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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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Miriam, Volunteer Mentor | @mir123 | Oct 27, 2025

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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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Oct 27, 2025

Solving a very hard Sudoku in ink yesterday (I usually hit a point when I need pencil marks).
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dj12 | @dj12 | Oct 27, 2025

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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grldweiner66 | @grldweiner66 | Oct 27, 2025

Another great day in Phoenix 🙂

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dougr19 | @dougr19 | Oct 26, 2025
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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Any turkeys this year? Hopefully you are doing well.

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | Oct 22, 2025
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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shirley71 | @shirley71 | Oct 21, 2025

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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susan38 | @susan38 | Oct 21, 2025

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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susan38 | @susan38 | Oct 21, 2025
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 . I’ve not had this but am having both chemo and radiation therapy for cancer than has metastaticized according to the biopsy taken from my groin lymph nodes.
PET SCANS AND CT SCANS DO NOT SHOW ANY DEVELOPMENT OF ANY OTHER CANCERS THROUGHOUT MY BODY. All the very best for your diagnostic results and ensuing treatment .

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Oct 21, 2025
In reply to @scottbeammeup "After five crappy years (lockdown, death of mom, cancer, recovery from cancer) I finally took a..." + (show)
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After five crappy years (lockdown, death of mom, cancer, recovery from cancer) I finally took a month, cancelled all doctor appointments and travelled around Spain. My Spanish is pretty good so I met lots of people, did some cycling, swam in the Mediterranean sea, experienced some unique foods and the best paella I’ve ever had and tried sangria made from Cava. In London for a couple days now and flying home tomorrow to continue what seems like an endless stream of Dr appts but not going to think about that for now. Sometimes the small things bring joy but this time it was a big thing!

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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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