kidney cancer
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Free will to make decisions, yes…actually being in control….no, not really. I am a recovering control freak! I’ve spent many years making firm decisions, manipulating situations and other people so that things could or would be done “correctly”. There are few people that I willingly allowed dominance over me and usually this was accomplished by Read more
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My friend, Tracy, who writes “Is Anybody Here?” is obviously sharing my brain. I’m sleepless tonight or should say I’ve been sleepless this week and have been taking melatonin in an effort to sleep through the night. It’s time for my kidney cancer yearly checkup and here’s the paragraph in her blog I just read. Read more
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As I was poking around my scar this morning, I realized that today is the 4 month mark post nephrectomy. Palpating the skin around my scar has become a weird obsession for me. Since he mentioned this little ritual to my gorgeous urologist a couple of months ago, I mostly do it in private. The Read more
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Now just over 3 months out from kidney cancer surgery, I wanted to update my scar after using frankincense on it every day For the last two months I have been using the essential oil on the top half of the scar and nothing on the bottom half. The difference is remarkable. Here’s a 3-fer picture. I’m Read more
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I no longer question it! Frankincense I’m almost 3 months post nephrectomy and have an impressive 3 1/2 inch scar that I look at daily. It’s my lucky scar!! I had started using Do terra essential oils a few months ago at the insistence of my daughter and my niece. I started off marveling at how Read more
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But actually it was a fail! While this kind of dream may seem quite negative….I woke up feeling stronger than I have in a few months…. Memories of the dream are sketchier as the morning awake progresses but hang with me here a bit… I had a huge argument – yelling argument – with Sheriff Read more
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It’s impossible to generalize the facts of living life through the kidney cancer diagnosis and treatment. But the one thing that I think is a sure thing: It changes us. We fight the devil! Through reading blogs and comments on social media sights, I’ve found we all have one thing in common…we want to live! Read more
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…and today I am finally feeling almost normal. Looking back on the ordeal, I have these little tidbits of wisdom. an organ was cut out, cut yourself a break and rest keep ahead of the pain with the narcotic pain relievers once you get home use a stool softener ice, ice, ice the incision sites Read more
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I believe I am a victim of my own circumstances and my own making…there are perhaps some genetics at play in my life because after all – and I quote my mother, “you come from a long line of big women”. Oh = holy mother of God…what a great excuse!!!! Heard it many times…said it Read more
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Two weeks and 5 days since my nephrectomy, I woke up in my favored sleeping position – on my left side. It was just two days ago I whined to myself that if I could just turn over on my left side I could go to sleep. This past week I’ve also been waking up Read more
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