First of all, I’d like to thank so many readers for your kind messages to me over the past two months. I raise a toast to all of you.
After the operation in November, although the doctors said my cancer was all gone, I wasn’t much interested in food and was steadily losing weight. That was great on the knees, but I got a bit concerned after I’d shed 22 kilograms with no sign of stopping.
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