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Super busy
Hi everyone! Well, I won’t bore you with too many details, but wow, what a busy period this has been for Stefano and me. And in the middle of it, just when I was thinking of going to have my blood tests done, I caught the awful flu that is going around. High fever and whatnot. The good news is that I am well again, although still a bit tired, which is normal. The days are going by so fast…suddenly it’s almost Xmas! And that is why this morning I decided to write this quick post just to reassure everyone that I’m okay…just…BUSY, busy with, among other things, our house renovation project, and with no access t...
Source: Margaret's Corner - December 12, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs

Stomach flu
A couple of weeks ago I came down with a nasty case of viral gastroenteritis, more commonly known as the stomach flu. No idea how I got it…but…I got it. Well, at least Covid wasn’t involved in my case; my family doctor told me that a (small) percentage of his patients with my symptoms had turned up positive for Covid. That would have been a most unwelcome double whammy! Petunia, October 2022 Anyway, I was quite sick for about a week, sleeping most of the time, eating nothing but bananas and toast, and watching heaps of TV series and documentaries…The cats were very helpful nurses, always by my side,...
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 31, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll stomach flu Source Type: blogs

Test results
Yesterday I received the results from my Covid antibody test AND my routine myeloma tests. Yesterday was definitely an important day!!! So, even though I’m super busy today, I just had to stop and write an update. First, I tested negative for Covid, which means that I have never been exposed to it. I opted for the more complete antibody test, the one where they draw blood from your arm. There is another test, a mere finger prick, which tells you only if you are positive or negative. But I wanted to know if what I’d had back in January was coronavirus or not. Well, I have my answer now: it wasn’t Covid-19,...
Source: Margaret's Corner - July 24, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll myeloma test results Potter Source Type: blogs

Did I have Covid-19?
A few blog readers have suggested to me, privately, that the awful flu I had back in early January might have been Covid-19. But well before I had read their suggestions, that same thought had occurred to me, too, in the early days of the outbreak here in Italy. So this morning I decided to write a post about it, just for the record. I certainly did have some of the Covid-19 symptoms, namely: fatigue (probably my very first symptom) sore throat (also an early symptom) terrible intestinal woes (ditto as above) high fever…a very high fever aches, of course nasal congestion cough (see below) and, finally, pneumonia, ye...
Source: Margaret's Corner - April 27, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll coronavirus covid-19 Source Type: blogs

Priscilla
Well, it’s been a really rough three weeks. The first thing that happened was on January 1, no kidding, when I came down with a case of the flu (much worse than the before-Xmas flu). It’s going around. A lot of people are sick with this thing. Anyway, it hit me with a very high fever and huge gastrointestinal issues. Terrible. Plus, one night, delirious with fever, I fell against the bathroom wall and injured my wrist. Ouch. Because my wrist was all swollen and hurt like the dickens, and I feared it might be fractured, Stefano took me to the emergency room at Florence’s university hospital, Careggi. We sp...
Source: Margaret's Corner - January 20, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll cat Source Type: blogs

Buone Feste! Happy Holidays!
Well, this year I have to admit that I don’t have much in the way of a festive spirit, which is very unusual for me. I have always loved the Xmas holidays, decorating the house, making cookies, etc. Not this year. There are several reasons why I’ve been down and out about the holidays. One is that Stefano and I were supposed to be in Prague right now, lovely Prague with its glittering streets and Xmas markets…but instead we’re still here, in Florence. We had to cancel our trip to Prague because I came down with a rather nasty case of the flu (high fever, etc.) on the eve of our departure. Of course,...
Source: Margaret's Corner - December 24, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs

An easy method for preventing the flu
Thanks to Lori, this morning I read a very interesting article in Forbes magazine about how to (help) prevent getting the flu AND how to lower hospital infections. Such a simple, easy thing we can all do… Have a look: http://bit.ly/31RP6QT Very very interesting…makes sense, too!
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 28, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll preventing the flu Source Type: blogs

Wow, what a holiday!
Stefano and I returned from England almost a week ago, last Saturday evening, but since then I’ve had a million things to do, not just heaps of laundry, food shopping, and the usual household-related stuff (cat litter, cat this, cat that, cat everything!), but also getting together with my girlfriends, a very important part of my life!, AND planning my English lessons for next week. I still  need to fit my sessions at the rehab center into my weekly schedule. These are the workouts I still need to do both for my shoulder AND for my tendinitis, which actually behaved incredibly well after the first week or so on holi...
Source: Margaret's Corner - September 6, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Lake District Peak District Sandsend Shambles Straithes Whitby York Source Type: blogs

Tough germs
Well, well…well. I mean, you try to be oh soooo careful whenever you set foot outside your house, especially during the flu season…For example: you never go food shopping during peak times you avoid seeing friends if they have the slightest sniffle you never shake hands or kiss anyone, or, well, you try not to… My “try to avoid getting sick” list goes on and on…I repeat, I try to be sooo careful. I always carry a little bottle of hand sanitizer in my purse, for emergencies, such as, well, let’s say that, due to social circumstances, I’ve been forced to shake hands with some...
Source: Margaret's Corner - March 21, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll germs and myeloma Source Type: blogs

A new anti-myeloma substance: andrographolide
Discussion: andrographolide also inhibits angiogenesis, which is so important for the survival and wellbeing of myeloma cells, so that’s good to know, too. Now we get to the above-mentioned importance of the TLR4 protein. TLR4 is apparently involved, not in a good way!!!, with a tumor’s microenvironment and has a lot of power over immune cells. So, if its activity can be blocked, that’s very good news. With andrographolide, this can be accomplished… I mentioned TLR4 in one of my earliest posts, written in 2007: TLRs, or toll-like receptors, play a key role in the immune system. Back then, I was interested i...
Source: Margaret's Corner - February 13, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll andrographolide anti-myeloma extract Source Type: blogs

Doctor Questions
We are always told to write down your list of questions for your doctors and even bring someone to write down the answers. This can be appropriate for when you are first diagnosed with something nasty. But it doesn ' t hold true for regular follow ups with  your other doctors.Over the years, I have learned not only to bring a list of doctor questions to appointments. But I have also learn to break it down into as few as possible, into two categories.Category one is for the list of issues you have noted since last seeing them. For example you had the flu in November for ten days. Or have been under a lot of stress from...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 13, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: coping doctor appointments doctor questions Source Type: blogs

Up and Down, Again
Everyone has ups and downs in their life, especially with their health. Or maybe I have more ups and downs than the average person.  Okay, maybe my health has been on a downward slide for awhile few years now.However, I realized the other day that I was actually feeling pretty well for the first time in quite a while. I mean my back has been sore but the rest of me has actually been doing okay. Its kind of nice actually. And it makes me think how long its been since I felt that well.I had been feeling as if I was over-medicated in some ways for the past few years. I changed my pain management doctor and had reduced so...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - February 9, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being healthy healthiness tired unhealthiness Source Type: blogs

The Moment I Got My MFA
I hadn ’t expected to care that much about earning my Master of Fine Arts in creative writing degree. Sure, I felt pride for the two years I dedicated myself to the work. But, I didn’t think the three letters “MFA” on my résumé, the validation that I finished what I had started, or the brief cere mony at which I would wear the goofy “hood” would matter to me.When the thirteen of us went backstage at Freeport High School on the night of Saturday, January 13, to dress in our academic regalia, my heart rate began rising. It wasn ’t even related to the Eagles taking the lead over the Falcons. In fact, for proba...
Source: cancerslayerblog - January 23, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: a day in my life life lessons MFA Source Type: blogs