I have 2 avoidable caveats to share…( just skip away and read somebody else if you don’t want to know).
#1. Next week I will be 82y/o and in the last 3 1/2 years I have fallen three times- breaking bones each time, with long recoveries (casts, titanium rod, etc. . Each time I vowed to never fall again, and I was wrong. (Before those falls, from age 50-to almost late 70’s I was vibrant, also jogging almost 365 days each year- falling maybe once or twice each year, with nothing more than bumps, scratches and some bleeding at most.)
I do what I can- even take anti-vertigo supplements and try to remember to bring a cane or my walker each time I walk. Yet each time as I improve, I leave them behind. (as I write now I’m lying in bed with my latest cast, trying to keep my leg a little higher than my heart.)
But worse than that, is what happened in 2009. By then I’d had 3 different types of cancer and was found to have Lynch syndrome, which is a cancer propensity. The physicians proscribed a complete hysterectomy for uterine cancer, although it took almost 4 months before I received the diagnosis and could get the surgery, before the 1 month recovery. Then came 3 radiation therapies, vaginally.
Everything changed sexually, quite possibly unnecessarily. Only then I heard of “The Truth About Cancer”. After a few couple years of studying more, I now have been able to avoid cancer almost altogether, although 2 types of skin cancers occasionally pop up.(living in sunny Las Vegas doesn’t help) I take a pinch of grey salt in my water, for example. I chew 2 to 3 kernels of apricot kernels daily, often take some sour sop leaf tea or powdered lions mane mushrooms in smoothies, and the like. Occasionally I wondered if I could’ve started these anti-cancer natural therapies earlier, would I have avoided the need for a hysterectomy altogether.
With 1 and a half inches of a vagina left, and radiation scarring, I’m not interested in sex anymore.
All’s well that ends well though, because my wonderful partner whose ignorant doctor prescribed a month of radiation therapy two times a week- as prevention against prostate cancer due to his enlarged prostate, can’t do penetration anyway. (His doctor told him his erections would return. But they haven’t, and it has been years. Once the compound pharmacy’s organic pills worked, but they stopped working as well) I’d like to say foreplay’s enough, but that’s another story. The second caveat obviously is to learn how to prevent cancer, and not wait until you get a diagnosis.
So you are in vegas too? Hi neigbor! what part of vegas?
This sounds like a lot to manage but it also sounds like you are rising above it and managing. I think the heft of the medical problems as we age is such an issue. thank you for raising it. It’s not sexy to talk about but so important. and we will all face it. I fell over the dog today and was like, oh this is how it begins…..
I have 2 avoidable caveats to share…( just skip away and read somebody else if you don’t want to know).
#1. Next week I will be 82y/o and in the last 3 1/2 years I have fallen three times- breaking bones each time, with long recoveries (casts, titanium rod, etc. . Each time I vowed to never fall again, and I was wrong. (Before those falls, from age 50-to almost late 70’s I was vibrant, also jogging almost 365 days each year- falling maybe once or twice each year, with nothing more than bumps, scratches and some bleeding at most.)
I do what I can- even take anti-vertigo supplements and try to remember to bring a cane or my walker each time I walk. Yet each time as I improve, I leave them behind. (as I write now I’m lying in bed with my latest cast, trying to keep my leg a little higher than my heart.)
But worse than that, is what happened in 2009. By then I’d had 3 different types of cancer and was found to have Lynch syndrome, which is a cancer propensity. The physicians proscribed a complete hysterectomy for uterine cancer, although it took almost 4 months before I received the diagnosis and could get the surgery, before the 1 month recovery. Then came 3 radiation therapies, vaginally.
Everything changed sexually, quite possibly unnecessarily. Only then I heard of “The Truth About Cancer”. After a few couple years of studying more, I now have been able to avoid cancer almost altogether, although 2 types of skin cancers occasionally pop up.(living in sunny Las Vegas doesn’t help) I take a pinch of grey salt in my water, for example. I chew 2 to 3 kernels of apricot kernels daily, often take some sour sop leaf tea or powdered lions mane mushrooms in smoothies, and the like. Occasionally I wondered if I could’ve started these anti-cancer natural therapies earlier, would I have avoided the need for a hysterectomy altogether.
With 1 and a half inches of a vagina left, and radiation scarring, I’m not interested in sex anymore.
All’s well that ends well though, because my wonderful partner whose ignorant doctor prescribed a month of radiation therapy two times a week- as prevention against prostate cancer due to his enlarged prostate, can’t do penetration anyway. (His doctor told him his erections would return. But they haven’t, and it has been years. Once the compound pharmacy’s organic pills worked, but they stopped working as well) I’d like to say foreplay’s enough, but that’s another story. The second caveat obviously is to learn how to prevent cancer, and not wait until you get a diagnosis.
So you are in vegas too? Hi neigbor! what part of vegas?
This sounds like a lot to manage but it also sounds like you are rising above it and managing. I think the heft of the medical problems as we age is such an issue. thank you for raising it. It’s not sexy to talk about but so important. and we will all face it. I fell over the dog today and was like, oh this is how it begins…..