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A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago . They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush to make their flight, with tickets and briefcases in their hands, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to get to the plane in time for their nearly-missed boarding... ALL BUT ONE!!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did. The 16-year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her; no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly." As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride ... And he wondered. He gently went back and said, "No, I am nothing like Jesus - He is good, kind, caring, loving, and would never have bumped into your display in the first place." The girl gently nodded: "I only asked because I prayed for Jesus to help me gather the apples. He sent you to help me, so you are like Him - only He knows who will do His will. Thank you for hearing His call, Mister." Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?" Do people mistake you for Jesus?That's our destiny, is it not?To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace. If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would. Knowing Him is more than simply quoting scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day . You are the apple of His eye even though you, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked up you and me on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit. Sometimes we just take things for granted, when we really need to be sharing what we know. "Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections."
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Thanks for sharing that inspirational story Torigirl.
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Tori,what a beautiful story. Each act has a reaction. A moment that we make a choice. Is our choice Christ like or not. Thank you, I know so many here, carry this in our lives., based on what individuals write. Tori, do you see this or are you seeing something different? I ask this b/c all our perspectives are different. We grow closer when we share our prespectives. It also, brings more of us together. Bless you and your family, with a special blessing for your Dh who is harm's way. Namaste sheila
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We have such a wonderful Father. He has answered my DH's and my prayers that the 2 cysts I have in my thyroid are benign. I am so excited!
Have any of you taken your rosary beads with you to your infusion and said the rosary?
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Wonderful news teeballmom!!! Big smile for you!!!
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Teeball - congrats number one on your good outcome today!!!
And I don't take my rosary, but to any appointment, including my lumpectomy, radiation and all med onc appts, I bring my St Peregrine prayer card, St Agatha prayer card, and a book a friend wrote about her experience with breast cancer that I also keep printouts of well wishes from all my college marching band friends who were my biggest support group online. I tell them they are my good luck charm, and the prayer cards give me strength. I also wear St Peregrine and St Agatha medallions on a necklace. I figure I will take all the help I can get!
Cheri
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To all my sisters on the other side of the big pond and below the 49th parallel
Happy Independence Day.
Cheri I'm not into jewelry but like yourself I have a small silver chain aroung my neck with a medal of St Perigrine on it and I carry my St Peregrine prayer card along with my Oncology alert card with me always. Never thought of brinking my rosary beads with me when I was getting my IV infusions - must consider it.
The SEs with this regime are basically under control with the various meds but on a treatment weekend, like last weekend -IV on Friday afternoon and I wear a bottle of chemo over the weekend till Monday morning - I get very hyper and can not sleep. By about Monday or Tuesday it wears off but the fatigue continues and it's not just the loss of sleep from the weekend. Have to lie down and sleep for an hour or so when I come home from the office then go to bed early at night. Apart from that am coping well, still going to the office and getting on with life. I'm on AL next week and going away for several days - here in Ireland.
take care all.
Frank
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Frank, you are amazing my friend-- godspeed.
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Frank I pray for you a lot on the online rosary site. You have a lot of support out here! God bless :-)
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I agree, Frank is amazing; and he is always in my intentions.
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Hi everyone. Been away from the boards for a bit - work.....but never far away from a prayer for you all. Reading all your words I am inspired in so many ways, but as a music minister I always hear songs in your prayers. Here's one for tonight - The More I Seek You - by Kari Jobe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_1YliutzA"The more I seek You, the more I find You. The more I find You, the more I love You. I wanna sit at your feet, drink from the cup in Your hand, lay back against You and breathe, feel Your heart beat. This love is so deep is more that I can stand, I melt in Your peace, it's overwhelming."
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Hello ladies...and you too Frank!
Just dropping in to say hello. I think about you and pray for you every day, but since I've been back to work, the days just seem to fly by and I don't have time to post.
Since I last posted, my Uncle Pat in Ireland passed away after battling cancer for many years. Please pray for him. It's unfortunate, because my Mum is going to England and Ireland on holiday next month but sadly she missed him by a few weeks.
Could I ask you also to pray for Ken, a young man from our church with Leukemia. He has had treatment but has recently had a relapse.
Fr Adrian, our beloved young pastor moved to another church at the end of the week and we have now welcomed our new priest, Fr. Don. He's very nice but it will be a bit of an adjustment for all of us, especially my kids who just LOVED Fr. Adrian.
