medicine, it bled from a broken spot—almost half a small bowl. It bled for a long time, twice. The blood looked fresh, not dark. Voice message: 9 seconds. 9″ I am showering and keeping myself clean now, because I am worried about infection. Voice message: 15 seconds. 15″ Those little millet-sized bumps keep appearing in layers; there are too many to wipe away. I sincerely hope the medicine will make it better.

Many people with this disease have tumors that break down or ulcerate badly. I cannot let that happen to mine. Yesterday someone from the Shenyang cancer hospital came to interview me. I said I was doing fairly well and had been taking the medicine from this clinic. I think I am recovering reasonably well. For a while I could not eat and became very thin. They said I was still quite thin. I said I can eat again with this medicine, and I will improve my nutrition and take care of myself. Hospital 202, the Second Affiliated Hospital and the Liaoning Chinese Medicine Cancer Hospital all have my medical history and keep calling me. The patient says she can eat and sleep better and intends to continue treatment. The doctor at the cancer hospital said that once the tumor tissue ulcerates, a person can become very seriously ill; many people have died after that happened. When asked, I said mine had not, and I would keep up with treatment. I must treat this disease, even if I have to borrow money. I cannot let it keep getting worse.

They all have my medical history and keep asking where I am treated, how it is being treated and how I am now. I have not had chemotherapy or surgery; I have been receiving conservative treatment. They said not many people with this disease recover, and that ulceration can be fatal. They felt I was keeping up with treatment. I said I must continue. Yes. Keep going. Patient recounts another hospital’s discussion about continuing treatment. Voice message: 14 seconds. 14″ He said living with the tumor would be the best path, but it needs to become as small as possible; you cannot just leave such a large tumor. That is what he told me yesterday. Voice message: 30 seconds. 30″ I thanked the cancer specialists for caring about me, and he smiled. They keep interviewing patients, and if someone improves they record where that person was treated for their research. He said I had spoken openly and honestly about my experience.