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Sagina----another vivid dreamer---------You can see from my last post doing okay. Where are you in your tx's. I forget . Hope the kids are well and settled down again after all the company, as well as you. I know Gina is your given name. And that it's San Antonio Gina, but I so like Sagina. It almost sings. It's soothing. It's like Tickertude--Tink and Squid for Squidwitch. Come to the Bonfire tonight. There are always some good jokes.
Here's one I shared on a night that we went crazy with jokes.
Heavy work day and the cell phone in my pocket kept going of constantly. So distracting trying to take care of patients. After the umpteenth call, I put it back in my pocket, put my sthethoscope to my ears---placed the bell on my patients heart and said "hello this is sheila". My patient was confused, so she didn't get it. But if you visualize that, oh my, kegels are in order.
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I guess I wasn't the only one who didn't make it to prayers tonight. Saying a rosary for everyone. Have a great weekend. Sheila, you are amazing. I really respect everything you say. Take care.
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Dear Lord, I pray for the humility to serve You in this journey I am on, to live in Your love and Your goodness. I pray for healing for all those that suffer and for their souls to smile knowing that they are safe in Your arms tonight. Truly Lord, Your love and Your grace are enough for me, and I thank You.
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oh Kay --i just lost my note because i wanted to check to see if Theresa was here. She wasn't . Thank you Kay for you to say you have respect for what I say . But it's a reverse. I so respect all the women on this thread and i'm worried we are falling apart. Theresa didn't come tonight thats a first in at least a year. Squid is gone JV is gone . Sagina and you are here. of course you get what I feel. I'm responsible ---they leave it's my fault. It was such an active thread when I wasn't around ------------------------oh kay typical Catholic taking on responsibility for something I may have or may not have resposibility for ----------But i feel I do. evereyone that has been here Hs been so dear. I don't know I don't know how to survive without you all. at this point in my life you are the pivot point
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I thought it was me who drove everyone away. I guess we all (at least us Catholics) always think like that. I am sure it was not you Shiela and probably not me either. Just coincidence.
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The ebbs and flows of relationships are natural, It doesn't seem to me that anyone of us is driving anyone else away, unless i have missed something. This is still my home on BC and I get much comfort from all of us supporting and loving each other and the Lord! Amen xo
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Ladies.....
Three years ago today, I found out I had BC. I am still alive and doing well today. I want to give all glory to God for this... Thank you Father!
I hope that each of you have many many years to enjoy....
Thank you St. Peregrine for praying for me.... asking for my healing... all those yrs ago and never ceasing in prayer for me... to our Beloved Father. Thank you.
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Hello everyone! Dear Sheila, you did NOT drive anyone away you are one of the steady anchors here and give so much great advice. Next teaching session we have for SFO, I will share with my teachers about my dream and see what they say. I think it was the Holy Spirit attempting to get through my head why God loves us so much. I was so tired on Friday, we went to Colonial Beach and I didn't have the strength to fire up my PC and connect it to the wireless etc etc. I should have. Yesterday, we had a nice gathering with our SFO folks for prayer and dinner. It was great. Today, back at home preparing for the first colonoscopy of my life!!! Skip and I are doing it together and Becky is driving us, that way we both only miss one day of work.
I think it's slow here b/c everyone has fun things to occupy them during the summer. It stays light out so late, that we don't come in for quiet time like we do in the winter. And yes, Ellie is right in that relationships ebb and flow. It's all good.
We had a wonderful homily today on the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ! Father shared his own conversion story and it was beautiful. I'm so grateful to God that my daugher has returned to the church with our grandsons and now her husband is coming too! He's never been baptised. I pray for his conversion to the faith! Now, my son needs to come around! :-)
One of our neighbors at Colonial Beach has been battling cancer for several years (colon) and now they think it has returned. Her name is Betty. Please keep her in your prayers with her devoted husband, Tom.
God love you all ... each one of your souls is precious to Him ... open the gates of communion with your Maker.
Kay - love your picture!
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Theresa Oh my Teacher, You always say the right thing. So, happy about DD and DSIL.