Rabbit, welcome! It sounds like our timelines of diagnosis and treatment are similar. I can relate to how you feel. As much as I try not to, I worry about having a relapse. Last week at work was so stressful and I couldn't help but think that this is really not good for me. With God's help, I hope to find some sort of new normal soon!
Anyway, may God bless you all. I will continue to keep you all in my prayers and will try to drop in now and again!
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Michelle, of course........prayers you and your family's way, and Ken's way........
Cheri
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Today we sang Kari Jobe's "When I Seek You." Such a beautiful meditative song. Praying for all of you today and always.
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Sending my love to you all. I think of everyone so often, and missing you. Work seems to be the greatest barrier to having "me time,and posting" and I am working again on getting some balance. I am in the process of "Calling back my spirit."
Have a Blessed Day.
Love,
traci
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Traci---------Love you -------what ever you need let us know. May your Angels be with you at all times. Namaste L&H&P's. sheila
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Ladies need immediate prayers I am 4 and 1/2 years out and just given green light at 4 year appt. I found an enlarged lymph node under my cancer side under arm today, I am so scared I am vomiting.I am looking at my kids crying, please pray for me that this is nothing. I dont have an infection that I know of and it popped up out of nowhere. I had a mastectomy so I thought if I recurred it would be a mets dx not a local recurrance.Do any of you have any words of wisdom or experience with this.Sheila what do you think?0
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No words of wisdom or experience here mmm5, but I will certainly pray. I can totally relate to the vomiting from fear thing. Prayers going out now . . .
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mmm5>>>>>praying >>>..hold on, get your rosary going. L&H&P's sheila
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mmm5>>>>>praying >>>..hold on, get your rosary going. L&H&P's sheila
mmm5 think what novena you want started and I will get it going
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maybe we could do a novena to Saint Agatha....?
I had an US today and they say it is NOT a lymph node, it looks a bit smaller today so they are taking the watch and see approach with a pretty good estimate that it is a cyst or sebacious gland. The only bad thing she could think of is a local recurrance in the skin, but said she did not think it presented that way on the ultra sound, my Lymph nodes all looked good.
This was soooo hard for me, when you raise your arm on the cancer side and find a lump you automatically think the worst thing. I did not sleep a wink last night and after 4 1/2 years went right back to extreme panic mode. I hate this way of living it is horrible and thought I had gotten much past it. I have been praying the rosary nearly every day for a couple of months and it is truly the one thing that can give me some Peace.
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dunesleeper would you be willing to share your supplement list and how changing to mostly fruits and veges has changed things for you. I have really been working on that but not at 100 percent yet
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mmm5, praying for you that all turns out okay.
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I just went to see a film called For Greater Glory , about the Catholics that in Mexico went to war against the Government for their faith,they fought 4 long years, priests were and are forbidden to many things in their ministry by the Mexican Constitution that is based in the old Russian one; it was called the Cristero war, the fought for Christ, it is an excellent movie that like all catholic films are ignored by the media, like There will be Dragons,about the persecution of Catholics and the founder of Opus Dei, the director is the same from The Killing fields,The Mission.
I liked both films very much.
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mmm5 I just wrote myself a note to get that supplement list. It is on the other computer.
The change of diet has resulted in me losing about 30 pounds. I am amazed at how full I stay from a salad, but it is a large salad. I never thought I could eat this way, but cancer has been a good motivator. I feel confident that I am creating an environment inhospitable to cancer and very supportive of my immune system. I think I am getting the vitamins and minerals that my body requires and that's why I stay full for 6-8 hours from my salad. When I drink coffee or eat meat I worry a little about giving cancer what it needs to thrive, but I only do it once in a while. I know I am not feeding cancer with sugar. I check my urine and saliva occasionally to be sure I am still not acidic. If I do eat meat I take pancreatic enzymes and zinc. This just lessens the load on the pancreas so it can do its part in fighting cancer. Anyway, I am very pleased to see my weight dropping. I am no longer in the obese range. I do still have some tummy fat but exercise and meditation/prayer will get rid of that, which will further reduce my risk of recurrence or mets.
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mmm5 your choice on novena --dear one let me know and I will go into action L&H&P's sheila
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This is for you, mmm5. You asked for my supplement list. I'm just doing a copy and paste of an excel file so it will not hold the formatting. You can figure it out though.
