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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).
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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Re: @GloHo
@Lorraine5845 I’m so glad to hear that you’re able to eat, even if it is hospital food! I can still remember the taste of a ghastly tuna sandwich that I managed to eat 5 days after debulking surgery. After two months, you must be willing to eat pretty much whatever they have?
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So true! 🤣🤣
GloHo
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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
🤣🤣🤣
People with OCD do not handle my Xmas “decorating” well. The same elf must have visited my house too.
🤣🤣🤣
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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