Tag: cancer
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End of Life
Are there Words? I follow a person on Social Media whom I discovered at the same time that they were diagnosed with cancer. It was not very long ago. They are a reasonably famous person from a different country and I started following them because they were funny and I enjoy looking at peoples lives…
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Just an update
Medical – After six months on the new blood pressure med and tweaking and twitching I went to the Dr and we switched to a different one. The new one is Losartan. So far it is perfect. On a very low dose my BP is low, my feet swelling is minimal and the red spots…
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Stop Stealing from Me!
I want to complain about something small, but big to me. I have a department from the oncologists group that calls me once a year. It is the pharmacy department. They call me to see if I am having any problems with my meds, and my general welfare. I resent these calls mightily. Generally when…
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ReHash of No Hash
In the last three weeks I have had some interesting conversations with a few different people about food and nutrition and food and disease. In the last 5 years I can say with assurance that at least 80% of the people I talk to who are looking for information about changing food habits are not…
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UnBreak My Heart
Why Cardio will probably save your life in more ways than one Soooooooo I’ve been on this chemo drug since 2018. Stage 4 since 2014 – just under 9 years if anyone is counting (Go ME!) As you probably guessed from my checkins at the Toledo Clinic every three months I have a CT Scan…
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Rambling around
A few minutes ago I was talking about music with a friend and sent her a link to Sogno by Bocelli and then I of course had to play it. This song just touches something in me. (I won’t tell the story again about the first time I head it because it’s been told before…
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HI!!
Today starts my summer break. What, you say? Break from what??Ha! Skipping todays chemo cycle!My personal body cycle is chemo on tuesday – feel like shit that week – by tuesday #2 feeling better – by tuesday #3 (today) feeling great AND go back to chemo. Not This week though! And extra three Tuesdays to…
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Another post about Kinesio Tape
I had kinesio tape on my right leg for about 36 hours to help with my lymphedema. I was complaining to my neighbor the other day about how annoying it is because my legs are skinny so when I look down I see them bloated and fat and I get NO sympathy because no one…
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Just a ramble
Last night I dreamed I went to Manderly…er..uh..no, that’s not right. Last night I dreamed I was at my amazing Camp Mak-A-Dream and it was horrible! Instead of days of laughter and love and feeling accepted and cared for I was in a cabin with a group of people who all knew each other and…
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All Beat Up!
I wasn’t going to talk about this because it seems so overblown and dramatic of me but then this morning I woke up feeling like someone punched me in the side, so now I am just annoyed. Yesterday was my quarterly echocardiogram which is usually about the most innocuous test you can have. The only…