Journey

Ohmy68

Started out with a stroke and a year later an ablation…8 months later Endometrial Ca dx…what a road! I'm closing in on 69… Love playing Pickleball and I seem more concerned with the thought of not being able to play than the up coming chemo!

cmb

I’m sorry to read that you’ve had other medical emergencies recently, with cancer now added to the mix.

My oncologist designed a treatment program that included two phases of chemo, with two different drugs during each phase.

While I’m not sure you’ll be up to pickleball during chemo, I did go to the exercise classes for cancer patients that were offered by the hospital where I received treatment during my “Phase 1” chemo of carboplatin and taxol.

I then received two different chemos in Phase 2. That was a much tougher regimen for me to get through, which impacted me physically far more than the first phase. I frankly didn’t do much of anything during that period.

How you may feel is hard to predict since women can have quite different reactions even to same type of chemo. But hopefully you’ll tolerate the process better than someone who hasn’t been physically active in the past.

NoTimeForCancer

Ohmy68, it sounds like you have had a lot going on but keeping moving since the stroke, which is great, and I am sure it is all very overwhelming. I am not sure if you are scheduled for surgery first, not just chemo, but recovery from either of those is a hiccup and not necessarily pickleball ending.

I think the thread title you wrote, Journey, is accurate descriptive of what you have been through and will have to do. Please let us know how you are doing, we certainly can lend you the ear and shoulder throughout.

Hugs dear one