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- Summary
- How to Make Your Daily Schedule More Manageable
- Watch Your Weight
- Tips About Intimacy And Sex
- How To Involve Family, Friends and the Non-Medical Professionals In Your Life
- Exercise As Much As The Doctor Allows
- Eat Better
- Buy, Store And Cook Food Safely. Drink Safe Water
- Spouses And Partners Need Your Input
- How To Consider Underage Children
- Travel is Possible With Planning
- Getting From Place To Place
- Carry A List of Medications And Vomit Bag "Just In Case"
- Get Help To Keep Your Home Clean. Make A Healing Environment
- Pets
- Do What You Need To Do To Take Care Of Yourself
Colorectal Cancer: In Treatment: Day To Day Living
How to Make Your Daily Schedule More Manageable
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Rather than try to keep the same schedule you did before your diagnosis, it is better to slow down a little and to pace yourself.
- Reduce your obligations.
- Plan your day ahead of time.
- Put off things that do not to be done now. NOTE: This does not include:
- Anything to do with your medical care – including nutrition, exercise and rest/sleep. For information about medical care, see: Colorectal Cancer: In Treatment: Managing Your Medical Care.
- Finances. It is important to keep up with finances in order to keep health insurance in place and to keep your credit rating in case you need cash. To learn more, see: Colorectal Cancer Finances.
- Avoid unnecessary walking and steps.
- Don’t do things that make you overly tired. If you do need to do something that will be tiring, spread it out over a period of days or weeks.
- Ask family, friends and co-workers to take over chores they can do for you.
- Plan rest breaks. Then actually take them and do something that you find relaxing.
Be gentle with yourself if you cannot do as many things or as quickly as you did before treatment started.
Pushing yourself to the limit is physically and emotionally exhausting.
At the same time, do not use colon or rectal cancer as an excuse to become a couch potato. Treat yourself as if you are well. Do as much as you can until you can't.
Do not beat yourself up if there are days when you can't do anything. It happens.
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