It’s that thankful time of year again, and I have to admit that I have had to work a little harder to muster up the cheerful thankfulness that I had last year.
The past couple of months have been quite busy. With the fall harvest and everything that comes with that, the birth of a new grandbaby, my parents recent visit to meet the new grandbaby, puppy sitting for our son while he is at work and catching up on things set aside during my most recent round of C word (Covid) there has been no shortage of things to do. I am thankful for it all, and especially thankful for the energy to keep up with the things needing to be done, THANKS to the acupuncture treatments I mentioned in my last newsletter.
But I think I’m doing better in the thankfulness department than I was a few days ago. I just needed to remind myself of a few things after getting knocked around by a lingering upper respiratory virus that held on for around 6 weeks and had me feeling a bit steamrolled (weary) from the frequent bouts of sickness I’ve been experiencing since 2020 came to call. This was the first virus I’ve had in the last 5 years that wasn’t Covid. It came on feeling like an old familiar simple kind of a cold bug, but possibly was something more than that. I will spare you the copious amounts of mucous details. I was relieved to hear that other people weren’t recovering from this infection very quickly either. Knowing that others were not quickly getting over this bug helped me keep my own recent immune health improvements in a more positive perspective. I did experience some flaring of chronic tick bite symptoms, but I am learning how to deal with those and was able to keep them minimized. Be on the lookout for future newsletter reporting on how I’m managing those tick bite symptoms because there is some applicability to long-covid and cancer symptoms as well. I am VERY happy to share that I did not fall back into post-viral fatigue syndrome which gives me hope that my mitochondria are in better shape than they were 1 year ago and for that I am Thankful! I was able to keep up with my walking/hiking, gardening, fall harvesting, and household duties while I was sick. I did have some fearful thoughts pop into my head about sinking back into PEM (Post Exertional Malaise) despair, but I put those thoughts away and kept up with my usual activities. I’m also thankful for creatine and it’s help with keeping me out of the PEM and fibromyalgia loop.
Sickness and St. Therese have helped teach me that in a go big or go home world full of thornless roses, CEOs, and over whelming Ikea choices; it’s ok to be a simple little spring flower (or in my case, autumnal flower) who is simply thankful; thankful for little things like a little zinnia sprouting and blooming (without fragrance) in late November. I am also thankful for the company of chickens and the chicken whisperer, aka my husband, who brought the chickens home with him last year. It seems as if sickness is teaching me much about what it means to be little, little like a child who is dependent upon the care of a loving father and mother, or like a little child in the care of her heavenly Father. The struggle to become more and more dependent on God is very real, especially for those of us Americans who were brought up to become successful at being independent. As I wrestled with all of the sick little thoughts running through my head this past week, I saw God’s sense of humor in the marital changing of my last name to Schaible, which according to an authentic German woman who sat next to me during Bible study once upon a time, means something like “little” or as confirmed by Grandma Search Engine- the name Schaible means something like a whisp of straw or a small basket. This led to more thoughts about fading flowers (especially roses) and withering whisps of grass, bruised (but not broken) reeds, not hiding light under baskets, being turned into a little child, and Alan Jackson’s Little Bitty song about life being short and how finding yourself in a little town can teach you how to be little and to enjoy the little things that are all around you.
How about you? Is illness teaching you something?
For my family, November is a time to remember that 2 years ago dad received his stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Dad has been put on a different immune therapy drug than the one he was started on last year, and other than that, dad is doing pretty well. Dad says that this drug change has chemo like side effects for about 4 days after its administration, but he was told the medicinal change is required because it is helping someone’s financial bottom line, so we are trying to be thankful for all of the good care he has received while scratching our heads over why is more important than him being able to stay on the original immune therapy drug he was prescribed which was working better for him.
Speaking of , in his recent video “Cancer Experiences”, Dr. John Campbell made an important point about how collecting anecdotal research data, in regard to affordable repurposed drugs, retrospectively, most likely wouldn’t come with a 50-bazillion dollar price tag. His comment was in regard to the oodles and gobs of Ivermectin and Fenben anecdotal cancer success stories that are out there. I find this interesting because we should also have lots of anecdotal data about Ivermectin and Covid at this point as well.
NOTE* Anecdotal Fenben may be of some educational interest to our friends (and their oncologists) who have colon cancer, especially if the cancer has spread to the liver, and/or if the cancer ends up being chemo resistant.
Here are the link drops for those of you who take an interest in my research findings.
How can mebendazole or fenbendazole help you? What the research says - CancerChoices
Fenbendazole Enhancing Anti-Tumor Effect: A Case Series | SciTechnol
Emerging Research on Fenbendazole and Artemisinin for Cancer
Cancer Care (The role of repurposed drugs and metabolic interventions in treating cancer) - FLCCC Alliance
That’s all I have for you. Thank you for being here, I’m thankful for you!
If you missed our last newsletter where we reported on colon cancer and Tagamet and Vitamin D educational news, here’s the link-
I’ve recently learned that having good blood levels of vitamin D is associated with positive cancer treatment outcomes and that the I word has been associated with an ability to kill cancer cells or something like that, so take note. I would also like to remind our colon cancer educational information seekers that Tagamet (Cimetidine) is an interesting OTC drug to be aware of.
Hello Darkness - by Stephanie Schaible
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
St. Therese of Lisieux
Best Wishes,
My name is Stephanie, it’s ok to be little, I can do hard things, and Leaving Death in the Dust was created in sickness and with hope for healthy healing.
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