Favorite Quote

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Livestrong Day and Global Awareness

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The Survivors Club - Doc Gruber - Lymphoma Survivor

Here is a good lesson of the importance of being your own advocate. Twelve years ago I asked some questions about the drug Fludarabine. At that point I was looking at a bone marrow transplant and no donor to be found. This drug got me to a partial remission to move forward. Doing your homework on your disease creates a positive situation. Your doctor might not have the info or he does and needs reminding whats out there.
Please watch this with an open mind.

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Anne Lamott’s words on hope: “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

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If you are a cancer survivor check this out.
Long time ago someone shared this link with me about the Cancer Crusades Survivor Movie.
It my many means is my motto. It also by all means can help someone else starting out and in the fight.
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Defining

Its funny how people perceive cancer patients. One thing I know is that I do not want them to define me due to my cancer.

I was reading another blog today . It was beautiful. I made me stop and think about how advance cancer affected my life as well as that of my family , husband and children.

It made me realize how many Moms are dealing with cancer on a day to day basis and how we might affect others not even realizing it.

It reminded me just how important family was when I first found out I was sick . It also reminded me how tightly I held my children during treatment trying so hard to soaking every ounce of each and every second with them. Making sure Mom was mom and nothing more.

What does define me is yes I am a mom,wife, grandma,daughter, sister friend and then I might have a space for cancer survivor. Its funny there is so much in my life that cancer takes second fiddle even at its worst. I dug deep fighting to keep so many things first and not let cancer have the upper hand.

But defining me .Never.

Cancer makes us hug our kids a little longer. Hold tightly to making sure they know we love them right here and now. Not later. Every glimpse is precious and hug a gift.

Its funny because even with cancer in my life. No one knows how long they have. No one. I am always always shocked when we loose someone and we have lately and I am still here. But as someone said recently . Life is to be lived today in small defining moments, making sure those around us know we care by our actions and the words. Leave nothing to chance.

I am so glad those who are close to me know me so much better then this one person.