You exercise freaks are not reading these posts correctly. NOBODY has suggested anyone go out for any EXERCISE to burn calories and raise heart rate or any of that crap. We are talking a leisurely stroll from point a to point b to keep the muscles moving and get your bum out of bed while you still have the energy. The fact that your might do it in the park or some other place in the fresh air might improve your spirits, although not in this weather.

And noone even remotely suggested that stage 4 or even 2 cancer is the same as breaking a bone, but the muscle loss from totaly inactivity can be the same and it can take months of PT or exercise to regain that muscle. You just don't want to stay in bed 20 hours a day out of boredom. This treatemt will eventually put you there. Don't go there until you have to.

Eileen


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Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III
mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad
Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND
June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer
June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I