Exercise and well being during chemo and radiation

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    9/26: Steps + stretches + 1 hr yard work + 50 crunches + 200 pedals + resistance band + 4# floor triceps [10x2] + 60-sec plank + x 1.5 hr T (2.3) = 4.52 miles

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,804
    edited September 2015

    Walked a bit over two miles this am before it got hot.

    I am so ready to start swimming again. I like to walk, but I love to swim. BS has nixed it until wounds totally healed. Now that I am almost there on the lx healing, wondering: I will ask her (BS) and MO, but was anyone told no swimming during chemo?

    Octogirl

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  • Keys-Plez
    Keys-Plez Member Posts: 304
    edited September 2015

    I know you can't go in a chlorine pool with radiation. It dries out your skin. You'll pay big time for that.

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  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 3,039
    edited September 2015

    Octogirl: I can't answer the 'swimming during chemo' question, but my sympathies! Waiting for my incisions to heal was the longest wait going, and I didn't have any complications.

    Interestingly, my RO was fine with my swimming throughout rads--I go 3-4 times a week to the decidedly chlorinated pool at my local YMCA, and spelled that out to him. All he said was "Fine, as long as you don't have any skin breaks." Which I wouldn't have done in any case--oozing bodily fluids in a public pool is not on. Drying, absolutely. Irritating to an already irritated skin, definitely. But I came through with manageable skin effects.

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,804
    edited September 2015

    thanks for the input K-P and QMC. Definitely going to ask. Interesting that we all get such different advice.

    It is really, really hard to stay out of the water. Hmm...wonder if they'd freak out if I asked about swimming in the ocean?

    I am holding off on scuba until I feel stronger, post chemo and post rads, but at some point I just miss being wet so much that I wonder when I will just go for it, medical advice be damned.

    Late last year and earlier this year I went through months of tests for vision problems. Turned out to be a rare retinal injury without scar tissue (retinal injuries aren't all that rare, but there almost always is scar tissue to make it obvious.) When doc sat me down to tell me it was permanent and there was nothing that could be done, but that it would not get worse at least, the conversation went something like this. Doc: you have....(insert explanation here). Do you have any questions? Me: Yes, can I still scuba dive? Doc: of course. Me: good, because I was going to do it anyway!

    Dreaming of my first scuba trip post bc keeps me walking and motivated to stay in shape...

    Octogirl

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Octo, I swam in the lake during chemo. Just cover up! Chemo makes us more sensitive to the sun!

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  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,804
    edited September 2015

    LBF, there is a lake near my house, and it is cold enough that I need a wetsuit (which of course I have. Several of them actually), so I've got that covered, so to speak!

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  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 2,343
    edited September 2015

    Only issue I see is if you have open wounds, bacteria from water could get in there. A trick my swimming kids used was Vaseline. They would get neck chafing from tight swimsuits or wetsuits, so their solution was to coat the area with Vaseline because it is very hard to wash off and it forms a thick barrier.

    Thinking about adding swimming myself as a form of physical therapy

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    OMG- thus us just too good not to share. Stole it from scuttlers and Sas on the pinktoberthread.

    How nice to have ALL of the boneheaded comments in one convenient place! BAAAAHAHAHA

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Yeah, I wish I didn't have to work, either :)

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Bingo!!! 1 hr stairmaster random level 7, .5 hrs bike level 15, 100 abs, flapped arms, applied various unguents to my rapidly desquamating carcass. Ate pot roast. Wondered how to get out of check up with BS tomorrow. For a one night stand he's being remarkably clingy lol

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    yeah...not typical surgeon behavior. Mine couldn't wait to get rid if me. No 3,6 or any other checkups. No checkups. No fucking follow through at all. Did the dump and run on the MO. Good thing I like him.


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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Story of my life Katy...I can never seem to shake them...

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    irresistible ....

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Hahaha yeah I look pretty much exactly like my avatar lol. Like I been dragged through a picket fence backwards...

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Good going, Jen.

    Sorry to hear it, Katy. Seems like he done you wrong in a variety of ways.

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    Sounds like another country song!

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    yes I think so. I try to not dwell on the anger, not productive. And is not anger an endocrine disrupter of sorts? Keeps you awake, melatonin goes down, tamoxifen doesn't work. So basically, fuck him, but in the nicest possible way.

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  • Italychick
    Italychick Member Posts: 2,343
    edited September 2015

    hey, I think that's BJ Thomas, hey, won't you play, another somebody done somebody wrong song?

    Great, now another random song stuck in my head.

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Or don't--he doesn't deserve you :)

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    I second that, katy! Plus, ambivalence is the best revenge in any done you wrong situation..even surgeons...

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  • Jackbirdie
    Jackbirdie Member Posts: 4,693
    edited September 2015

    yeah, K I thought right after I "sent" that, that the nicest possible way was not what I meant, or what he deserved. But perhaps being forced to have sex with one of his monstrous creations would be suitable punishment for him. But not for me. So I guess I'll keep working on that little doll that looks like him and sharpening my pins

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    whoof! Lol remind me never to piss you off! Plus, boobs are passe. It's all about booty these days! 😆

    Edited to add : but yes. Sideways with a stick. 😊😇

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    It's all about the base, no treble.

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  • eheinrich
    eheinrich Member Posts: 792
    edited September 2015

    I finished yesterday out at 70 flights of stairs, 5.65 miles (14,677 steps).

    Today - 85 flights, 6.04 miles (15,680 steps).

    I am putting my feet up momentarily & will have no further steps to be logging. My legs are killing me. It was worth it though.

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    Yow!

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  • eheinrich
    eheinrich Member Posts: 792
    edited September 2015

    My fit bit counted the uphill parts of our hikes as stairs, but also the lake has a LOT of stairs.

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    woooohooo! Good work. Bet your thighs are burning. Mine would be!

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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited September 2015

    9/27: Fitbit steps + stretches = 1.5 miles (I have a cold, so I spent my day writing lesson plans, cooking, and looking at the eclipse).

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  • littleblueflowers
    littleblueflowers Member Posts: 2,000
    edited September 2015

    1 hr stairmaster, application of ointments. Ugh.

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