Illinois ladies facing bc
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When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel
that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established
conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, then
everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?Sri Chinmoy
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family. -Desmond Tutu
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Caryn -- What a wonderful idea! I would definitely be up for joining in whether a pot luck or schaumburg. Been thinking a lot about you all, it was five years this month that I had my BMX. Would be terrific to get together.
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To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second.
To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities,
to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good
of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still
a dear possession in absence or unkindness—these are the gifts of fortune
which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.Robert Louis Stevenson
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I also met Dr. G at Northwestern and didn't like him at all. Thanking god I didn't pick him because he does dense dose Taxol and my doctor did weekly. I didn't know the difference at the time but my unscientific opinion is that SE's are worse with DD.
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Trvler yes dense dose you might have had issues with neuropathy. Less likely with weekly. Ironcially weekly you do get overall more chemo but it's less damaging given that way.
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We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. – Robert Fulghum
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Wishing all the Illinois Ladies a wonderful Thanksgiving. I was at my cancer center yesterday and they had put up a fall tree on a bulletin board and everyone could take a leaf and write down what they were thankful for and put it on the tree.
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Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you. -Bernie Siegel
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I usually pick out a graphic but this time I'm just going to wish you all a very safe and wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope it is full of everything that means good things for all of you.
Blessings,
Jackie
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Do you realize that you have been given exactly what you need just so that you may proceed with the spiritual lessons and growth that you, you alone, need to master? Yes, life can be absolutely daunting, but you can have gratitude when you realize that you have just what you need.Gratitude is the virtue that shifts our energy in order to facilitate our great growth to the next levels. Without the hankering after what we don't have, we allow ourselves to receive from God just what we need. Then we have and use just what we need to, so that we're prepared for greater gifts and gains inside. -Michael Goddart
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Lago, I’m in Edgewater Glen (just s. of the Loyola campus)--so leaving from my place might be preferable (parking’s definitely easier). I’m about 15-20 min. from the Kennedy (Bryn Mawr entrance/Nagle exit). You’re probably closer to Fullerton/Armitage--but that’s a few miles more expressway to deal with. I’m also only 1/2 mi. from the end of Lake Shore.
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I feel the capacity to care
is the thing which gives life
its deepest significance.
Pau Casals0 -
ChiSandy Yup I'm at Fullerton.
We should go eat at Sun Wah or Tank noodle some time. I'm also at Harvest Time (Lincoln Square) every week to shop for groceries. I'm always up your way.0 -
People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships--even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.
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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.
Mary Jane Irion
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Jackie, I am going to pray that quote every morning.......Thank you!
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's
self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we
miss the best part of existence. The heart that
goes out of itself gets large and full of joy.
This is the great secret of the inner life. We do
ourselves the most good doing something for others.
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Thank you Redheaded. I'm going to have to take it to heart today myself == on yet another rainy, drizzly day. The kind I don't like very much ---- yet I'm going to go out later and just will joy to take over. It should bring something special that I'll adore when it comes. Yay attitude. Keep me propped up till the sun comes back.
Blessings,
Jackie
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The Rabbi of Berdichev saw a man
running down the street.
He asked the man, "Why are
you hurrying so?"
"I'm rushing to find my
livelihood," the man answered.
"And how do you know," the
rabbi asked, "that your livelihood
is running ahead of you?
Maybe it's behind you, and
all you need to do is stop running
and it will catch up to you."
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
John Stoot
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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim0 -
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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Thanks, Jackie for keeping this thread going with your quotes. It's been a little slow on here and hopefully that means that everybody is doing well and is busy with preparations for the holiday season.
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Thanks Rita !!!! You must have caught my thought vibes. Was wondering if anyone would notice the amt. of times I posted and think, wow --- she's on there all the time. I hope you are right about relaxing for a bit after Thanksgiving and then starting the big Christmas holiday with cards to send and presents to buy and wrap and a tree to decorate which can be so time consuming and,I'd also love to think there are less people getting the awful C-word, but that is not likely. It may be more that people aren't always finding this particular resource. In any case it is still important to me to trudge onward, just in case someone needs a bit of a boost some morning. Happy days to everyone and hope you are looking forward to doing up another end of the yr. Christmas full of fun and smothered in lots and lots of love.
