As I passed by another birthday, I look back at the amazing life that I have had the pleasure of enjoying.
The life I have, I’m truly grateful for.
Being classified as cancer FREE after my last surgery is a GREAT feeling, but as my surgeon states it’s a guarded feeling. One that bears watching and monitoring.
With CT Scan every 3 months now and to many blood tests to even count - you watch, monitor and pray that all stays well.
But what is truly important is that you LIVE. You live “… life like you are dieing!” as the Tim McGraw song goes.
When you live your life from that point of view you SEE things you’ve never seen before. You feel things that you’ve never felt before.
I personally especially notice “sounds” that I’ve never heard before or that I enjoy more now. These sounds have always been there, but I did not hear them in the way I hear them now.
The sound of song birds in the morning, the sound of my granddaughter laughing, the sound of my wife’s voice, and the sound of the wind in the trees. I could go on.
I once created a “Dream Slide Show” presentation that a good friend of mine and I would share with people. This dream slide show was a collection of images and sounds that were meant to “EXCITE” the senses of the people we shared it with.
I have started to create another dream slide show that I plan to share with you on this Blog in the days to come. My goal is to create these using tools on a computer that anyone can do from home for free.
As I create this slide show I plan to put a step-by-step process down for you to follow if you choose to create your own dream slide show.
The Law Of Attraction says that once you have these images in your thoughts, your feelings, and your daily routine that you will attract these things into your life.
I believe deeply in the Law of Attraction and its power. The movie “The Secret” is a big part of my life style now. And I would strongly recommend you see this video. If you have seen it already, watch it again.
Till next time, ENJOY the DAY!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
My Soap Box
I guess I tripped over the edge here, but it’s my soap box so I guess I can stand on it for a few minutes.
We lost another family member to cancer in June and learned of 2 more friends that now have cancer.
I get very angry about the current “status quo” with the progress or lack of progress to curing cancer.
Not just the standard 3 big costly hitters you’re told when YOU have cancer.
Behind door number 1 is surgery. Behind door number 2 is chemotherapy and behind door number 3 is radiation.
Or if you are one of the very unlucky you get all 3 or a combination of them.
None of which really cure the base problem.
Here are some numbers that probably tripped me over the edge that I just read;
We loose 500,000 plus friends and family members a year in the United States to Cancer and over 7 million worldwide.
That comes to about 1375 people die a day from cancer in the United States alone!
I remember as a small boy Walter Cronkite reporting the news on the Vietnam War. He would give a total killed for the day and a running total of the wars death toll.
This was in his national news report every night!
The total for that 11 year war and as terrible as it was counted around 50,000. Today it takes only 6 weeks to loose that many children, parents, fathers, mothers, bothers, sisters, to cancer.
The terrible sites of 9/11/2001 are still fresh in my mind and again this event was in the news for a couple of years and the death toll reached 2752 people in one small moment in time.
Today in just the United States we loose that many to cancer in 2 days. And we never make the news?
This is the part that gets me upset and wondering what our focus is on?
Is it that some governor quit her job or the death of a pop star that OD’d on drugs? These make the news for days if not weeks.
In 1 or 2 weeks from now, no one will even remember except those directly affected.
Why do we not have a nightly report on even the local news of the day’s death toll and a running death toll total? Is it, because something might get done at that point?
Is it better we stick our heads in the sand and try not to see the pain this is causing.
If we bring this information to the “front of the line” instead of “in the line” or the “back of the line” would someone hear us?
Please take a moment to contact your local news and your public elected officials and ask the questions WHY we don’t hear daily about these numbers and the efforts being made to CURE cancer.
That’s it; I’m off my soap box.
I truly pray that we find a cure for a disease that is eating away at our country and our planet as a whole.
Until that day we must keep making it to the next day and the next event in the world of You Fighting Cancer.
Have a GREAT DAY!
We lost another family member to cancer in June and learned of 2 more friends that now have cancer.
I get very angry about the current “status quo” with the progress or lack of progress to curing cancer.
Not just the standard 3 big costly hitters you’re told when YOU have cancer.
Behind door number 1 is surgery. Behind door number 2 is chemotherapy and behind door number 3 is radiation.
Or if you are one of the very unlucky you get all 3 or a combination of them.
None of which really cure the base problem.
Here are some numbers that probably tripped me over the edge that I just read;
We loose 500,000 plus friends and family members a year in the United States to Cancer and over 7 million worldwide.
That comes to about 1375 people die a day from cancer in the United States alone!
I remember as a small boy Walter Cronkite reporting the news on the Vietnam War. He would give a total killed for the day and a running total of the wars death toll.
This was in his national news report every night!
The total for that 11 year war and as terrible as it was counted around 50,000. Today it takes only 6 weeks to loose that many children, parents, fathers, mothers, bothers, sisters, to cancer.
The terrible sites of 9/11/2001 are still fresh in my mind and again this event was in the news for a couple of years and the death toll reached 2752 people in one small moment in time.
Today in just the United States we loose that many to cancer in 2 days. And we never make the news?
This is the part that gets me upset and wondering what our focus is on?
Is it that some governor quit her job or the death of a pop star that OD’d on drugs? These make the news for days if not weeks.
In 1 or 2 weeks from now, no one will even remember except those directly affected.
Why do we not have a nightly report on even the local news of the day’s death toll and a running death toll total? Is it, because something might get done at that point?
Is it better we stick our heads in the sand and try not to see the pain this is causing.
If we bring this information to the “front of the line” instead of “in the line” or the “back of the line” would someone hear us?
Please take a moment to contact your local news and your public elected officials and ask the questions WHY we don’t hear daily about these numbers and the efforts being made to CURE cancer.
That’s it; I’m off my soap box.
I truly pray that we find a cure for a disease that is eating away at our country and our planet as a whole.
Until that day we must keep making it to the next day and the next event in the world of You Fighting Cancer.
Have a GREAT DAY!
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