Illinois ladies facing bc
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So sorry I am late with the quote today. Just as I was going to put it in a lady called me about some cats that had been "left" on her property. So the time I usually allot for myself to put in the quote was given over to giving her some advice as to what I thought of the situation and how best to handle it. I live a street back from the main one and am actually right in the front of the woods -- very few animals are " left" for me here though a couple have managed to find their way here -- likely picking up the scent of others like themselves and maybe the aroma of food as well.
Anyway, hope all those who look for the quote in the morning will check back this afternoon.
Thanks Redheaded
Blessings
Jackie
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Jackie - thank you, thank you for your Blessings. I look forward to chatting with you!
Rita - I used to follow this thread in 2007 when I was first diagnosed Stage I, and I remember you had started it. Used to be very, very busy. Wasn't there a girl named Laura? Does she still post?
Diana - You've been here a while also? And we are not to far from Gurnee -- about an hour. Didn't there used to be a rather large group of you ladies back in 2008 that were really close friends and did things together? I remember I had early stage I and I read the Boards, but didn't post. Always thought you ladies were super good friends and it was always fun to read what was goin on!
Lago/Zap. Thank you for warm welcomes!! I look so,forward to knowing you ladies. The only thing is -- I am Stage IV. It might be a little different for everyone -- but maybe not. We'll learn from each other! Right now I am going through stuff but I can share later. I also post on the Bone Mets Thread
Bev
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The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention
to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us
that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with
this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore
it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally.
Fortunately, it’s not too difficult; it just takes some practice.Shakti Gawain
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Hi Bev....
Yes, Laura used to post on the boards but doesn't do it anymore. She went by LauraGTO and organized the BC walking group for us at Grant Park each year. She is still around on facebook.
You can come here and vent anytime. We sure might not have all answers for you but we do listen! Hugs!
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roxyandtaze123 There are some stage IV here. They don't post often. You are one of us…an Illinois Lady survivor!
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Good morning,
Bev -- thank you too. Yes -- a number of we old-timers are still here --- just content to try and give back in some way. I am far enough out in dx and tx that I seldom have much to offer in the way of help for anyone -- other than to repeat some of my stories of issues happening at the time. I did not ( I think I lost a lot of intuitiveness at the time ) do real well with my txs for that reason -- but they did the job for me they were designed to do so it worked out in the end.
We don't mind the Stage of anyone posting here --- we just want to share a place of comfort and hopefully strength for those who do. I do know your Stage IV will have things come up we have not had to go through, but if love and sharing and caring from the heart count -- then I don't know why we can't do just fine.
Laura GTO was here but she doesn't post on BC. Org anymore. She is on another site entirely.
I think we are going to have a bit of rain shower today -- some time. I could do without -- but as much as anything because it is keeping it cooler. I was just getting a little too use to the pleasantness of mild warmth daily. Now I have to grow up. The temps. and weather are always a bit un-settled this time of yr.
Hope you all have a fantastic Friday.
Love and blessings
Jackie
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Hi Bev!
Nice way to put that, Lago!
My husband is Stage IV Lymphoma. He is at this time a survivor and so, Bev, like my husband, you are a survivor and no one here really feels luckier or less lucky than you. Who knows what will happen tomorrow to any of us. Stay in touch!
Take care,
Zap/Susan
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Hi again Bev,
You might have me confused with someone else. I've not been on here near as long as the others who are replying :-) I joined BCO in Dec. '11 and started posting regularly at the end of January with the Feb 2012 Chemo group. My chemo group was/is a very close group that bonded so quickly. Although I read the IL ladies' thread for some time and felt that I knew so many of the gals from all their posts, I don't think I posted on here until around May or June of '12. That year I was thankful that they met for a holiday gathering in early November. I loved meeting so many of the gals in person. Haven't made it to any other mini meets since then but I have gotten together with a couple of the gals individually. But I'm up to trying a gathering.
Hope that you feel the warmest of welcomes!
Blessings,
Diana
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We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice
doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your
attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as
a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your
butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom
in your ear. Be still and listen.Sue Patton Thoele
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Geez, I was so stressed by the bad experience I had at yeat another referral for my ear issue I a stressed all yesterday over what to do--pretty much decided the hell with the medical community-nobody seems to think its serious so I will just live with it. Anyhow, I hurt all over from tension, so I took myself to bed at 11pm with my Xanax, my anastrazole and my trazadone. It came up a powerful rain in the night and stayed dark an I woke up at 10:45 this a.m. Not used to eating breakefast at11:30..... so today is pretty much shot.
