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	  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:51:57 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/stories-8-how-not-to-reassure-or-treat-a-patient/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[How Not to Reassure (or Treat) a Patient RT @laikas]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p>
	<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">The host of the next edition of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://getbetterhealth.com/grand-rounds" rel="homepage" title="Grand Rounds">Grand Rounds</a> is <em>Fizzziatrist</em> at </span><a href="http://doccartoon.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><strong>A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor</strong></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">. Thus it is no surprise that the theme of this edition is &ldquo;Humor in Medicine&rdquo;. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Fizzziatrist</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">:</span></p>
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		<em><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"><a href="http://doccartoon.blogspot.com/2010/08/grand-rounds-here-august-24.html" target="_blank">When I host Grand Rounds, I will post the links in order of how many times each one made me go &ldquo;ha!&rdquo; (&hellip;) It&rsquo;s all quite scientific.</a></span></em></p>
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	<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Well that&rsquo;s a tough job. First both as a medical librarian and &nbsp;a patient, I&rsquo;m not in the situation to experience a lot of the humorous aspects of a doctors job. Furthermore I&rsquo;m not the </span><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">HA-HA-HA LOL-REAL SCREAM </span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">type. I&rsquo;m more of the smile and the grin.</span></p>
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	<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">So what to do? I hope you find the following enjoyable. And perhaps many little ha&rsquo;s do make one big HA.</span></p>
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	<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">(...)</span></p>
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	  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:39:55 +0200</pubDate>
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	  <title><![CDATA[Social Uses of Personal Health Information RT @JMedInternetRes]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">
	Jeana H Frost, PhD; Michael P Massagli, PhD</p>
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	PatientsLikeMe Inc, Cambridge, MA, USA</p>
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	<b>Corresponding Author:</b></p>
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	Jeana H Frost, PhD</p>
<p>	PatientsLikeMe Inc<br />
	222 Third Street, Suite 0234<br />
	Cambridge, MA 02142<br />
	USA<br />
	Phone: +1 617 499 4003<br />
	Fax: +1 866 850 6240<br />
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	<a name="abstract">ABSTRACT</a></h4>
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	<span class="spacey"><b>Background: </b> This project investigates the ways in which patients respond to the shared use of what is often considered private information: personal health data. There is a growing demand for patient access to personal health records. The predominant model for this record is a repository of all clinically relevant health information kept securely and viewed privately by patients and their health care providers. While this type of record does seem to have beneficial effects for the patient&ndash;physician relationship, the complexity and novelty of these data coupled with the lack of research in this area means the utility of personal health information for the primary stakeholders&mdash;the patients&mdash;is not well documented or understood.<br />
	<b>Objective: </b> PatientsLikeMe is an online community built to support information exchange between patients. The site provides customized disease-specific outcome and visualization tools to help patients understand and share information about their condition. We begin this paper by describing the components and design of the online community. We then identify and analyze how users of this platform reference personal health information within patient-to-patient dialogues.<br />
	<b>Methods: </b> Patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) post data on their current treatments, symptoms, and outcomes. These data are displayed graphically within personal health profiles and are reflected in composite community-level symptom and treatment reports. Users review and discuss these data within the Forum, private messaging, and comments posted on each other&rsquo;s profiles. We analyzed member communications that referenced individual-level personal health data to determine how patient peers use personal health information within patient-to-patient exchanges.<br />
	<b>Results: </b> Qualitative analysis of a sample of 123 comments (about 2% of the total) posted within the community revealed a variety of commenting and questioning behaviors by patient members. Members referenced data to locate others with particular experiences to answer specific health-related questions, to proffer personally acquired disease-management knowledge to those most likely to benefit from it, and to foster and solidify relationships based on shared concerns.<br />
	<b>Conclusions: </b> Few studies examine the use of personal health information by patients themselves. This project suggests how patients who choose to explicitly share health data within a community may benefit from the process, helping them engage in dialogues that may inform disease self-management. We recommend that future designs make each patient&rsquo;s health information as clear as possible, automate matching of people with similar conditions and using similar treatments, and integrate data into online platforms for health conversations.<br />
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	<b><i>(J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e15)</i></b><br />
	doi:10.2196/jmir.1053</p>
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	  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:12 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/05/explaining-chronic-medical-treatment-patients.html</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[Explaining chronic medical treatment to patients RT @kevinmd]]></title>
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	by Jeffrey Knuppel, MD</p>
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	Although some psychiatric conditions are acute and transient, most are chronic. They may wax and wane, but most of them do not go away. Likewise, psychiatric medications can significantly improve people&rsquo;s functioning and quality of life, but they manage, not cure, mental illness.</p>
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	It&rsquo;s therefore not surprising that a common conversation that patients and psychiatrists have revolves around the question, &ldquo;Do I have to be on this medication &lsquo;forever&rsquo;?&rdquo;</p>
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	I&rsquo;ve previously <a href="http://lockupdoc.com/2010/03/getting-better-from-a-pill-what-does-it-say-about-oneself/" target="_blank">written</a> about how patients, especially those new to taking psychiatric medication, often have negative psychologic reactions to the idea that a pill has helped them to feel &ldquo;normal.&rdquo; People want to feel &ldquo;normal,&rdquo; but most would prefer to feel this way without having to rely on putting a substance into their bodies.</p>
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	But, in my experience most patients do accept the trade-off of taking medication to feel better, at least temporarily. However, after a few months many people start to grow impatient. Often they&rsquo;re no longer suffering from the initial symptoms that brought them into treatment. Understandably, they&rsquo;re wanting to know how much longer they&rsquo;re going to have to take their medications.</p>
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	The answer to this question varies considerably depending on several factors, some of which include the diagnosis, the severity of symptoms, and the person&rsquo;s own past history. But, quite frequently due to the chronic nature of the patient&rsquo;s symptoms, my recommendation is for indefinite treatment.</p>
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	I do my best to work collaboratively with them. I will clearly give them my recommendations, but if they are unsure that they want to remain on their medications (which is almost always their choice), I have an approach that I usually use that some patients have found helpful.</p>
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	I typically suggest that they think of a time-frame during which they are comfortable staying on their medication. For example, if they can agree to return to see me in three months and not stop their medication in the meantime, then they know that we will be revisiting the issue then. We essentially agree with each other that we will continue to have this ongoing discussion, but after our appointment, we defer discussion of it until the next appointment.</p>
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	This approach helps to prevent some patients from feeling as though they need to decide <em>now, </em>which usually means between appointments, whether or not they are going to take their medication &ldquo;forever.&rdquo; It helps them break this ongoing dialogue (both within themselves and with me) into more manageable chunks of time.</p>
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	And if I do <em>not</em> use this approach with patients, I have found that when faced with this daunting &ldquo;forever&rdquo; decision, many patients decide simply to stop taking medication altogether.</p>
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	So, if you treat patients in some capacity, consider breaking important decisions about chronic maintenance treatment into smaller chunks of time. I&rsquo;ve even heard some patients say that they&rsquo;ve found this approach useful for other non-medication life decisions as well.</p>
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	<em>Jeffrey Knuppel is a psychiatrist who blogs at </em><a href="http://lockupdoc.com/">Lockup Doc</a><em>.</em></p>
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	<em>Submit a guest post and <a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/heard-social-medias-leading-physician-voice">be heard</a>.</em></p>
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	  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:07:44 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.abc.com.py/abc/nota/158112-Descubren-molecula-que-regula-metastasis/</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[Descubren molécula que regula metástasis]]></title>
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	Lo descubri&oacute; un estudio del Instituto para la Investigaci&oacute;n y la Cura del C&aacute;ncer de Candiolo, Tur&iacute;n, Piamonte, publicado por el Journal of Clinical Investigation.</p>
<p>	La de las semaforinas es una gran familia de mol&eacute;culas que regulan la migraci&oacute;n de las c&eacute;lulas.</p>
<p>	En estudios precedentes el grupo piamont&eacute;s, conducido por Luca Tamagnone, descubri&oacute; que tambi&eacute;n los tumores tienen semaforinas propias, que a su vez est&aacute;n implicadas en la producci&oacute;n de las met&aacute;stasis.</p>
<p>	&ldquo;Cuando una de estas mol&eacute;culas, la semaforina E3 es muy abundante en los tumores -escriben los investigadores-, &eacute;stos son particularmente invasores, y forman met&aacute;stasis&rdquo;.</p>
<p>	Seg&uacute;n el estudio, esta particular semaforina es un indicador &oacute;ptimo de la posibilidad de tener met&aacute;stasis para el melanoma y para el tumor de colon de recto, y ya se est&aacute;n experimentando medicinas en grado de bloquear la acci&oacute;n de &eacute;sta, actuando sobre algunas prote&iacute;nas que participan en el mecanismo.</p>
<p>	En el mismo n&uacute;mero se publica otro estudio del Instituto Candiolo, que es financiado por la fundaci&oacute;n piamontesa para la investigaci&oacute;n sobre el C&aacute;ncer de la Universidad de Tur&iacute;n: los investigadores, guiados por Alberto Bardelli, descubrieron que el Everolimus, un f&aacute;rmaco usado hasta ahora para el carcinoma de ri&ntilde;&oacute;n, es eficaz tambi&eacute;n en los de colon que presentan una variante gen&eacute;tica particular.</p>
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	  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:02:49 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://jopm.org/index.php/jpm/article/viewArticle/28/18</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[Patient-Driven Research: Rich Opportunities and Real Risks RT @amaryones @addthis]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p class="paragraph" style="text-align: justify;">
	<span class="bold-italic">Summary:</span> Since the Internet&rsquo;s earliest days, patients have used online resources to share experiences, learn about diseases and treatments, and become advocates. A newer phenomenon has seen a growing number of online communities evolve into centers of patient-driven research (PDR)&mdash;especially for orphan diseases. Thanks to Health 2.0 capabilities, various models of PDR are being developed, usually involving methods of data collection and aggregation that can eclipse RCTs as meaningful evidence. A radical shift from the classical research model, this may result in accelerated findings and dissemination at a fraction of the cost of classic medical research.</p>
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	While research projects conducted in a medical environment require supervision by IRBs (institutional review boards), no such limitation currently exists in PDR. This results in both greater immediacy and potentially harmful forms of bias in these research models. Acceptance of PDR as valid clinical research requires validated methodologies and tools, democratization of data, ethical oversight, and immediacy. Without these critical drivers, such research will continue to be marginalized and its benefits available only to the activated minority.</p>
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	  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:20:43 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://redes.epesca.org/pg/bookmarks/group:64/bookmarklet</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[How ePatients Can Help Heal Healthcare RT @ePatientDave]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p>ePatient Dave, who shared his story (video below) with my students in the “Internet in Medicine” course this semester, is about to publish his own book: “Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig: How an Empowered Patient Beat Stage IV Cancer.”</p>
<p>Now three of his friends have written essays about this important issue:</p>
<p>    We who’ve worked on it hope it will provoke thought about how healthcare is changing because of what e-patients can contribute, empowered as individuals and enabled by the Internet. To start that process, we’re publishing the introduction.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10444174">My message to @Berci's Medicine 2.0 course, March 25 2010</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/epatientdave">e-Patient Dave deBronkart</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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	  <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:41:33 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.pediatriabasadaenpruebas.com/2010/06/cine-y-pediatria-23-las-llaves-de-casa.html</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[“Las llaves de casa” abren los sentimientos a la parálisis cerebral infantil RT @Pediatria]]></title>
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		Mi buen amigo Miguel, padre-coraje de Miguel, su hijo adolescente de 15 a&ntilde;os con par&aacute;lisis cerebral infantil (PCI), me recomend&oacute; hace unas semanas esta pel&iacute;cula. Y se lo agradezco de verdad, pues me ha emocionado y he seguido aprendiendo. Considero que <em>Las llaves de casa</em> (Gianni Amelio, 2004), pel&iacute;cula italiana en coproducci&oacute;n con Francia y Alemania, adquiere ya car&aacute;cter de imprescindible y destacada en esta serie sobre Cine y Pediatr&iacute;a. Y por diversos motivos que intentar&eacute; rese&ntilde;ar.</div>
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	Os dejo un video de la pel&iacute;cula, coincido en el mensaje que nos puede dejar.</div>
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	  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:55:42 +0200</pubDate>
	  <link>http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2010/06/07/oncologia/1275929903.html</link>
	  <title><![CDATA[La dura tarea de curar el cáncer en Irak]]></title>
	  <description><![CDATA[<p>
	En un pa&iacute;s donde salir a la calle cada d&iacute;a se convierte en un desaf&iacute;o a la muerte, el c&aacute;ncer puede parecer una preocupaci&oacute;n menor. Pero no lo es. <strong>Irak ha visto multiplicar por dos su tasa de tumores</strong>, al tiempo que se reducen los medios materiales y humanos para luchar contra la enfermedad. El &uacute;nico onc&oacute;logo iraqu&iacute; que participa en la conferencia oncol&oacute;gica que estos d&iacute;as se celebra en Chicago (EEUU) relata su experiencia a ELMUNDO.es.</p>
<p>
	Layth Mula-Hussain es especialista en radioterapia por la Universidad de Mosul y del Centro Oncol&oacute;gico King Hussein, en la vecina Jordania, donde actualmente recibe formaci&oacute;n. Precisamente, destaca, la <strong>carencia formativa</strong> de sus colegas iraqu&iacute;es, tanto en cirug&iacute;a, quimioterapia como radioterapia (&quot;los tres pilares de la atenci&oacute;n al c&aacute;ncer&quot;), es uno de los problemas que lastra la atenci&oacute;n m&eacute;dica en su pa&iacute;s. Pero no el &uacute;nico.</p>
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	Adem&aacute;s de especialistas (hombres en su mayor&iacute;a), <strong>Irak sufre la falta de medios materiales</strong>, las interrupciones frecuentes en el suministro de quimioterapia y otros medicamentos, los cortes de luz que inutilizan durante horas los aceleradores de cobalto (para aplicar la radioterapia) y una inadecuada educaci&oacute;n sanitaria entre la poblaci&oacute;n que hace que el 70% de los tumores se diagnostiquen demasiado tarde. La tasa de curaci&oacute;n, a&ntilde;ade, apenas ronda el 10-20% (en Espa&ntilde;a se acerca al 60%).</p>
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	&quot;Entre 1991 y 2006, hemos pasado de 31 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes a 52,8&quot;, explica el especialista iraqu&iacute;; &quot;pero esa tasa probablemente est&aacute; por debajo de la realidad, porque se basa en cifras hospitalarias, y muchos pacientes viajan al extranjero a tratarse, o <strong>ni siquiera son diagnosticados</strong>&quot;. De hecho, aclara, la tasa de incidencia en Jordania es de 75 casos por cada 100.000 habitantes.</p>
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	Cuidados paliativos</h2>
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	El c&aacute;ncer, confiesa Mula-Hussain, conlleva a&uacute;n para sus compatriotas un importante estigma, &quot;algunos ni se atreven a nombrarlo, e incluso los m&eacute;dicos no informan a sus pacientes de su diagn&oacute;stico&quot;. En la interminable historia de conflictos b&eacute;licos, a&ntilde;ade, no hay tiempo para hacer campa&ntilde;as de sensibilizaci&oacute;n, ni de hacer mamograf&iacute;as para un diagn&oacute;stico precoz; pese a que el de mama es el tumor m&aacute;s frecuente entre la poblaci&oacute;n femenina. En el caso de los varones <strong>el m&aacute;s habitual es el c&aacute;ncer de pulm&oacute;n</strong>, mientras que los ni&ntilde;os son v&iacute;ctimas de la <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2010/02/19/oncologia/1266564799.html" target="_blank">leucemia</a> sobre todo.</p>
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	En un pa&iacute;s &quot;donde necesitas justificar cada salida a la calle para afrontar el peligro&quot;, los laboratorios de los hospitales tampoco est&aacute;n preparados para llevar a cabo an&aacute;lisis gen&eacute;ticos que determinen la firma molecular del tumor, y los cuidados paliativos brillan por su ausencia. &quot;<strong>No hay programas para atender a pacientes terminales</strong>, y la mayor&iacute;a fallece en casa&quot;.</p>
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<p>
	Mula-Hussein describe el tratamiento de quimioterapia en su pa&iacute;s como &quot;una loter&iacute;a&quot;; en la que el paciente puede recibir un ciclo de medicaci&oacute;n y pasar varios meses esperando al siguiente por escasez en el suministro de f&aacute;rmacos. &quot;A veces hay que cambiarles el f&aacute;rmaco que estaban recibiendo por otro diferente porque el primero no llega&quot;, asegura. En el caso de la radioterapia, la situaci&oacute;n no es mucho mejor. Actualmente hay en Irak s&oacute;lo 12 aceleradores lineales, muy lejos de los 150 que deber&iacute;a haber si se cumpliesen las recomendaciones internacionales de cinco por cada mill&oacute;n de habitantes (y m&aacute;s lejos de los 8,5 dispositivos por mill&oacute;n de habitantes de que disfrutan en EEUU).</p>
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	S&oacute;lo 20 onc&oacute;logos radioterapeutas repartidos por las principales ciudades del pa&iacute;s atienden a 30 millones de iraqu&iacute;es. <strong>El sueldo de un m&eacute;dico iraqu&iacute; ronda los tres o cinco d&oacute;lares al mes en la sanidad p&uacute;blica</strong> (&quot;que la mayor&iacute;a complementamos con alguna cl&iacute;nica privada por las tardes&quot;). En esa situaci&oacute;n, uno se pregunta si el doctor Mula Hussain no ha pensado alguna vez en marcharse de Irak y comenzar su actividad en otro pa&iacute;s. &Eacute;l suspira, se lo piensa un momento, y responde: &quot;S&oacute;lo quiero que un d&iacute;a podamos volver a tener una vida normal&quot;.</p>
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	  <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:26:43 +0200</pubDate>
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	  <title><![CDATA[Mi corazón llora RT @ePatientDave @Zorg20]]></title>
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	Traducido gracias a google translate... Un relato estremecedor que me ha conmovido.</p>
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	<span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"><span class="google-src-text" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;">E</span>l cabello de Emilie es cada vez m&aacute;s d&eacute;bil.</span> <span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">Por la ma&ntilde;ana despu&eacute;s de dormir toda la noche.</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> A veces se puede coger el pelo de toda la cabeza y tirar sin dolor.</span> Y s&iacute; se cae parte de un mech&oacute;n de pelo, encima de su cabeza, podr&iacute;a ver zonas sin cabello.<span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> Realmente no puedo.</span> </p>
<p>	De momento me temo que durante semanas, ha llegado <em>Golondrina.</em><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> Cojo una toalla y la pongo sobre los hombros de mi peque&ntilde;a Emilie.</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> Veo miedo en sus ojos azules, que miran a un padre impotente.</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">Inmediatamente le beso en la mejilla.</span> </p>
<p>	&iquest;Por d&oacute;nde empezar este infierno?.<span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> Acabo de mirar en la parte superior y trasera de su cabeza y c</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">omo un barbero empiezo a rasurar de izquierda a derecha, de arriba a abajo.</span> <span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">Y entonces sucede,</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">&nbsp; me pongo en la parte delantera&nbsp; de la cabeza,</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> suspiro profundamente, cojo las tijeras y empiezo a&nbsp; cortar con l&aacute;grimas en los ojos, mientras&nbsp; en su cuello&nbsp; veo caer un mech&oacute;n de pelo. </span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">Veo los rizos rubios que cae sobre la toalla.</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> Me contengo dandole cada pocos segundos&nbsp; besos en la cabeza</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">.</span></p>
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	<span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">A partir de hoy, quimioterapia y Emilie calva.</span><span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)"> </span></p>
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	<span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)">Mi coraz&oacute;n llora.</span></p>
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	  <pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:29:18 +0200</pubDate>
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