A mechanical heartbeat in the snowy forest

PetiteSheWolf

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Thank you so much @Maegaranthelas , @Fremen , @TopNotch , @Anek , @Obsinosterous , @CODawn , it means a lot. Not my first rodeo of uncertain medical news, hopefully I am learning a bit by that point. And thank you to all those who clicked.

Thursday meditation and daily habit done
This morning Better Arms challenge D19, kine visit, and

Quite a good heart opener, I liked it!

1 year and 6 consecutive days of exercuse (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
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PetiteSheWolf

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Thank you @Mamatigerj and @Saffity !

Yesterday did daily habit + meditation.
This morning did Better Arms challenge D20. Since things are so unsettled, I decided to do something I enjoyed but was not overly hard (and could be adapted for my knee), so I started (again) 30 more days of yoga - D1. It felt nice.

1 year and 7 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)

Oh, I watched quite a good horror movie, so paging an Ox @GentleOx ;)
It is the French movie "gueules noires", English title "the deep dark". The French titles, "black faces" / "black mugs" refers not to minstrels, if ever you wondered, but refers to the soot-blackened faces of colliery workers. in the 1800s, a strange discovery and a fire in a mine pit in northern France leads to the closure of part of a mine, and the birth of legends around those miners whose body was never found. Jump to the late 1950s/early 1960s. A historian asks for authorisation to go down and dig some special parts in one of the pits ; and that of course leads to catastrophes, and a discovery very much Lovecraft-inspired. The interest (IMO) was the relationship inside the team, a pretty tight group - that's what you get when you risk death day in and day out, led by a WWII veteran. But less tight in this group are of course the professor leading them down, and also the morrocan miner who just joined them a week ago and still has his proofs to make, specially with a quite racist miner. Acting was pretty good - the WWII veteran is a well-respected French actor, Samuel Le Bihan. And of course the gloomy, oppresive atmosphere of the pit is well used. So, a nice entertainment worthy of your time.
My own note : 4.5 colliery pits canaries out of 5. Trill trill!
 
wjs

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PetiteSheWolf said:
It is the French movie "gueules noires", English title "the deep dark". The French titles, "black faces" / "black mugs" refers not to minstrels, if ever you wondered, but refers to the soot-blackened faces of colliery workers. in the 1800s, a strange discovery and a fire in a mine pit in northern France leads to the closure of part of a mine, and the birth of legends around those miners whose body was never found. Jump to the late 1950s/early 1960s. A historian asks for authorisation to go down and dig some special parts in one of the pits ; and that of course leads to catastrophes, and a discovery very much Lovecraft-inspired. The interest (IMO) was the relationship inside the team, a pretty tight group - that's what you get when you risk death day in and day out, led by a WWII veteran. But less tight in this group are of course the professor leading them down, and also the morrocan miner who just joined them a week ago and still has his proofs to make, specially with a quite racist miner. Acting was pretty good - the WWII veteran is a well-respected French actor, Samuel Le Bihan. And of course the gloomy, oppresive atmosphere of the pit is well used. So, a nice entertainment worthy of your time.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I'm a big horror fan and doubly so for Lovecraft's works. This sounds very much in the vein of At the Mountains of Madness, which is my favorite novella of HPL.
 
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"So sleepy!"
Great review! I'm a big fan of horror beneath the earth (a la As Above, So Below, which takes place in the Parisian catacombs!), so I may have to check this one out. The creatures in the trailer look pretty neat, too.

I also remember watching some of the more extreme French movies like Martyrs and Frontiers. Really scary and horrifying stuff.

Always welcome Samuel Le Bihan, he was great in Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups).
 
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Grins to @wjs , glad if I could give a little inspiration for movie watching! I should reread Lovecraft, I think they are republishing it in a very pretty collection edition, "la pleiade", hmmm that'd make for a nice suggestion on next Christmas's wishlist!

And smile for @GentleOx , Le Bihan is quite good. The reviews I saw of Martys and frontiers seem a tad too extreme for me, but heck, if some french cinema gets appreciated around, can't complain, LOL! "As above so below" I liked - without really love it, but was quite a good litte watch. Nearby my previous location in Paris was running an old train line (used to bring trains from western France around Paris to the chemical plants by the Seine), and some of the "illegal" , or should I say irregular access entrances to the catacombs run from closed sections of this old line; I knew two places to jump over into the train line, to then go to the catacombs. But no way this chicken-wolf goes in such an unstable place, LOL!

We sang with a German choir for the Palm Sunday service, it was quite nice. Happy Palm Sunday to whoever celebrate, and happy nice spring Sunday to others .

Yesterday did daily habit + meditation.
This morning did Better Arms challenge D21. and 30 more days of yoga D2.

1 year and 8 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Thank you @Mamatigerj !

