Hi, don't know if you all remember me. I visit, post, then stop, then post, and I lurk a lot.
But I have something I wanted to share, that I hope will help some of you.
Back in September, I started working toward a trip to San Francisco with my husband, to see the Hardly Strictly BlueGrass Festival - I lost 15 lbs, worked out every day, and was starting to lurk again. The Festival was awesome.
A few days after we got back, I found a lump in my breast. And I read about Sarah, and just couldn't post, because I remember her struggle, and it broke my heart. I'm now about 2 weeks out of surgery - I'm going to be ok. My oncologist called me "cancer lite." The lump was small, and they got it all.
But he says I was really lucky. I have a 90% chance of living at least 10 years, and my greatest risk of dying is - other causes. I'm more likely to die from the effect of my weight on my heart than I am of cancer. Chemo would be too hard on me. And I'm not taking the best post-cancer medication because of what it can do to my joints and cholesterol. What I'm taking should work, but... The things I can do most to prevent a recurrence is to lose weight, and to exercise at least 5 hrs a week. Last weeks was 5.5, and I lost 3 lbs.
So I've decided to post about this little-mentioned side effect of obesity. And I'll be here to nag you all about it.