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Re: 🌟Starting radiation in January 2026? You don’t have to walk this road alone.🌟
Does anyone else feel like the clinic staff just reads from the corporate handbook when responding to a question or comment? Feeling nervous "Oh you've got a really good team" Feeling scared, anxious, uncertain about the unknown. "Oh the team here is really good." or "Oh, you have Dr. Fill-in-the-blank, he/she's excellent." I'm not sure what I expect them to say, but after the second or third time hearing it from different staff it just rings hollow.
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
betrayal
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
I hate those leg cramps! Stretching does help. Sometimes I get up and smear biofreeze on my legs. It seems to help
aj
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
betrayal
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@intolight Is it bone pain or muscle pain. If bone, a claritin day before day of and day after treatment can make pain subside some with no interaction. Works with Taxol as well. I used to take it when I had the injections to build up white cell counts and that pain was terrible until told about the claritin.
@candy-678 I am so sorry to hear about your progression, in you pocket as the days go on to hear what you may be looking at treatment wise.
I just woke up, was in bed watching the videos on facebook and then drifted off. That is OK though. Need to set alarms Sunday and Monday as I have a CT scan Wednesday and MRI results Thursday. Then next week have a longer one day appointment with MO and Herceptin on the first of April. Once those appointments are done, 3 weeks off thankfully. I really don't like being so busy.
Not sure what to have today, out of lentils in the fridge but can check my pantry. The chefboyardee ravioli which I rinsed off since I do not like the tomato sauce worked out well with subsequent meals, they were a good additition to meals and leftovers. I did locate a can of lentils, got mostly black beans and other stuff. Thinking of putting together a grocery order once I go through my stuff, need more cheese and eggs.
Did put together the order, no junk food, cheese, eggs, sour cream, only got one yogurt but got 2 bananas, 3 cans of lentils, couple of meat pies and more tostitos queso. Got mini pot pies. Expensive, almost 60 bucks but can do without shopping for a couple of weeks. Did not buy enough to overstuff my pantry and none of the pantry items that are not needed. Couple of tostitios queso, sour cream are the most important.
Meal included some lentils, chickpeas and two eggs. I started by spraying the air fryer, put in some salad dressing at bottom, added two eggs and the chickpeas and lentils. Cooked in air fryer on high, stirred it around every 4 or 5 mins. Did that a couple of times then let it cook the rest of the way. Scooped it out into a large bowl. Added some tostitos queso and plain mayo. It was really very good and not too filling. The fibre was good for me as well.
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Teka, there are a bunch of daffodils planted next to a yellow fire hydrant a block over from my house. It’s really spectacular
wren44
Re: Architecture distortion with benign biopsy but sent to MRI and surgeon
And I wish all of us the best of luck - health, family, friends, life. Thank you all.
gdlktt86
Re: Stage IV MBC Fitness
@rlschaller I am basically retired now. I do some freelance work in my field and have a fun part-time job so it's much easier to find time to exercise. Here's the ring I bought. It wasn't expensive and fun to monitor my heart rate, temperature, oxygen rate, etc as well as steps. The only bad thing is that you have to let it know if you are doing vigorous exercise for it to count! Otherwise, it just counts steps. https://herzpulse.com/
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@mkestrel I do very simple leg stretches and they really help. Even when I feel too tired, now I ask myself, do I want to wake up with cramps? If I stretch, I don't.
@threetree I live alone so I can scream. If I was in an apartment building, I would restrain myself but at times it has been so scary and painful. It's a Catch22-stretching in bed does not help-I have to get up and walk but I'm afraid to get up when both legs are cramping.