dianew Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 I think this is going to be a good day - even if it is Monday. The sun is out and the weatherman is saying close to 60 today. It is amazing what a little sun and warmth can do for your outlook. It isn't supposed to stick around the rest of the week - but it's a sign that spring is on the way and I'm grateful. I'm also beginning to feel better after having so much trouble this winter. Most of the time the worry is LC, but this year it's been my breathing. The radiation treatment really did a job on my one remaining lung. It has been a little frustrating dealing with the symptoms. My doctor (pulmonologist) really hasn't done anything that's helped much. I'm not sure what took me so long (as I know bettter), but I finally googled and did some of my own research. I took a list of treatment options he'd never mentioned with me to my last couple appts. He said I could try them and something's working as I am feeling much better. I'm grateful. But what I can't understand is with all the times this winter I've seen him, and been so sick, why in the world he never suggested trying any of these things. It just reinforces the fact that we have to do our homework and advocate for ourselves constantly. I am planning to meet a friend for lunch today and am really looking forward to that. Since I'm getting spring fever I might even start putting away some of my heavier winter clothes and digging out the spring ones -- or would that be tempting fate? I hope it is a good Monday for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Good to know that you are feeling better. Still warm here but cloudy. Rain is expected later in the week. As for your doctor I think sometimes they don't tell us things so they can keep that feeling of being above us. Not a good thing to say I know especially when I am having surgery tomorrow. It is just a simple skin cancer removal like he did on my face with a graft again. Still any proceedure always has me on pins and needles. I am not a good patient and a big coward to boot Pre op in a couple of hours so I need to get up and get busy. Take care eveyone and have a great week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilyjohn Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Good to know that you are feeling better. Still warm here but cloudy. Rain is expected later in the week. As for your doctor I think sometimes they don't tell us things so they can keep that feeling of being above us. Not a good thing to say I know especially when I am having surgery tomorrow. It is just a simple skin cancer removal like he did on my face with a graft again. Still any proceedure always has me on pins and needles. I am not a good patient and a big coward to boot Pre op in a couple of hours so I need to get up and get busy. Take care eveyone and have a great week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianew Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Lily - good luck today. I know it will go well, but is always such a relief to have it behind you. Will be thinking of you. Diane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet B Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 Happy Monday! Diane, I am so glad that you are feeling better, I swear Spring will do us all a world of good! As for your doctor, I don't have an answer as to why he didn't give you the treatments you found. I do think we have to always ask a lot of questions, do our own researching and be our own best advocates. My Onc always makes me feel like I am the only patient he has, so I have to remind myself that I am one of many, many he has seen that day. I always go with a list of exactly what I want to discuss and any questions I have so I make sure we hit it all. Lily - good luck with your surgery! I slept in until noon today. I felt like a slug when my husband came home for lunch (he works 2 miles away and comes home everyday for lunch) and I was in my pajamas eating breakfast! Then he reminded me that I was up several times in the night AND I have cancer, so it is ok! He gave in to the Cockatiel!!! (My sister promising to take it when I die clinched the deal!) I ordered a cage yesterday, it should arrive this week, then I just have to find the bird! I am so excited, like a kid at Christmas! My other personal exciting news is that my daughter that is just finishing up her third year of medical school got into the Masters of Public Health program at Harvard! It is a one year degree program that she will do next year in between her third and fourth year of Med. School. The best part of this news is that for a whole year all three of my children will be in Boston! It is an easy 2 hour drive or train ride and I can see all 3 at once! Now I just have to stay healthy enough to enjoy it! No plans this week besides the farm. I do want to get some long term projects worked on (organizing mostly), start shopping for Easter, and oh! Buy some toys for my new Cockatiel! Happy Day everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michellep Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 So happy your husband agreed on your bird Janet! You'll have endless hours of joy with it! Diane....Glad your doctor gave you something to help with your breathing. What did you end up taking? I have asthma and use a nebulizer and also use Pro Air inhaler. Couldn't imagine being without either one of them. Still cold as heck here. High of about 30 degrees with a lot of wind which makes it so much worse. I'm feeling trapped staying at home so much. I wanna go PLAY Going to start painting a spare bedroom we have. Russ's daughter moved out on her own so I want to get rid of those pink walls in there If pink walls aren't bad enough she has mirrors glued all over the place. It will be a lot of work but no doubt it will be nice when finished. Well, gotta run and start supper. Beef tips and noodles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dianew Posted March 4, 2013 Author Share Posted March 4, 2013 Janet - congratulations on the cockatiel!! I never doubted it for a minute I don't know much about them, except they have such pretty colors. And wow - what fantastic news about your daughter getting into the public health program. That is very exciting all by itself, but as a mother I can relate to the pleasure of having all 3 kids where you can visit them easily and at the same time no less!! Michelle - sounds like you have your work cut out for you, but think how nice it will be when done. Mostly the doctor gave me some new inhalers to try (he's always been very resiistant to anything different and I've been on the same ones for years - getting worse all the time) - but the big thing was a nebulizer. I can't tell you how much difference that's made. I am still so mad at him that after all this time he never even suggested my trying one. I know they are busy and we have to advocate for ourselves, but he's a specialist and it does seem like I shouldn't have to do all the work. But so far I feel like a new person! So I guess that's the important thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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