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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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jennifish | @jennifish | Jul 25 4:55am

What food book did you reread? I love reading. I just re listened to Pride and prejudice which I love. Have you read Calamity Club? Great read.

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kakalena | @kakalena | Jul 26 12:48pm

Oh yes! All of the above, plus a wonderful Sunday Mass in our little church with rousing hymns sung with enthusiasm, sunlight through the stained glass, a friendly and diverse congregation. A wonderful Sunday morning.

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59catnip | @59catnip | Jul 27 11:34am

Pruning the catnip plants in my garden for my cat. She loves fresh catnip!!

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jul 31 5:25pm
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Lovely suggestion @northoftheborder

joy for me often = either

*being out in Nature, a walk around the block or to a nature center preseve where we have affinity

OR

*being creative at home, collaging or doodling a card for a friend, creating a poem, usually based on a Nature moment, or photographing outdoors wonders, such a a flock of wood storks, that came wondrously to our treatment site, Mayo Clinic/JAX

smiles of thanks for posing this lovely Ask...

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@jgaoffice, with your interest in gardening and photography, here are a couple of conversations you may wish to join:

- Let's Talk about Gardens https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/lets-talk-about-gardens/
- What's outside of your picture window today?https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/whats-outside-of-your-picture-window-today/

What brings you to Mayo Clinic Connect?

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vircet | @vircet | 3 days ago
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Oh yes! All of the above, plus a wonderful Sunday Mass in our little church with rousing hymns sung with enthusiasm, sunlight through the stained glass, a friendly and diverse congregation. A wonderful Sunday morning.

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@kakalena After 10-1/2 months off ADT (4 months on Orgivyx, SBRT on my prostate in April 2025), my PSA today is 0.16
(You mentioned about the mass in your little church. I was in rehab hospital chapel three Sundays ago. When the chaplain led in singing "In the Garden," the hymn touched me; after the non-denominational, inter-faith service, I went to the Garden at the rehab center. I had a quadruple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) on July 8, medically transferred to a rehab hospital on July 20. I got home last Tuesday, and I'm just catching up with unread onnect posts. I thought I needed to respond to your post regarding what brought you joy.
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kakalena | @kakalena | 2 days ago
In reply to @vircet "@kakalena After 10-1/2 months off ADT (4 months on Orgivyx, SBRT on my prostate in April..." + (show)
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@kakalena After 10-1/2 months off ADT (4 months on Orgivyx, SBRT on my prostate in April 2025), my PSA today is 0.16
(You mentioned about the mass in your little church. I was in rehab hospital chapel three Sundays ago. When the chaplain led in singing "In the Garden," the hymn touched me; after the non-denominational, inter-faith service, I went to the Garden at the rehab center. I had a quadruple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) on July 8, medically transferred to a rehab hospital on July 20. I got home last Tuesday, and I'm just catching up with unread onnect posts. I thought I needed to respond to your post regarding what brought you joy.

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Amazing. This brings me joy, too.

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rdebeer | @rdebeer | 1 day ago

My Bird of Paradise Plants blossomed.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | 1 day ago

Seeing an old friend during a canoe paddle.
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livingwithlynch | @livingwithlynch | 6 hours ago

1. Turning off the AC for a while this morning and opening doors and windows until it became too hot.
2. Putting out bird seed for the birds and squirrels and chipmunks and woodchuck and skunk.
3. Enjoying a relaxing breakfast with my beautiful, intelligent, loving, caring Denise.
4. Having completed 4 of 6 BCG treatments this week for bladder cancer and having no adverse side effects.

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