Does it ever end

PhillieG said:

Don't Worry About It!
Julie, I don't think that worrying is doing you ANY good at all. I think that you have to look at your situation and what stage you were, how long you've been NED, your diet, exercise, basically if you to ask yourself "Am I doing all the positive things that I can do to make sure I am staying healthy?" If the overall answer is YES, then I think you're in a great position. Not to pry but are you over 45? I'm 52 and I have many aches and pains but they are mostly due to the fact that I do not exercise enough. I think that many of us, as we travel around the sun more and more (that's a nice way of saying "getting older") our bodies are not the same as when we were 20. This happens regardless of if you had cancer or not.

I can not answer you based on my experience because it is not over for me, I'm still in treatment. Try not to let it run your life, that is one major thing that YOU can control.
-phil

Que Sera
Only you can decide to let it go....

Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be.

Live like it's your last day, NED or not.....

PhillieG said:

Don't Worry About It!
Julie, I don't think that worrying is doing you ANY good at all. I think that you have to look at your situation and what stage you were, how long you've been NED, your diet, exercise, basically if you to ask yourself "Am I doing all the positive things that I can do to make sure I am staying healthy?" If the overall answer is YES, then I think you're in a great position. Not to pry but are you over 45? I'm 52 and I have many aches and pains but they are mostly due to the fact that I do not exercise enough. I think that many of us, as we travel around the sun more and more (that's a nice way of saying "getting older") our bodies are not the same as when we were 20. This happens regardless of if you had cancer or not.

I can not answer you based on my experience because it is not over for me, I'm still in treatment. Try not to let it run your life, that is one major thing that YOU can control.
-phil

Oh My
Hey Phil, What happened? Did something go terribly wrong? You look like that guy that keep telling me the server was down this morning, is he taking over?

I fear ther worst!
jan

Julieeee.........
You wanna see how someone 6 months out of post op chemo and considered NED quits worrying about it. Yeah, Im over 50 and feel aches and pains all the time, I deserve every one of em also. Their called "road miles". You and I and everyone else in here with a dx of cancer and also all of the caregivers and their family members can relate to what we are put through. BUT, and yes I said BUT not BUTT, but BUT, you are active enough to get on the computer and type, you are alert enough to know that it is always on our minds......But there is absolutely nothing we can do to change it, EXCEPT, live our life the way it was before cancer. Im doing just that and I will be durn if im gonna let it ruin the rest of my life. I am in control of my life not cancer. You are in control of yours, NOT CANCER, so do as I tell a lot of people to do. Go buy you a plastic trashcan, take it out in the yard, and kick the crap out of it. Kick it until you are satisfied that you have gotten rid of every bit of built up, pent up, anger that you hold for the disease. Then as if the trashcan was cancer, leave it where it lays and start living your life YOUR WAY. Every time you even think about cancer again go out in the yard and kick the crap out of the can some more. You will be taking all your frustration out on the can instead of yourself. You have to turn your head away from it altogether and never look back. Do some volunteer work at a shelter or simply go to the hospital and open doors for older men and women. Do something that makes you feel some self worth, for you "were" in a spiral downward and for you and I it doesn't travel that way anymore.....
Wanna make a trip to Ky. My family will show ya that cancer around here is in past tense, and thats exactly where its gonna stay. Come on down, guarantee ya we'll get ya out of that funk your in.....You've been through the hardest part, its time to start living again.......{{{{hugs}}}} and lots o love..Clift

sfmarie said:

Some worry more than others
I am one of them, a total worry wort. Yoga helps, meditation, prayers, anything to keep your mind off of it. Trying to figure out a way to channel the worry into something productive is always good, but can be hard to do. It is totally normal given everything you have been through. May you find some peace soon. Marie

Worry Wort
I usually am not much a a worry wort, but I think this was implanted in me when they took out the tumor. Some things are so huge now that before I would not have even considered.

I have a friend that has had hodgkins and I had a chance to tell her some of the emotional concerns, she assured me that they come with the territory. She game me the same advice as Marie has given and she also said to try to set goals for the time I am in all this. She said accomplishing goals will help me keep my mind off the "what if's" and make me feel more like myself.
Jan