This Crazy Cancer Journey

Denise,

Good luck Denise!

 

Gerrisue my sister gave me a year's subscription to Yoga magazine and I really enjoy.  What I would enjoy more now is if I could get my legs and body into some of those positions.  Mantras I can do, no physical wear and tear on a body that won't bend.

i subscribe to yoga journal---and wow!  if only i could get my body to contort into some of those poses--i look at these gumby type people and really believe that cancer cells would not dare enter a body that practices the cobra, locust, dancing tree, downward dog, etc. poses.

no one is immuned.

gerriesue,
i was hoping that if i could get into one of those difficult yoga poses, it would cancel out the peeps i have eaten. 

krisa, I don't know if anything cancels out peeps. But the restorative yoga can help with stiffness and strength. Haven't heard from Denise. Hoping for the best.

Hi, guys.  Thanks for thinking of me!  That makes me feel so cared for, that you were checking on me.  Well, I had the marrow slurpage, and no she did not smear it on bread (or matza) and eat it.  In fact, I didn't even see the vials she filled.  If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might suspect she gathered nothing, and is merely a sadist.  OOOh fun let's stick needles into people's bones.  The lidocaine burned like H-E-double tootpicks, for starters.  Then the whole drill in or whatever it was and slurp all, all highly unpleasant, even with my two sisters Ativan and Vicodin humming nicely in my veins.  Maybe they took the edge off, though not much.  After it was over we stopped by for falafels and drove home, where I slept for hours in a druggy haze.  All I needed was some crack friends to nod with.  Eventually I roused myself, visited with a friend, and then Joel and I went to see Leonard Cohen in concert.  It was fabulous, though I'm still a tad dopey and my lower back has been happier.   Now the scary part - waiting for results, and then getting them.  I should hear by sometime Wed, the same day I'll be doing a PetCT.  So, by day's end Wed I should know what is up in the Wolf body.  I'm hoping (against hope?) that the answer is a big, bleedin' nothing.  Happy, healthy body with tumor markers rising for no cancer-related reason.  Hope, hope...

Love,
Denise

pam,
falafels cancel out peeps.



denise....waiting with you; waiting with everyone on this forum that is waiting to hear something.

Thanks everyone for a good laugh. The whole business about peeps and now falafel! You ladies are toooooooo funny. Denise, so glad you maintain your sense of humor through something so awful. Your courage and humor are inspiring. Prayers for good results!

Met with my onc today. He said since the cancer has metastized, there is no curing it, but he will try to get it into remission. Starting me on Xeloda (it's pill form and since my husband and I are planning a trip along the Pacific shore, I can take it on the road). We also discussed Ixempra. He said combining the two would give me no quality of life, so he's being conservative that way. Also wants to try PARP inhibitors? Still haven't googled that one but will tonight. He still says the average life expectency is about one year after known mets, but at least we're still fighting. I read something in one of the forums/threads, and the author and location is escaping me at the moment, but it was a post about the mean/average (written by a professor who had mesothelioma). That article reminds me that we are not 'average' and there are always those that beat the odds. Too bad it can't be all of us?