Supplement Strength Number Purpose
Krill Oil 1000 + other stuff 2 Essential Fatty Acids & Vitamin D help with depression and the cancer
5-HTP 100 mg 1 X 2 amino acid & immediate precursor to serotonin help with the depression
N-Acetyl-:-Cysteine 500 mg 1 X 2 antioxidant amino acid & precursor to glutathione detoxification, intracellular defense against oxidative stress
Ubiquinol 100 mg 1 Enhanced Bioactivity CoQ10 cellular energy, heart health, antioxidant, bp, immune system, nervous system
Vitamin D3 2000 IU 2 X 2 Natural Cancer Fighter
Grape Seed Complex 1 X 2 Antioxidant Support
Spirulina 500 mg 6 Superfood
IP6 Gold IP6 & Inositol 2 X 2 Immune Support boosts natural killer cell activity, maintains dna integrity
Chrysin 500 mg 1 inhibits aromatase prevents conversion of testosterone to estrogen
Complete Probiotics 2 70 million CFU, 10 strains
DIM 300 mg 2 X 2 estrogen metabolizer & blocker hormonal balance
Deplin 15 mg 1 help me get off Paxil
Methyl B12 5000 mcg 1 protects brain cells & nerve tissue
Iodoral 12.5 mg 1 Iodine Supplement helps thyroid function
B6 50 mg 1 X 2
Chlorella 250 mg lots superfood and heavy metal detoxifier
Melatonin 3 mg 1 X 2 sleep & anti-cancer
Curcumin + black pepper 500 mg 1 antioxidant
Magna-Calm 420 mg 1 scoop magnesium citrate -- calming
Modified Citrus Pectin Powder 5 g 1 scoop X 3 Some also claim that a compound found in MCP Proponents claim that modified citrus pectin slows or stops the growth of melanoma
strengthens the cancer cell-killing ability of T-cells and metastatic prostate cancer.
Colloidal Silver 500 ppm 1/2 tsp kills over 650 disease-causing bacteria, viruses, tissue regeneration
fungi, parasites, and molds
Vitamin C 1000 mg 2 X 3 boost immune function
Smoothie
Coconut Milk
Almond Milk
Green Naked Juice
Greens First 1 scoop antioxidant power of 15+ servings fruits & veggies
Brewer's Yeast 1 Tbsp. B-complex vitamins, chromium and protein blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, energy levels, skin conditions, large intestine
Beyond Essential Fats 1 tsp balance omega 3 and omega 6 fats
Immucare I 1 tsp builds & supports immune defense
Immucare II 1 tsp restores & regenerates deep immune response
Botanical Treasures 1 tsp reduces oxidative & inflammatory stress and normalizes cell behavior
Beyond Whey 1 scoop strengthens immune function, supports digestive
health, promotes anabolic metabolismI also recently added vitamin K to help with the vitamin D, and sometimes I take pancreatic enzymes, but usually only if I eat meat. However, I just read that they should be taken on an empty stomach so that the enzymes can do their job of basically uncovering the hidden cancer cells, making them visible to the immune system so that the immune system can wipe them out.
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Dunes sweetie i will not even try to analyses your list, while it's important to you it is inappropriate to this site, I would ask that you send it to mmm5 with blessings by PM and then delete it from this thread. I know entirely you mean well , But again not appropriate to this site. I would suggest a more appropriate suggestion would be" I take supplemenst, if anyone is interested plese contact me by PM"
WE ARE NOT A POLITICAL OR SUPPLEMENT THREAD.
Please Dunes understand Sassy
EDIT 8/12/2012 I apologize to all, rereading this 1. we diverge all the time.2 i'm not the Principle.3 sheesh way over the top OCD. mmm5 let me know and she was right. I would have just deleted it , but wouldn't correct the problem>>>when I get to pushy(whatever word your thinking) let me know. I missed michelle's response till recently Thanks sheila
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Hello Dear Ladies and Frank
Seems like this thread has been very quiet! Dunes I hope Sheila didnt scare you off regarding the post on supplements that was totally my fault and would still love to see your list if you could PM me.
SAS I think its ok if we have good intentions here as I had asked her to send me her ideas on vitamins maybe a different forum but I think it would have been fine for her to post here too ...I do understand you concern and appreciate your desire to keep the integrity of the thread...thanks
For all of you I continue to go to the ROSARY online and pray for all of your intentions. If any of you are going through difficult times please let me know here and I will add your intentions to the rosary thread.
God Bless all of you!
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That's a great website, mmm5. I've been using it almost daily ever since you recommended it. Thank you!
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