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  • oceansky
    oceansky Member Posts: 77
    edited February 2015

    Thanks so much for this.  I just got dx 10 days ago, and I'm saving this in a word document.

    I had already bought a binder and plastic page protectors as well but the other suggestions are outstanding.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited September 2014

    OvceanSKY Thanks, Add hear when you can, L&H&P's (love & hugs &prayers) sassy

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited September 2014


    Bump

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited October 2014

    bump

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited October 2014

    BUMP-----------do a look back from the beginning lots of info

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited October 2014

    bump

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    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited November 2014

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    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited December 2014

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    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited December 2014

    bump

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited January 2015


    Bump

  • hopeful82014
    hopeful82014 Member Posts: 887
    edited January 2015

    Sassy - thanks for bumping this. The thread is too valuable to allow it to go dormant! Best to you in this new year.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited January 2015

    Thanks hopeful. please add your treasured learning. Bump when you notice it's been awhile :)

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited January 2015

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    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited January 2015

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    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited January 2015

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited January 2015


    Just like to put this here every once and awhile. It's a treasure of info. re chemo

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/69/topic/706846?page=1

    Another tips thread on lots of treatment stuff :)

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/6/topic/818139?page=1#idx_23

     

     

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited January 2015

    bump

  • Sssonia
    Sssonia Member Posts: 3
    edited January 2015


    WOW!! very informational . THANK YOU!!!!

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited February 2015


    SSSSSSSSSSS glad you enjoyed it. Add info as you are inspired  :)

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited February 2015

    Hydanne, so pleased ,so pleased sassy

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited February 2015


    Bump

  • 2nd_time_around
    2nd_time_around Member Posts: 14,084
    edited February 2015

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited February 2015

    TO All this has been in the news recently. This link to UCLA presents the "Hygiene Hypothesis" in a well thought out easy to read sequence. Thoughts re: this concept have been tossed around for decades. There are many studies being conducted and published to prove the hypothesis. One study, for example, showed that children that came from home where dishes were hand washed versus washed in the dishwasher had less allergies etc.

    The consequences of all these research studies coming out in close time to each other, is going to lead to a major change in how children are raised. I'd have to do a different search to see what is being done with adults. The industries related to convincing people to sanitize everything are NOT going to be happy. The second and third links identify several studies in each article.

    http://fooddrugallergy.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=40#hygiene-hypothesis

    This is on peanut allergies. It's all over the news right now. I chose this link b/c she included much of the data in an understandable way. This research should be passed onto anyone you know with small children so they can talk with their doc.

    http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/02/eating-peanuts-prevents-allergy

    This is an article about the difference in allergies statisticsin children  with eczema  and what all...... Dishwashers vs handwashing., fermented foods. It's a little technical, but you will get the gist of it.

    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/840268


  • bride
    bride Member Posts: 121
    edited March 2015

    Sas Schatzi,

    One of the first case studies using the hygiene hypothesis was done during the polio crisis. Kids who lived in settings in which they were exposed more infections from going barefoot and living without toilets were much less likely to get polio or had many fewer symptons and long-term effects. Seems these kids had developed many more types of antigens and produced antigens more quickly. Makes sense to me.

    bride

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited March 2015


    BUMP

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited March 2015

    Bump for Newbies :)

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited April 2015


    Bump for Newbies :)

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited June 2015


    bump

  • april25
    april25 Member Posts: 367
    edited June 2015

    Someone over in another thread mentioned she got Shingles!

    Definitely ask to get the vaccine before you start chemo or other treatment! You do NOT want shingles on top of dealing with all this stuff! My old healthcare provider would not give shingles shots to anyone before the age of 60, (I was 58) but fortunately they allowed me to get one before chemo! I'm glad to not have that worry hanging over my head!

    There's so much to think about with this diagnosis, but thank goodness for threads like this! So much great info! I'm pretty much I heard about getting the shingles shot from the original post!

  • Beachbum1023
    Beachbum1023 Member Posts: 364
    edited July 2015

    I won the shingles lottery. My MO wanted me to get the flu, tetanus, and pneumonia vaccines, and I did. Never mentioned the shingles vaccine I saw it online. My appointment with my PCP is 7/23 but I got the shingles last week. Go figure. But I didn't know that chemo and rads creates high risk for shingles for all of us. Please check with your MO, this sucks.

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