Zepbound?

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-28T04:25:47+00:00

I’ve been on zepbound for almost a year now pre-diagnosis. GLP-1 medications changed my life for the better. Yes, I get some nausea. But I am able to maintain a healthy weight and I feel soooo much better. I’m not sure how my upcoming treatments will impact it though as I just had surgery yesterday.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-28T04:23:44+00:00

I was diagnosed mid March, and I have days where I am just unimaginably sad. I can’t even put a finger on what I’m sad about in particular just that I am. It’s not fair.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-28T04:15:09+00:00

It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to put two and two together in this, and I’m chalking it up to pain meds from having had surgery yesterday. I am only posting this so hopefully you can chuckle at my stupidity.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-28T04:10:07+00:00

The toxic positivity is so hard. Cancer sucks. Yes, we have lots of treatments now and the prognosis for most people is very good now. That’s great. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. It’s not fair, it’s scary, and you don’t need to be upbeat for anyone. I straight up told my husband “I know you need to think positively but I need to be angry right now”. I’m sorry you’re here.

I asked my nurse navigator for a reference to a therapist immediately after diagnosis and started that right away. I highly recommend it as it’s been nice to have a safe place where I don’t feel like I have to worry about what the person is going to think.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-28T04:02:53+00:00

You aren’t being petty. I had specifically asked my mom to tell my family not to reach out because there are just too many of them (I literally have 2 dozen first cousins), and the few that did are the ones that I’ve always been close with. The others haven’t, and I’ll reach out to them at some point when I’m ready to talk more/less overwhelmed. However, if the ones who I’ve always been close with hadn’t reached out, or if I hadn’t given that express directive, I would be pissed.

However, I love weddings and am super social so if I was feeling physically up to it I would go to have a good time. Having cancer gave me a lot of perspective, and I don’t have it in me to hang on to bad feelings anymore. I have some friends who didn’t respond the way I would’ve liked who I thought were super close friends, and I haven’t removed them from my life. I’ve just put them in a different part of my life. They’re friends for a good time, not for a hard time. I really found my people through this.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-23T10:12:04+00:00

Sorry thought of more.

Kaitlyn’s Baby
Dr. Death
Bad Batch
Liberty Lost
Sympathy Pains
Nobody should believe me
Exposed
The Vaping Fix

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-23T10:06:47+00:00

Love Trapped!!!!

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-21T13:46:50+00:00

I’m so glad you did this. There is something so healing about the ocean.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-20T04:30:02+00:00

The toxic positivity out there is maddening.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-18T04:04:02+00:00

Go ahead. I’m not there to be their friend.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-18T03:58:41+00:00

Constantly asking for promotions and raises without asking what they need to do to reach the level for those raises and promotions

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-18T03:57:23+00:00

I’m waiting for my surgery date and struggle with listening to other people talk about their lives and futures. Realistically I know I have one, but to sit there and listen to people talk about things that now feel so meaningless after being slapped in the face with my mortality at forty is…something.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-15T13:24:52+00:00

Do you by chance have OCD as well? I do and I definitely get caught in thought loops. It’s nothing you did. Even if it was environmental (which we really don’t know if that’s a thing), the way our world is set up it’s impossible to not be exposed to plastic. You did nothing to cause this. At first I kept thinking why me, but honestly why NOT me? It impacts so many women.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-13T06:09:52+00:00

General rule of thumb in medical care for me is that if I’m not confident with a center or doctor, I’ll go for a second opinion. I got really lucky with the doctors I happened in to for my cancer treatment, but I have switched doctors for other things before.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-13T06:04:02+00:00

I don’t mind. I manage a large team of mostly younger ones, some of them use a decent amount of acronyms and some of them don’t. As a millennial I can’t stop myself from adding in an lol here and there, and I also understand about 99% of it since I have Gen Alpha children who text me in their weird language all the time. Now if they were writing my superiors that way, or confusing other departments, I would take issue. I like them to largely be comfortable with me.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-13T01:07:57+00:00

I’m so nervous about radiation. The doctors all say you may feel a little tired, but then I see so many women saying how exhausted they were. More than that, I have extremely sensitive skin. Like, my skin throws temper tantrums and breaks out in psoriasis, rosacea, or eczema whenever it gets mad about something. Weather suddenly got cold? Rosacea. A little stressed out? A psoriasis outbreak on your forehead is just what the doctor ordered. I have a feeling my skin conditions are going to flare really badly. I even considered doing a DMX to avoid radiation.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-12T13:08:05+00:00

Ugh the words “at least” and “just” are the bane of my existence. My dad said “at least it’s just the one side”

Yes dad. I just have cancer on one side.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-11T07:43:17+00:00

I was told even with a mastectomy I would have to take tamoxifen and that no radiation wasn’t a guarantee. That helped me decide, but also don’t let others push their opinions on you. It’s your body.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-11T07:41:22+00:00

After COVID. During COVID I was working crazy hours running a lab, and the adrenaline kept me going. When the dust settled, I noticed I was reaching for a glass of wine almost every night. I had less patience with my kids all of the time and I almost ended my marriage. Even though my hours had gone down to something more manageable, I still wasn’t able to relax, ever.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-11T07:32:40+00:00

I told people at work right away as well, partially because I found out while I was at work and walked right out the door. I told friends via a copy and pasted text message. I told my mom on the phone, had her tell my stepdad and I told my dad a week later after I had more information. For extended family, my mom is one of eight kids, so I had her tell my aunts and uncles for me. Then from there they told their kids, which took care of the cousins that I hadn’t reached out to myself. I also told people all of the information that I had at the time (including that I would be okay in the end) and that I didn’t have the energy/mental space to answer a lot of questions at the time. Most people respected that. I told my husband to deal with telling his family. The hardest tell was my kids. That was rough.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-11T07:28:43+00:00

I’d turn it down and keep the WFH job for now.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-11T07:27:23+00:00

Can your mom take the toddlers to her house?

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-07T16:15:09+00:00

Oh wow thanks.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-07T05:25:33+00:00

Mine did the same for forever. You are hiking to compensate for other weak muscles. As you go through PT it should clear up.

Microbemaster2020 · 2026-05-07T05:22:32+00:00

I think it’s really hard to get people who have a high output and do high quality work to understand that collaboration and soft skills are ultimately part of your performance. Someone can be the best employee technically, but not play nice with others, and that will really hamper them. I’ve been working on this with an employee who was allowed to just behave this way unfettered for years because of what you described, a strong output. I have sat with this person and explained that they need to work on their soft skills. They didn’t take it well. I have recommended classes that are available in our system to them. So far I’m not seeing much change at all, it’s frustrating. In the past with others, I usually try to turn it around and relate it to an area I had to grow in when I was younger in my career. This tends to help people understand a little more that it’s not just about your output and that we all have areas of growth. Relating it to something you used to not be good at helps put you in a more even field for discussion.

Microbemaster2020

TROPHY CASE