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StephN · 02-19-2013, 01:07 PM

I wish there was a better understanding of "contributing factors" they come up with - for just about ANY disease.

I have continued to have a glass of wine - sometimes red or white or rose - with my dinner all this time. Beaujolais or low alcohol, sort of sweet German wine was all that tasted at all decent when I was on chemos (due to the mouth sores).

Anyone with stomach acid problems may want to avoid wine until that gets back under control.

Since my diagnosis I have been VERY careful about WHATEVER I buy. This includes garden and lawn products, house cleaners, soaps of all kinds, besides foods. Just takes a little longer to go to the right stores, read labels and talk to staff about the choices.

We have gone through our garage and tool room to get rid of old products and take them to the hazardous waste recycling station. Have more to take right now...

So, as many of you have said, we have a whole environment to deal with. I just try to make my home and property the least toxic as possible.

I also do not seem to have the genetic predisposition that would make a little alcohol intake a problem for me. In that context, I feel a glass of well made, small producer wine is my reward. (In Europe they consider wine as a food anyway!)

02-19-2013, 01:07 PM	#16
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: Thoughts on drinking alcohol I wish there was a better understanding of "contributing factors" they come up with - for just about ANY disease. I have continued to have a glass of wine - sometimes red or white or rose - with my dinner all this time. Beaujolais or low alcohol, sort of sweet German wine was all that tasted at all decent when I was on chemos (due to the mouth sores). Anyone with stomach acid problems may want to avoid wine until that gets back under control. Since my diagnosis I have been VERY careful about WHATEVER I buy. This includes garden and lawn products, house cleaners, soaps of all kinds, besides foods. Just takes a little longer to go to the right stores, read labels and talk to staff about the choices. We have gone through our garage and tool room to get rid of old products and take them to the hazardous waste recycling station. Have more to take right now... So, as many of you have said, we have a whole environment to deal with. I just try to make my home and property the least toxic as possible. I also do not seem to have the genetic predisposition that would make a little alcohol intake a problem for me. In that context, I feel a glass of well made, small producer wine is my reward. (In Europe they consider wine as a food anyway!) __________________ "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.