Giovanna - thank you - it is more accurate.
(Early detection and prevention is often used when addressing screening - and few assume that having the mammogram will mean you don't get breast cancer....hence my ...)
I am encouraged by the number of visits the thread reached in a very short time.
I hope the visits were a reflection of the genuine wish of the community to be engaged in constructive conversation about lifestyle modification following any major illness but particularly breast cancer.
I look forward to hearing what the BCNA position on exercise is, and whether it aligns with the NBCF.
https://nbcf.org.au/news/research-news/two-studies-show-impact-of-exercise-on-breast-cancer/The biggest problem - now I speak for myself alone, is trying to fit those requirements into a lifetstyle that flows and is fulfilling - ie trying to take care of myself while taking care of my family, and working, and....
It was my reason for starting the thread.
I came here to share two years after my treatment not because I looked for support but because I believe there is something we can all teach each other - a collective wisdom of survival.
I had lots of time to read on chemo last year so I know the numbers and I can read numbers ( please don't take that as anything more than I am ok with maths) - ( alas I didn't post the data on nutrition, and it goes way beyond being overweight) BUT here is the crunch - the reality test - tell me wise ladies of the BCNA - how do we make it fit in.
Did I follow it before diagnosis?? - no, I worked 80 hours per week before diagnosis and never crossed my mind I could get sick. Did that make me get BC ?? Heck no, we don't understand why although pieces of the puzzle now exist.
How do we incorporate it into life, how do we get back on the horse when we fall, how do
we change cooking for a family, how do we deal with supermarkets when perhaps we would prefer 9pm fresh open air markets and farmers...
A word on the recipes - I have many cooking books (am of that generation, like to hold something ) and still the things I cook are the things that have been taught to me by family and friends. I like a recipe that has been crafted by five different women before me.
A thread is only as good as the people who contribute to it are - to those who contributed with fragments of their lives in the hope that something might have meaning to another - thank you - if this is valuable to you please continue to post.
