My Recovery

by | Nov 17, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

What does recovery mean? Recovery means according to my “Webster’s Twentieth Century Unabridged Dictionary” circa 1983 “the act or power of regaining, retaking, conquering again. Getting well again, coming or bringing back to consciousness, revival of a person from...

Six Months Please

by | Nov 14, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

My heart began racing after coming home from my chemo treatment. I had such a good day then this happened. I of course went to the ER, I hate going to the ER. I hate having all these ailments that plaque my body, but I am still fighting to live a life. My heart rate...

Home Sweet Home!

by | Nov 13, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

A short post today, for I went and had my Rituximab infusion treatment today. Everything went well; I only had to be poked once. Strange what excites this woman nowadays. I was started at 25 units and slowly increased to 200 units. At 200 units is when I started...

Recovering!

by | Nov 2, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

The start of day two, yesterday I felt so exhausted, slept off and on all day long, took things extremely slow. I felt as though I was moving in slow motion all day long, the simple act of walking felt like I was moving like Jamie from Bionic woman when they were...

Eating Poison!

by | Oct 31, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I am finally home from a week long stent in the hospital in which I received chemo. How do I describe what getting chemo feels like? All I can tell people is I feel strange. I feel weak. I feel drained. I feel blurry headed. I do not feel like throwing up. Thank God...

Trusting In The Process!

by | Oct 30, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6) A lot can change in a twenty four hour period of time, heck, it can change in a weeks’ time. Last...

Hope!

by | Oct 29, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us. 2 Corinthians 1: 1 Good morning! It is 4:12 AM and I am awaiting my day to start. Today is a big day for me. I am having another surgery to get the stitches out of my throat, putting in a uncuffed trach...

Creating

by | Oct 28, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Right now,in this present moment, with your current thoughts you’re creating your future. What’s it going to look like? Did you know that each one of us takes 17,280-23,040 breathes a day? That gives you so many opportunities to say thank you God for my...

Unexpected!

by | Oct 26, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. ~ Philippians 1:6, NLT Once again what I expected to happen with my surgery is not what happened. I was supposed to...

Breathe Of Life

by | Oct 20, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“Do not be conformed to this world (this age), (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by the (entire) renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude). Romans 12:2 (Amplified version) Renewing my...

Gaining Strength!

by | Oct 14, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along’. You must do the thing...

Open Doors

by | Oct 13, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.” Rumi4 Open doors, what are they? Open doors could be people, places, things, and food, anything that holds importance to us. Sometimes the doors have to be...

Clogs

by | Oct 8, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I woke up from a good sleep needing to suction. I felt an obstruction in my t-tube. I felt this clog deep in my t-tube for the last couple of days and no matter how much I lavaged and suctioned it would not come out. Have you ever had a clog in your life that no...

What Doesn’t Kill Me

by | Oct 5, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” Albert Camus I am getting stronger with each obstacle that I am facing or have faced in the last four years. I should have died several times in the last two years. First was in 2010 and the second was in 2011, but I didn’t. I...

River

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

“He crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.” Shawshank Redemption While watching “The Shawshank Redemption” this line in the movie popped out at me. Let me tell you I have crawled through my own river of shit and I am hoping to come out...

A Letter

by | Oct 1, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

A friend on Facebook messaged me last night and asked some questions. Here are my answers, I did send it to her, but I let out a lot of emotional stuff, so I thought it would make a good post for today. Hi Valerie, As Promised here are the self-evaluation questions...

My Inner Artist

by | Sep 29, 2012 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

“The Artist Way” by Julia Cameron is a book that has been around for a long time. I finally got my hands on a copy of the book and the journal that comes with it. I am just starting week three of the exercises that she has you do to unblock your creativity. I have not...

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