Morales22.com » cancer http://morales22.com Il mio cuore è per voi Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:44:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Trip of a Lifetime http://morales22.com/trip-of-a-lifetime/ http://morales22.com/trip-of-a-lifetime/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:35:33 +0000 Debbie http://morales22.com/?p=2601 Well it has always been a lot of fun to use this blog as a record of some pretty amazing travels! The latest is titled, “The Return to Cancer”.  Not the best location, food sucks, the sights aren’t much to write home about, but it does have a few pluses.

I have met some very nice doctors and their staff. Everyone I know is lifting me up in prayer. Life is a little sweeter when it’s viewed from this perspective, and I can make light of a scary subject. Please laugh with me, it’s ok.

Kickapoo Joy JuiceI flunked my blood test this week and couldn’t start chemo. I will retake it on Monday thru the blood line they inserted in my neck this week. Also on tap, a needle biopsy of a tiny lump  in my neck that lit up on the PET scan. Another thing to worry about.Trying to eat organic and vegan and boring, and drink tons of water. Wine is allowed but not while I take a few pain pills. Sleep is wonderful, but once you wake a little, the thoughts are looming to take over, so I get up and read. It also gives me time to pray for others.

So we are hoping for Chemo to start (I call it my kickapoo joy juice…the moonshine from Lil Abner days …I am dating myself) so that radiation can happen so chemo can start again and we can get back to “normal” sometime in January.  THEN I can write about some exciting destinations!!

]]> http://morales22.com/trip-of-a-lifetime/feed/ 3 Trip to Cancer http://morales22.com/trip-to-cancer/ http://morales22.com/trip-to-cancer/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:58:40 +0000 Debbie http://morales22.com/?p=1471 Last year was an awesome year of travel; 22 weeks away from home and on the road!  The sights and tastes of the journey were incredible, awesome, priceless.  From Barnoldswick, England to Pisa, Italy,to Orland, Sweden the adventure far exceeded all expectations. And the people; oh the kindness of Raymond, Alessandro, Gunner and Dieter, Miranda, Giovani, Father Piernino, and many many others.

We returned home with some inklings that all was not normal, so doctor appointments started lining up. Sonagram, pap,biopsy, specialists, waiting, and then the day you have a date with an oncologist. How do you be cheerful as you walk in that door, the one at the very end of that long hallway?

But just like the adventures in Europe, the doctors, nurse-practitioner, staff and volunteers at Scripps-Mercy Hospital, Scripps-Green and RB joined with all my friends and family to hold me up in prayer. Betty and Mary and Andy babysat me after surgery, Donna cooked and Steve e-mailed updates. I was so loved and cared for that fear NEVER had a chance to take hold. Radiation zapped some strength, but not the knowledge that God loved me and had placed me amongst the most wonderful people in the entire world.

I need to get a map with some bright pins to mark all those special destinations I hold in my heart. Just not sure where to put the trip to cancer pin, cause  I don’t want to forget it…it too became a good memory.

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