Yesterday I came home from chemo and simply crashed. This is truely wearing me down. I keep hoping I will feel better but untill I am all done chasing this cancer I will just get more and more tired. The cancer has stopped spreading and now we need to get rid of it.
Although it is a holiday weekend and Samantha is playing in the band for the parade.
I have gotten alot of questions in the past week...
My Birthday is June 30, 1966
I really appreciate it when people ask me how I am. Nobody should ignore the elephant in the room.
Home for me right now is Illinois. My kids are growing up here but gimme about 4 years and I am moving somewhere in the desert.
I am not married. Been busy taking care of life.
I value so many here and hold you all close to my heart
tomi r. is one of my special friends and she is going thru her second time with thyroid cancer just like me. Please pray for her and visit her page! Care to learn more about thyroid cancer please see the following link!! http://www.medicinenet.com/thyroid_cancer/article.htm I am so very gifted by all of you in granting my interview requests, and those who repectfull decline are appreciated as well. I just truely love to get to know and share with my friends. Now to do some reading.... |
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I have a dear friend who just had to resume chemo a couple weeks ago for ovarian cancer. She was diagnosed in Oct 05, had several surgeries and went through about 15 wks of chemo a year ago. The cancer has returned and she is having a difficult time with the chemo. Plus she cannot work and her income was paying for the health insurance for herself and her husband. She has no benefits as she lost her benefitted position when she was off work so long in 06.
Enjoy your reading and your triple points. I will continue to pray for you and will also add tomi to my prayer list.
(Your birthday will be easy for me to remember. That's our anniversary. Only 1973 instead of 66.)
I catch up with your interviews tomorrow. I'm heading off to bed now. Sweet dreams!
Love and hugs - S.
You are a tremendous gift to all of us at Gather. For me it was an honor and a pleasure to have you interview me!
I am a June baby, too, though earlier in the month.
I recall that some time ago another Gather member asked you if you had heard of Reiki or energy healing. I bring it up again now, because I have had friends going through chemo who found having a Reiki treatment or some other form of energy healing to help them tremendously with the side effects of the chemo. If you think you might be interested, let me know what city or town in Illinois you live in and I will look on the internet to see if I can find someone in your area. Many people give healings for free or for whatever you want to or are able to donate. I have found this especially among Reiki healers. If you're not interested that's fine, too. I just thought I'd mention it anyway.
Hugs, hugs, hugs. Sending good energy and good thoughts your way, Kathline.
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And we can be confident that he will listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his will. And if we know he is listening when we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask for. 1 John 5:14-15
We continue to pray for you and we will include Tomi in our prayers also.
Love ya ... and (((HUGS)))
Blessings for you and your family young one.
If you are interested in the desert, may I suggest you move to Sedona Arizona?
Kathline, you know you are on my heart, so I am sending you some great energy. We all know you WILL beat this, but it never hurts to have a lil extra energy to float you though. I will definitely hold a candle burning for Tomi, as well.
You're in my thoughts and prayers. Hang in there!!!
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
I'll keep you in my prayers and you keep the faith. Have a fun but restful holiday.
I agree with Leah. Seriously consider Sedona. We are high desert, so the weather is always moderate. Not too hot, not too cold. Also, this is a healing place with a great deal of psychic energy.
Never give up hope. You're a Mom and you're teaching your kids something very very valuable. You don't just cave in. You fight with all you got.
Naturally there will be times when you'll feel awful. Then you lie down and rest.
I will...and we all will...pray fro you. on't for a minute think that you're alone...or that we don't understand...we do.
Love and a hug.
Your nurses have gone over pacing and planning with you? Are you able to get a bit of light exercise in each day to help with the fatigue? Toward the end of my chemo/radiation it was hard to make myself walk each day.
Sending you wishes of comfort and rest.
My Mom had chemo at the U of Chicago, unfortunately with her type of cancer recovery is not possible and the disease is terminal. During her chemo treatment she would lose her energy and the soles of her feet and palms turned jet black, even her taste buds changed (she's still a stone cold vegetarian).
You are younger and should tolerate chemo a lot better. The reason I tell people undergoing cancer treatment this is so they will understand that they are not the only to have gone thru the side effects of chemo, to hang in there with your doctors and treatment plan and most of all to keep their head up.
I give you my prayers and best wishes, please keep me posted.
Thank you for the additional info on who you are. My birthday is on the 13th of June, but I have a few years of age on you.
The chemo is going to make you feel like crap. Ask your doc to give you a prescription for a rental scooter until it's over and you're back on your feet. With it you can shop, take a run around the block if you want, ANYTHING but going from the house to the chemo and back and then sitting at home. That alone is enough to induce depression! If he will write you a scrpit, your insurance should cover it and the DME places do rent them. Kathline, I promise you that it will make a 100% improvement in how you feel. With it you can be outdoors and get away from the house for a bit without exhausting yourself and that alone is priceless. Aside from that, it will give you some independence, so that you don't have to wait on someone if you want to buzz down to the corner, or even a few blocks, to grab a soda, a gallon of milk, or just a newspaper. They come apart and will go right into a car trunk so take it shopping and everywhere else you go. The lift you will get in spirits will be amazing.