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Pulling a Jimmy Carter

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  I am about to pull a Jimmy Carter. How you may ask. Here's how, I have just signed up for Hospice care. If you may recall the oldest living past President has been on Hospice since February 2023. More than likely, I will do Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve and of course my birthday in February 2024. The decision was a joyous one. For the past two or three months I have been uncomfortable with constant pain in various parts of my body. Palliative care now is much more preferable than the aggressive care I have been taking. I have become quite fund of the caregivers at the cancer clinic as well as the MRI clinic and will miss seeing them. However, it is time to say farewell to them. I will have to find a way to have those wonderful chats with Miss Kat during my ride back and forth to my treatments. Don't get me wrong the cancer drugs and the radiation treatment have decidedly slowed the progression of the cancer that has decided to cohabit the body in which I live. T...

What The MRI Revealed

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 On Friday May 27th, 2022, I went to the hospital to have an MRI done on my head, the reason for this procedure was to let my doctors and NLPs know what was happen within my scull with the errant cancer cells that had wandered into my head and was surgically removed in November of 2021. Before they put me into the machine, they had to inject me with a contrast for their own reasons. Well, the nurse in the MRI center could not get my vein to cooperate; so, I told him " I have a port". He was not trained on accessing ports, thus they had to get a certified port specialist. For over two hours they were unable to find such a person in the entire hospital. Finally, they found such a person working in the ICU and could be spared for the few minutes it takes to access my port and attach the necessary implement through which the contrast would flow into my body in order for the MRI to be properly done. When she could be spared and came to the MRI unit, she was an angel. I mean that l...

The Interregnum

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The messages from my guides and teachers come to me in the form of a single word. That word even, if it is familiar, causes me to go to a dictionary to find its meaning and its roots which hold the message. The word that informed the following is interregnum.   The period between the departure of one monarch and the enthronement of the successor is an interregnum.   “This period of the virus is an interregnum. It marks the sharp line between the old order and the new. We have been hoping, praying, affirming and striving for the new age to begin. We weren’t quite sure how this would be, or whether we would live to see it. We have. It is incredible but true. The veil is now so thin we can and must walk right through.  Fear, the constant which mark the old is withering before our very eyes. The light of our great love is melting the figment of the reality made from fear. We are being invited into a new and gracious reality made from love. Compassion for those cling...