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What brought you joy today?

Posted by northoftheborder @northoftheborder, Jun 28, 2024

If you've been living with cancer for a while, you know it's not all gloom and doom. Where did you find joy today? I'll start:

1. Working in my garden.
2. Meeting my daughter for tea.
3. Home-made pizza for dinner.
4. My spouse (always).
5. Some interesting online discussions.
6. Rereading a good novel.

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susan38 | @susan38 | Oct 21 6:10pm

1. Reading a novel called “the valley” by Chris Hammer.
2. Starting to rebuild a garden after concreting a pathway for my wheelchair
3. First coffee in the morning.
4, the suns shining
5. Birds in the trees singing
6. Being able to move again.

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shirley71 | @shirley71 | Oct 21 11:25pm

Thank you. My SCLC has not spend to my brain. I'm concerned about having a full brain Radiation treatment has a strong side effect of long term memories lose and cognitive ability loss

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | Oct 22 5:16am
In reply to @northoftheborder "@scottbeammeup That's wonderful! Spain is somewhere I really want to visit. My top destination is a..." + (show)
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@scottbeammeup That's wonderful! Spain is somewhere I really want to visit.

My top destination is a little nerdy, though: the Ramírez guitar workshop in Madrid, where my classical guitar was born 33 years ago. 🙂

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@northoftheborder Barcelona really surprised me with their amazing cycling infrastucture. Lots of bike paths separated by barriers and some bike-only “highways.” I’m not religious but La Sagrada Familia was extremely moving.

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dougr19 | @dougr19 | Oct 26 2:44pm
In reply to @stevecando54 "Today my joy came from watching out the window, 14 turkeys in my back yard. Been..." + (show)
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Today my joy came from watching out the window, 14 turkeys in my back yard. Been living here almost 20 years and is first time seeing them, plenty of others but not the turkeys. Appeared to be 3 moms and 11 young ones. they would walk around then plop down to relax. On and off I watched them for over 3 hours, it was a pretty joyful site to see them. Best to all.

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@stevecando54
Any turkeys this year? Hopefully you are doing well.

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grldweiner66 | @grldweiner66 | Oct 27 9:37am

Another great day in Phoenix 🙂

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dj12 | @dj12 | Oct 27 12:25pm

My brother is stopping over and we are going to play cards. Hoss and pepper. We just got back from eating out and I can't taste hardly anything because of the chemo so I add the Tobasco sauce and it tastes great on my eggs 🍳.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Oct 27 6:07pm

Solving a very hard Sudoku in ink yesterday (I usually hit a point when I need pencil marks).
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Miriam, Volunteer Mentor | @mir123 | Oct 27 9:07pm

Visiting old friends 1000 miles from my home and seeing the children of two women I knew when they were newborn babies. My central friend is the matriarch of the family and these are her grandkids ages 7-15 Wonderful time, and a great sense that life goes on.

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sistermarcy | @sistermarcy | Oct 28 9:24am

Meetings with my dear San Francisco book club friends… we’ve been meeting for forty years now. We started out young and now we’re old and fragile but still loving and supportive of one another. We meet via zoom these days…

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dave56pa | @dave56pa | Oct 28 9:01pm
In reply to @shirley71 "Has anyone had preventive braim radiation on their brain for small cell lung cancer had brain..." + (show)
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Has anyone had preventive braim radiation on their brain for small cell lung cancer had brain radiation for cancer when no cancer has showed up in brain

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@shirley71 !!! No !!! WHY !!!
Wondering are you talking about radiation from a scan or from a treatment? What could they possibly be treating without a diagnosis?

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