Spent 20 years in South 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Texas (not a native) and then spent 10 years is SW Montana ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Looks like I’ll be following my Navy kids to Dover-Foxcroft or Bangor area in 6ish years. I tolerate cold 🥶 much better than 🔥. I’m currently in Norfolk and hating the heat. Am I unrealistic to think the climate in Maine will be agreeable to me?
I love making what I call “cottage tofu” that is simple and delicious. I use extra firm organic tofu, salt, garlic powder, Follow Your Heart mayo and Lawry’s seasoning sprinkled on top. I’m looking for a healthier alternative to this mayo and get the same flavor. I’d use the low fat version but can’t find it in my area. Any suggestions?
Technical Boomer here -born in 1961. Married to a charter Boomer (b 1946). While I have friends and families of various ages, I do have clueless Boomers in my life. Recognizing that it’s got to be BAD BAD BAD out there for sub Reddits to exist just about complaints about Boomers. Boomers should be setting good examples everyday and making the world a better place, not creating Grimm-like horrifying cautionary tales.
That being said (and can y’all try not to be too brutal?😂), if you had 3 wishes to cure boomers of 3 bad habits, what would you change?
I shared my husband’s diet changes only to include an experience from a person who has survived the side effects of the disease and treatment for many years. I NEVER said it was part of any trial. I said that when he went on the trial he decided to improve his diet overall, not that he thought it cured cancer.
Suspending the comments because people misread a post is ludicrous.
When my husband’s cancer stopped responding to all approaches (he had not been treated with chemo yet), he qualified to participate in a trial at MD Anderson. We were made to understand it wasn’t about “if” the trial failed, it was about “when.” The average participant stayed in 18-24 months before PSA no longer responded.
At that time, he decided to add a new approach : whole food plant based (WFPB) eating. Now, this was a BIG DEAL for a 66 year old happy milk-drinking, cheese-adoring, egg-eating carnivore but he had read that animal proteins cause systemic inflammation and he wanted to give his immune system the best conditions to fight the cancer.
Some interesting things happened.
Four months in, his “nursing home shuffle” caused by angina was just GONE. I lost him (temporarily) at an airport because he moved much faster than he normally did and booked right out of sight. He did not even notice how fast he was moving.
His hemoglobin numbers during the trial stayed in very the healthy range throughout. Normally, patients developed issues fairly fast once treatment started.
Instead of staying in the trial for 18-24 months, his PSA did not become consistently detectable for 48 months. Very unusual for the trial.
Before he switched to WFPB, he had very frequent HORRIBLE smelling burps, etc. (the “roll down the car window NOW!!!! “ variety) and very uncomfortable heart burn. All this disappeared after 3 - 4 weeks.
Current day: he will be 80 in 3 months, he eats only 3 meals of 21 in a week that have any animal proteins. He usually eats eggs/cheese, pizza, or a cow burger with cheese for his “cheats.” His cholesterol is great, no diabetes, he has maintained a 60 lb weight loss, no arthritis, and still no angina.
We believe eating this way has absolutely helped slow the progression. We get plenty of protein (1.2 g per kilogram in weight) and have adjusted quite nicely. I eat the same way (except much less frequently on meat) and have no arthritis, no diabetes, and great cholesterol. We both have a lot more energy eating this way but we indulge no more than 15% of our meals with cheese, eggs, etc. and we also keep added sugar low as well.
There is plenty of information out there about nutrition and reproductive cancers you can check yourself.
Lee me know if you have questions. 😎
In case this might help anyone, here is my husband’s history. My husband is still alive after 13.5 years of treatment. Diagnosed January 2013 with all 11 biopsy cores registering Gleason scores of 8 or 9. PSA was 9. Cancer was in the seminal vesicles. (We’d been watching his PSA go up from 4 to 6 back to 4 then 6 then 9. Doc finally said, you need a biopsy.)
ADT for 9 months
Radical prostatectomy
Six months later: 35 sessions radiation
Six weeks shy of 2 years with zero PSA it came back. From 2015 fall until Jan 2018, ADT. Failed.
Immunotherapy summer of 2018 to prep for trial at MD Anderson
Four years on trial.
Trial failed, tried Lupron again. Failed.
When PSA was above 2.0, had targeted radiation on two spots in lymph nodes in groin.
PSA started registering above 2 in 2024.
Tried apalutamide but it didn’t work 2025
Currently 3 rounds in of Pluvicto. PSA started at 15 in February 2026 now it’s 5.7.
Getting treatment at University of VA in Charlottesville.
He will turn 80 this September.
Our first oncologist gave him 8-10 years, tops. He loves to tell people “I’ve exceeded my warranty. I’m supposed to be dead.” If we hadn’t had somewhat twisted senses of humor when we started, we definitely would have by now. 🤣🤪
Even before I read her books, I believed most people are unaware of their rights/options as a family member to the deceased. I have an ill family member. How do I educate myself and pick a decent funeral for cremation?
I’ve tried a couple recipes with not the best luck. Anyone have a great recipe to share?
Norfolk Botanical Gardens yesterday. Great place to walk!