What Miriam Santiago is going through to fight cancer
MANILA, Philippines — Her hands and feet are bleeding but at least her hair did not fall as it even grows thicker because of the “wonder” pill.
This was how Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago narrated on Wednesday what she was going through to fight the lung cancer, which was diagnosed in June, this year.
At a press conference, Santiago announced that at least 80 percent of her cancer has disappeared but said she would still have to see her oncologists and take an examination or a scan ever three months.
She said taking the “wonder pill” has helped her a lot though she said she might have to work double time to afford it. The pill, she said, costs P2,000 each.
“My hair did not fall because of this wonder pill. In fact, my hair will grow thicker, and I will no longer need to apply any color or dye to the hair so it has its own assets,” said the senator.
“Of course there are also certain liabilities like for example, everyone of my hands and my feet has at least one digital, one member that’s bleeding. That’s why I’m wearing sandals.”
“It’s not out of disrespect for you, it’s because I have two bleeding toes and I can’t even move my papers properly that’s why I had to ask people there in the hearing to help me because my thumb is bleeding…” she further said.
While she said she has partially recovered, Santiago said the “characteristics of cancer are still here.”
“The pain of course, like the whole body is painful, like my legs, my muscles, there’s bleeding, there’s pain, there’s depression like you lose the will to live or the will to function…” she said.
Santiago said her attitude now “is one of total surrender and resignation to the will of God.”
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