Posted in Health, Live Strong on December 12, 2012
A whirlwind 7 days in Germany to have an ultrasound with Dr. Herzog, sweat in the sauna, wander around Weihnachtsmarkt/Christmas markets, and meditate with John of God. It was very full and very wonderful – not least of which was the Ultrasound and Herzog’s assertion that all is well (confirming what I had gleaned from [...]
Posted in Health, I Dreamt of Sausage, Live Strong, Miracles on November 17, 2012
Vorfreude (“for-froi-da”) is the joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures, which, I am thrilled to report, is what this musing is all about. Yesterday I received scan results. I spent the morning breathing and balancing and breathing and balancing (like my elephant) and then the oncologist walked into the waiting room and [...]
Posted in Health, Live Strong on July 29, 2012
The platelet count and Dr. Herzog agreed, Â 6 cycles of the modified BEACOPP were all that my bone marrow was going to stomach (I hope platelets have stomachs, that would make me very happy). As such, I flew home, had another PET scan (which showed just one spot which we will radiate), met with all [...]
Posted in Live Strong on June 25, 2012
Those of you who read my book know the word boring is anathema to me. Instead I will simply say I have found myself more and more drawn to exploring outside of my glorious village of Bad Salzhausen. This region of Germany is known as Hesse and it is served by a perfect train system [...]
Posted in Health, I Dreamt of Sausage, Vision on June 10, 2012
I know this sounds naive, but I have never stood next to a cow in the silence of a quiet field and listened to it tear up grass and chew. My first thought was, “that sounds like a wheatgrass machine,” my second thought was, “maybe we should give nature first dibs on sounds – a [...]
Posted in Health, Live Strong, Miracles on May 8, 2012
So yesterday I started cycle 3 of hopefully 8 cycles (8 cycles of what, you ask? read all about it here!) – a full body hyperthermia where I SWEAT like a big sweating sweaty sweat person (according to the nurse I was “schwimmen en de table”, love it!). Today I walked my husband up to [...]
