Cancer Updates – Page 3 – I Am a Happy Girl

Happy Girl …has a secret

February 14, 2017

Yes this Happy girl has a secret to being happy. These are crucial for this girl recovering from cancer treatments. My Lymphoma doctor recommends these! I am not kidding! I haven’t had to have anything for depression but these. He told me to stay away from synthetic caffeine. For reals I can’t tell you how these really help me. I was really needing Excedrin every day before these. I had to stop taking it before cancer treatments. It was so painful! The pain I felt from going off Excedrin was amazing! Body aches and leg aches were almost unbearable. That is good stuff! I feel like this is a much healthier alternative, though I don’t condemn anyone taking excedrin every day. Excedrin contains a combination of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine. Acetaminophen is a pain reliever and a fever reducer. Aspirin is in a group of drugs called salicylates. It works by reducing substances in the body that cause pain, fever, and inflammation. This is my alternative. I keep it in my personal refrigerator in my master bath. I take one upon arising every morning. I feel happy and in love! That is good for everyone around me! I can wake

Yes! A Short Haircut Will Do

February 8, 2017

I just came across this in my documents, I wrote this 7-8-15. This is before I knew what kind of cancer experience I was going to have. The doctors believed that I wasn’t going to live more than a week. I went to the musical,”Cats” with my girlfriends at BYU-I, and Jim stayed home and called Huntsman’s Hospital and the made arrangements that saved my life. I am smiling to myself, the part that says, “A short haircut will do” I had no idea what that really meant. Yes, I am 52 years old, and a short haircut will do! I am alive and I am living life and loving it. Jim never changes, he is my rock, he is the mashed potatoes and I am the gravy! The surgeon reads a very long CT scan report I feel dizzy and find it hard to breath There is nothing he can do There is a foreign growth around all my organs and I need them It is most likely cancer. Does this means a slow death or get well soon? The only way to get rid of it is to shrink it. I am tired, but I think I

Compare and Contrast

February 1, 2017

I just finished several life changing experiences. My mom died, I went through a divorce after 24 years of marriage, then I remarried a family friend with 9 children, (I had given birth to 5 children of my own), my new husband and I started a business together, then my 18 year old son died from influenza, and then I had stage 4 cancer and survived. Well, I am alive and somehow I am still writing on my blog “I am a happy girl.” I am 52 years old and I made it, so what else can this girl do? We now have 2 children at home and this gal has an opportunity to change the world. I need money to change the world. My goal for 2017 is to create $100,000 for myself and my husband. He deserves someone to take some of the pressure off of him. I have several ideas, I won’t tell you about all of them, but I am doing lots of good stuff. First, why not see if this 52 year old grandma is still hirable? So in September of 2016 I applied to be a tutor for Boxfish education. It was more of an experiment

What is your Bald Headed Moment? How do you move from Hopeless to happy?

January 26, 2017

What is your Bald Headed Moment? How do you move from Hopeless to Happy? It was my first time out on my own, on this summer day. I had a cute hat on my shiny bald head and was feeling a little sick from the chemo treatments, but I just had to get out. I felt like I had dealt with it well and decided to walk around downtown and go to my favorite store. All of a sudden I felt so embarrassed, I just looked at the ground. Maybe no one would notice that I was a skinhead under this hat. I saw her eyes, she was shocked, the little girl held tight to her mom’s hand. I love children and I was scary to her. I looked down and tried to hide. The mom said a cheerful, “Hello, how are you today?” It took me out of my trance and I looked up. I smiled back and said, “Hello.” As I walked the next block, I decided that I would make this trip fast, it was odd, so not like myself, I was usually the one to smile and say hello first. As I entered the store there

I didn’t die from cancer, whats next?

December 2, 2016

When I think of an almost death situation, I think that it would change someone so dramatically that they would never be the same. This is true. But after chemo and radiation and facing death, right in your face several times, how does it change you? I can only talk for myself. When I first found out that I was facing cancer my first instinct was to quietly go through this experience, not tell anyone, and live my life normally. Hide out and quietly do this alone. I am pretty sure I would have died if I would have done this. Because: I was so sick I didn’t care if I died. So no one would have known when I needed help. I could look pretty normal for an hour at a time. So if I showed my face, with make-up, a wig, and a smile. People would probably not notice. If it wasn’t for people who were aware that I needed help I would have missed out on a sweet friend, laying by me on my bedside, asking questions and finding something that tasted good, and bringing it to me. My sweet husband is the best. He works far and

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Happy Girl …has a secret

Yes! A Short Haircut Will Do

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I didn’t die from cancer, whats next?

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