Please don't forget to transfer them to the prayer board and your friend Betty
Kay thank you for the wonderful words. AND the pic is beautiful , what a smile.
I have invited That'sLIfe to join us. She has said what so many of us has said, but in particular the sites that can be so SPIRIT IRRITATING------------never used that phrase before
.........AVOID ALL SPIRIT IRRITATING THREADS........
wish they had little signs akin to no smoking signs. Bless us all. Namaste
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LAURA--------------HAPPY 3RD CACERVERSARY.
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My children, don't worry about the difficulties you have. Nothing is better than having God. My dear children, problems exist everywhere, but the most important thing is to have an accepting heart without complaining." Our Lady of Kibeho (Blessings to you all, Immaculee)
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OH Happy Day to LAURA! I am wondering how you are feeling on this very important anniversaryl
I am so happy for you and want you to know YOU were instrumental in my emotional recovery here! I still have the 2 little laminated vs you sent me and held so tightly to during treatment. God Bless you and your family.
Tori I have been trying to respond to you for a week I would compose this great response then lose it because my internet here on vacation is so faulty.
First Thanks so much for the prayers and second I can relate to so much of what you are feeling. I come on here in spurts and when I do I am guilty to going to the "scary threads" in the last 10 days a gal on my Her2 thread was dxed with mets and a beloved stage 4 gal passed. It is SO upsetting for them and their families and just to see the suffering and for us to be reminded of the dreaded outcomes that are possible. I will tell you after 3 years I still worry but much less. I am just more sad than scared. I think it is also my age as I turn 46 this year I see more and more dealing with illness and our parents as well. The book that helps me the most and I reread and reread is "the power of now" by Eckhart Tolle. If you have not read it....do so it so helps us deal with disconnecting from our controlling mind. I struggle so with my mind and it keeps me in bondage. As former cancer patients I think we all want to move on and live a peaceful joyful existence in the present.
God Bless you Tori and your healing I prayed for you this weekend that you continue to emerge from all of this in a very joyful way.
Sheila - I giggled at your post, of course you DIDNT drive any away, we love you here but giggled at the part about the guilt. You are an integral part of this thread.
Theresa, Kay, Betty, and all others blessings to you today and your wonderful posts help to heal me last week ...your faithfulness is inspiring and it teaches me to LET GO
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God bless all my bc sisters! xo
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After an evening of Magnesium Citrate and Sprite cocktails, Skip and I passed (no pun intended) our colonoscopies with flying colors. No polyps for either one of us. We're good for 5 more years ... I wish it came with a warranty. The nurses were very funny, saying Skip and I had a great date planned for our day. :-) We told them our daughter was the designated driver for us and she said, "Oh lucky her, she'll have 2 drunk parents on her hands!" Becky's very good at tuning out ... Skip was in the front with her and I was in the back. She said it was funny b/c Skip was doing his usual complaining about this driver or that driver, then next thing she saw that he was fast asleep, then about 20 minutes later, he wakes up and starts commenting again! LOL
Laura - yes, happy cancerversary!!! What a wonderful celebration! I understand Paula has a cancerversary coming up this week, 1 year.
May God continue to bless us with health, and assist those dears who are declining. I guess I haven't been on the scary threads or if I had, I removed myself. Sheila, I pray your friend, ThatsLife, does join us for some peace and prayer.
Michelle - thanks for the book advice.
When I was drinking my cocktail last night, I was reading my SFO lesson for this month and it was on prayer. Very beautiful and I'll try to share some excerpts from it this week.
Ellie - beautiful prayer, and so true - I've never heard of Our Lady of Kibeho. I'll have to look her up! :-)
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Thank you very much ladies! MMM...... you will always be close to me... your day is coming too!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt......... FREE. Really.. I feel like cancer is behind me.. FINALLY.
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Laura
I actually hit 3 years in April, It was a bittersweet day
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We are going to make it sisters! xo
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I'm not that far away
I'm trying to remember if last summer we were "quieter..." I have a few more minutes this morning having stayed late last night at work.
