Since I’ve stopped presenting daily diaries about my healing situation, I have kept notes of the “goings on” here, concerning my body, mind, emotional, state, and spirit here.
Organized chaos is the key term here.
10–15 call daily comes in daily from peers, friends, and loved ones. It makes all the difference in the world.
Of course, I have integrated humor and very happy, upbeat 1970 dance music. The New Age stuff doesn’t do it for me.
Here is my favorite:
As a side note to this video, the lead guitar is G.E. Smith who was married to Gilda Radner whose passing from cancer was the motivation for the founding of Gilda’s Clubs Cancer support centers. My wife and I met G.E. Smith in NYC years ago hanging put in a NYC park. Smith was the head of the SNL Band and I had many coaching connections to the show, including the night Timothy Leary and I went for visit (Yes, I’m name dropping. “Excusssssse Meeeee.”
One of the challenges is that I often make assumptions about what I am doing and why I am doing it. More on that later
For instance. I got a 5 hour chemo drip a few days ago and have been taking new prescription pills to support that “drip”. The drip was no worse than bad jet lag.
Concerning assumptions related to my treatment and healing schedule. “No regrets and expectations” is the rule here. I may expect to feel for no reason or bad for no apparent reason. My best friend at the moment is ”adult Depends”
Use your imagination! No further information required.
So I go from day to day knowing that to survive this cancer diagnosis they’ve handed me, I must always be motivated, inspired, positive and filled with all the best affirmations at all times.
Two nights ago a has a special treat from the angels.
If you have followed much of my writing you know I am a lucid deamer. A lucid dream is a type of dream wherein a person that is dreaming realizes that they are dreaming during their dream. The capacity to have lucid dreams is a trainable cognitive skill. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of volitional control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment, although this control of dream content and ha many element that can influence accessing spiritual information.
A few nights back, I awoke in a First Nations long house, lying on a cot next to another cot. Here was a very elderly woman. An old, male healer was leaning over her with a burning “sage smudge”. Ge have me a toothless smile, and asked me “Would you like some, little brother?
“Yes I nodded”. The scent was wonderful. I slowly awoke. It was early, before 7:00 am. My wife Lilia was next to me smiling.
“A lucid dream.”
“Yes”.
Within the organized chaos, of Princess Margarrette, their is a wonderful Social Work department that attempts to connect al the dots of patient needs and available services.
Gilda’s Club,
Music and Art Therapy,
The Nutritionist, Spiritual Counseling.
Usually when I call the phone # I get dropped into phone prompt system, “Press #1 for this #2 for that,etc.”
Surprisingly, a woman answered immediately
“Are non-Indians allowed to use the First Nations Counseling Services here?”
She didn’t know, but promised to text them my information.
I thought the posibilites here seemed interesting.
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Later that day, I returned to the hospital to get follow up blood tests. They usually do this the day following the introvenius chemo drip.
Nothing new here.
Every day is now chemotherapy. Luckily the focus after the introvenius chemo drip, is to avoid nausea, constipation, and diarrhea.
I none of that. Mostly fatique (3 -4 hours if sleep in the daytime, some pleasant hallucinations. Lot;s of water, lemon juice, ginger. Protein shakes. And green juices.
My writing get’s started in the late afternoon but it all get’s done.
The great leg discomfort is gone when I take the right meds, in the right combination. The itch is gone as well. That is probably tied to the increase use of Hydro-morphone, and I’m sleeping well.
My Mantra is regular; “I am well, healthy, and healing, and loved” thoughout the day.”
The next entry on all this will be more on my First, Mystic, First Nation, Lucid Dream.
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a good read and loved the topic and experience of your lucid dream. Sending you love and healing light my friend for this journey.