How is Ambassador Karel Hartogh doing now?
With reference to Gringo's article under this title dated March 2nd, I would like to thank the readers who responded to it for their heartwarming reactions. As well as the many emails, posts, etc. that I receive through other channels, these are very supportive to me.
We are now a few months further since my 'Christmas message'. A lot has happened since then, not easy for me and my family. Let me sum it up in such a way that I don't consider the weeks around the turn of the year to be the happiest of my life. The chemotherapy I had to undergo was heavy, partly due to some complications, and unfortunately did not yield the desired result. As a result, I will start a new treatment this week, namely immunotherapy, administration of medicines that strengthen the own immune system. With hope of blessing….Fortunately, after the end of the chemo sessions, I have recently refueled and been able to do things that make life worth living.
However, the new treatment means that I will not be able to return to the post for the next few months and I deeply regret that. I would have liked to have jumped back on the box around this time and continued with my wonderful work at the embassy in the service of the Netherlands and the Dutch in Thailand. During my absence I can happily rely on a well-oiled team and an experienced 'charge d'affaires', Paul Menkveld.
I wish you all the best in Thailand at the end of the dry and cool season and will keep you informed from time to time via Thailand blog about the ins and outs of your ambassador.
Many greetings,
Charles Hartogh
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I wish you and your family the best of luck.
Dear Karel Hartogh, thank you for this update. Not nice to hear that it was so incredibly heavy around the holidays and without results. May the new treatment be successful! Good luck and may you recover well and return to beautiful Thailand.
I sincerely hope that the immunotherapy will work and that the future will be bright for you. Wishing you lots of strength and recovery.
Yes, what can you do but wish that the new cure will take effect and beat that terrible disease.
I wish you a lot of strength and recovery. And hope you can get back to work in Bangkok soon.
We wish you and your family a lot of strength and recovery. And hope to see you back in Thailand soon
Lots of good luck and strength in the coming time
Dear Mr Hartogh,
I hope that everything goes well for you and that you can return to your post in Thailand.
Wishing you a lot of strength.
Dear Karel Hartogh, thank you for your message via Thailand blog, I would like to tell you that with cannabis oil and drinking soursop tea, I have been cured of my prostate cancer, which turned out not to be good, unfortunately I cannot buy this cannabis oil here in Thailand don't buy it, but it's worth a try, I wish you lots of positive energy and health, kind regards, Pascal Chiangmai.
Dear Karel
First of all, it hurts me that the first treatment has not worked. I hope you have better luck with the next treatment. We Dutch people in Phuket also live with you. Unfortunately, you cannot be there today.
At the 6 Bitterballen drink.In Eddy's restaurant.Dear Karel hope for a good recovery and mazeltov with your health
Many blessings to your Omin family.
Greetings Eddy' Restaurant
Eddie van Leeuwen.
Dear Karel, su su and may the cure work…
Good luck and strength
Get well soon and back to your post.
A few years ago I read a story I thought in the American Health Wire, where good success has been achieved with this immunotherapy for cancer patients. However, for patients in an early stage, but also complicated and advanced patients scored better after first a chemotherapy treatment. In China they are very advanced with prostate cancer treatments, but also my neighbor Dr. William van Ewijk has completely controlled his prostate cancer with alternative methods after 20 years. He has also been able to cure various patients of prostate and various other cancers. See his site, and wish you a lot of strength and strength with this annoying disease, and hope to see you fit and healthy again at the embassy this or next year.
Kim and Bert wish you a lot of strength for the upcoming treatment(s) and hope to see you again in good health.
Very difficult for you and your family. But the most important thing is that you may return from this difficult time strengthened and with improved health. We keep our fingers crossed for that. And hope to meet you at the Embassy in the future.
Kind regards and get well soon.
Not so long ago I saw a documentary on BVN about the latest radiation treatments, which no longer irradiate the cancer “at random”, but irradiate very precisely at the nano level where necessary, without unnecessarily destroying surrounding tissues.
I wish you to find the right specialists who know how to irradiate and cure you in this ultra-precise way! Finally we have a "nice" ambassador and so we don't want to lose you!
May God, Buddha, Allah and the Universe save you from this debilitating disease and grant you good health. “Your faith will save you” I read somewhere… So have faith and trust. "Believe" = assume without evidence, but there is also real evidence that the latest techniques of radiation are successful, maybe even work miracles, so don't believe, but know!
Mr. Hartogh, knows that good therapy has to be found somewhere and knows that we Thailandblog readers would like to see you back on your post as soon as possible.
I don't want to quibble, but I don't know any better than that the Ambassador in his message posted on Thailandblog January 2, 2017 talked about being treated with chemotherapy for bladder cancer and not prostate cancer.
Unfortunately without results, now fingers crossed for the immune therapy, it is really hoped that the therapy will work and lead to a cure. The body is very strong and has many tools to cope with problems, supported by immune therapy, those tools are expanded considerably, you say Hope of Blessing, you have my blessing and there is always hope.
Wish you and your family the best of luck.
Nico B
Being healthy is a blessing. Strengthening your immune system through exercise and the way you eat is very important. A friend of mine was told not to make it to Christmas two years ago. And that in a leading hospital in Amsterdam. Now, two years later, he received good news and the doctors were amazed at him. I wish you the same luck. Best regards.
strength and recovery on behalf of all of us
Karl, I wish you luck. Your health comes first. Your job in Thailand can wait.
I hope for you and your family and loved ones that you can quickly put this entire process behind you.
Wishing you lots of strength and recovery.
Yours faithfully,
Ronald Schneider
We are very sorry for you that the chemo did not have the desired result, we really hope that the immune therapy will work well..
We wish you a lot of strength and hopefully we can see you again soon at Eddy's with the bitterballen drink.
Wishing you a lot of strength
Marian & Hans Oranje
Good luck Karl
It must be a very difficult time to get through. Nevertheless, I have learned from previous reports that our ambassador is keeping the course positive despite all the problems.
It is precisely this positive attitude that could be very successful.
Much light and strength to our ambassador in this difficult time and that we may see him back at his post in Bangkok as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to personally meet and get to know our ambassador. But his willingness and openness to share his fight against his illness with us says enough about what he is made of. With his positivism he is a man after my own heart. I hope that the ash cure will take effect through the efforts of skilled practitioners and a little bit through all the fingers crossed of the people involved on this blog.
Thanks again for all the supportive comments and advice. We will see!
Good luck and good luck….
Get well soon Mr Hartogh.
All the best!!