My life revolves around the gym, exercise classes with my fellow afflicted, and hospital appointments. This week I had three ‘……ologies’ appointments. That can be draining at the best of times. I don’t really drink. With a bladder the size of a plum, and smoking of no interest to me, I still feel that you have to live and have your vices. My kids are great, my wife is a rock onto which I lean far too much, and without them not sure the future holds much for me. So I make sure everybody knows how much I love them (friends and family), enjoy my vices, and keep taking the medication no matter how much I detest their side effects.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Some people find it helpful to exert control in some way. I am wondering whether your blog is mainly going to be about lifestyle changes that you believe are controlling your cancer. I see my own sense that supplements and consistent exercise might help as less certain than you describe yours as being. I also have an opposing feeling, which is the one about the fact that we are all going to die and one could be run over by a bus tomorrow, so do more of what you fancy and less of what you don’t. It’s quality over quantity.
As pointed out in the previous 2 messages I think everyone has to do what they believe is best for them are their particular situation.
But it’s good to share information and knowledge, and to encourage each other to feel that whatever they choose to do is what’s right for them.
I try to get my partner to do various things that I believe MAY help; a couple he does willingly, and a couple begrudgingly and probably just to humour me.
I think the most helpful thing is probably the dried, ground Turkey Tail mushroom he ( we ) have in our morning kefir; in Japan this is a licensed/prescribed drug for immune system help ( there’s a more technical term obviously )
And, a big glass of water in the morning, before tea etc, which I encourage him to think of as the ‘elixir of life’.
That’s a fingers crossed one, but for sure the water first thing is beneficial, and one’s belief system is hugely important ( the infamous placebo effect )
Good luck everyone, and keep sharing information and being supportive of one another.
My life revolves around the gym, exercise classes with my fellow afflicted, and hospital appointments. This week I had three ‘……ologies’ appointments. That can be draining at the best of times. I don’t really drink. With a bladder the size of a plum, and smoking of no interest to me, I still feel that you have to live and have your vices. My kids are great, my wife is a rock onto which I lean far too much, and without them not sure the future holds much for me. So I make sure everybody knows how much I love them (friends and family), enjoy my vices, and keep taking the medication no matter how much I detest their side effects.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Some people find it helpful to exert control in some way. I am wondering whether your blog is mainly going to be about lifestyle changes that you believe are controlling your cancer. I see my own sense that supplements and consistent exercise might help as less certain than you describe yours as being. I also have an opposing feeling, which is the one about the fact that we are all going to die and one could be run over by a bus tomorrow, so do more of what you fancy and less of what you don’t. It’s quality over quantity.
As pointed out in the previous 2 messages I think everyone has to do what they believe is best for them are their particular situation.
But it’s good to share information and knowledge, and to encourage each other to feel that whatever they choose to do is what’s right for them.
I try to get my partner to do various things that I believe MAY help; a couple he does willingly, and a couple begrudgingly and probably just to humour me.
I think the most helpful thing is probably the dried, ground Turkey Tail mushroom he ( we ) have in our morning kefir; in Japan this is a licensed/prescribed drug for immune system help ( there’s a more technical term obviously )
And, a big glass of water in the morning, before tea etc, which I encourage him to think of as the ‘elixir of life’.
That’s a fingers crossed one, but for sure the water first thing is beneficial, and one’s belief system is hugely important ( the infamous placebo effect )
Good luck everyone, and keep sharing information and being supportive of one another.