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OVdialogue – consider joining our team in the role of Peer Support Volunteer. Over a few hours each week, you would be part of a team that helps connect people, support conversations and are thought leaders for OVdialogue. This is your opportunity to give back to those who have/continue to support you through the tough times, share your unique experiences, and help celebrate successes. For more details of what this entails, please reach out to @Mfallis (mfallis@ovariancanada.org).
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Hello Sisters. I just came from an appointment with my onc. Just my usual pre chemo check. Cycle 5 is on Monday.
@Strongwoman and @GloHo I also find myself nodding off when sitting. I have discovered the beauty of naps. I really don’t need to be doing something every moment of the day. I need to get busy and clean the bathroom but then.. nap time!!
JoanEG
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Hello everyone. Happy Teal Thursday. I am trying for the second time to type in a poem I wrote. I got halfway down, pressed the wrong button and it completely disappeared! Very frustrating, but I had chemo yesterday so maybe my I pad has got chemo brain but it is my last one according to everyone except mon onc. I have a CT scan tomorrow which will hopefully show NED, which it did three chemos ago, so even if mumblelips thinks otherwise and it shows no great big tumour somewhere, I am ending this cycle.
Its a nice sunny day here, and I am on Dex, and yesterday I bought myself a long black puffer coat with a detachable furry hood. It was half price. So today we are going to break it in with a walk to the clifftop and a waterproof sit down on the memorial bench and look out over the beautiful Salish sea. It is part of my decision to walk regularly through these cold winter months and hopefully prolong the remission.
This poem is because at this time of year we women tend to jump on diet wagons, and its a public health warning about where that can lead us. I hope it brings a smile to your faces
The Paleo Diet
My friend, who used to be quite plump
And used to have a dowager’s hump,
Who wouldn’t run and couldn’t jump,
Has gotten very thin.
She gets up early every morn
And runs ten miles before the dawn,
Her fatty bits have turned to brawn,
She’s lost her double chin.
And when I quizzed her, on the quiet,
She said she’s on the paleo diet,
And then suggested I should try it,
(I can’t imagine why.)
She eats what cavemen ate for food,
The stuff they gnawed and chomped and chewed,
With cat- tail roots and berries stewed,
Down in the Olduvai.
Or eggs they found, a royal treat,
And lots of lovely mammoth meat.
But nothing white and nothing sweet,
No ice-cream, cake or pie.
And now she fishes, traps and hunts.
Mostly she speaks in squeaks and grunts.
She’s weaving cedar clothes and once
I spied her knapping flint.
She seems at peace, though hard to reach
In her small cave down Whalebone Beach,
And , though I’m loathe to warn or preach,
Feel I must give this hint.
No aurochs roam our valleys now,
In place of them the placid cow.
The grassy steppes are under plough,
The new modus vivendi.
Those mammoths they are dead and gone
Beneath the ground they trampled on.
Be careful what you munch upon,
Especially if its trendy.
Copyright 2023 Judith Heather
Hooodith
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I want to leave everyone with a smile for the weekend. I think we all feel like this some days!! 💃
Taita
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@Taita my grands are 30, 28, 26, 24 and my great grands are 9, almost 4 and 2. The 2 year old is my oldest grandsons pay back for being a rotten kid. We call him the human hurricane, lol.
JoanEG
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@JoanEG
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People with OCD do not handle my Xmas “decorating” well. The same elf must have visited my house too.
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People with OCD do not handle my Xmas “decorating” well. The same elf must have visited my house too.
GloHo
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@GloHo your tree looks lovely! My granddaughter told me my house looked like elves had shown up and puked Christmas all over the living room. 😆
JoanEG
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@JoanEG I'm in Montreal at " the Jewish general hospital" it gets tons of private donations/funding
melissa
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That sounds like fun! We use to do thebig dinners at Thanksgiving since I was very young. Then I did it for the family until last year. i passed it down to my oldest Daughter. The other daughter does not have the room.
On the West Coast here, the weather may be still sunny for Monday.
Good news, my apple pie is in the oven and then to the freezer for Monday.
Yam dish to start on Sat. I thinkI can make it. Right now, my back is aching real bad. They say its arthritis. Joys of getting older and cancer treatments on top of it all.
I understand the feeling we go thru. Will I have the energy today or tomorrow. I get so warn out from the simplists task. I try not plan too far in advance. I just say, depends how I feel.
Just take it all day by day. One step at a time.At 69 I am slowing down.LOL But, still faster than my husband. LOL
Have a great Thanksgiving all across Canada!
On the West Coast here, the weather may be still sunny for Monday.
Good news, my apple pie is in the oven and then to the freezer for Monday.
Yam dish to start on Sat. I thinkI can make it. Right now, my back is aching real bad. They say its arthritis. Joys of getting older and cancer treatments on top of it all.
