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Update - eventful year, difficult child still doing poorly
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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 564238" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>I had to laugh at your story of your difficult child's reaction to your diagnosis - yep, we never know what's going to come out of their mouths! My difficult child is convinced that this is just a minor blip and I'll be cured within a few months, and that's fine. I have no intention of telling him otherwise.</p><p></p><p>You're right, the diagnosis was a huge shock; it didn't matter that I'm in the profession. I found the lump in my right breast purely by accident one evening while getting ready for bed, and from the start I knew it was bad. That didn't make the formal diagnosis easier, though. I spent two or three weeks unable to put two coherent thoughts together, unable to function beyond the most basic activities of daily living. I've never had stress do that to me before - my brain literally didn't work. I found that, once my ex came to my new town and went with me to a few appointments and just hugged me and held my hand, I could think and plan and organize myself. I'm sorry to hear that you've had a colon cancer diagnosis. You know the ropes! I'm glad you have supportive family as well. At the moment I'm trying to finish my fall semester courses while doing chemo and it's a challenge. I think I can do it - and it helps keep my mind occupied. I worry about chemo-brain but the course work might actually help (I hope!). </p><p></p><p>I hear you about nutrition and organic foods. I had a lot of disbelief and anger right at first, because in the past couple of years (especially the past year) I've eaten an extremely healthy whole foods plant-based diet, lost considerable weight, become physically fit, and felt better than I had in many years. Of course that's all good, it's given me a good place from which to start this fight, but it made the diagnosis more of a shock. However, realistically I hadn't eaten well for the preceding few decades! Not such a surprise, then, that things had gone drastically wrong with my body. For now I'm continuing with the good diet, only organic produce (and only cooked, while I'm doing chemo - I miss my salads SO much!), very little soy if any, low fat ... trying my best. This cycle I've had side effects that made my mouth very painful and scrambled eggs are the only thing I can eat comfortably some days, so I get local source organic/free range eggs. Once I'm done with my program, if things work out and I return to the property my ex and I still co-own, I want to get some heritage breed chickens and maybe a few turkeys. I also want to greatly expand the garden. But that's in the future.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for sharing, DDD! I hope you're doing well and coping with your treatment. This diagnosis has somewhat changed my thoughts about future work - I'm far more interested in environmental and public health issues (always was, but now it's very personal) and am thinking I'll look for work in those areas rather than strictly Occupational Medicine. It would be very satisfying to do something that might help lower risk for women in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 564238, member: 2884"] I had to laugh at your story of your difficult child's reaction to your diagnosis - yep, we never know what's going to come out of their mouths! My difficult child is convinced that this is just a minor blip and I'll be cured within a few months, and that's fine. I have no intention of telling him otherwise. You're right, the diagnosis was a huge shock; it didn't matter that I'm in the profession. I found the lump in my right breast purely by accident one evening while getting ready for bed, and from the start I knew it was bad. That didn't make the formal diagnosis easier, though. I spent two or three weeks unable to put two coherent thoughts together, unable to function beyond the most basic activities of daily living. I've never had stress do that to me before - my brain literally didn't work. I found that, once my ex came to my new town and went with me to a few appointments and just hugged me and held my hand, I could think and plan and organize myself. I'm sorry to hear that you've had a colon cancer diagnosis. You know the ropes! I'm glad you have supportive family as well. At the moment I'm trying to finish my fall semester courses while doing chemo and it's a challenge. I think I can do it - and it helps keep my mind occupied. I worry about chemo-brain but the course work might actually help (I hope!). I hear you about nutrition and organic foods. I had a lot of disbelief and anger right at first, because in the past couple of years (especially the past year) I've eaten an extremely healthy whole foods plant-based diet, lost considerable weight, become physically fit, and felt better than I had in many years. Of course that's all good, it's given me a good place from which to start this fight, but it made the diagnosis more of a shock. However, realistically I hadn't eaten well for the preceding few decades! Not such a surprise, then, that things had gone drastically wrong with my body. For now I'm continuing with the good diet, only organic produce (and only cooked, while I'm doing chemo - I miss my salads SO much!), very little soy if any, low fat ... trying my best. This cycle I've had side effects that made my mouth very painful and scrambled eggs are the only thing I can eat comfortably some days, so I get local source organic/free range eggs. Once I'm done with my program, if things work out and I return to the property my ex and I still co-own, I want to get some heritage breed chickens and maybe a few turkeys. I also want to greatly expand the garden. But that's in the future. Thanks for sharing, DDD! I hope you're doing well and coping with your treatment. This diagnosis has somewhat changed my thoughts about future work - I'm far more interested in environmental and public health issues (always was, but now it's very personal) and am thinking I'll look for work in those areas rather than strictly Occupational Medicine. It would be very satisfying to do something that might help lower risk for women in the future. [/QUOTE]
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