You just smile, be happy (waving hands around motions) and tell no-one. No tell friends, people just feel sorry for you. No tell anyone, be happy.

Says Noi, who runs a little health food shop here.

I reply, I don’t have cancer.

You tell no-one. You don’t think about it, you no talk about it.

Well, think I, fine – how about you stop talking about it then? Because I don’t actually have cancer anymore…

Love it.

I heard all about the Australian woman who had cancer and chewed apricot kernels and recovered, the woman from Noi’s village who died because she told people, the other one who lived 40 years because she told no-one…and more.

Trying to get the immune boosters was a lot more challenging than not talking about my cancer. Which, for the record, I didn’t talk about, just mentioned that my immune system was low because I was recovering from cancer. While we were not talking about my cancer, I did manage to find some – that Noi was not aware of in her shop.