My Way of Cancer

You may find out that I do have a strange attitude towards being ill and being healthy. In fact, I very much doubt that a mortal person can ever be healthy. This is heavily related to my understanding of disease as a vis morbi.

Vis (Lat. 1. power; 2. meaning)
Morbi, genitive of Morbus (Lat. disease)

Vis morbi - the power and meaning of disease - is my paraphrase for the idea that symptoms are of highest value to a human being and thus positive. Correctly understood can they be a guide and reveal a pathway to healing. In my opinion a good doctor should focus - while treating a disease - more on understanding symptoms than on suppressing symptoms.

There is a listing on our webiste of some of my symptoms. A part of those was summarized by doctors as the diagnoses: auto-immune disease of rheumatic origin or atypical (sic!) sarcoidosis. Noone of these doctors has ever been able to find a better label for these aspects my vita.
I would like to emphasize that I do not think that a more distinct name could solve anything. It could only help by the fact that a clearer view of the disease would probably mean more medical research results. And this would thus mean more medical understanding of what happened in my body. All this could then be used by a true doctor for getting the whole picture.

And of course, there is the blog I wrote while suffering from the peaks of testicular cancer, my HealthBlog.

Additionally, you will find data regarding various aspects of my health, such as: