'I'm very lucky': 48-year-old woman with terminal cancer holds 'celebration of life' party
SINGAPORE — Regrets, she's had a few — but they don't keep Carolyn Too up at night.
Pain, however, does — a sharp stabbing pain from cancer tumours in her abdomen.
«When it gets really bad, I take an ice pack and put it on my stomach until the pain subsides,» says the 48-year-old, who was told by her oncologist in May 2023 that she probably had six months to live.
As she is also a renal patient, Too takes painkillers only when the pain is unbearable, as analgesics reduce blood flow to the kidney.
After being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2022, she went through two rounds of unsuccessful chemotherapy and an operation to remove her womb. The cancer has spread to other parts of her body.
For someone facing Death's dark gaze, the former business development manager is remarkably cheerful, chirpy even.
«When I was told I had only six months, I said: 'Okay, fine. Let's make the best of the six months.' I refuse to mope about it. I can wake up every day and say: 'I'm dying, I'm dying.' But I try not to.
»My mind at that point in time was: 'Bucket list, bucket list. What do I want?'"