This is from a dear friend, whom I have been through "thick and thin". She knows me well and accepts all my "foibles"...as I do hers.
Hi Sis,
I don't ever write until I catch up on your blog, a joy to read. What do I like most? I love how you push through pain to do that exercise. Not so many would. They could, but it is the would. Why do you push? It is just you, a vital beat in your mind and heart that just won't sit and quit. Lots do sit and don't exercise. I love them too and understand, but I treasure a older people who push on as you do.
Muriel...I cheer you on..Hugs,phyllis05/06/1933 www.women70andover.com
This Blog is for Women 70 and Over. What parts of your lives do you think of at a red light? How are you coping with this part of your life? No books to tell you how to get from one square to another? Lets go! Write! Time waits for no One!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
9/23/12 One Two Three? pr
One! Two Three! You’re out!
Not baseball. This is the other
side of Cancer Radiation of the breast!
What do I mean by that? My
Radiation treatments have taken a turn for the better. These treatments now consist of the metal
block with the special made glass insert with a slant opening in it, just made
for my No Boob area. This is the area
across my once breast where the incision now is. This area is a vulnerable left over of the
surgery. This is the area where the
cancer can come back, grow, and show its ugly face. The block is especially designed for the size
of my No Boob area. The radiation at
this point just beams to that part of the No Boob area. Time wise the time involved is termed “QUICK”
I termed it that! Perhaps it takes a
matter of a fast few minutes! A
pleasure. This is all put in place as
all of the Radiation Treatments are for me by Dr. Charles Hechtman, MD/PhD and
the large team of doctors and techs of the Radiation Department. Ms Bernie Boyd and Mariah Millard have been
my major techs that I see for most of my treatments. They are each skilled in their calculations
and placement of me on the table. They
have spent many years in school for this procedure. Most techs in radiation go to school for as
many as six years. They are on their
feet all day long running from the radiation room to the patient, getting the
table set up for each patient with the patients special made body form on the
table and a sheet and roll foam for their legs and a sheet to cover up with,
just like a bed. They want each person
to be as comfortable as can be. They are
most kind as they prepare you in the awkward position. To each of them and Dr. Charles Hechtman
MD/PhD I say thank-you, which is very trite.
I say you are all Dear’s for taking the time to come to work on rainy
days, for staying until 9 p.m. when needed.
I say I will never forget each of you for being so special and caring
and not mentioning it when you got close to my face when I was on the table to
see the tears that were sometimes just under my eyelids. I always wondered if you did see them as you
patted my arms when you came in to draw on my No Boob area for your
calculations. You all have added to my
quality of life. You have made me
stronger. If you could hear me, I would
say “Whooooo Hooooo!” Thank-you to each of you all wrapped in kindness from me
to you I am glad I choose Halifax
Hospital, right here in Daytona Beach, Fl to lead me on my Cancer Journey to Wellness I am a lucky
duck at seventy-nine! Hugs,phyllis 05/06/1933 www.women70andover.com
Saturday, September 22, 2012
9/22/12 Good OR Bad? pr
Arimidex (Arimidex 1mg) I take one
pill daily.
This is the medicine I take to prevent the cancer tumors reoccurring in my
body. I will be on this medicine for five years. The side effects I have are:
Arthritis, headaches, hot flushes, joint pain and stiffness, bone pain, loss
of sleep. Thank heaven these are my only side effects. I have learned to live with them with style
and grace! When I have joint pain ect. I
say, “Phyllis, just walk like you do not hurt! I do and I am able to walk the
pain away, like it never bothered me.”
(until the next time!) Trust me!
I know I am very lucky. I could
be sitting in a Chemo chair with I.V. medicene dripping in me, instead I have
quality of life. Walking daily, full of
energy, time to volunteer at the Chemo center at Halifax Hospital in Ormond and
Daytona Beach, write my blog, draw, bake and cook, read, do research of my
writings, enjoy movies and my kind husband, my support center and friends and
family and the heavens above. For me
that’s a lot to be thankful for and I think a lot of things are funny, cancer
not being one of them, instead my dog Annie makes me laugh and Woody Allan and
most of all I laugh at myself! Hugs, phyllis 05/06/1933 www.women70andover.com
comments? Send to phyllisreh@aol.com
Side effects
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Information specific to: Arimidex
1mg tablets when used in Breast cancers.
