So....talk about.....CANCER SUPPORT THREAD !!

[Lunachick]

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Thanks for your candidness~Soreness from surgery does not scare me, pain from healing does not scare me. It's the darn prognosis...........

No soda for me, besides the gas pains, the embarrassment from potential farting will be enough for me to avoid that.

( attitude, attitude!

) The sock? I'm not sure how that would help?

Yea, the lifting, I do everything around at home with the chooks and yard. Which I LOVE to do. Someone's gonna have to take over for awhile, that worries me to some point. I feel FINE! It's this vampire called cancer in my system...........and maybe because I feel fine, that it's early that they caught it. (hopeful, hopeful

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[Lunachick]

Thank you !! Terrie & Mahonri.

I now what you're saying.

 

[lurky]

As always

 

[verthandi]

Somehow I feel the worry of cancer will end with your surgery. Somewhere I read that 90% of what we worry about, never comes to be, so it helps me to think of that when something causes me stress. The rice sock...just a sock filled with rice that is heated in the microwave. The heat from it I found helped with the soreness from the surgery. I asked the doctor if I could have one and they used some useless hot air type of heating pad that didn't get much hotter than my body temperature. I had my rice sock delivered from home and would walk down to the visitors room and use the microwave there to heat it up.

Your doctor will tell you how much you can do at home. I vaguely remember still giving the horses their hay and feeding the chickens, but I couldn't lift water buckets or a certain amount of weight for a couple of weeks. I do remember I couldn't vacuum...broke my heart

 

[HennyJenny]

Luna,
The surgery is going to be ok. Think good thoughts and take care of yourself. The incision across the pelvic bone gives them a little more room to look around and make sure they get what they need to (this is a good thing for you). It gives you a few more pain pills and some more laying around time. (Maybe you should find a lap chicken?) I think surgeries are scary because they seem so out of our control. I had a surgeon that I trusted implicitly and she was a very straight talker about my cancer. I don't know anything about uterine cancer - but I do know that my comfort level with what was happening to me was very much increased because I liked and trusted my doctor. When it was over I had faith that she had gotten everything which meant everything to me post operatively. Quite frankly, she didn't take a single thing I have ever missed and it sounds like the rest of the girls on here would agree with that

- I have an occasional hot flash - but I think God just gives me those for entertainment!

I agree with the person who said reading about these things on the internet can scare the "peas and carrots" out of you. I would make a list of questions for your doctor and take a trusted person with you to your appointment to help you stay focused and get your questions answered and help you remember the answers! I would save the internet searches for when you would like more detail or some back up information or are trying to formulate some more complicated questions. Hearing that you have cancer is scary and doctors don't seem to have a way to tell us this that doesn't make us panic. But you won't be able to diagnose your stage or your treatment on the internet and everything you see may become more scary than you need to be. I had "just" had stage two cancer and I had myself dying and leaving my babies behind before I had even talked to the doctor (I am a pragmitist - hypochondriac cross though - I think that means my primary feathers are yellow LOL ) - I am here - alive - fine - and healthy and all of the worry and sleeplessness lost due to reading stuff I didn't really understand was just wasted time.

I wish you peace in your heart and head until you can get the answers you need. You sound like a very calm - levelheaded woman despite a very tough month - this will serve you well!
Jenny

 

[Lunachick]

I have a knot in my stomach today.

 

[Damummis]

Luna,
May all the powers that be, be on your side.

My gram had uterine cancer back in the 50's. She is now 92. For what it is worth.

 

[easttxchick]

And that's perfectly understandable. You are perfectly normal for being nervous and shell shocked-it's OK. Actually, no matter what you're feeling is normal, be it angry, scared, frustrated...the absolute best weapons for you is knowledge(just get it from a reliable source)-we always fear the unknown.
I am not one of your BYC buddies, but I have read enough of your posts to know that you have a beautiful spirit and a positive attitude-you WILL win this battle and we'll be here to cheer you on while you do it!

 

[prov31gal]

order apricot seeds, thery contain b vitamins that we do not normally get, and have a compound that kills cancer cells. before you have surgury, dont eat sugar, or anything white, whie flour, potatoes, anything white. sugar feeds cancer.
so order the seeds, ear them, they are bitter, but eat them, and no sugar. you may not need surgury after all. a friend i had was diagnosed with breast cancer during her 10th pregnancy, she cut out all meat, sugar and ate the seeds, and got lots of exercize. lots, and also got lots og clorophyl from green plants and suppliments like spirilina. she used the pregnancy as an excuse to not get treatment, and shes glad she didnt, she has 11 children now, the little boy she had when she was diagnosed, and a little girl after, and no cancer. none, gone. just give it a shot.

 

[Lunachick]

Thank you Damummis & easttx. I'm dealing with it. But today I had to tell my twin & a coworker......so.....now I'm a little shaky from that. Thank you for the kind words, it really helps.