Better than she was before… Better, Stronger, Happier. A Breast Cancer Journal
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We know that living organisms must receive and interpret environmental signals in order to stay alive. In fact, survival is directly related to the speed and efficiency of signal transfer. The speed of electromagnetic energy signals is 186,000 miles per second, while the speed of a diffusible chemical is considerably less than 1 centimetre per second.
Energy signals are 1000 times more efficient and infinitely faster than physical chemical signaling. What kind of signaling would your trillion-celled community prefer? Do the math!
I believe the major reason why energy research has been all but ignored comes down to dollars and cents. The trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry puts its research money into the search for magic bullets in the form of chemicals because pills mean money. If energy healing could be made into tablet form, drug manufacturers would get interested quickly.
– Bruce Lipton, Ph D. The Biology of Belief, 2005.
You can get a good glimpse of a revised understanding of science and how it applies to daily life in this fabulous talk.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea June 11, 2010 at 2:59 pm.
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“But turtles can’t fly,” said the bird.
“They can’t?” said Tudley. “I didn’t know that.”
He looked down at the shocked faces of turtles below.
“Did you know that turtles can’t fly?” he called down.
They all just nodded.
– Tudley Didn’t Know by John Himmelman.
Sylvan Dell Publishing 2006
I’m going to start reading this picture book first thing every morning.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea June 7, 2010 at 2:04 pm.
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Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life.
It’s part of our life.
…
Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity
but preparing them to meet it well.
– Aimee Mullins
More about Aimee Mullins here, here and here.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea June 6, 2010 at 1:59 pm.
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Yes, my guard stood hard
When abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now.
– Bob Dylan. My Back Pages. 1968
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea June 4, 2010 at 5:58 am.
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I think of cancer as a teacher that was not invited but has come to my house to visit from time to time nonetheless. It sits on my left side whispering insistent questions that I cannot answer but still must explore: Who am I when I stop doing? What have I come here to give? What is unfinished for me to learn, to experience? Am I leaving a legacy that enables others to live bigger lives than I have?
– I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion , Dawna Markova
Red Wheel Weiser, 2000.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea May 9, 2010 at 2:03 pm.
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No Lifeguard on Duty
It is difficult
when one is drowning
to wave to the people on shore
one wants to be
friendly, of course
but perhaps it is
more important
to keep
swimming
– Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad, 1990. Fine Black Lines: Reflections on facing cancer, fear and loneliness.
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Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea May 7, 2010 at 5:50 am.
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The Circle of Life
The stories of cancer survivors reveal a common thread that runs through all their experiences. After the initial shock of being diagnosed with cancer, their worlds turn black. But, as they go through the journeys of cancer treatment, all the colours of the rainbow become more vibrant against the dark background.
The journey exposes the importance of family, friends, colleagues and the caring medical community. As the circle of life closes, many survivors find a need to give back to the community and begin to help others through their own journeys.
Unfortunately, there are still those who do not survive the disease. Many of these patients have tried experimental procedures that were not successful for them and the lessons learned helped many others to survive. These courageous people must never be forgotten.
This quilted wall hanging is dedicated to all those who have had cancer touch their lives. It was made by the women of the Country Club Quilters group in Beacon Hill under the leadership of Thelma Robbins and was presented to The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre on April 19, 2010.
Pattern by: Marti Mitchell
Quilted by: Grace Whiting
Framed by: Rothwell Gallery
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea May 7, 2010 at 5:17 am.
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A blast from my past — and no drizzling rain:
She said “Where ya been?”
I said “No place special”
She said “You look different”
I said “Well I guess”
She said “You been gone”
I said “That’s only natural”
She said “You gonna stay?”
I said “If you want me to, Yeah”.
– Bob Dylan. Isis. 1975
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea May 5, 2010 at 12:27 pm.
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Let me ask you something.
If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient?
If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous?
If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
– “God”. Evan Almighty
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea April 25, 2010 at 8:28 pm.
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Medical science is not focused on prevention of cancer because it is almost impossible to get research grants for it. Unlike a tumor to cut out, you can’t see prevention. It earns no fat fees, sells no drugs, confers no status, hones no surgical skills, plumps no resumes, buys no publicity, provides no immediate gratification at all. No researcher or agency can convincingly claim the credit for prevention. Few, therefore, are motivated to try.
– Michael Colgan, PhD. You Can Prevent Cancer, Apple Tree Publishing 2007.
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Posted by Andrea April 16, 2010 at 10:41 am.
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Forgiveness is a skill. Like any other skill we have to practice it… We have to practice forgiveness daily, all day long, … to build up our forgiveness muscles.
– Lama Marut. What Forgiveness Is and Isn’t. 2008.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea April 10, 2010 at 7:44 am.
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Emergency, turbo-powered spirit-lifting:
Every bursted bubble has a glory.
Each abysmal failure makes a point.
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
So every time you stumble never grumble.
Next time you’ll bumble even less.
For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
For every big mistake you make be grateful.
That mistake you’ll never make again.
Every shiny dream that fades and dies,
Generates the steam for two more tries.
There’s magic in the wake of a fiasco.
It gives you that chance to second guess.
Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success.
Disaster didn’t stymie Louis Pasteur.
Edison took years to see the light.
Alexander Graham knew failure well;
He took a lot of knocks to ring that bell.
So when it gets distressing it’s a blessing.
Onward and upward you must press!
Yes, Yes!
Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success.
– Up From the Ashes. Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman. Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. 1968.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea April 7, 2010 at 5:55 am.
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Chemo-hangover and steroid withdrawal, like icy prods, seek deep sadnesses and chase them to my surface.
Robbed of my fortitude by these chemicals, I writhe.
But I’ve learned, these months, that this darkness will fade.
‘Til then, apt words from Phyllis McGinley…
Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.
– Phyllis McGinley, “Ballade of Lost Objects,” 1954
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea April 6, 2010 at 5:22 am.
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Dr. Seuss on authenticity and acceptance:
Be who you are and say what you feel,
Because those who mind don’t matter,
And those who matter don’t mind.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
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Posted by Andrea April 4, 2010 at 3:06 pm.
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Melissa Ethridge, on courage and truth:
Well, Courage. I’ve had a funny relationship with courage.
Because I often get … ‘Oh, you’re so brave, you’re so courageous!’
And I keep thinking ‘Ok, why do they think I’m so courageous?
Oh, because I said I was gay. I told the truth about myself.
Oh, because when I was bald, I was bald and that was the truth.’
And I started thinking ‘Wait a minute. We actually live in a society where just speaking the truth about ourselves, just saying ‘Hey, I’m a gay breast cancer survivor’ is courageous. Speaking our truth is courageous.
…Let’s just back up a minute and examine what we are considering courageous. And how about if this were just normal? If all of us agreed just to wake up every day and go ‘Hey! This is what I am.’
That would change the world.
Melissa Ethridge, from her session Fearless Love: Living Lives of Searing Authenticity and Audacious Courage.
Part of the Women on the Edge of Evolution audio series. 2010.
Andrea Ross was diagnosed with breast cancer October 6, 2009 and intends to
survive and
thrive. You can read more from Andrea
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Posted by Andrea March 29, 2010 at 2:05 pm.
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