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Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@irishlove Congrats on remission! Hope it lasts a very long time. I admire your patience and generosity with your daughter and granddaughter.
Re: Stage IV MBC Fitness
@gailmary Wow, Gail! You have really been dealing with a lot this past year. I can relate to the sciatica pain. I’m still dealing with that right now as well, and it sure makes it difficult to be active. My first PT session last week helped for a day. I felt really good the day after. However, those muscles just tightened right back up again. So, I hope my session tomorrow improves things a bit more. As for help with sleep, I take a 1 mg Ativan every third night. That does help me to sleep and relax my muscles. I don’t want to take it every night because that’s not good and you can build up a tolerance to it. But, every third night really does help me sleep and helps with the muscles. Perhaps that might work for you?
I do a lot of walking just around my house every half hour or so. Trying to get steps in. Also, I do light weights and floor exercises when I can to keep the muscles as strong as I can, despite everything.
I have no advice on the walking sticks, but perhaps someone else will chime in.
Keep us posted on how you are doing.
Hugs, Pam 💗
Re: Abemaciclib Verzenio for Stage IV
@birdsndognow - everyone has to do what feels the most comfort, but as I said (and I spoke to 2 MOs and an MO who did an extensive study on the effect of Verzenio on one’s kidneys), once I went off of Verzenio after 4 and 1/4 years, my creatinine returned to normal results and there was no damage to my kidneys.
Good luck.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
Hello everyone. Hope tonight finds you peacefully curled up with a warm blanky and a good book! We took the covers off the outdoor plants and guess what??? You guessed it, they revised the weather forecast and tonight thru tomorrow morning we will have a few hours of below freezing. Too tired to recover and it's not going below 30, so take my chances.
Well I have some major news. I'm still in shock and not sure how to absorb this but here it goes. I am in remission!!! Unbelievable and I guess I'm accepting this with a restrained measure of acceptance. It's not like turning a switch on and off. I can't just turn off my mindset for 3 years of MBC. Also, I still have MS to deal with. It's not likely to threaten my life, but it's still a bitch to deal with. I guess I need one more scan to placate me. Next scan is in April.
I feel so blessed as it takes a lot to deal with DD and DGD. They are back due to cold weather and their camper is not suited for temperatures below 50 (no insulation). We laid down the law yesterday that DGD must go to school, use a grant and get help for her social anxiety and ADHD. Grants opened up yesterday. Lets say we were met with a whole lot of anger and mind your own business. We have a game plan with proper contacts and will secure a lawyer if we must.
Wish spring was coming sooner. I'd like to feed Phil to my dogs, well they wouldn't eat that mangy critter anyway. So maybe someone could dispute his findings. lol
In pockets for scans and life in general.
Irishlove
Re: how about drinking?
Good weather news for south Louisiana. No freezing temperatures during the week ahead!!! It's Mardi Gras season and the parade goers won't have to worry about freezing their b*&#s off.
Re: My Husband, My Life, My Love, My Family, My Cancer
@mara51506 sweet girl reading your post on depression and your fears of another brain surgery made me see how vulnerable you are feeling right now. Your surgery was literally a brain injury ,which ultimately causes depression afterwards. It’s perfectly normal to feel down and depressed. When i had my Hehorrhagic stroke brain bleed years ago the doctors told me and DH I would feel depressed and lose my sense of humor as a result. I did go through a period like that but as my brain brain swelling during the coma began to diminish, I did get back to normal mostly. Also Mara having a devastating disease is depressing in itself. I’m sure your brother understands that, It’s good to have him to talk to. Just try to remember that you may be feeling down on yourself because you are not keeping up with all that you want to do around the house. Take one day at a time and just keep one goal for each day. We all love you here Mara and want you to continue to recover from this ordeal. Try to rely on DB & SIL to talk to and here we are all available to listen to each others struggles.😘🌷
Re: Contemplative practices - Affirmations, white light visualizations, healing meditations
thought this a lovely sentiment to start February !
Re: Can we have a forum for "older" people with bc?
Good chilly morning. It was 28 degrees when I went for my bone scan. (per my truck). 24 degrees per my phone. So much for hot Florida. It should get to 30 by 11:00. Some areas are doing rolling "brown outs". I hope my area is not one of them. I did see some snow flurries on Saturday. Sunday, my poor little cat fell in the pool. I could not believe it. Fortunately, I was able to get him out with out getting myself wet. After drying off, he slept most of the day. I haven't heard much from my NC neighbors, but there was several inches of snow on Saturday. I am anxious to get back up there, as soon as there are a few warm days.
Welcome to the new folks.
petite1