Rogier’s Road to Recovery

This evening, I read the weblog of Merel van den Berg, a 27-year old cancer patient with Non-Hodgkin. It is a heartbreaking story of a young woman who has faced a lot of setbacks in the course of her treatment. It took over one-and-a-half hours of reading and crying to get through it. Her character is amazing and it is inspiring how she finds the mental fortitude to cope with all treatments. She is honest in her blog and also tells about her breakdowns. She is more heroic than most we percieve that way.

An extra dimension to her story is that it takes place in the LUMC. She talks about the views on the train station when you get chemotherapy in a policlinical fashion, which I’ve seen for sixteen times as well. She talks about the hematology department, where I’ve been hospitalized for a week as well. We’ve even been irradiated on the same radiation unit – number 8.

At this moment she is getting an experimental treatment and she is fighting for her life.

Keep up, Merel! May all the luck in the world be on your side – I hope you recover soon!

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