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StephN · 06-07-2008, 01:39 PM

Well, we won't say much about the Mariners, since they are having a hard time coming together as a team this season ...

Terri - Keep asking the good questions, friend. Diet is VERY important when you are undergoing what really amounts to a slow poisoning of your body. You need good protein to rebuild the cells you are losing. I was told by my med onc to eat an egg every morning, and I did.

Cheese is also good (harder the better). Beans, nuts, broccoli, lentils and other veggies are extrememly important. You need foods that will aid your body in keeping your red blood count up.

If there is a nutritionist at your cancer center, see that person and get some brochures or handouts on foods cancer patients undergoing treatment should eat.

Don't worry so much about your weight. If you eat the right foods, you should not gain much, if any.

STAY AWAY from sweets and fast foods. This is where the calories are. I know there is not much in the way of low-cal comfort food, but these foods are also low in nutrition.

If you think nutrition rather than calories, you will do better in the long run. This is just part of the string of adjustments we need to make to deal with this disease.

06-07-2008, 01:39 PM	#20
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Well, we won't say much about the Mariners, since they are having a hard time coming together as a team this season ... Terri - Keep asking the good questions, friend. Diet is VERY important when you are undergoing what really amounts to a slow poisoning of your body. You need good protein to rebuild the cells you are losing. I was told by my med onc to eat an egg every morning, and I did. Cheese is also good (harder the better). Beans, nuts, broccoli, lentils and other veggies are extrememly important. You need foods that will aid your body in keeping your red blood count up. If there is a nutritionist at your cancer center, see that person and get some brochures or handouts on foods cancer patients undergoing treatment should eat. Don't worry so much about your weight. If you eat the right foods, you should not gain much, if any. STAY AWAY from sweets and fast foods. This is where the calories are. I know there is not much in the way of low-cal comfort food, but these foods are also low in nutrition. If you think nutrition rather than calories, you will do better in the long run. This is just part of the string of adjustments we need to make to deal with this disease. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.