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Lizzie in Ma

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    It' been awhile, checking in!

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    Dearest imaginary friends,

    Hope you are all staying safe and well. I haven't been here in a long time and missed you. Thankfully some of you are also Facebook friends and I keep up with you that way.

    We are doing pretty well.  Youngest is in her 2nd year of college. was furloughed and then let go from her IT job and is currently working as a pharmacy tech.  Oldest has been furloughed from her job at a special needs boarding school. They speak of our homeschooling years very fondly which warms my heart.  It was almost 16 years of homeschooling between the two of them after all.

    I have been working from home since 3/23 and am feeling pretty isolated but extremely grateful to be working still.  DH has been working steadily as a handyman following strict Covid precautions.

    MIL and FIL moved in in April with hospice care until he died in June. So, that was awful and yet, beautiful too.  We had a lovely, blessed, day scattering his ashes in the ocean.  So incredibly odd to not have any kind of service or funeral due to Covid.

    Got a new dog last year named Mouse who, as it turns out, has generalized anxiety disorder but meds and a pheromone collar have helped immensely.  He is the sweetest. Walking him is one of my only escapes from the house these days. I am blessed he has a best friend who's owner also works from home so we walk together a lot.

    Strange times for certain. 

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    weight loss encouragement needed

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    I have lost 38 lbs by using the Lose it app to track calories, switching to a protein and greens shake for breakfast and only indulging in alcohol on the weekends.  Also do about 10,000 steps a day, half of which are done on my trampoline.  I eat low carb, NOT keto, that made me sick, and substituted good choices for bad ones, ie Wink frozen dairy treat instead of Ben and Jerry's.

    You can totally do this!

    I also tried Meratrim which I think really boosted the belly fat loss.

    Thyroid lab results--this is blowing my mind!!

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    I went hyperthyroid when I hit menopause.  Never had I been anything but hypo, pretty crazy. 

    I started taking Myo- inositol powder with selenium capsules along with my thyroid meds and now, 6 months later, my numbers have never been better.  There is a lot of good research on it for Hashimotos but I started with this article.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331475/

    I felt so much worse hyper than I ever did hypo.

    Never took kelp so I don't know how that all works.

    I hope you get it straightened out soon!

    When a person “accepts” metastatic cancer and declines intervention

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    13 hours ago, Æthelthryth the Texan said:

    I know this has to be a sensitive place for you with your recent treatment.......but I worked in oncology and genomics for many many years. And I have seen advanced stage breast cancer treatment very often lead to quite more torment, pain, and suffering for the same outcome at the end, and that's death. Except for you (not youyou, but them) didn't get to enjoy the last bit because you were in the hospital for a last ditch effort the entire time. 

    Everyone dies eventually and some would rather do it on their terms, so to speak, rather than wrung out, drugged out, and in a hospital anyway. So I don't think someone making that decision to not treat is nuts at all- regardless of what stage. Physicians are really great at some things- they are not always great at communicating the downsides and risks of cancer treatment, and often the treatment is more brutal than the disease. That is something that has gotten really obfuscated in the US and it bothers me on a really deep level. And sometimes the disabilities caused by the treatment mean a not wonderful life left to suffer through after treatment. So I think in this case, you have to let it go and trust them to be an adult over their life. Be supportive and make your peace if you can., but honestly, since you're asking our opinion, my opinion is you need to stay out of it. It's their battle to chose or walk away from, and there is no cancer treatment on this earth that is not without sizable risks and adverse events, so it's not an equitable thing to suicide. It's not like there's a magic treatment that ensures all will be okay and they're simply choosing not to do it. To some people, it's the graceful decision that allows them some sort of control instead of handing it over to a bunch of doctors. Just my 2 cents, being intimately involved in the field, though not on the same level as you as a patient. 

    For me, this.  I've watched loved ones fight incurable cancers.  They did it for their family, not themselves and rather than spending the time they had living, they spent it in hospitals undergoing grueling treatment.  My sister in law said at the end that she wished she's never gotten on the "hamster wheel of cancer treatment".  It is what I will chose should it happen to me and my family knows it. 

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