I understand the feeling we go thru. Will I have the energy today or tomorrow. I get so warn out from the simplists task. I try not plan too far in advance. I just say, depends how I feel.
Just take it all day by day. One step at a time.At 69 I am slowing down.LOL But, still faster than my husband. LOL
Have a great Thanksgiving all across Canada!
babs272
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@Strongwoman Thanks for these words of inclusion and acceptance. I was a therapist in my pre-retirement and got used to hearing everything, so feel I have to be cognizant of the fact that others may not be as comfortable with some words as I am. For instance, I dislike the word “passed”, but understand that it is a sweeter word than “died”, which sounds pretty done and dusted. Words are so very important, aren’t they?
My contribution today is that last night we read the results of Monday’s pre- chemo bloodwork. My CA 125 has gone down by over half and that was before the third chemo yesterday, so its working. I have a Catscan on Oct 6th, and after that mon onc will decide if I need more chemo. I posted a serious poem on the recurrence page, while I was in the chemo suite yesterday. Strongwoman invited me to post my favourite poem and as I told her, my favourites are the ones that I recite on stage between songs, that make people laugh. I am going to post one here today. I hope it brings smiles. If you are arachnophobic please scroll onwards. Hope everyone has a good day.
The Spider’s Wedding
This is a little story that to you I will tell,
About a lovely spider and her name was Daisy-Belle
She was pretty, she was witty, she was hairy, she was big.
My contribution today is that last night we read the results of Monday’s pre- chemo bloodwork. My CA 125 has gone down by over half and that was before the third chemo yesterday, so its working. I have a Catscan on Oct 6th, and after that mon onc will decide if I need more chemo. I posted a serious poem on the recurrence page, while I was in the chemo suite yesterday. Strongwoman invited me to post my favourite poem and as I told her, my favourites are the ones that I recite on stage between songs, that make people laugh. I am going to post one here today. I hope it brings smiles. If you are arachnophobic please scroll onwards. Hope everyone has a good day.
The Spider’s Wedding
This is a little story that to you I will tell,
About a lovely spider and her name was Daisy-Belle
She was pretty, she was witty, she was hairy, she was big.
She could sting at fifty paces, she could dance the dead-fly jig
She could throw a thread across the room, and climb it upside - down
And her webs they were the finest spun in all of Spider Town.
But Daisy- Belle was lonely, for although life was sweet,
Although she had good spider pals and lots of bugs to eat,
She longed to hear the whisper of a million little feet.
So Daisy- Belle, she dressed up fine, in her blackest spider clothes.
She brushed the hairs along her legs and scrubbed her many toes.
She tucked her stinger out of sight and polished up her nose
And crept into the summer night to hunt up spider beaux.
At first she couldn't find a one who measured to her glance,
And Daisy-Belle despaired that she would ever have the chance
To meet the perfect Spider Man and have that sweet romance.
But then she found Tom Tottercob, and he began to prance,
And round and round and back and forth began their mating dance.
Tom jigged and swirled, pirouetted, twirled, wooed her and then did win her
And he held her close as he tickled her toes, but he was a rank beginner.
For at the sweet height of their mutual delight
He felt the cold thrust of her stinger
And Tom Tottercob, having done his job, became the wedding dinner.
And Daisy- Belle said, well, now I’ve been wed
And although the affair was hasty,
I’ve expanded my girth, I’m soon to give birth,
And he was, after all
Quite tasty…..
If you smiled, it is my reward.
She could throw a thread across the room, and climb it upside - down
And her webs they were the finest spun in all of Spider Town.
But Daisy- Belle was lonely, for although life was sweet,
Although she had good spider pals and lots of bugs to eat,
She longed to hear the whisper of a million little feet.
So Daisy- Belle, she dressed up fine, in her blackest spider clothes.
She brushed the hairs along her legs and scrubbed her many toes.
She tucked her stinger out of sight and polished up her nose
And crept into the summer night to hunt up spider beaux.
At first she couldn't find a one who measured to her glance,
And Daisy-Belle despaired that she would ever have the chance
To meet the perfect Spider Man and have that sweet romance.
But then she found Tom Tottercob, and he began to prance,
And round and round and back and forth began their mating dance.
Tom jigged and swirled, pirouetted, twirled, wooed her and then did win her
And he held her close as he tickled her toes, but he was a rank beginner.
For at the sweet height of their mutual delight
He felt the cold thrust of her stinger
And Tom Tottercob, having done his job, became the wedding dinner.
And Daisy- Belle said, well, now I’ve been wed
And although the affair was hasty,
I’ve expanded my girth, I’m soon to give birth,
And he was, after all
Quite tasty…..
If you smiled, it is my reward.
Hooodith
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