Publication Type
News Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
This Father's Day, I am reminded of the father I lost in January. He is also the father I found in the last decade as we grew closer. Dad passed away days short of his 68th birthday. He was first diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, or nose cancer, 26 years ago. His last battle during 26 days of hospitalisation, traversing Christmas and New Year's Day, was not with cancer but with pneumonia, possibly resulting from aspiration due to dysphagia, a side effect of neck radiation for cancer.
Discipline
Family, Life Course, and Society
Publication
Straits Times
ISSN
1692-9344
Publisher
Singapore Press holdings
Citation
TAN, Seow Hon.
Finding and losing Dad. (2016). Straits Times.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2465
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