Sorry to hear that Amy... hope you are recovering well and also have a good support network around you. I think that really makes a big difference.
cheers
Pen
Sometimes life throws a curve ball....
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Sorry to hear that Amy... hope you are recovering well and also have a good support network around you. I think that really makes a big difference.
cheers
Pen
I was just talking to a friend tonight about how cancer touches everyones lives in some way, either as a sufferer or a friend/relative of one. I have had several close family members and friends all with various types of cancer. It is a horrible disease.
I am wishing you all the best and hoping you go into remission quickly, I hope you have a great support network of friends and family around you whilst you are undergoing treatment. Good luck.
I am wishing you all the best and hoping you go into remission quickly, I hope you have a great support network of friends and family around you whilst you are undergoing treatment. Good luck.
I wish you and amy21322 all the best.
Stay strong and all the best.
My goodness, what an enormous curve ball.
I honestly wish you every strength from the bottom of my heart.
You sound very strong & determined & likely to have all the best attributes to face this cancer head on.
Just remember that it is ok to let your guard down also and ask for help when you need it.
If I can help in any way at all, please say.
AA
I honestly wish you every strength from the bottom of my heart.
You sound very strong & determined & likely to have all the best attributes to face this cancer head on.
Just remember that it is ok to let your guard down also and ask for help when you need it.
If I can help in any way at all, please say.
AA
That is quite some opportunity before you Penny.
Herculean strength be yours.
Don't underrate some of that weird fringe stuff like diet, meditation, and visualization.
If you ever feel inclined, I'd be interested in hearing about your past, purely out of professional curiosity.
- hx of respiratory illness? tuberculosis, asthma, bronchiectasis, copd, pneumonia.
- passive smoker due to smoking parent or partner.
- time living in inner city or industrial or mining town.
- dietary preference through the years.
- general health and activity levels.
- renovations and contact with asbestos
- quantity of commercial flying
- marijuana use
- exposure to industrial chemicals, petroleum, pesticides.
- periods of stress.
Herculean strength be yours.
Don't underrate some of that weird fringe stuff like diet, meditation, and visualization.
If you ever feel inclined, I'd be interested in hearing about your past, purely out of professional curiosity.
- hx of respiratory illness? tuberculosis, asthma, bronchiectasis, copd, pneumonia.
- passive smoker due to smoking parent or partner.
- time living in inner city or industrial or mining town.
- dietary preference through the years.
- general health and activity levels.
- renovations and contact with asbestos
- quantity of commercial flying
- marijuana use
- exposure to industrial chemicals, petroleum, pesticides.
- periods of stress.
PennyK and Amy - thoughts are with the two of you.
This is one of those testing moments but plese come back to update us on your progress.
This is one of those testing moments but plese come back to update us on your progress.
As with the above poster i wish you a speady recovery.
I'm sorry im not very good with words on these occasions.
I'm sorry im not very good with words on these occasions.
Hi Winston,
I've been using forms of meditation and visualisation, and we are just trying to work on diet now.
In terms of the other areas...
- hx of respiratory illness? tuberculosis, asthma, bronchiectasis, copd, pneumonia.
Was immunised against TB before uni, occassional asthma if I get bad cold, had pleurisy earlier in the year. tend to get bad cough/ bronchitis and have a "smokers cough"
- passive smoker due to smoking parent or partner.
No, not even going to clubs and pubs that much
- time living in inner city or industrial or mining town.
never
- dietary preference through the years.
have struggled with weight, insulin resistance, but have generally fairly healthy diet with lots of veges, maybe too much meat (tend to get anaemic if I dont), not much junk food, except chocolate. can't eat much bread unless sourdough. haven't drunk alcohol since Feb, and drank 1-2 glasses 1-2 times a week before that, except on business trips, where I'd have 1-2 glasses every day... one of the reasons I stopped drinking in Feb - just got too much for me.
- general health and activity levels.
health generally good, but overweight, and have insulin resistance and had High Blood pressure, but went on meds and it went very low, after I lost some weight, so just came off meds a few weeks ago, and it seems stable . Was exercising regularly until I got pleurisy, and then found it hard to breathe... just getting started again now, but much slower than before
- renovations and contact with asbestos
we did a bathroom reno a few years ago ( i didn't do any of the work myself
), but don't think there was asbestos. had house painted last year, but we moved out when it was done.- quantity of commercial flying
LOTS! I go on 5-7 overseas business trips per year. flying business class. travelling mainly to asia and europe. plus less regular domestic trips. Food and drink is always in huge supply on business trips, but generally still try to eat healthily and have stopped drinking.
