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Great ideas and helpful hints

A friend sent me an e-mail with these great suggestions. So here are some good ideas. — It’s hard to get kids eat salad but this may do the trick. You will need: 1 head of iceberg lettuce, 2 med

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Choose Hope

Dear Mom, Your experience with the doctors who told you, ten years ago, that if your cancer ever came back it would be “worse than the first time,” highlights a real problem with doctors’ training — they sometimes seem to

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Let’s all go Nuts

I spend a large amount of time researching. On all German speaking websites, too. (Austria, Switzerland). I go to ‘Heidelberg, Munich, Cologne and other Universities. I check their wellness program and cancer approach. Last spring, when I went to Wuerzburg

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Long, long ago…

 I was the fourth and youngest child. The line-up went boy, girl, boy, girl. I was also a “Furlough Baby”. I wouldn’t know my Father until I was 3+ years old. He was a Prisoner of war, in those last

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Eat fresh, organic and raw

Well, at least raw twice a day. That does not mean a raw potato.  You don’t have to wait until you have a life-changing illness to change your lifestyle. During my cancer journey, last time, I could barely eat anything.

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The Cutting Edge

Yesterday, late afternoon, my little buddy was here and we were just enjoying a movie and a sandwich when the phone rang and my ‘other’ reality interferred. Oncologist/Radiologist from Cyberknife asked to speak to me and then explained the following

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A little more info – Avemar Wheat Germ

I would have had a decent night’s sleep were it not for 2 crickets, that somehow found their way in. And, they’re talking to each other. Noisy blabbermouths and right now, I am not opposed to chemical warfare. I’m chasing

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Black Bean- Oatmeal Burger

For a change of pace I created  this burger. Sometimes, I want to have the ‘illusion’ of a time when we had BBQ. I miss meat seldom now and my system really likes greens and colors. My brain, sometimes, wants

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Running away from chemo

After I was re-diagnosed, spring time, a year ago and it was suggested to have surgery and chemo, I put a GOAL into my mind. Something to plan and to look forward to. A more pleasant distraction. I wanted to make my

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