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Hello @kmakm and @Zoffiel. Yes I have joined the group but I am having trouble accessing the group to read and post. Maybe I am doing something wrong.
Anyway. I am looking forward to the weekend and I have treated myself to 9 days in Melbourne ( by myself - leaving husband to his own vices). I have just worked out that I will be flying over 5,000 kms. It will be worth the experience. Just hope that I have enough warm clothes. Kimberley gear is very light on. I will be the woman dressed in Antartic gear shivering!3 -
@Giovanna_BCNA Can we get some help with joining the Plan B group? I had this problem with joining too. I know I've been told there isn't a glitch with joining groups here, but I've had problems joining the two groups to which I now belong and other people constantly report the same. I do think there's an issue.0
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I think we need a couple more buttons at the bottom as well as 'Like', 'Awesome' and 'LOL' ........
such as a
to show sympathy or empathy
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or grrrrr one to show outrage
and a 'WTF' button ..... not sure what that one would look like ....
Yep, ALL the Loopies came out of the woodwork for me ......... I figured that in the 12 days between diagnosis & surgery - ain't nothing I was eating or drinking that was going to kill me faster than the cancer ...... so didn't bother to change my diet at all! LOL
I had the 'Cut Out Sugar' lecture - to be honest I don't eat much anyway! I am more of a 'savoury person' and can leave chocolate in the fridge for 12 months & not eat it .... not fussed on cake or cookies .... hmmmm, I don't mind a rum & coke now & then (tho I've run out of what I bought duty free in Norfolk already!
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The Cut out Wine/Booze lecture - AS IF!!
The Cut down on the amount of Meat lecture - well THAT's not gonna happen!
You should Drink Iodine (of all things ..... Japanese women don't get as much BC as Western Women .....) THAT's not gonna happen either!!!!
And THIS ONE, from a woman I'd never met in my LIFE!:HEALTH - My little added bit, is to clean your diet up, Dr’s don’t tell you this. Stop all sugar’s, its much to blame for the acidity of our bodies.That’s all soft drinks, wines, sweets of all kinds & most processed foods. Stick with only fresh produce you make yourself. Drink way more water, especially as you wake up.(not town water with choride & fluoride) Its serves to flush your body at the right elimination time. If you have serious treatment, the added water is essential.Also Dental work is paramount to good health, no amalgum fillings, as mercury is the highest poison on the earth, like old fillings. NO root canals, No crowns, no metal in the body of any kind, as it works against our health. I do a lot of reading on health & what causes so much to go wrong. THAT WOULD MEAN ALL MY TEETH HAVE TO GO!! AS IF!I’ve even stopped deodorants, fluoride toothpastes, shampoos, sun screens, they are all chemicals going into the body, working against your good health.
I was like W T F ......... HOW FUCKING BORING IS THAT WOMAN'S LIFE??
I am sure we'll hear plenty more equally as stupid things as well ....... I just smile at them & say to myself: You Can't Cure STUPID!!
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The very first person I told about my diagnosis who wasn't a family member told me about a friend of a friend who was given two months to live, went vegan, and is still alive six years later. I smiled, said "I've been told not to listen to stories like that" and literally walked away.
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But then I had my buddies who REALLY know me ...... who said things that made me laugh (I'd asked them to tell jokes & NOT to be sympathetic cos I am a cry baby from WAY BACK!) LOL:
One of my fishing buddies has said that he almost feels sorry for the tumour as I am so tough!
From another fishing buddy who's had 2 lots of cancer - only the goood die young so you and I are safe as houses.
From a member of my family - cos we usually die from heart attacks (our Dad & Uncle died 50 years ago when we were in our early teens) ...... Hey, this isn't part of the family tradition!
From a buddy in the UK who is 15 years BC free ..... My only advice is get out fishing as often as humanly possible and play the uke whenever you’re not out on the yak.
From one of my Uke members ....I guess this means that we will all have to learn those bloody introductions and who knows WHO is going to play 12th street rag!!!!!!
Another Uke buddy ..... Bugger bitch bum poo!
Another Uke buddy ....I cannot put into type the profanities that spewed from my mouth on learning of this diagnosis!
This one cracked me up .... from another uke buddy ... I have a joke for you, Paddy couldn't decide who was his best mate - his wife or his pet dog! So in despiration he saw his local priest who said " To be sure it's quite simple, lock them both in the boot of your car for ten minutes - then when you let them out - see who's glad to see you" LOL6 -
@arpie. Oh I had all those lectures too from so called health professionals. After the lecture on alcohol I commented that I was lucky if I drank 6 bottles of wine a year. Her comment - 1 can cause cancer! Well I guess I was "lucky". I often think that the health professionals actually believe their mantra about the Kimberley being awash with alcohol. We're not you know!
I loved the comment on town water. Wonder what happened to me? We live 10 kms out of town and are not on town water. Been out here for 25 years. Have to pump our own water. Well I guess it is because our water is full of our neighbour's s _ _ t!!!
For ten months I followed what the experts said (except for chocolate). However on Saturday I said WTF I am not living and so I had a stubby of light beer after being in the garden! And so I have gone back to my pre cancer habits figuring that my diet was good before BC.
