Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Another two-in-one post. I think this may be considered my "challenge" post.  The good news is that I have now completed 7 of 12 cycles, so I am looking at the end of chemotherapy. As I look back on my initial post , I realise that I had neglected a key piece of information about the kind of cancer I have.  Some women have cancers that are responsive to hormones, (quite simply, it appears that hormones make the cancer grow) and some women don't. I fall into the latter category - I am what is called triple negative. This is not a good thing. On my most recent visit with my oncologist we talked through "the numbers" that is, the survival rates and we assessed again how well my tumour is responding to chemotherapy (not as well as we'd hoped).  So these last two weeks have been quite a challenge mentally. It doesn't help that one of the side effects of all of this is a decline in disciplinary standards at our house.  Over the course of the summer I w

I've decided, largely for my own sanity and enjoyment, that perhaps I will have a short entertaining post. I will start off a list, but please feel free to add your own pet conundrums to the list. Strapless bikinis I was at the pool recently and I saw two young boys (maybe 2 and 3) with their mom at the pool frolicking around. Mom was wearing a strapless bikini. Strapless anything with two young kids confound me (or low-neck, short skirt, etc.)  Hmmm, maybe it's just MY two kids? Splenda Another reason why we don't let the kids watch "live" television. I was watching a show recently and I saw an advertisement with a woman sitting at a table with a very large bowl of very yummy strawberries. She then proceeded to empty a packet of Splenda over it. I don't think I need to say any more. Underwear Fortunately, not being the mother of young girls I don't have to manage this but I just don't get the logic of showing off straps 'n things.  It wou

This is a combined post, caused by much delinquency on my part and to some degree inertia.  In my defense though, I started going into the office 3 days a week at least. The downside is that I don't have energy for blogging once I get home, and unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of "things" that need attention right now. I haven't had too many pains this past week, but there is always something to manage with chemo and no two weeks seem to be exactly the same. In general I feel ok considering I am undergoing chemo (see Translations), but at times the feeling of exhaustion just overwhelms me. Two days after my chemo this week I felt my poor confused body trying to take a stand against the chemo poisons  (lymph nodes seemed enlarged, tiredness, etc.). Instead of spending too much time on the state of Me, I thought I'd share some thoughts on "What do I really mean?" or "Translations" and "The side-effects that keep on coming".