Illinois ladies facing bc
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One of my favorites -- Brian Weiss.
Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored. -Brian L. Weiss
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Whenever two ways lie before us, one of which is easy and the other hard, one of which requires no exertion while the other calls for resolution and endurance, happy are those who choose the mountain path and scorn the thought of resting in the valley. These are the men and women who are destined in the end to conquer and succeed. -unattributed
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. -Calvin Coolidge
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From me to you,
Love, Jackie
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Amen, Jackie! And everyone else too.
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What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the
past, courage for the present, hope for the
future. It is a fervent wish that every cup
may overflow with blessings rich and eternal,
and that every path may lead to peace.
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Great to see another Chicagolander here, Spunkyboobster!
Warm-ish & cloudy here today...but with an air quality warning (smog due to a thermal inversion) from 1am through this afternoon for the N. Side & suburbs. "Soaking rains" forecast for tomorrow, highs in the low 50s before dropping like a rock after dark.
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. -Shakti Gawain
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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All of you should know about a wonderful chicago resource: Dr Keith Block, the Block Center. I had a consult w him. He is a very experienced cancer doctor who uses integrative practices. Just a FYI for you people nearby! He has a book called Life Over Cancer. Does a lot of nutritional support along with chemo. Very helpful to me.
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous or honest. Maya Angelou
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The Block Center is sort of controversial in the Chicago cancer treatment community, as patients in my former support group who visited it reported it was not merely integrative but quite strict about patients following the dietary & supplement recommendations to the letter or seek treatment elsewhere. Maybe it's changed, but I don't take kindly to others imposing an "all or nothing" approach on me.
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Education is more than schooling. It is a cast of mind, a willingness to see the world with an endless sense of curiosity and wonder.
If you would be truly educated, you must adopt this cast of mind. You must open yourself to the richness of your everyday experience--to your own emotions, to the movements of the heavens and the languages of birds, to the privations and successes of people in other lands and other times, to the artistry in the hands of the mechanic and the typist and the child. There is no limit to the learning that appears before us. It is enough to fill us each day a thousand times over.
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Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
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Chi Sandy
It's lot to ask to change your whole diet etc. I realize this.... I may have been more open to that approach, being as I have TNBC and there are not a lot of options for this cancer other than chemo. I wanted to hit it as hard as possible and try everything I could on my end.
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That makes sense.
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"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action." -Orison Swett Marden
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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. Dorothy Day.
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Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a person who won't cheat, then you know you never will. -John MacDonald
A life lived with integrity--even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune--is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. -Denis Waitley
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Hi ChiSandy,
Do you know of any face to face support groups. I really need something I think. I'm two weeks out of Left mastectomy. Stage 2, pathology says NOT in lymph nodes. THANK GOD. So my news has been good but I'm still crazy. Waiting for the other foot to drop so to speak. I have an appointment Wed to find out my Chemo schedule.I'm VERY scared.I heard horror stories. For the most part I can fake being fine but tonight I can't stop crying. We had people over for the Bears game today and I couldn't wait for everyone to leave. I was on the verge of tears most of the evening and when they left, I broke down. My poor husband.
Any advice?
Thank you,
Carol Z
Chicago
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Carol, I've been trying to find support groups ever since the one at Evanston Hospital disbanded for poor attendance last Feb. Would you believe the only ones at Gilda's Club are for Latinas and LGBTQ (the latter in conjunction with the Howard Brown Clinic)? There's a general (all-cancers) survivorship meeting the second Wed. of each month. I think one of my husband's hospitals (either Advocate Christ or Little Company) has one on a Thurs. night, but I'm not sure it's even monthly. Anyway, they're down in, respectively, Oak Lawn and Evergreen Park--not exactly close to our Edgewater home. (Bob commutes, but it's a brutal trip during rush hour--it once took me 2 hrs. to get there). But if you're a South Sider it's doable. Cancer Wellness Center up in Northbrook has meetings, but they're also for all cancers. (And that's nearly as long a rush-hour commute in the opposite direction).
Bummer about the Bears game--I think Cody Parkey may be the new Steve Bartman (different sport, but you get my drift).
Have you had an OncotypeDX done? Some Stage IIA s qualify if they're node-neg.(as is yours), and ER+/HER2-. Any score below 24 now (15 if you're younger than 50) is now considered "low-risk."
You will get past this. As a friend warned me, recalling her mom's experience, "First you cry, then you have a really shitty year, and then you're fine." I didn't cry--I was first too shocked, then too pissed, and then so aggressive about digging in and being proactive that I didn't get the chance. Where are you being treated? I go to Evanston Hospital/Kellogg Cancer Center, and they've been great.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha0 -
Imagine peace. Imagine love. Imagine oneness.
Imagine whatever most speaks to your heart.
Whatever you can imagine, you can accomplish.
The canvas of life awaits You -
the painter of your dreams.
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Gentleness means recognizing that the world around us is fragile, especially other people. It is recognizing our own capacity to do harm and choosing to be tender, soft-spoken, soft-hearted, and careful. When we are gentle we touch the world in ways that protect and preserve it. Being gentle doesn't mean being weak; gentleness can be firm, even powerful. To behave in a gentle manner requires that we stay centered in our own values and strength -- that we are active rather than reactive. Coming from this center, a gentle word or touch can channel our energy into healing or making peace.
unattributed, Wisdom Commons0