How my life has changed since June last year. 12 months ago I had not a care in the world. Life was good. Now I have every stupid person who crosses my path sticking their 2 bobs worth in. And I've heard some doozies from people I really did not think were that stupid!
What I absolutely hate are those adverts here in WA that talk about "toxic fat". I just wish the various health departments would stop rubbing it in - we know we have cancer.
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I have just remembered a classic "You should........"
A "friend" (who I suspect has warped her brain with woopy weed) suggested that I should blend the stems and leaves of pawpaw and drink it 3 times a day! I told her it made more sense to rub the cocoction into Miss Perky. She floored me when she said that I should do that too!10 -
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@arpie My husband and I are rolling on the floor with laughter imagining Miss Perky dissolving under the influence of pawpaw. And believe me Miss Perky does NOT need to be any more tender!
The toxic fat advert is something that the WA Health Department has run on tv to dictate to us. I really do not know if it is on you tube. Not worth watching anyway.
I am impressed with your husband's athletic achievements. Yes if we believed the boffins and lived the life they dictated there would be no cancer.
We grow all our own veges, garden 5 acres, exercise every day (after gardening) drink very little alcohol, eat home cooked meals, are active in the community with volunteering and yet we both have had cancer. Ian was diagnosed 21 years ago and myself last year. By all the laws of good food and exercise we should be at the top of the health ladder. I now keep a very healthy scepticism and cynicism of medicos and all things medicine.
Thankyou for your postive comments. I have my days and some are not nice. However this forum has done more for me than any of the so called experts. It is very reassuring to read that what I think and feel is also what others do. I am Normal. I also find it difficult being a very remote woman as there is the inference that I must be "strong" because remote women are supposed to be resourceful, resilient and self reliant. Sometimes all I wanted to do was sit in the naughty corner and cry.
I also refuse to be defined by this cancer thing. I have cancer, I am not cancer.
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Yes, sometimes I wish they’d documented his recovery and return to sport at such a high level. He is 82 this year!!
Wow! Well done you two on your healthy lifestyle!! Yes, it sucks, living in a house where 100% have had cancer! Neighbours across the road have 100% As well .... and 3 other neighbours with 1 partner diagnosed. Not sure if that would be classed as a cluster? And guaranteed not eating their own veg, probably drinking ‘too much booze’ and not exercising enough!! I guess, with both having their partners ‘thru it’ previously, We would be a little more prepared for the overall gist of things, even tho my diagnosis was still a slap in the face! Totally unexpected!
Yep .. Unless they’ve had cancer themselves, the boffins are just parroting what they’ve read or been told by others/patients either at university or once they are in a Dr’s practise. They have no ‘actual’ experience of experiencing the disease, @Annie C .... so like you, I really value the info we get from our BC sisters (and brothers) here on the forum .... cos they’ve lived it and have no reason not to tell the truth - no matter how confrontational it may be. Some are luckier than others with less complex procedures, but that initial fear upon hearing the diagnosis & initial biopsies and results are the same for Everyone, I reckon.
The way I see it .... I HAD cancer, it was removed. Right now I am doing some ‘mopping up’ exercises ..... It is not unlike having a baby! You are pregnant, you have the baby and are no longer pregnant!
i am a firm believer in being kept busy doing things you love (or work, if you must ... for those youngies!) once you are able to after surgery and the other procedures ... even whilst going they those procedures. It works for me. It worked for my hubby! He was already exercising in bed, within days of coming out of theatre, which AMAZED the hospital staff! At that point in time, he couldn’t even sit up by himself, but was doing what he could!
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I have heard on the news that this week alone there is a new cancer related to breast implants (there was an article in the Sunday Telegraph in Sydney) and they are concerned as when they had tested breast tissue from mastectomy patients in another study that sunscreen had actually leeched into the tissue.
U fortunately it seems like everything can give h cancer these days it just seems like a genetic roll of the dice. I know so many people who are in there 70’s and have a very unhealthy lifestyle but are chugging along quite happily but then it’s probably a vegan who slathers herself in paw paw that gets cancer. I have been a vegan for a few years and it certainly didn’t stop me getting cancer or make it go away. A lot of veggie curries would of been preferable to chemo. I think we just have to live our life the best and the healthiest we can and still have our little vices - otherwise what’s the point.3 -
Hi there @kmakm I’m buying that mug I bloody love it lol!! . I went for my yearly routine chest wall ultra sound this morning and I go in there and lie down the radiologist introduces himself then proceeds to say “so let’s take a look at this lump” I said WHAT FUCKING LUMP!! Does it say on the referal I have a lump FFS! The oncol said he didn’t feel anything when I saw him!!!
And he then apologised profusely and then said it doesn’t say that at all on the referal at all and he then said “I haven’t even had a look yet and shouldn’t of said that” and I said do you think!! He said you must think I’m a real prick and I said no not at all I just think you should always check the referal before you say shit like that. I then said he was lucky he said it to me who’s quite thick skinned and not someone who’s a bit more sensitive who might take offence more easily. Another one for the wanker of the week award lol. I’m going to buy him the mug above that @kmakm suggested. Margie xxx
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Wankers of the week indeed @onemargie We probably should start telling them we share all this. Hundreds of people now know you are a tool, mate.0