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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.— George Eliot"
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The quote is an old one that I've put in several times -- but such a favorite and just how I see those I call friend.
There is a little sun outside today though a lot cooler -- 60's or so again. We could have a rain later I think. It is really un-certain this time of yr. I just hope that there are no wind ( tornados ) issues for anyone and that you enjoy your Sunday.
Blessings
Jackie
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other person and then for ourselves. -Helen Keller
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Another great quote, Jackie. It looks like we're going to have a nice week with rising temps each day! YAY!!!
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You are a child of the universe, “fearfully and wonderfully made.” In
the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept
this reality about yourself— that you are a special, unique human being who has
a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as
a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will
form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love
and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your
fellow human beings.
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Hi Bev, I forget how to add roxyandtaze123
Sorry to hear your more recent news. I used to post, too, in that era you talk about...I was overwhelmed with family cancer and such and drifted away, but I happily have some connections still on Facebook. I came on here today to help someone's daughter who I just heard is considering reconstruction, ....I want her to be really informed and hope she joins the site and maybe our group. Good Luck, Bev. Life is full of surprises, which give us our various wake up calls, that's how I look at it I guess. 8-(
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Jackie you said you lost your intuitiveness for awhile. I noted that during 1.5 years after chemo I remembered no dreams and had no bright ideas......thankfully that came back, and I noted it took 1.5 years. I am not sure why it took so long.
I have since started reading from religious to psychic non fiction books and wow...the heaven books of course around when my Mom was failing... Poems of the Man God (available in pdf form)... The Lampstand.... I was reading about Medjugorje after I visited a cancer group friend in Washington State, and that led me to looking up "Rosary" which led me to reading all the John Edward books (he had a book on the Rosary!!)....then I read Sherrie Dillard and Suzane Northrop...all seem to lead the same way....
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Kater, I did struggle a long time ( not sure how long, for sure ) with intuitiveness. I just felt sort of blank which I know started sometime after the beginning of the chemo txs. I had done some spiritual research before dx., and in fact it was quite a lot since losing my Mom in 1998. We had come back home here to be with her. Neither she nor Dh and I had any idea she was seriously ill.
While I also had spiritual leanings -- the biggest push for me came when I realized that after my Mom came back home ( to bury my Dad ) and stayed --- that I kept getting non-verbal message sensations to come back home where Mom was and I did it. After she passed on I realized why the non-verbal but very kind voices had been persistent that I needed to get this done. We had a wonderful yr. and a half and so the voices were my gift. I realized how much I didn't know about how these things work. So, I was very busy with it all for a few yrs. after my Mom was gone.
I read just about anything I could find that dealt with past lives. One of my still very favorite authors is Dr. Brian Wiese. I am quite comfortable in the past lives area and also found a great deal of peacefulness for my life of now. When I look back it is fairly easy to see patterns and how things ( no matter how odd they may have seemed at the time ) actually twisted just so --- to get me into place ( just like the persistence of my needing to move from southern California to back home here in Illinois ) so that I likely would take up the spiritual studies.
I still sometimes wish I was more in touch with myself -- very much on the spiritual side -- but I'm so much farther than I was that it is hard to be very un-happy. Eckhart Tolle is another author I like -- for any other names I'd have to look through some of my books but Hay House has a lot of wonderful spiritual books.
Jackie
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of the human become in its long journey toward the stars?
Gilbert Keith Chesterson
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Hi Kater....So GLAD tp see a post from you and to hear that all is going well! :-)
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A doctor who mentions a second opinion gets 10 gold stars from me. It is not too late to get one...it helps the doctor, certainly does not hurt them....wouldn't you think? They do not have all the answers!
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Thanks Queen Rita, smile. Hugs to you. Have a good friend whose daughter has received the devastating news that we are all too familiar with and more... 8-( I hope she joins our group or at least the forum.
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Intuitiveness: Jackie: Your post is so interesting to me. I know we've touched on this on FB. Did you read any of Sherrie Dillard, I liked what I heard from her radio interview online...had read one of her books from a local library, and I did also talk to her...and she was very good...She also was holding classes to get in touch with your intuitiveness even more...and one of the books I think was about that...if not Suzane Northrop has discussed such. www.SherrieDillard.com
I agree, after 10 years of coming back to my hometown when the elderlies started failing...my job was huge in some ways, and I can only thank God for making it go so smoothly. It was not easy, but the "end" results, I marvel, I definitely had guidance, that is for SURE. Everything seemed so all planned out, in retrospect.
