Let's Post our Daily Exercise

Prayers and good thoughts to all - waiting for results is so very hard. Tired today after finishing radiation last week, though I did get to the gym and worked out for 30". Onward!

I got my test results. My MO said now I have to decide between doing taxol and herceptin along with radiation, which would give me a 98% chance of no recurrence within 3 years or just radiation which would give me a 94% chance of no recurrence within 3 years. I'm leaning toward no chemo since the SEs really scare me, but I'll have to clean up my lifestyle and lose about 20 pounds and just be as healthy as possible overall.

I'm a wreck. The fear is all at the forefront again

We are holding you in light too dear Falconer. Breast cancer treatment is one of the leading causes of frozen shoulder, and I saw a orthopedist, then the MRI, to get my shoulder back on track and that was 3 months after diep. It does seem like a busy time with back to work, your darling daughter now at uni and that darn shoulder. But you know, you have come a long ways in a year and your new breast looks terrific. Hang in there beauty! Cheryl, how was Philly? I read that Diana showcased barre. HeidiHill, thanks, I checked out freeletic - really good. Ruth, like your new community centre - awesome! Brightness, you know 98% is excellent. Claire, feel better quick! TrmTab, you sound ready and healthy for the exchange. I've been busy with work, doing huge amounts of gardening, trimming our hedgerow and along the back of the hedgerow are huge nettles, so I have prickly, red arms - great! Also getting our DS ready for the uni drop on Sept 9th.

Pilates this afternoon

Brightness, I have been on Herceptin before and just had to back on it again after having a recurrence in an axillary node on the left side (same side my cancer was on). I did very well with it the last time. Will be on it again for a year again. I get it every three weeks like I did the last time.

Time flies on this board! Jumping back in. Just back from 5 days of camping in Northern Maine - beautiful area but got pretty cold at night. Got a couple of nice hikes in, I'll try to post a picture. Heading out Friday for a 3 day music festival - it is 20 minutes away but we camp at it with friends - good music and friendship. So my exercise these two days is restocking the trailer and laundry, laundry, laundry!

Brightness, take your time with your decision. Another opinion is good as others have said.

Ruth: Wonderful picture and have a great weekend away!

Brightness: Please don't make your decision in haste. Get a second opinion if necessary. Thinking of you.

Walked/ran yesterday. Today I pushed mowed for 1 hour and 45 minutes then went to the park to walk/run. Felt good!

I started the school year off by going to the ER at 5am this morning with an allergic reaction most likely to the antibiotic I finished yesterday for my ear infection. Swollen eyes and ears and hives everywhere. My incision from my surgery in 2011 was all red and it freaked me out thinking that it could be cellulitis but the dr said it was hives. After dosing up with Benadryl, prednisone and Pepcid, I made it to school and lasted till 2 but had to leave at that point. I am so itchy and b*tchy right now. Waaahhh...

lohoff, a pound a week is a good, steady, healthy weight loss pace.

Ginger LOL (sorry) at itchy & bitchy. Hope you're doing better 2nite.

LB, ouch to stinging nettles! Some people think they're edible. I am not one of them.

((Brightness)) it's a hard decision. My onc gave me a choice between two chemo regimes. WTH do I know, doc? But they make you decide. I chose the one that was supposedly easier on my heart, based family hx.

Speaking of my heart, I worked out hard tonight. I needed it. Had a really crappy day at work. Staff vacancies, workload dumps, rush assignments, barely enough time to breathe - STRESS! Leaving it at the office, though, not bringing work home or staying late. Been there, done that, ain't doing it 2moro.

Hit the treadmill hard right off the bat. Ramped it up to Rufus and Pat Metheny Group. Then weights and more treadmill as wanted to hear a few more tunes on side A (Dave Brubeck Quartet and Manhattan Transfer).

treadmill (20 mins), weights (45 min) ...............stretch...treadmill (25 min). 787 cal burned.

Well a pound a week is 50 pounds in a year...so with an eye on the long run, 1 lb/week is great!

Got to my mid-week yin yoga w/ meditation class last night...an hour and a half of stretching and centering, a good re-set mid-week.

Hi everybody

I got through the entire Kinesis class today (and most of the one yesterday). So yes still hangin' in there with my exercise

Wishing everybody a good day

Stayed overnight with friends and attended a semi-pro baseball game last night ('our' team, who is in contention for their playoffs, won). My friend and I walked this morning (while the DHs slept), we are now on the road to visit relatives in the Twin Cities. We are going to a Vikings pre-season game tonight, a Twins game Friday and then on to Wisconsin for a reunion on my mom's side of the family!

Hi everyone. I've been weighing my options (5mm tumor so MO said it's up to me if I do chemo/herceptin/radiation or just radiation). I'm leaning toward doing the chemo, which would be 12 weeks of taxol with a year of herceptin. The worrying and internal debating has slowed me down, but today I managed to get out and do some much needed yard work. I know I should be getting out for walks in the woods, but still, it's something.

I met with a PT yesterday for some cording I'm having from the SNB. She wants to see me twice a week for the next month to do massages of the cording. I think that might be overkill, since it is slowly resolving, but I haven't canceled the appointments for now. Still, I feel like I barely have time for normal life with all these appointments and phone calls. I have another appointment tomorrow morning, then more yard work. Hopefully this weekend I can get out for a few nice walks. I don't feel like me anymore.

Lohoff Please talk with a nutritionist or a personal trainer. Most people of average size need about 1200 calories a day to exist and be healthy. The more activity the more calories you need. Too few calories will slow down weight loss and cause you to lose muscle not fat. Timing of you food is also important. Remember muscle weighs more then fat so you tend to lose slower in the beginning as you build muscle. Later the muscle will help you burn off the fat. My trainer does measurements (or another way is how your clothes fit) as a guide. A pound a week is great. You don't want to be one of those people with sagging skin because you lost to fast.

Got in nine miles of walking today with the Olympic Sculpture Park assignment as I bussed/walked to the event. A lot of the dance was interesting, and it was the most glorious day. Here is a photo of the sunset. Wonderful to be past whatever hit me. I am attending a burlesque re-interpretation of Giselle tomorrow evening in Seattle. Hoping I can get in early and try the bikeshare called LimeBike. It costs only $1 per ride and you pick it up and drop off wherever. Some of this is now a bit "too wherever" as these things are everywhere in Seattle, and not everyone is good about leaving them out of the way of foot traffic.

Promise a report on this adventure. The plan would be to cycle the waterfront and along the shore in the park, stopping at the rose garden. I miss it and didn't get to see it yet this summer. Suspect it's glorious. 

Here is the sunset. - Claire

Claire, that's a beautiful picture