Although the chemotherapy treatment was in progress, there were many other things that has to be planned/acted upon in parallel which needed our concentration.
1. Get updates from the doctor being consulted on a daily basis.
2. Making sure Chandru's spirits are high all the time.
3. Arranging for sources that could fund for his treatment.
4. Pre-planning about the Bone Marrow Transplantation procedure.
So as the first point says, keeping a track of patient's current condition would help us in few ways.
a. We could obtain a better picture on whether the current treatment is actually working and patients body response to it.
b. Can arrange for blood donors in case the blood/platelet count goes below normal.
Second most important thing is to make sure that the patients mental attitude towards the treatment is positive.
We could actually see this on a high positive side in his case. Right from the day he had realized about the disease and the treatment cost, we never saw him bow is head for any matter. He talks about working from home during the chemotherapy intervals, he talks about repaying all the money to respective contributors, and he even talks about starting up his company soon after his recovery. So this second point is something that we never had to worry about for this case. On the contrary there were many instance when we had to learn about keeping the spirits high in our lives by his behavior all the time.
Well well ..!! if you haven't met him yet, i would say you really are missing an opportunity to learn something that you never had ..
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