Hello!
It’s been a long minute since I’ve written. I hope this letter finds you doing well. I’m doing a lot better than I was a year ago, but not quite where I would like to be a year from now. Long story short, cold and other kinds of viruses are floating around, so if you’ve ever been bitten by a tick, and you have Lyme disease, adding homeopathic remedies to your herbs for Lyme medicine cabinet may be a good idea because cold bugs and other stressful events can aggravate unpleasant symptoms associated with Lyme disease. I’ve recently learned that homeopathy focuses on symptoms, so if highly educated health professionals have looked at your perfect labs and scratched their heads in regard to how they don’t match up with your wide array of symptoms, homeopathy may be an option that does not pad the pockets of medicinal p word companies and their paid polyticks.
Last time, we learned about colon cancer and our friends who have it. I am happy to report that 2 of them are recovering from surgery and the other is doing well with the chemo that has been started now that they have figured out that the anti-nausea meds were causing more symptomatic problems than the chemo meds were.
Also, 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.
Cimetidine does not reduce colon cancer incidence, so it should not be taken for prevention purposes. It has demonstrated powerful treatment benefits in those who contract colon cancer. Colon cancer patients should consider taking 800 mg per day of cimetidine five days prior to surgical removal of their tumor and for one year after surgery to reduce metastatic risk. Some people take a 2–3-month course of cimetidine once a year to boost natural killer cell activity.
Colon Cancer - by Stephanie Schaible, MT (ASCP)
I don’t know about how things look where you are, but the fall colors sure are popping in my back yard right now. They remind me of how breathing is important, and that life is precious, especially since we just passed through the 5-year anniversary of losing a friend to a rare hurricane related event, the story of which I would like to share with you now as a reminder that while many of the most successful charities in our modern American culture seem to be tied to celebrity and those who have significant amounts of money and the need for charitable tax deductions, Bro. Finance has made a good point- that most Americans are taking the standard tax deduction because they don’t play in the itemized deduction ball field and because of this, the quote I’ll share with you right below this looooong paragraph is a beacon of light that shines true in my own experience of a particular natural disaster in which a friend lost his life, and after which, the life of my husband’s father was eventually taken as a result of an unfortunate surgical event which was related to the injury he sustained in that particular storm. In our particular case, celebrity made no event out of it, FEMA did not show up to help clean up our disastrous mess and neither did the good Samaritans, but that’s probably because we are a DIY kind of people, also known as the “invisible”, Gen Xers.
…….at the end of the day, we should be asking what we as individual humans can do to make a difference.
We can’t rely on FEMA, nor should we try
Just look at this beautiful maple tree in its fall glory. I call it my Ray of Mr. Sunshine tree. It ties many self-nourishing thoughts together for me i.e. the Jadam organic fall fertilizer principles contribute to the very air we breathe, and we are dependent upon these trees and our own bronchial trees for our health and wellbeing. This is circle of life stuff.
The picture of this beautiful maple tree was taken during a transitionary period of my life and reminds me of the people I was with that day, one of which has since passed away. Oddly enough, this person who is no longer with us, has a name that is derived from the woods. He was killed in the storm I mentioned. A tree branch fell on him while he was trying to bring a dog named Stormy in from this terrible storm which turned out to be an odd turn of natural disaster events- the reforming of the eye of a hurricane as it passed over our town. This happened at a considerable distance from where the storm first made landfall, and we were given no storm warnings that day. Strange indeed. It's a bittersweet picture of life, death, and friendship; a word picture of the circular tree of life of which I am a part of and has a spiritual nature. At the time this picture was taken, I did not know that the city it was taken in would be bringing me future posterity, a baby grand, not the greenback or piano kind of grand. Much of what I write has deeper levels of meaning for me personally, and it can be very therapeutic.
So, what are you doing for All Hallows’ Eve this year? If you have no spooky plans, and you have already carved your turnips in a superstitious attempt to scare spirits like Stingy Jack away, and you are glad that you don’t have to wait until May 13th anymore to celebrate All Saints Day, and cancer has become a part of your life, you might want to check out Cheyenne Hardy’s series, Letters to My Patients, over at Cancer Compass because I think she cares about you. And, in case you haven’t heard, The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer is now available for your All Saints/All Hallows’ Eve viewing pleasure.
All of this talk about Halloween has got me thinking about black cats and witchy Scottish folklore because it was about his time of year when a little black cat with a white patch on her chest was abandoned near our home. We took her in and named her Gracie because she had the Grace of God on her. According to Scottish folklore, God saved black cats with white patches on their chests from the witch burning fires because these particular cats were thought to have God’s thumbprint on them. Gracie was also given much grace by our family, and she kept me in her good graces during my worst long-covid days which were mostly spent on the chronic fatigue sofa.
Unfortunately, Gracie was born with the feline leukemia virus, so we knew she would not have a long life with us. She eventually fell ill with a sinus infection and passed away during my bought with the Omicrons. Those were hard days, but not as hard as recently being told by AI on the social webs to stop wasting my time and energy writing long paragraphs to people who don’t care. That’s almost as creepy as pagan Irish people carving faces on their turnips to scare away spirits like Stingy Jack which is why creepy AI can take its witch hunt somewhere else. I’m not buying what AI is trying to sell me here. I’m going to keep on writing for as long as I can, even if no one else ever likes, comments, shares, or subscribes because even Stingy Jack knows about the power of the light which has not been overcome by the darkness. Plus, I’ve heard that a fear of living can be scarier than a fear of death or a fear of witches, see video from Old Stone Well Farm, shared below, for more on those fearful thoughts.
This little light of mine…………..
Best Wishes,
My name is Stephanie, 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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