Jul 20, 2009 11:34AM illinoislady wrote:
Beauty of a morning here in Southern Illinois. Will remain relatively cool which is a good thing for me.
Alyson: What a terrible time to have the flu but I think of our weather here ( quite nice ) and have no idea what it is like in New Zealand. Hope you get over it soon. Not pleasant at all.
02929/Maggie: So glad things went well on the little computer lesson I attempted to give. I learned some things on my own and those things stick with me better than any formal training could I think......but I'm always timid about trying to explain how to do things. I use to think I would ( many of my "seasoned" friends did too ) blow the whole computer up some way --- though I do think the older ones were trickier, or at least make such a mess that a professional would have to un-tangle everything but that has not happened and probably won't. Whew !!!
Peg: Hope all is going well for you. Your in my thoughts.
Helen: Still hoping, praying and sending healing energy your way for your medical visits today.
wwjd/Alberta: No one is really old here.....age is a number that gets assigned to everyone who happens to get through a 365 day period repeatedly --- and we all sure want to do that. Jo stories about her friend really do prove that. It is I think pretty much a matter of body, mind, and spirit....working and existing in harmony. You can accomplish what you think/know you can because you have the will and fortitude to do so. The less we give in with negative thoughts or actions --- the better we will do. In that regard....age really is only a number.
Lizzy: Jo gave good advice. There is a thread on here with people who use alternative/holistic resources for their treatment. I don't have a problem with it as such....but feel finding a top-notch practitioner might be quite difficult. Also, I feel like...would you wear a silicone vest to stop the harm from bullets...I feel like certain disease processes often might call for going a step beyond so to speak. It's true that radiation and chemo are hard on a body --- but each year it seems they are perfected more. The radiation is really targeted to only hit small areas. Having said that...and having said earlier two or three times that the mind, spirit, and body need to be in harmony to effect good outcomes...they do. I got such a shock just hearing what was wrong with me -- that alternative therapies did not even register. I wanted to go straight for whatever proved therapy was available. I felt comfortable with the choice --- 6 mos. chemo - 7 wks. radiation.
Once you have consulted with your Dr.'s again and gotten your test results and factored those in...you may feel that you can get by with just diet alone and hormones. It really depends on what resonates with you as the right thing to do. I second Jo's opinion. People that did ( Carole H. ) everything right still got cancer and conversely I have met and known people who went very strongly the other way and saw few if any problems including cancer. No one truly knows but as Jo said....eating good nutritional food is a great resource for the body in general. There is no test to take that will tell anyone who will or will not have a recurrence. We are all different, our reactions to the same things are all different, and there are just too many variables to come close to predicting much of anything for anyone.
Hope you all have a fantastic day. See you later.
Jackie
). Thank you very much for your prayers and support. I was "gobsmacked," as Sheila would say, by the call Friday evening. I saw my onc today and he had the radiologist report. The radiologist says "it" is small, dura-based meningioma (there are at least 50 impossible-to-pronounce words in the report)--and "it" is "consistent.......with this age group." Maybe a nice way of saying little old ladies develop these?? The consensus was that, under ordinary circumstances, observing the lesion via three-month MRI followup to check for changes/growth would be recommended. However, because of the "hx of breast carcinoma," the neuro should check it out. So,will do so on Aug. 3. 