Cancer Support and Caregivers Who Are Trail Blazers!

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Yellow band

I wear these light weight gloves indoors. Too bad what they look like. It's either the gloves, or I am at a high level of irritable from the pain. I bought the gloves at REI. They were only $20.00. I'm typing in them now. (It's still cool and raining, and I have tingling hands and feet)...I went to pain management to learn about this, as it has been 5 years and is part of my life. They key to living with it is to try to not set it off. TRUE!

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I meant to come back to this post. Yellow band, do you happen to remember the name of the REI gloves? I have a hard time typing in gloves and I am not looking forward to struggling to type at work again this winter.

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

I meant to come back to this post. Yellow band, do you happen to remember the name of the REI gloves? I have a hard time typing in gloves and I am not looking forward to struggling to type at work again this winter.

Hi Dapper, It's raining and the stinging hands woke me up. I'm typing in the gloves now. They are made by polartech, the brandname is manzella, comes in male and female and for typing and in the house I wear the warm. It's the lightest weight. They are very sharp and do not look like you are wearing an isotoner. Its available in a warmer and warmest. I also have the warmest. ($70.00) I bought them a size bigger and slip the hand gloved in the warm right inside the warmest. They are not bulky. Buy them now, my experience is they sell out quickly. Popular gloves.

I hope this helps you. This has saved me!

[Novelafemme]

the hospital just called and moved my surgery up again! now it's at 2pm!

i'm sneaking in a smallish cup of coffee and then taking the kiddos to school.

send good vibes and healing energy this way and i'll see you all soon.

[Novelafemme]

Hi Friends!

Got the path report back today and it isn't good. But....I have faith and am gonna take the bull by the horns and tackle this head on. I'm also gonna take a break from the online world for a while, so if you don't hear from me please feel free to reach me via email: landphair@pharmacy.arizona.edu

so long for now and BE WELL, everyone!!!

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by CatalinaRose

Hi Friends!

Got the path report back today and it isn't good. But....I have faith and am gonna take the bull by the horns and tackle this head on. I'm also gonna take a break from the online world for a while, so if you don't hear from me please feel free to reach me via email: landphair@pharmacy.arizona.edu

so long for now and BE WELL, everyone!!!

Hi, Catalina. I am so sorry. Please know I am thinking about you and believing that you can beat whatever it is you are up against right now.

Thank you for posting your email so that we can contact you.

[DapperButch]

Debby? Catalinarose (I know she may not be here)? JustJo?

Everyone else?

Update for me:

Weather is getting colder, but hands do not seem to be getting worse in direct proportion. I hope this means that the neuropathy is abating. In my feet, no real change, unfortunately.

I continue with the supplements I started taking after the testing I did in Chicago, have done pretty good sticking to a vegan diet, but have done crappy with exercise follow through. I have big sleep problems (falling asleep, even with pills) and find that if I exercise in the morning I drag all day (after 3 weeks in a row of exercise this never did abate..which surprised me), and then after work I am of course wiped out from little sleep ...around 10pm I feel wide awake and can't sleep, and then the process starts all over again. This has been a problem my whole life and I will never have an evening/night job, so....I dunno.

I still have a significant amount of fatigue for being off of chemo for 6 months now, so I don't know what that is about. Granted, I have no information that tells me I shouldn't still be tired, but it doesn't make sense to me that I would still be tired.

I need to call my oncologist's office because I either missed an appointment or didn't call to schedule like I was supposed to, as I know it has been 3 months since I have seen her. Also, I do believe that I am due for a CAT scan.

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Weather is getting colder, but hands do not seem to be getting worse in direct proportion. I hope this means that the neuropathy is abating. In my feet, no real change, unfortunately.
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Good morning Dapper...were you able to get those gloves at REI?

I'd love to see you type the neuropathy is gone!

[deb_U_taunt]

Okay, saying this with my mommy voice "make the appt!"

I hope it means your neuropathy is abating, too. Mine is feeling a bit better since starting neurontin and swimming. The swimming in the evenings has helped me sleep, too.

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Debby? Catalinarose (I know she may not be here)? JustJo?

Everyone else?

Update for me:

Weather is getting colder, but hands do not seem to be getting worse in direct proportion. I hope this means that the neuropathy is abating. In my feet, no real change, unfortunately.

I continue with the supplements I started taking after the testing I did in Chicago, have done pretty good sticking to a vegan diet, but have done crappy with exercise follow through. I have big sleep problems (falling asleep, even with pills) and find that if I exercise in the morning I drag all day (after 3 weeks in a row of exercise this never did abate..which surprised me), and then after work I am of course wiped out from little sleep ...around 10pm I feel wide awake and can't sleep, and then the process starts all over again. This has been a problem my whole life and I will never have an evening/night job, so....I dunno.

I still have a significant amount of fatigue for being off of chemo for 6 months now, so I don't know what that is about. Granted, I have no information that tells me I shouldn't still be tired, but it doesn't make sense to me that I would still be tired.

I need to call my oncologist's office because I either missed an appointment or didn't call to schedule like I was supposed to, as I know it has been 3 months since I have seen her. Also, I do believe that I am due for a CAT scan.