Scary threads...I do check the Angels threads, and have to admit, have very real concerns about my triple negative status. Much of what has happened in the last 6-8 weeks I am hoping to blame on being put on 80 mg of lipitor. I love my PCP, but any other MD that hears about me being started on that dose without starting lower (even with my cholesterol at 300 and LDL almost 300) raise both eyebrows. (then ask if I had a heart attack, No!) I have an underlying autoimmune process which has been my steady companion for 6 years (we are digging into this,) and recently I have had all of the muscle pain, fatigue I could handle. I feel like I have been taking chemo again, and frankly have had nothing to give besides trying to keep a smile on my face at work. Doing some better after being off for almost two weeks. No clear end in sight.
So Squid has been wiped to the core. and I have to admit, I sometimes just want to talk about my fears, concerns and ambiguous future. Does that make sense?
I am not sure where to do this. I do talk in my weekly, and try to use these feelings to motivate, and bring me into the here and now.
Michelle, I was thinking about you the other day, and how you have had so many close people in your lives are struggling. and I think about everyone here.
This is a journey for sure, full of unknowns, fears and beauty too. Feeling poorly puts me in tough places, and I don't want to be a downer or frankly scare anyone. But I am scared. Not all the time, not even everyday, but like others I am sure, having a friend relapse so soon after we both finished our chemo, and us both being triple negative, hit me very very hard. I made some great changes too, because of it.
I don't know, I guess it is best said I am in a weird tough space, have not been feeling well at all, and I get super quiet during these times. My treatments last year have left a mark, and I am fighting in my way.
I have been gardening and nurturing my flowers, tomatoes (have flowers on my plant now!) and even have some California Black eyed peas forming. I have been embracing all of God's gorgeous flowers in my neighborhood, stopping to peek into the blossoms. Loving my apartment, and my little kiddo has never been happier. Swimming when I can, and wishing wishing I had my physicality back.
so grieving is part of this process too, realizing it is not in God's plan to bring me to perfect health, and trying to learn Faith.
So that's life here for me, and I need to learn not to retreat and hide, but instead stay present.
Yikes!
But I have to say, I have said so many times since going through treatment, when I say Thank you Jesus! or Thank you God, I really mean it. I learned this on these boards, and in this forum. How fantastic is THAT?
so, My Love to you All, and here is to hoping for some reprieve from the pain so I can engage more.
Thank you all for your Sweetness, Kindness and Loving Spirits. Very Inspirational.
Traci
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Dear Squid,
Whatever part of this journey you are on--we are with you! And our Lord and our Blessed Mother are holding us! xo
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So good to see you Traci, God Bless. Even though you are going through a tough patch your spirit sounds well. I really struggled by 2nd year with the "physicality" from treatment. I felt horrible and really believed many times it was cancer. This does improve in time. You could go back and read my posts where you are now in the same time frame and it was all about that.
Ellie is right about making it and our Blessed Mother is near.
Theresa I am so happy for you and Skip about your colo's as that is a fear of mine.
God Bless all of you today
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Hey Traci!! We *are* all here for you, vent if you need to and don't worry about being scary. We know where your heart is. I think the scary people may intentionally want to draw a reaction out of people. That is not you at all!! You are near and dear to all of us.
Your garden is wonderful therapy! You should see Becky's garden. We've eaten two squash from it and she nurtures the plants like babies. Our magnolia is really showy this year too. We just need some heavenly rain.
Let me go find my SFO book and see what I can post about Prayer.
Who has 4th of July plans?
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Spirit and Practice of Prayer
Love takes work. Just as in marriage, many fail because couples are so busy doing things that they think express love, that they neglect to sit down and quietly communicate love. That happens with our relationship to God too. We get busy doing things for the church or charitable activities for our community, that we neglect to take time to just sit quietly and communicate our love. Prayer is praying, and nothing else. No clocks. We can offer up our daily tasks *as* a prayer, but that's like ironing your husband's shirt because it's a loving thing to do. You still need to sit quietly and communicate. That's more important.
