The Persistent chain

Kanjerketting Shymo

Hi Readers! My name is Zyara and as most of you already know, I’m Shymo’s sister. My mother and I are the ones who maintain Shymo’s persistent chain. The persistent chain launched in 2006 and is established by the Parents, Children & Cancer association. The association supports family’s with a child that is suffering from […]

Shymo’s blog: Quarantine

Quarantaine foto

13-03-20 Today was fine, everything went smooth. They still don’t know why I have this pain in my upper back and shoulders, because of that I had to take a combination of 80mg of prednisone and diazepam over the weekend. It works as a muscle relaxant and if it works you know it’s muscle strain. […]

Shymo’s blog: Biopsy

Shymo voor haar Biopt

02-03-20 I’m in bed at the hospital again, because tomorrow I will undergo a biopsy. They will make a small incision where my scar is located and from there they will remove three pieces of the tumor, about the same size as a rice grain. There’s always risks involved. For example, a bleeding could occur, […]

Shymo’s blog: where is my miracle?

Ziekenhuis foto Shymo

01-02-20 There I am again in the hospital. The pain in my back is still getting worse, but I thought it were my muscles. After a while I started to consider it could be infection pain, but when do you reach a point that you go see a doctor for that? On Saturday I was […]

Physiotherapy with Shymo

Shymo en Elsa

Being Shymo’s physiotherapist, she asked me to write a blogpost. My name is Elsa and together with my colleagues from the SMC we have been treating Shymo for over two years. With this blog I’ll try to explain what we actually do for Shymo. The first intake with Shymo was on the 15th of November […]

Shymo’s Blog: Holiday Season

feestdagen 2019

27-12-2019 The past five to six weeks I felt terrible. Surely because of the hospitalization, but it was already from before and even after it lasted for a while. When I came home I had to start with the treatment immediately, in fact; I already started with it while I was in the hospital. So […]

Aunt Maria

Tante Maria met Shymo en Zyara

Hi, I am Maria, Shymo’s ”tante”. My father and Ilonka’s father were brothers. After WW2 my father moved to Sweden and met my Swedish mother. That´s why I am living with my family outside Stockholm, 1 400 km away from Westzaan. Through the years our family and the Korver family have been following each other […]