Infusion Day!

by | Jun 5, 2013 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

    Infusion day has arrived. All day from 9 AM until 4:30 PM I have been in the clinic receiving my Rituximab infusion which helps my auto-immune disease. Even though I am not feeling well I know that this drug helps my inflammation and will allow me to live my life....

Fears That Suppress.

by | Jun 4, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity...

Happy Monday!

by | Jun 3, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

I am stumped about what to write for today. So I will write about the week ahead for me. I have my Rituximab (chemo) treatment on Wednesday. This will be the first time I will be going by myself. I usually have one of my sisters with me, but everyone is busy with...

We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook

by | Jun 1, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

I will just start out by saying that I love “We Laugh, We Cry, We Cook”. The reason we’ll it is about relationship and food, two of my favorite things. Becky and Rachel are a mother and daughter team who happen to enjoy cooking. Rachel vegan style and Becky is game...

New Growth

by | May 31, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”  Albert Einstein What a day! I have been up and busy all day long Friday from 11 AM until 5PM, this is probably not a big deal to most of you, but to me it is a huge deal....

Musings From A Night Owl

by | May 30, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  With my auto-immune disease I suffer from insomnia. I hate this particular side effect of my disease and the medications I take. I get tired I sleep, even with the Trazadone I still have moments when sleep does not come up. I have learned not to beat myself up...

Week One: Slowly But Surely

by | May 28, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey, Weight

  Can you believe it has been one week since I wrote the Monster post about my weight? What has happened since? Well, I am drinking more water.  I cleaned out my cupboards and my fridge to meet my new eating plan. I gave a lot of it away; I did keep some of my...

Paleo Cooking

by | May 27, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

I have been reading a lot about the Paleo eating plan, I refuse to call it a diet, and because well to me diet signals to me that I get to go off of it after a certain amount of time. I am going to try eating Paleo for 30 days to see how I feel and compare that to the...

Sick Days!

by | May 26, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  I hate being sick. On my last day in Longview I woke up with a stuffy nose, which leads to a runny nose and a runny trach. Dealing with two runny Orpheus  is a difficult thing. When I have a stuffed up nose and a stuffed up trach my breathing is even more...

Eat Move Sleep

by | May 24, 2013 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  I truly enjoyed reading “Eat Move Sleep” by Tom Rath. I liked the fact that he broke things down into simple steps that are not only doable, but also manageable. I find myself often times reading nutrition and health books and being bombarded with complicated...

Ode To Another Monster

by | May 22, 2013 | Weight

When I was 405 pounds. Scary isn’t it? This is also when I started my weight loss journey.           (At my friend Amber’s wedding. I was 275 at this point. I was experiencing my breathing issues. I sounded like a moose.) (Me today...

Longview Here I Am!

by | May 22, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  I am happy to say I am posting this while sitting at my friends Karen and Summer’s dinning room table. Summer and I just went to a Coalition Meeting in which we help those who are homeless or are close to homeless to have a permanent living situation....

39, Ouch!

by | May 21, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

Wow, I can’t believe I am 39 this year and next year I will be the big 40. This post will be a review of my 38th year and then what I will be accomplishing for my 39th year. My year has been a roller coaster of emotions, surgeries, chemo treatments, new doctors,...

When Diets Work: A Review

by | May 20, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

I am all about learning nutrition and being healthy, though I do have to admit I don’t always follow through on what I read. For one thing, there is so much contradicting information out there, don’t eat this, eat that, and each one has different suggestions. It...

Living Well With Chronic Illness

by | May 18, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

A while back when I went to the Urgent Care Medical Center here in Vancouver my wonderful and awesome caregiver found this pamphlet. “Living Well with Chronic Conditions”, you know that had me intrigued since I am all about how to accept and live well with my...

Living Ministries!

by | May 18, 2013 | Living Ministries, The Magnificent Journey

  I have been writing about Living Ministry events for some time on my blog, so I thought I would introduce to you what Living Ministries is. I am the secretary, which means I take notes and answer the emails. I am proud of each member of the organization that I...

Updates

by | May 17, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

I decided to write an update that doesn’t have anything to do with me moaning about anything that my body is doing. I am going to share some happy updates. First, I started the process of heading back into therapy. I realized that I need some help to guide me through...

Brain Fog

by | May 15, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  “To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to re-create life out of life!” James Joyce Re-creating life out of life, what a thought! Is it possible? Do I have the strength, endurance, and enough dirt to create a new life out of the shambles that I have now? I...

Ugliest Of Days

by | May 14, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  Every time I went on my Facebook page I kept getting messages popping up telling me to stay strong, stay positive, keep fighting, or find the beauty in the ugliest of days. I think God is telling me something. I have been feeling like crud. My writing...

Adventures In The Hospital

by | May 11, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  You were probably wondering why I haven’t written for the last couple of days. I was in the hospital fighting an infection just below my trach. Wednesday evening around 5 PM I noticed that the infection was growing even after I started my antibiotics. It got so...

Finding Joy

by | May 8, 2013 | The Magnificent Journey

  Yesterday morning I woke up with a new problem brewing. Just below my stoma there lurked an infection. It looked like a bruise, so when Myron came he suggested we go to the urgent care center on Main Street here in Vancouver Washington. I couldn’t get a hold of...

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