"Prayer is simply the response of the human person to the personal approach of God. It does not treat God like some far off president or king to whom we dutifully pay taxes in return for the benefits of citizenship." God wants a personal relationship with us. With you. With me. Think about that. A *personal* relationship. Think about times that you've sat down with your best friend and how good you felt talking about everything and anything. God wants that. Not only does God want that, but our souls want that too. Just that ooey, gooey love feeling. Prayer is your and my *uniquely* personal response to God's constant offering of himself, and it is our undivided response, separated from anything we do during the day.
The first word in prayer should not be "I". It should be "You". St. Francis' example is "You are holy, Lord, the only God, and Your deeds are wonderful..." Just like when you visit your best friend, you don't start off saying, "I need a favor. I need you to sit here and listen to me!" You say, "Sally, you look wonderful! I'm so happy to be with you!" Then we can get into the "I" part ... "I'm sorry for any offenses I may have committed today, intentionally or non-intentionally. I believe in Your mercy and kindness." Then ask for things we need - health, welfare of my friends and enemies, peace, etc.
Another night I'll write about "Praying with God's Word". (I especially liked this section!)
Pax et bonum! Namaste!
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Thanks Theresa, will pm you tommorow.
May 15, 2011) Our Lady told Valentine to tell us, “My children, those who have problems, those who are worried, those who are sad, those who are sick, give me all your problems; I am listening. I will take them and help you. I don’t forget any of your prayers." Our Blessed Mother loves us all so much! Her help never fails those who pray to her with a sincere heart.
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awww thank you all so much.
yes, my spirits are fine overall, and Teresa I am tickled that you ate from becky's garden!!How glorious.
Michelle, I know you have travelled this path before me, and it does help so much to be able to share these feelings, as they are pretty normal in my book.
LMFSM
I will take some time with your post Teresa, good stuff.
Have a beautiful day all.
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HI squid---------------hope all is well. tHE ai'S WILL ELEVATE the cholesterol-------just had mine checked don't have results. -------Electrical storm here--bye
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Dear All,
Today is my 1st Cancerversary. So many hurdles and sad things had happened to me and my family within this past year...I fell down and I dust myself off and stood up again. Well, I fell apart when my mom passed away and I am now slowly picking myself up. Sorry for not being around, I had no inspiration to do much except to prepare for our loan modification and other drama that came into our lives. I'm ok even though there is slight LE swelling on the SNB side and surgery side of the breast. I saw my onc last Wednesday and the CA 27/29 went up from 10 to 11, my RBC is still dropping a few digit and mean platelette count is also slightly down from previous 2 blood tests. Wonder if that may contribute to me feeling dizzy? I will be getting a breast MRI instead. I do have slight headaches daily and dizziness so I will also be getting a brain MRI too. To be honest, I hate to go through tests again, as we all know they are very stressful.
I wanted to let you all know that I pray for each one of you daily and I think of you guys often. I just needed to take some time off and get my other things done and there doesn't see to have enough time each day. Love to you all....Namaste!
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Paula will be praying for you sweetie Namaste sheila
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Would like to broach the subject of perhaps changing prayer nite to monday night. Fri many people go out, dinner, visiting, school things, Plays, Operas ---well some people do, though not necessarily this "People" LOL etc. Monday many people are home. Functions don't tend to be scheduled on Monday because of people resting up from the week-end.
I'm working hard to get some wonderful women to come and join us, actually two ---ThatsLife and Tiger Blood. If anyone would feel comfortable dropping them a PM and let them know , we would like them to join us. I know it's an unusual request. But I think it would help. Thanks
Namaste sheila
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the libraian
kay transferred your prayer from pg 231
Lmfsom transferred both of your prayers from pg 233
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theresa--------I must not have hit submit button or may have been transferring prayers and forgot where I was LOL, But can our next novena be to St Pergrine . I don't believe we have done one to him. This is like deja vue. I even had to correct for caps. Duh if anyone finds where I put it let me know.
Namaste s
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