- marijuana use
never tried
- exposure to industrial chemicals, petroleum, pesticides.
the only thing we could think of was that I used to work a reasonable amount with foam (already formed - ie not liquid foam) and glue. But even then, I didn't do that much of the work myself, and didn't work in the workshop where the foams were being cut. I'm really sensitive to things like paint, petrol, chemicals - can't stand smell and fumes. So, I tend to avoid them as much as possible
- periods of stress
I have a reasonably high pressure job, but I don't really feel stressed... its a very well suited job for me, theres just a bit too much of it. I'm not a very highly strung person, and I'm really good at delegating authority as well as tasks.
Must be the business trips!!
We're open to suggestions, particularly on diet and immune system. the Dr's discourage take vitamin tablets when I'm on chemo, so we need to look at getting the immune system up through food. I'm going to try to make fresh vege/fruit juice for breakfast, which is one of my favourite things.. just a struggle with time.
cheers
Pen
Bug*ger and s**t are the best words in my experience of the past few weeks!!
Other profanities probably work equally well!! but these are my favs at present
Pen
Good onya Penny. As I mentioned earlier, again, with such an attitude, you've already won.
I see you hitting that curve ball out of the ball park.
Good luck to Amy also on your recovery.
To Amy..... all the best with your journey too. I am thinking of you too.
To both of you..... I know some will think this a bit "alternative" but when mum was diagnosed with GBM brain tumour, we were told right at the start that there was no treatment and she would die. About four weeks into this nightmare, in the second of three hospitals, a nurse quietly said to talk to a doctor and gave me his number. She said it could help and certainly worth try.
I got home too late to call him, but googled him and called him the next morning. If you google Digest Easy you will get a site with all sorts of different snippets, but this doctor told me his ginger drink had done some pretty amazing things for people with cancer. My memory is that he said something along the lines that some foods have a coating that will stops the body from digesting them and it was found that some cancer cells also have this coating. This drink breaks down the coating on some foods and some cancer cells. I was very emotional and stressed at this stage, so this is my memory of the details of the call.
The idea was that this drink breaks down the coating on the cancer cells and allows the bodies own defences to attack the cancer. I was ready to try anything to keep my mother with us.
I raced out next morning and we gave mum a larger dose (advised by the doctor on the phone) three times a day. I got it from a chemist but not many seem to carry it. He did say that he had someone who had pancreatic cancer alive five years after who had taken the drink.
I didn't work on mum, but it would perhaps be worth a try. I gave it to mum with the okay from her chemo doctor, though he obviously has seen GBM so many times, that he didn't seem to think there was anything that would help, but I suppose cancer doctors are used to people thinking something miraculous will help "my" mother.
It may be worthwhile giving this a try, though I realise you are no doubt getting all sorts of advice about all sorts of things that might help.
That's all you can do,,i hope and pray it works out for you and your family..good luck willair.
Bug*ger and s**t are the best words in my experience of the past few weeks!!
Other profanities probably work equally well!! but these are my favs at present
Pen
Oh penny I know how you feel.
Last year I:
- Was getting ready to buy another IP
- Was made redundant from my employer.
- Decided to go to the doctor because I had a small lump under my ear.
- GP didn't like it at all. Went to a ENT specialist (ear, nose, throat).
- ENT said: parotid gland cancer.
It turned out to be malign and it had to be removed asap.
Oh, and after that, he said that there was a risk of my face being paralised.
So here I was, jobless, with cancer, and risk of being half face paralised.
One of the worst (if not the worst) days of my life.
So I'm with you, supporting you from here. You'll get through as I did.
I'm fine now, face is same as it's always been, there was no need of radiotherapy coz the doctor did an amazing job and extracted the entire parotid gland. I can't feel my ear and will never do. It'll stay numb for good. That's fine, I don't normally move my ear much!
Let us know how you go!
Bug*ger and s**t are the best words in my experience of the past few weeks!!
Other profanities probably work equally well!! but these are my favs at present
Pen
That's the f******g spirit!
(er....that's "fighting" by the way in case anyone thought it was something else)
Thinking of you.
The Y-man
All the best Penny! It really makes you realise what's important in life hey! You've got to enjoy every day, as you only have this moment. Great attitude! When you have your down moments, feel free to dump here. I hope you get through the chemo without too much trouble. Good thoughts are with you!
Hey there Penny and Amy! Fight on ! I will send my good vibes your way. When I was sick about 13 years ago (football sized tumour of the kidney) I watched every funny DVD I could get my hands on and laughed as much as I could. also had Reiki before my surgery. Doctor said he had never had that type of operation go so quickly and easily as mine.
good luck.
good luck.
