How has the Pandemic affected you as a cancer patient/survivor

About the name calling, I have yet to see anything as bad as the names directed at me when I was young simply for looking different. I've been hearing them in the news again because of the virus. Racists are horrible.

All those other points are good and available from other sources, but you said you hate misinformation. I just pointed one out.

There are still people here who disagree with each other as the last few pages have shown.

See what you did at the end of your post? Subtle. It's hard to avoid, isn't it?

Effort should be put to getting people adequately vaccinated. For people with prior COVID infection, that requires 1 vaccine dose. For elderly and immunocompromised, 3 vaccine doses. A doctor saying disease-generated immunity is sufficient to be exempt from a vaccine mandate is misinformation.

I was calling out inappropriate behavior when I committed my inappropriate behavior.

The pandemic affected me last night when I fell and couldn't get up. I couldn't call for help because paramedics are busy with covid. I was on the floor for quite a while but managed to shuffle my bum across the room and pull myself up with a rail and my walker. I have some big bruises and sore arm (that I am holding off having checked) but again was wishing that the unvaccinated who can get the shot would get the damn shot. Enough already.

wrenn - Hope you heal soon.

Thanks guys. I am sore but fine. I am only 74 but the neuropathy in my feet, legs and hands from taxotere stops me from always being aware of where my feet are and I don't think I was grasping my walker tight enough. I didn't see it coming but just went down. I am fat so well protected and didn't break anything.

Now that I finally got up on my own I am glad I didn't call paramedics for help but pre covid I wouldn't have been on the floor as long because paramedics would have been available to help.

I have an apple watch and it was asking me if I was ok. If I hadn't clicked that I was ok it would have called my daughter and then if she wasn't answering they would call paramedics. So in the end Covid affected how I felt about it all and chemo affected my overall condition.

Didn't mean to rant here about it. I am good. xo

I chose to get vaccinated as soon as I qualified. As I stated before. However, there really is not good data yet, peer reviewed and published, on people who have had prior Covid. And what additional vaccine means to this group for severe disease. As with the general population, the pool of Covid survivors include people with varying levels of immune response. Some human beings just do not mount sufficient immune response. Within the fully vaccinated population, there will be breakthrough cases, just as in the population who previously had Covid. That is how vaccines work. The efficacy rate of vaccines is certainly not 100%. How do we predict who the outliers are, aside from people who are obviously immunocompromised? I would be fascinated to see the percent of severe disease in previously infected patients and in fully vaccinated patients, and see how they compare. So to me, the big question is, for all people who get reinfected (with significant disease, more than asymptotic or cold) or significant breakthrough infection post full vaccine, how can we help prevent that from happening? I would think that if significant reinfection was happening with any degree of statistical significance that we would really be hearing about that. Still, I personally believe better safe than sorry. Every reputable study I have seen published show that well over 90+% of people hospitalized and/passing from Covid were unvaccinated and without having had the virus. I have not seen the peer reviewed studies/information that say that all people who had Covid need 1 vaccination. I do know that people who have had Covid cannot get a vaccine for at least 90 days. Again, I believe in vaccines and I believe in being safe and respectful of others. I know I would not use a cloth mask anymore. I am interested to see if the CDC/FDA/pharma companies adjust the dosing schedule to help improve efficacy. And I hope we see continued improvement in the numbers of people who get the vaccine (especially if they have not had Covid). Vaccines have been proven to be pretty darn safe for most and pretty darn effective for most.

I have been reading the Friday night updates from Dr. Mike Silverman on Facebook throughout the pandemic. He is the head of the ER at Virginia Hospital Center. I find his posts to be very informative from a frontline doctor.

The pandemic is bad enough. It would be nice to see more people focusing more on all we have in common, and be more kind to each other. On the greater BCO Board, I have observed so much kindness and support for each other.

wrenn sorry to hear about your fall. I'm glad you weren't badly hurt.

I fell on Sunday and I broke my arm. only lucky thing was that the hospital ER was eerily quiet at that time & I was in and out in just a few hours with a cast. All the details are in my blog so I won't repeat them here ..

Oh Moth, I am so sorry. Yikes. I am so relieved for you that emerg wasn't busy but damn that had to hurt. It is good to hear you so upbeat. You really are a trouper.

Off to read blog. :-)

Take care.

For peer-reviewed studies on vaccination after infection, please see references in this article in Science Magazine.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abj2258

I have never had a FB account. I see he has a YT channel, but I don't use YT for news, mainly music and how-to stuff.

All the best to the bruised, battered and broken boned! I am a class A klutz and though I haven’t broken anything, I am definitely in the bruised category. I am currently sporting a very ugly colorful bruise on my neck from a thyroid biopsy, 4 samples taken. No due to my clumsiness but another addition to my multicolored bruise collection.

Simone,

I know that the current situation fills many with frustration and even anger which sometimes makes us say things born of that frustration, particularly using broad generalizations. The last year and a half has made everyone tense and hasn’t always brought out our best. I have been practicing calming breathing techniques a lot!

Trishyla. I fell down the stairs when I wa pregnant and phoned my husband. His response was "good thing you are well padded" I slammed the phone down on him (miss that feature of phones) and called my doctor. . He replied "Well you have a lot of padding. Not to worry"

I really am fine. I read Moth's blog and am feeling so lucky compared to what she went through.

Moth, maybe you need to put on a hundred pounds. Really though that had to be so scary and so painful. I'm glad they hit you up with some good drugs and that it heals quickly in spite of chemo diminishing healing. I am so sorry you had this pile on with everything else you are dealing with. I love your sense of humour (blog). Take care.

So you've decided you're the decider?