I do wish I had moved sooner, as I adored much of my family, and I lived almost 1.5 hour drive away...for really no reason, after my divorce except that it would be a lot of work to move (and I did not receive any job offers). Oddly enough, I moved back here in 1998 as well. 8-)
And some of us KNOW how we love ALL cats!
I looked up: http://www.brianweiss.com/ will check that out... have you touched on Poem of the Man God or The Lampstand?
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Kater,
I have to write all that down and go look it all up. The name Susan Northrup sounds quite familiar to me -- but whether it was a book or listening to her somewhere, I can't recall. I've actually wanted/been thinking of ways to work in some time for myself to return to more spiritual type study. For that reason hearing from you ( just another form of universe encouragement ) is not at all a surprise to me. I was able to sort of tune in ( quite strongly at times ) during the spiritual study years to a vibration -- for want of a better word.
It was a kind of energy -- still there, but a much quieter level apparently when I don't study and focus. As for planning -- I think we never realize just how much is planned and waiting in the wings to come into OUR light of day at the proper time. I have been as far back as about the age of four or five and able to see how each thing that happened NEEDED to happen in order for me to be here right now. It's very interesting and one of the major reasons why coincidences, luck, happenstance, or any of those words that would imply you were at the right place, at just the right time just don't mean much to me. You were always just where you HAD to be for your life to un-fold and take place as it did. It is all a directed script.
I take some comfort in that -- that all that happens with and to us has a very good reason -- even if it is hard to fathom. Easier if you look back for the series of connections, but there are some things even still that I don't get -- but I will at some point.
Talk to you soon.
Jackie
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Thanks for your well wishes Kater! What area does your friends daughter live? I never did get A Facebook -- keep telling myself I want to but never do!
Susan - Best Wishes to your Husband -- when was he diagnosed? Looking forward to getting to know you!
Jackie - awesome quotes! They really make me think -- your last post to Kater was verryyyyy interesting to read also. Looking forward to more!
Hoping for a nice weekend -- wishing you ladies to have a great one.
Bev
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Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.
Emily Hilburn Sell
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The powerful potential behind change lies in the possibility that each
new beginning will bring us greater joy and freedom than we have ever
known. Whether or not that actually happens--whether or not we
continue to grow through the cycles of our lives--is largely up to us.
We play a part in what happens by choosing how we see our changes,
our beginnings, our endings. We can see each ending as a tragedy and
lament and resist it, or we can see each ending as a new beginning and
a new birth into greater opportunities. What the caterpillar sees as the
tragedy of death, the butterfly sees as the miracle of birth.John Marks Templeton
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Beautiful morning here -- starting coolness but we will be about 73 degrees today. Spring is getting deeper. All I have to do is look at the green layer of pollen's on my car and the outdoor glass table. Sigh !!!! Maybe a nice rain would settle that all down for a spell. That or going through the car wash. I think the car wash wins today.
Jackie
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Good morning everyone! Jackie is right! It is a beautiful morning here and I am hustling to get my indoor work done this morning so I can play a round of golf this afternoon. I wish everyone a good Friday and a nice weekend. I am going to golf in an Earlybird outing tomorrow and then we are going to do the Route 66 Red Carpet drive north on Sunday!
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Jackie, I was mowing grass tonight where I mowed when I was a teenager. I could not help but think about the revelation I had this last year. Riding my tricycle umpteen years ago, I rode down the long sidewalk around the house and to the front of the house and onward to the main road....I will never forget what happened at the end of the sidewalk. A long fat brown and white snake slithered right across the grass, onto the sidewalk in front of me from one side to the next of the sidewalk. This past year it dawned on me, some 50 years later. I have not in 57 years seen a snake in our farmyard or anyone else's farm yard for that matter...now I am thinking that a guide thought I was going to ride out onto the road perhaps and this is how they stopped me? I marvel when I remember the snake and think about it now (and mow at that same spot). Last year a friend helped me take up that sidewalk, I want to use it in my home's yard, there are cat and dog paws and chicken scratches in it! Probably 100 year old sidewalk. Yes, I really should write all these things down in one book. I read that you should journal when you "hear things" and then you can figure out which are your ideas and which came from another source. PS Yeah Q. Rita.....you still love that golf, you go girl!
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