How I have survived

1. Excellent medical care
2. Luck
3. Diet and exercise.

Every day I take drugs to keep this disease away. I eat a healthy diet and I exercise - a lot. My focus is my diet. Every week I have a box of organic produce delivered. Every day I have to decide how to eat it.

Yesterday, I ate oranges and apples for snacks. For breakfast it was the usual frozen berries, raw oats, a dried fruit-and-nut mix that I mix together and a mix of ground flax, wheat germ, oat bran and rice bran sprinkled on top. To that I add a spoon of fat free yogurt and a sprinkling of 365 high fiber cereal. Then I cover the lot with soy milk. Chemo left me lactose intolerant so I have soy. My breast cancer was ER+ and soy was controversial, but it didn't make sense to avoid it to me. So I drank and ate it. Now the research shows that women with ER+ cancer can actually survive longer if they include soy in their diets.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/BreastCancer/17389

Lunch and dinner were mixed vegetables with a little rice and Amy's low fat black beans.

This is Blog 5 for me

I have different blogs for the different things I do. Almost 5 years ago, on April 28, 2009, I was diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma. I live in the western United States and am in my fifties. I am married and have 4 children. This is my life.