Feel Good Friday: A Pep Talk {A Video}
Stop what you are doing and watch this video. I’m begging you. It is worth every single second of the 3:28 it will take to watch it and you will be so glad you did. Kid President will make your day....
View ArticleI’m Making a Few Changes
It’s hard to believe, but this is my 400th blog post. I started writing here in August of 2011 with intent of updating family and friends on my experience going through treatment for follicular...
View ArticleOn Birthdays and Aging
First, thanks for your feedback and encouragement on my decision to reduce my number of posts each week. It’s felt good to have a little breathing room in my schedule. :) I want to wish one of my most...
View Article3 Important Characteristics of an Oncologist [Plus a Chemo Update]
My 7th maintenance Rituxan treatment went well on Friday. I was much more tired than I usually am after treatment and had aches like the flu Friday night and Saturday, but am feeling really well now....
View ArticleLove For All of Us
On this St. Valentine’s Day, we need to remember love means more than romance. And even though Valentine’s Day is all about sweeties, true love is not reserved only for couples. As Christians, we are...
View ArticleHere’s to Our Health [A Recipe Round Up]
I’ve been asked by numerous people to please not stop posting recipe round-ups. :) So I thought since I haven’t done one in a while, today would be the perfect day to do one – especially one that...
View ArticleThe Elimination of Sorrow
Oswald Chambers says this in his devotional, My Utmost for His Highest (which, by the way, is one of THE best devotionals ever written): As a saint of God, my attitude toward sorrow and difficulty...
View ArticleCoping with Cancer: Confusion
I’m beginning a series of posts related to my experience dealing with cancer, Coping with Cancer: 20 Ways to Find Calm in the Midst of a Health Storm. I won’t be posting these every day, so if you’ve...
View ArticleLove Inspired
I have two warm-your-heart-and-make-you-smile videos for you today. I found both of these to be so encouraging and inspiring – glimpses into the goodness of mankind. {If you’re reading this in email,...
View ArticleCoping with Cancer: Resiliency
This is the second post in a new series: Coping with Cancer: 20 Ways to Find Calm in the Midst of a Health Storm. The first post, Coping with Cancer: Confusion, can be found here. Are people born...
View Article10 Things You Must Give Up to Move Forward
Here’s a little infographic that contains a few words of wisdom from the late Stephen Covey. (Did anyone else know that he passed away last year?? Where have I been?) (Click on the image to view...
View ArticleLike to Sleep? Good.
I’m reading more and more about the importance of sleep to our overall health and well-being, and all I have to say about this is . . . HALLELUJAH! I am a BIG fan of sleep. :) The challenge I, and many...
View ArticleOne Simple Wish
Sometimes I will come across an article that makes me want to jump up and down shouting YES! I read one such article last week on CNN: Website Shows Foster Kids Their Wishes Are Worthwhile. The article...
View ArticleFresh and Tasty {A Veggie Recipe Round Up}
We had our first truly warm days of the year this weekend and it was wonderful! It was the kind of weather I wait for all winter – the kind of days where you get that first hint of truly warm weather...
View ArticleThe Thing About Happiness
Yesterday was the International Day of Happiness. (There’s a day for everything, isn’t there?) Not surprisingly, this day devoted to being happy coincided with the first day of Spring which, in my...
View ArticleHoly Week Readings
The week leading up to Easter Sunday is different than any other week of the year. It reminds us of heartache and physical suffering, yet culminates with the hope we know because of our Risen Lord. [...
View ArticleBy His Great Mercy
I hope you enjoy this Easter weekend. May your heart be reminded of God’s great, big, ginormous love for you and the promise of eternal life given to us through the resurrection of Jesus Christ! But...
View ArticleWhat Will You Choose Today?
I’m heading to treatment tomorrow. This is #8; only four more to go after this! My labs were out of whack last time, but after re-doing them and getting an early CT scan, everything looked fine. I’m...
View ArticleSome Monday Cheer
Treatment #8 went very well on Friday. I had planned to ask Dr. D if he would re-do my CMP and CBC to check my kidney function again since it was abnormal when tested eight weeks ago, but then normal...
View ArticleSequestration and What it Means for Cancer Patients
My wise, knowledgeable, and kind-hearted friend, The Savvy Sister, posted this information earlier in the week and I think it is too important not to pass along. As a cancer patient, my perspective is...
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