The Great Cancer Recovery part 5

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Amazingly we have now filled four threads and are ready to start again. How time flies when you are being purposeful! Come and join in.

You may have finished active treatment for cancer, be in remission or NED. You want to look forward not dwell on the past. You know you ought to be eating well, exercising more and picking up the threads of your old life. Join us and share the ups and downs of recovery. We understand!
Here are some resources we found helpful:
The Mountain Lion
https://www.cancerpal.co.uk/post/what-it-s-really-like-to-receive-a-cancer-diagnosis
Peter Harvey on Psychology of recovery:
https://workingwithcancer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/After-the-treatment-finishes-then-what.pdf
Resources from Penny Brohn:
https://pennybrohn.org.uk/our-approach/resources/
Breast Cancer Now Moving Forward:
https://breastcancernow.org/information-support/support-you/moving-forward
Get your Oomph Back with Carolyn Garritt
http://www.oomph.london/home.html
Charity providing treats for cancer patients:
https://somethingtolookforwardto.org.uk/
Exercise is good for you:
^https://www.webmd.com/cancer/features/exercise-cancer-patients^
Any more suggestions? Post them below

(There is a thread for those suspected to have cancer, or newly diagnosed and facing treatment, and also a thread for those with Stage IV cancer who want to talk to others in the same boat, and you are welcome on any or all of these)

I wore a pair of trousers last night which I haven't worn since before the cancer. They were much more comfortable! Last summer the bulk of the cancer was in my abdomen and I couldn't bear to wear anything with a waistband; I was glad to have bought several dresses. However, the jacket I wore was on the large side when I got it and is huge now. It's gorgeous though, so I want to keep it.

For most of the last 12 months I've been dressing purely for comfort, so it's quite a change to be thinking about what to wear and making a bit of an effort to look nice. Getting ready to go out takes me absolutely ages, though, far longer than it used to, I'm sure.

@MrsSPenguinz The vineyard tour sounds nice although I agree 10.30 is early to be on the wine! We did a rum tour in Barbados once which was similar.

10.30 is a bit early to start on the wine for me! Enjoy! I'm out for dinner tonight, and I only really eat meat when I'm out, so I'm looking forward to it. We always share a dessert, and I'm normally too full to eat more than a couple of bites (appetite/stomach capacity 😂😂). They do an absolutely lush lemon tart 🙂

I do find I get more bloated now, and I'm better eating sourdough bread if I'm going to eat bread. So maybe it's the yeast? Or, more probably, the bloody tamoxifen 😂

@Ohjoyohbliss That's great your trousers are more comfortable. I have been through many clothes since treatment, just getting cheap ones, as things change so often. I do find wearing nicer ones helps my mood though in treatment I loved comfortable and soft. A rum tour in Barbados sounds great.

Have a lovely dinner @BatshitCrazyWoman

We had a lovely time at the vineyard. DH said to me would you like it if we took my classic car. So we went in his classic car as he loves it and vineyard isn't far. We had a tea / coffee then an hour and an half tour of vineyard which was fascinating especially with heatwave differences, it was a retirement project and 8 to 10 years before first wine. They have to prune 26,000 vines each year and have a day each year where you can volunteer to pick grapes and you get a nice lunch. We have signed up for that. Then we had the sparkling wine tasting in their marquee which wasn't until 12pm so quite civilised in the end and then we had a seafood plate each with homemade bread and butter followed by local ice creams. We then went on to a plant shop and got a few plants for the garden. Lovely day out and DH was so happy to be in his car.

Oh, that looks beautiful.

Thanks @Ohjoyohbliss

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

We did gardening yesterday and today did about 4.5 hours of cleaning house and doing garden with DH. DH made a lovely Sunday roast with cauli cheese so we had that and just having dinner now. DS finished the cookie dough ice cream and took a bath whilst we gardened. DH got more ice cream, luckily the shop is right by our house for emergency ice cream. I hoovered all upstairs, cleaned upstairs bathroom, cleaned kitchen walls and floor, cleaned entrance hall floor and walls and then picked up leaves in the garden and cleaned the outside windows of the kitchen, entrance hall and living room. DH hoovered living room, dining room and stairs and planted the plants we bought at the plant nursery and the silkies were out with us singing. DH also put filler in the kitchen ceiling where there was one crack from before and we will paint soon hopefully.

DD is back later in the week for just under a week then she's off to France, then to Austria then to China for 2 weeks for a rowing regatta in Chengdu.

@MrsSPenguinz I feel exhausted just reading that. What a lot you've accomplished in one day.

Thanks @Ohjoyohbliss

Hope you and everyone are doing well.

DD is on her way home for a week from university and will be lovely to see her. The neighbours dead tree came down today. DH is off to France for a few days then DD will go to France with her friends.