Jackie
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Thanks, Jackie for going strong.
Good news. My DEXA today showed that my bone density decline on exemestane was minimal. I can live with that. I probably am as much to blame as the drug since I've not done much weight lifting and have slacked off a bit on running and walking this year. Work has been dreadfully busy. I'm wondering at near 60 if I can keep it up.
So happy it is Friday and I'm relaxing at home. Enjoy the warmer weather while it lasts.
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Yay Doxie......I don't do a lot to keep my bones strong. I keep up with the vitamins ( one brand that I've used now since I was dx'd ) and I do exercise but have some trouble being sporadic with my semi-retired lifestyle. The one thing I do as well is use Almond milk. It has 50 percent more calcium in it and since I generally only have it at breakfast -- in steel-cut oatmeal, I switched to it for that reason. I also don't avoid the sun unless it is super hot or high noon. I'm usually in and out of sunshine so don't feel like I go too far, but just trying to work in what I can, where I can, when I can --- and the rest of the time try not to worry overmuch. I don't want my hair to gray up too fast.
Knock on wood --- I'm 70 and still don't feel like there is enough gray there to do anything about it. I'm sure it is a gene thing coming from my dad's side mainly. My grandmother ( only black and white pictures then ) clearly didn't have gray hair in her older age and my dad was well into his mid 70's -- so it is not due to a lack of worry ha-ha.
Again yay for you.
Jackie
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My Ro and I discussed my feeling "down" and she asked me what gives me joy. I drew a blank, probably because i feel like nothing does. . then I came home and for 2 days worked up a list of things that can make me happy. Here is my list. Kind of fun activity. Even though I realize happiness comes from activities and not possessions, these are THINGS. Since diagnosis, I haven't experienced many of these.....others I have all the time..if I pay attention..
The sound of a purring cat in the middle of the night. The smell of wood smoke on a chilly foggy morning. Good Neighbors. Memories of my mother and fun we shared. The taste of honey on warm buttered toast. An old dog's tail thumping on a hardwood floor. Time spent with a good friend. Little girls giggling. The first time each year when I see lightening bugs. The smell onions frying in butter. The sound of rain beating on the windows when I don't have to go out.
Undisturbed snow on evergreens and frost on the branches of the other trees. Sunlight on stained glass windows and the smell of furniture polish and burning candles. Flower bulbs showing their tips through the snow. Birds on a feeder. A warm house on a snowy day. Expensive chocolates. Wiggling puppies with sharp teeth and wet tongues. Full Moons. Red sunsets. Warm salt water lapping around your ankles at low tide. Strikes at the bowling alley. Completed quilt projects. A really good book. A warm blanket. Pie. baby farm animals. A favorite sweater . A handsome man who flirts. New "finds" in my family tree. Picking up seashells on the beach. Sincere compliments. The sound of a fishing lure plopping on the water. Being met by someone I like upon arrival at the airport. Looking through old family photo albums. Flying a kite and feeling the wind tug on the string. Cooking something well the first time. Gestures of kindness from strangers. Instrumental music. Pbs TV and NPR radio programs. Flea Markets and Auctions. A good sleep. Movies with happy endings. Gifts for no reason. Hugs.
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Oh do I like your list Redheaded -- and what a good way to get you to think of all the wonderful things there are in this world. One of the things I really enjoy is the shadow of leaves on my living room wall when the sun is shining just right through my bank of windows on my deck. I also love how the Earth smells after a rain. I love to hear birds singing in the trees and the owls talking to each other after dark. ( always wonder just what it is they are saying ) and I love music played on a pan flute.
Being in touch with now and all the seconds of beautiful sights, sounds and smells is a wonderful thing. Here's to some great contentment from all the gifts that are around you and don't forget you are a gift to the world. There is no one else in it like you and your presence is making the world a better place because you are here --- even if you don't know just how. Some things we don't have to know --- we just have to feel.
Enjoy
Jackie
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Jackie I like your list---I like the smell of rain too....and a couple of summers ago, we had some baby hoot owls....but now my evergreens are gone so we haven't had them any more.
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Great lists, Red and Jackie. I really enjoyed reading through each of them.
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