Illinois ladies facing bc
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zap,
So glad to hear from you that all is well. And in particular that your husband is now in remission. Grandkids, and four girls at that! I'll have to wait a few years longer since my daughter is finally in grad school.
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. -Carl Gustav Jung
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Zap so glad to hear your husband is still in remission! and of course you're NED!
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Good morning,
I always find special delight when one of my "classmates" walk through the door --- and oh so glad that it is a 'friendly' visit to say hi. I too find myself thrilled at all who have ( said with great love ) boring reports for their health in relation to this board. Zap, I well remember the shocked impact that came with finding out that your hubby would need treatment for lymphoma and the enormous sigh of relief for remission.
I'm getting ready ( some rule changes this season ) to arrange an appt. for my yearly mammogram ( digital ) that normally happens before Christmas holidays. That along with a physical. I could have made these appts. sooner but opted to try and pick a time of yr. when the weather was calmer. Our snow was late this yr. so a bit on the dicey side trying to choose.
I hope those of you coming later in your own class' will be posting here yrs. from now having much the same good NED news. It has always felt so right to keep the quotes alive here -- my home, and attempt to help those just trying to get use to their diagnosis and txs as well as giving the "old-timers" their dose of hope and cheer and positive outlooks on life. The shared spirit of light, love, and energy puts anticipation into every day no matter what it may bring.
Hoping the best always for the oldies, the newbies, and as well their family members and friends who may share in their journeys. I am grateful that I can STILL do this and grateful for all of you.
Many blessings to each and every one,
Jackie
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You have choice. You can select
joy over despair. You can select
happiness over tears. You can select
action over apathy. You can select
growth over stagnation. You can select
you. And you can select life. And it's
time that people tell you you're not
at the mercy of forces greater than
yourself. You are, indeed,
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Well our sunshine ( though it never warmed that much ) seems to be gone. In its place today is rapidly falling snow that started a little while before I came into my office. Two or three inches was indicated, but we never feel the weather forecasters will know for sure in our area. We will get whatever comes though I'd like to think it won't be too much.
I'll be leaving later to see to the cats. Right now they would not care I don't think to stand out in this to get their food. The minute it stops I will leave to go find them Fortunately, they seem to know very well the sound of my car motor and they are very much familiar with the sound of my horn.
Hoping all who are farther North won't get too much of this but I think most of the time it does find its way there. Fingers crossed anyway.
Blessings
Jackie
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Only the wise person draws from life, and from every stage of it, its true savour, because only he or she feels the beauty, the dignity, and the value of life. The flowers of youth may fade, but the summer, the autumn, and even the winter of human existence have their majestic grandeur, which the wise person recognizes and glorifies.
Henri Frederic Amiel0 -
Good morning to everyone!
Susan, I was so excited to see your post. I am so glad to hear that all is going well for you and your hubby. Aren't those grandchildren special? You have four little girls and I have three little boys who are quickly growing up. My oldest just turned 12 in December. If I had girls, I would probably be bankrupt as there are so many cute things for girls and I spend way too much on my boys as it is!
Our golf course is closed today because we had lots of rain during the night and this sand-based soil becomes saturated very easily. The sun is shining now though, so I need to regroup and decide how to spend this day.
I hope everyone has a great Tuesday! It looks like warmer weather is headed your way toward the end of the week!
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hey group how r you guys. doing much better now that my surgery is over but still have a long journey to go. please if anyone is close to me i like to make friends
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Welcome butterfly34 -- so glad you came. We are often slow around here but others will come. Glad your surgery is done, but yes --- there are other paths you will take. I'm way down in the middle of the state, but I bet there are more around where you are.
I mainly come here daily and leave quotes for everyone and you too. I hope you will check in and we will do our best to help you shoulder the load that no one wanted to carry -- but we did it and are always more than happy to lend a hand.
Blessings
Jackie
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Welcome Butterfly! I am glad that your surgery is behind you. Will you be doing chemo or radiation?
I am from Bloomington so I am south of you btut right now we are wintering in Florida. There are several gals on the thread from up around your area and they check in every so often. In the meantime, tell us a little bit about yourself and where your bc journey is headed next.
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Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
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Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. Like the proud mother who is thrilled to receive a wilted bouquet of dandelions from her child, so God celebrates our expressions of gratitude. -Richard Foster
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You are goodness and mercy, and compassion and understanding. You are peace and joy and light. You are forgiveness and patience, strength and courage, a helper in time of need, a comforter in time of sorrow, a leader in time of injury, a teacher in times of confusion.
You are the deepest wisdom and the highest truth; the greatest peace and the grandest love. You are these things. And in moments of your life you have known yourself as these things. Choose now to know yourself as these things always.
Neale Donald Walsh
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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
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Welcome Butterfly----I too am from Bloomington, which is south of you in middle of the State. bet you are glad to have surgery over with. Mine was two years ago today. So I am sorta thinking of it as a milestone.....
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Hey redhead....Congrats on the two years! You are right. Every year is indeed a milestone and needs to be celebrated!
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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Welcome, Butterfly! Aurora’s only an hour or so south of my neck of the woods (Edgewater on Chicago’s N.Side). Lago was trying to put together a Chicagoland BCO get-together, but couldn’t find a date that worked for everyone. I’m usually near you in Geneva Labor Day weekend for the Fox Valley Folk Festival.
And Zap, glad you’re back (your previous visits here predated my dx)--that you remain NED gives me hope. I gather you’re up on the N.Shore? Next time I’m at the Botanic Garden I’ll keep an eye out for you.
Last Friday we had near-hurricane-force winds. We lost a huge branch (probably the largest one, the diameter of a small tree trunk) from our maple tree out front--fortunately, it fell on the parkway and not on the sidewalk, street...or our house. The city came by with chainsaws and a claw-lift truck--but now we’re left with a jagged-edged, splintered 4-foot-tall stump radiating from the main trunk, so I guess a call to the arborist is in order. (Maybe the log he’ll saw off can be sawn into some good tonewood for stringed instruments). We also lost power for 3 hrs. Thank goodness it was daytime and mild outside so we didn’t freeze (or roast if it had been hot w/o A/C). Making coffee was interesting--had to go all Pioneer Woman: lighting my stove with a match, grinding coffee by hand, using a little pump-action backpacker espresso maker. Took so much elbow grease my Fitbit registered 21 flights of stairs! We’re in for a couple of days of slightly-above-normal (for Chicago in late Feb.) temps, with rain on Wed. possibly turning to sleet or snow. At least the forecast for the concert I’m doing up in Wauconda Sat. night is dry and moderate!
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Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Jackie, I've missed your quotes. Are you O.K.? I hope you are just working and away from your computer.
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I was wondering the same thing. I wonder if her internet went down.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with our old nonsense."
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Wow !!!! Nice to be missed. I am find. I'm living at the Dr's house right now while they are gone. I meant to bring my computer with me but time got away from me Tues. and I didn't have time to pack it up. Had to wait until today ( Friday ) when Dh could do the honors for me. Been out of sorts since Wednesday without being able to keep up. Already have over 1,000 emails to sort through. It's gong to be a long afternoon here. See you all soon.
Jackie
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Jackie....so glad all is OK with you. You worried me for a bit! Hugs!
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Today I choose life.
Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy,
happiness, negativity, pain...
To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue
to make mistakes and choices -
today I choose to feel life,
not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
- Kevyn Aucoin0 -
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie0 -
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe,
the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them:
the starry heavens without and the moral law within.Immanuel Kant
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