Still NED after 4 years

that is excellent news ! so happy for you! also, thanks, trish, for your post regarding your approach to how you live your life. lots of wisdom there and i am inspired and encouraged by what you said. big hugs of happiness to you! --caedmon

txtrisha55 said:

I wish I could say that I eat

I wish I could say that I eat healthy, exercise, read all the anti cancer books and do everything that all the women on this site have done to help themselves but I cannot do that.  I am not doing anything different than before I was DX, had surgery and went through chemo.  I still eat what I want, I do little exercise, so still overweight.  I have read several of the books but do not practice what they say to do.  I work everyday, sleep at least 6 hours a night, volunteer for my grandson's school, take care of him, runaround on weekends doing everything that I cannot get done during the week.  Sunday try to rest but usually running around with family.  It is a hectic lifestyle but it works for me and my family.  I did talk to my gyn onc dr during the chemo because I found this site and asked her if I should change my whole life style so that the cancer would not come back.  She said, if you want to change for yourslef and do all those things then go ahead and do it, but if it makes you miserable to make those changes then do not make the changes. That is not going to guarantee that the cancer will not come back.  There are no guarantees on that.  So I did not make all the changes.  So in my humble advise is do what you think is best for yourself and have a postitive attitude, as I try every day to be postiive about my life and do things that I enjoy to do and be around the people that mean the most to me.  I just live everyday the best way I can for me.  So I do not have any great advice for people in the cancer journey except to be postiive and live your life to the fullest as there are no guarantees and life is not fair but it is wonderfull if you make it that way.  Praying for all. trish

Congratulations on your NED status.  i wish that status for all.  I wanted to ditto everything you stated about changing lifestyle after diagnosis.  i asked my doctor the same thing and he said something similar to your doctor.  I liked what you said about all of us have to do what we feel best for us.

Congrats...great news!!!  I hope that you are doing something special to celebrate!!

Abbycat2 said:

Trish, congratulations!

Let's face it, long term survival is a "crap shoot". What cancer has taught me is that two women with the same aggressive uterine cancer and the same stage-DO NOT HAVE the same disease. My gyn onc told me early on- almost two years ago- that some women with aggressive uterine cancer (grade 3) die quickly from an early stage cancer, that is, stage 1 or 2. Yet, some late stage women live a long time, some 6 to 8 years out from surgery with or without recurrance. I keep asking myself what is that about? I suspect that it has everything to do with the extent of genetic cancer mutations a woman has been born with than anything else. I further believe, and perhaps Trish will substantiate, that all the exercise and diet changes will do NADA for any cancer patient with multiple genetic mutations. I doubt if all that effort will matter. When I apply my suspicions to my own life, I am confronted with the fact that I have been a very thin and powerful athlete most of my life - a person who has done EVERYTHING right in terms of exercise, diet and medical care. I enjoyed, another words, vibrant health. And guess what? I developed advanced metastatic aggressive cancer anyway. Well, da€n, WHY?  Well, because science and research are not advanced enough in 2015 to tell me the why. Nor can the medical establishment assure me of appropriate and meaningful treatment to cure me of this disease. Right now I am experiencing "disease free survival". Well, I am painfully aware that that may last 3 months or 30 years. It will be what it will be. In the meantime, I plan to live, live, live!!

The best to each of you,

Cathy

cathy i so resonate with what you say re diet, exercise, etc. i too was athletic for most of my adult life. kept myself moving. very fit and trim. cross-trained w/swimming, weights, running, hiking, classes etc. fed my body good stuff. if there was a choice between stairs or an elevator? i took stairs. even if it meant carrying my bike -- which i rode 6 miles round trip most days to work. and then i'd do a weights or swim workout on my lunch hour. i wasn't perfect. but i was way more fit than most people i knew and loved moving my body. and i had also worked rigorously to shift my haibtual thought patterns over the years -- needed to. went from catastrophic thinking in my twenties and thirties gradually to almost pathologically optimistist in my forties and fifties and into my sixties . phyiscally i had ZERO indicators for endoca except a touch of hbp which wasn't even that high. blam. clear cell. and in the aftermath of treatment i'm now dealing with a plethora of emotions i never expected. it has rocked my world at the very foundation. physically i feel great. getting back on the trails and taking long hikes etc. for me it's the emotional journey that's hard right now. just want to let you know you inspired me today. thanks.