Side-effects
A medicine is only made available to the public if the
clinical trials have shown that the benefits of taking the medicine outweigh
the risks.
Some side-effects may be serious while others may only be
a mild inconvenience.
Everyone's reaction to a medicine is different. It is
difficult to predict which side-effects you will have from taking a
particular medicine, or whether you will have any side-effects at all. The
important thing is to tell your prescriber or pharmacist if you are having
problems with your medicine.
Very common: More than 1 in 10 people who take Arimidex
Common: More than 1 in 100 people who take Arimidex
Uncommon: More than 1 in 1000 people who take Arimidex
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Friday, September 21, 2012
9/21/12 Good Omen? pf
Most
everyone has omens of one sort or another.
The day started with Annie, our dog throwing up at 4:30 a.m. I got up tended to her, calmed her down. I started the wash machine, took a shower and
started the morning with an early a.m. walk.
Left the house at 7 a.m. for my early radiation treatment. While checking in at the Hospital desk, where
I flash my ID card I noticed I also had another appointment in the oncology
section across town, so I called Bill and said I would pick him up so he would
not feel stuck at home. All seemed good
at that point? Did I say good? Soon I was called in for my radiation
treatment, got up on the table. I did my
arms up routine and laid there still.
The techs moved me around for the correct reading. The machine started. I settled in.
The techs came rushing in. “The
arms of the machine, that take the pictures of me stopped.” Panic!
“Just do not move”, “We will get things back on track.” I was so pleased when they cranked the
radiation machine back in tune! Real life
gets in the way! Hugs,phyllis 05/06/1933
www.women70andover.com
Thursday, September 20, 2012
9/20/2012 Happy New Year! A time to reflect. pr
This is our Jewish New Year. A time to reflect! A time to forgive. Especially ourselves. A time for calm. This is the core of most religions. For me it is a goal I think of each day and try to do. I do fail and can humbly be better or try. I will put that into effect this morning, as I will soon leave for my radiation treatment. I will lay very still on the table and tell myself calming things. I will feel the burn that has been left on my chest from past radiation treatments. I will do good. I will. I will. Hugs, phyllis 05/06/1933 www.women70andover.com
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
1/19/12 Your Health Foundation pr
We are the foundations of our own health! What do I mean by that? Walk.
Why? This can be used as a self-gage
for you. How? If you walk one mile daily, or the same
amount everyday at whatever pace you decide then the next day the object is to
do the same thing. Easy you say! Yes it can be. On the other hand, your body can also talk to
you and say I just cannot do that. I
want to only walk for five minutes. This
is how your body tries to communicate with you.
For the health of it, I encourage you to find your own body gage. Why?
You must build up some resistance for your body to when major medical
events hit you, you will be able to fight back and be stronger than the average
non-walker. I meet a woman last evening
at a function. She had reason to be
upset. At the end of the month, she will
have a shunt put in her arm, for dialysis.
She is a dietetic. She has had open-heart
surgery in the past. She never had a
walking program. Yes, what works for one
person does not work for you next you say.
This could be. On the other hand,
you have not put out great amounts of money to find out. You have not put out great amounts of time to
help yourself. I feel my daily walking
is my gage. Before I was diagnosed with Cancer,
I noticed I would tire when I walked. My
legs would hurt. These were all signs of
something is wrong. Did I act on it and
run to the doctor. NO! My humanness got in the way, or my stupidity! My walking has helped me on my journey for
recovery from my mastectomy. Enough! Hugs, phyllis 05/06/1933 www.women70andover.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
9/18/12 SUGAR HIGH?? pr
Here is the SUGAR HIGH out again and again! In a large nutshell: in 1966, we ate 113 lbs
of sugar. The last count in 2010 is 132
lbs of sugar. From 1960, the amount of
obese people was 12.8% and in 2010, the amount almost tripled to 35%. This is not because we are all bad! It is because there is so much added sugar in
foods we think are safe. We do not thing
of all the sugars in coleslaw, low-fat yogurt with fruit, 2 tablespoons of jam
or preserves one cup of tomato sauce, even two tablespoons of ketchup. Perhaps the best thing to do is keep a daily
sugar diary or journal. In plain
English, just write it down for your own knowledge and see how you can go from
your new knowledge of your sugar high to your well high. Gee! I am going to
start that today! Hugs,phyllis 05/06/1933
www.women70andover.com
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