Much of what we have learned about life was outside-in from our parents, schools, and cultures. They informed our beliefs and assigned meaning to our actions, often not in alignment with who we were inside.
Recent Survivor Stories
Angel for January... Play
Maximize every moment of liveness. Experience pleasurable involvement in all your activities and enjoy what you are doing. Have fun!
Angel for December... Synthesis
We inter-face with the world in numerous ways; as a partner, a family member, child, parent, pet pal, neighbor, customer, and community member both culturally and nationally to name a few. Who is the ‘one’ that is behind the many faces — who is the ‘one’ inner-face?
Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?
It was a view that was hard for some cancer doctors and researchers to accept. But some of the skeptics have changed their minds and decided that, contrary as it seems to everything they had thought, cancers can disappear on their own.
The October Angel... Trust
Move from a place of knowing within you rather than as a result of adaptation to outer experience.
My Brain on Chemo: Alive and Alert
Slowly, insidiously, the fog of the everyday has returned to enshroud me. It came in wispy strips, a little more, then a little more, wrapping me like a mummy. Just the other day, in the car with my wife and my two daughters, I began railing about being stuck in a traffic jam.
Perspective, my wife said. Perspective.
I could not hear her. You see, I’m struggling with this pre-existing human condition.
After cancer, Gratitude for Simple Pleasures by Dana Jennings
I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately, trying to put my finger on what exactly I’m grateful for in the year since I had surgery to remove my cancerous prostate.
What we really need to drop like it's hot!
Yes, ladies, that extra weight could be covering up cancer.
It shouldn’t have taken breast cancer to get me focused on my health, but it did…
Melanoma, a savings plan you DON'T want!
Reality check… take it from me, I’ve been there… Melanoma sucks. You don’t just wake up one day with it… you gather it, tan by tan, year by year, decade by decade… and it comes from UV sources… ALL UV SOURCES… like tanning booths young ladies… Did you ever think of being tan as an addiction? Well, it is… like bulimia, you begin to think you are pale even though you are actually grossly colored… you can never be tan [...]
FYI... Black cumin & Sara Altshul
Meet Black Cumin: Yummy Spice Adds Delicate Flavor, May Treat Pancreatic Cancer I’m a spice freak. It’s virtually impossible for me to pass up the chance to fritter time away in exotic markets of any ethnicity—which is why my husband will often remind me that “we’re supposed to be walking briskly, honey” when I pull him into some eye-catching, aromatic shop whose aisles are jam-packed with herbs and spices. Once I’m inside a culinary casbah, I’m on the lookout for [...]
FYI... Herbal Sleep Aid Valerian, Health Magazine
Herbal Sleep Aid Valerian Helps Soothe Restless Minds (and Legs) By Sara Altshul I did something really stupid last night, and I’m paying the price for it today, big time. I awoke after tossing and turning at around 3:30 a.m. But instead of doing what I usually do, which is to relax myself back to sleep by focusing on peaceful thoughts, I tormented myself with bad “what-if” thoughts. Pretty soon, I was visualizing perfectly awful things happening to my loved [...]
FYI... Wonderful book by Pulitzer Prize winning Jim Sheeler
OBIT, Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives… (Penguin Books) Excerpt from the Introduction: “THESE PEOPLE NEED CANCER,” she said. Aimee Grunberger didn’t mean it to sound vindictive. As usual, she was just being brutally honest. A few weeks before the 44 year old died of breast cancer, she sat on her porch, trying to read the newspaper. Instead she found herself consumed by all the petty squabbles and useless bickering she had recently noticed more than ever. [...]
FYI... Red meat consumption
FYI: Red meat consumption… In an article published on Tuesday in the BBC News, “scientists have produced new evidence suggesting eating lots of red and processed meat damages health. They found big meat eaters had a raised risk of death from all causes over a 10-year period. In contrast, a higher intake of white meat was associated with a slightly reduced risk of death over the same period. The US study, featured in Archives of Internal Medicine, was based on [...]
FYI... about PET scans
Medical Update… 3/15/09 PET Scans and FLT PET scans NEW YORK – When Mike Stevens learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy — but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. “You’re going through all this suffering and stuff and you want to know, am I going to survive? Is this stuff working?” said Stevens, 48, of La Jolla, Calif. “Your whole life is in sort of a [...]
Biotechnology report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090216/ap_on_he_me/med_healthbeat_tailored_cancer_care Check out this feed from the American Cancer Society about new tumor seeking drugs which are being used for Breast, Colon and Lung cancer… the research is still in its infancy, and not yet backed by major organizations such as ASCO, but there are research studies being conducted to explore the possibility of finding a tumor’s genetic signature and tailoring the treatment to take advantage of its vulnerabilities… a welcome alternative to the carpet-bomb approach which many of us [...]
Bealzabob
Bealzabob said to my dark, Come daahling, let’s stroll in the park… Your prospects are slim, Past and future are whim, but right NOW_ there! the sound of a lark!
Insider info... recommendations...
Each week survivors mention in their stories people who have been helpful in their recovery… For the sake of expediency, they are listed below along with the survivor who mentioned them… Lymphedema massage: Lisa Kistner, Aspen, CO posted by Betsy Furth Lymphadema information: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lymphedema The Sally Jobe Clinic (Denver) weekly support group for Breast cancer survivors, posted by Sally Sparhawk Estriol cream for vaginal dryness (safe for survivors with estrogen and progesterone dependant cancers), posted by Nancy Smith Chemosabee: A [...]
Spreading the word about Melanoma
I don’t know if I was “lucky” and “caught it in time”… I’ll never know.
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