This is going to shock you I know, but I’m carrying a little weight. It’s my handbag….Ha ha, kidding, it’s in my upper tummy. As everyone knows tummy fat is the most dangerous and unhealthy and we also know, fats aren’t created equally – if it’s subcutaneous (in the skin folds) that is less of a health risk than if it’s under the muscle – visceral.
Mine is visceral, I don’t need a doctor to tell me that. I also don’t need them to tell me it can cause heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack stroke & diabetes. What I didn’t know was it can also cause breast cancer! (And colorectal cancer & Alzheimers).
The next surprising find in my resesrch is that the visceral fat stores excess energy and produces hormones and inflammatory substances causing long lasting inflammatory disease. Well doesn’t that explain a lot of my pain I’ve been experiencing in the last 6 months.
Finally, the most shocking peice of news was that the stress hormone cortisol (that one I used to keep at bay with my exercise), increases how much visceral fat your body stores! Wowsers I’m feeling another medical trial coming on. The research suggests, as my psychologist also did, practising meditation, deep breathing and stress management strategies.
In addition to this the good news is I can fix it with diet, exercise and a whole lifestyle change, and God dam I will. I choose to aim for 10 kilos in 5 month’s, but I’ll be happy with just some sign of effort equalling any result at this point.
I also did a background check and as it turns out my breast surgery is locked in for 1 year minus 1 day to the exact day of my last breast surgery!
Happy days xx
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I was 21 and I was planning a wedding, buying a house and had a job interview for the job of my dreams on my 22nd birthday. You see I was being made redundant and had to find a new job by August. Especially with the new mortgage now. It was April. I worked for CML and my new job was a done deal. All I needed was a medical. And with that, just like that....my life was turned upside down and I was diagnosed with CML, ha ha, I know the irony. My hematologist had a laugh at that too. I had Chronic Myeloid Leukeamia, which was normally reserved for 70 year old men. Quite rare for a young adult to get, so how would they treat it? I underwent two separate trials until finally it was decided my best chance of survival (all be it only 50% chance), would be a MUD BMT (matched unrelated bone marrow transplant), now known as VUD Allograt (volunteer unrelated donor). I was told 21 years ago the chance of finding a match was 1 in 20,000 (and that is everyone was on the bone marrow donor registry). Scary odds. So being the risk taker I am I said "go for it". They found a match and that was my first miracle in this journey. The second miracle was, it worked - new blood type, two different DNA profiles and the miracle of medicine was reborn inside me. The third miracle is my son.
25 years on, I now face a new challenge. Breast Cancer. Certainly not the first person to have cancer, to have invasive ductile cancer, hormone receptive and HER2 +, or to even have a dual diagnosis. But this is not another Webiste about a cancer survivor, this is just my excuse to finally publicly write. Along the way I am hoping I can share some insights I have learnt over the years and at the same time, give you a good belly laugh.
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