So, biopsy is tomorrow. Switch to heparin is done - I got the bruises on tighs and tummy to prove it, LOL. One day I will learn to do those SC injections without bruises...

Yesterday did daily habit + meditation.
This morning did Better Arms challenge D21, and 30 more days of yoga D3 (meditation).

1 year and 9 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
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PetiteSheWolf

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Thank you so much @Mamatigerj , @Fremen , @Maegaranthelas and @graoumia and those who clicked ; it went well - I got to say the nurse/assistant was very reassuring and clear, and the doctor quick and effective. Now, waiting time!

I may have to adapt the exercises tomorrow morning and Thursday morning as , well, that area has clearly been "pinched and proded", so to say, but shouldn't take more long.

Yesterday did daily habit + meditation.
This morning did Better Arms challenge D22, and 30 more days of yoga D4.

1 year and 10 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
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Merci @graoumia ; now gotta wait until April 29th. I plan to breath, meditate, and celebreate Holy Week and Easter grounding myself in peace and trust.

Yesterday did daily habit + meditation.
I think the Better arms challenge is better postponed to Friday ; and to avoid straining chest, I did 30 More days of Yoga day 7 - day 5 will come Friday, LOL.

1 year and 11 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Friday and yesterday saturday did daily habit + meditation.
That was a good week!

Yesterday did 30mDoY D5 + Better Arms D24 ; and today 30 mDoY D9 (so completely back on track) and Better Arms D25.

Had a double Easter celebration since I am part of the choir ;), we had call-in at 8 AM, and two service at 9 and 11 AM. Tiring but glad if we can help people worship properly. He is risen!!!

Oh, Friday, on my music app (Qobuz, if you wonder), I found again what we played two years ago for the Good Friday service : Robert Ray's Gospel Mass. Listening again to it was a blast, I love it!

1 year and 15 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Yesterday meditation and daily habit done.

This morning 30 mDoY D13 and Better Arms D29, and kine exercises.

I noticed my balance seems better, daily yoga - even if not specifically aimed at balance asanas, seems to really help with that. And the knee's doing fine, I guess less walking, more yoga plus time is a good combo.
Been a while I didn't mention weight. It's been going on quite good too - I counted calories, which I hate, but now I seem stable between 42 and 43, which is my goal. Now to stabilize it...

1 year and 19 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
PetiteSheWolf

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Thank you @GentleOx , @TopNotch , @Fremen , @CODawn and @PETERMORRIS966 !

Well, little update...
Biopsy came back. Yep, cancer. not in-situ, and hormono-dependant and HER2-. I have an appointment with an oncologisf for ... Monday 19th of May. That sounds long, but I don't think I could get it any faster at another place.
From what I know of the topic, that means very probably surgery + hormonotherapy. We'll see what they say.

Guess I will be doing quite more yoga next month. Wondering if I get back to Yoga International for more videos.... We'll see.
Anyhow, thank you for being a safe place where I can vent on this. I'll get through this in the usual Wolfie fashion I guess, with humor (even black humor if needed, like changing my class to amazon ;) , music, exercise and stubborness. And prayers and good wishes and good vibes because I know it helps.

ONWARDS we go!
 
Jaga

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"I don’t have a soul. I am a soul. I have a body."
I'm so sorry :hug:
(My mum has actually been on the hormonotherapy for few months, after the surgery and radiotherapy, it seems to work well for her, so I wish from the bottom of my heart, that it will work for you as well)
My thoughts are with you :sendinglove:
 
PetiteSheWolf

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You're all so sweet... :hug::kittens: It means a lot to me, really, This Hive is a very special place.
As some of you mentioned (special wave to @Jaga and her mom), it is becoming more and more common. And we all know it can be, well, deadly - in memory of our Kanary. But the treatments evolved a LOT - i remember from when I was in pharm school, and I know what I have seen since come up in oncology. And my case is clearly not one of the very scary one. So, I cross my fingers for a smooth treatment, and go there with fighting spirit. In the words of a beloved serie,
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So, back to exercise!

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, meditation and daily habit.
Saturday and Sunday did 30 mDoY D15 and D16.
This morning I did a Yoga International 15 mins video, and the Daily exercise. I think that may be my next rythm - adding a challenge and / or an abs exercise depending on how the next month challenge is.

Oh, Sunday we had a guest at our church, a Gospel singer - we raised the roof with her singing "O happy day", that was fun and uplifting!
Then I went to see V in the hospital. Very emotional, but very good. No sign of reject, no sign of infection anymore. The problem is that she still has pulmonary artery hypertension - and that messes up with her stomach, so she can't eat well and that slows down her healing. But she is improving!

1 year and 23 consecutive days of exercise (one year zero days on 05/04)
 
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