A Caregiver's Inspirational Journey Through Cancer
Posted in Caregiver Tips, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Jan 12th, 2011
“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein Boy is that not the truth! I have many people who tell me all the time, how “knowledgeable” I am. I’m not, really. I just have a lot of “information”. I will pass it along to you, but its up to each of us to make sense of […]
Posted in Caregiver Tips, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Jan 11th, 2011
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Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Jan 9th, 2011
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan I was pounding around this morning and found a paper that Huntsman Cancer Institute provided from the Journal of Clinical Oncology. I’m always grateful when someone will snag the entire paper and put it out there for our consumption. Often you can’t get your […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Jan 7th, 2011
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.” – Willam James Pat Killingsworth, an inspirational and long time Myeloma blogger and writer has written an article over at The Myeloma Beacon, where he writes regularly. The article is about […]
Posted in Caregiver Tips on Jan 6th, 2011
“My life is my message.” – Mahatma Ghandi Have you tried to help someone get up and down, when they are in a weakened condition or elderly? Handing your hand is not very stable for them. Here is a simple tip I learned from my mother’s hospice nurse that did the trick. I often see […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Caregiver Tips, Multiple Myeloma on Jan 6th, 2011
“Fatigue is a daily lack of energy; an unusual or excessive whole-body tiredness, not relieved by sleep.” – Chemocare.com Wow. As I started to do a little research on this subject, so it wasn’t just all about what I think, I was struck by all the information and data about how they don’t know what […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Caregiver Tips, Misc on Jan 3rd, 2011
“Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of other people.” – David Joseph Schwartz Shortly after Dave was diagnosed, and I had moved to California, he needed to go on a business trip. It was a driveable distance from our […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 25th, 2010
”In the rising of the sun and its going down, We Remember Him”- We Remember A wonderful Myeloma caregiver, lost her husband, Vern, recently after a valiant effort. She began a blog to chronicle her journey as a Myeloma Widow. As you can imagine, its very hard to lose someone you love, and then journey […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 22nd, 2010
“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.” – Jim Rohn Lou writes a column called Birds in Spring for The Myeloma Beacon. He has such wonderful insights in many areas and its always a pleasure to read his latest musings. Caregivers are such an integral part of a Myeloma patient’s journey. His acknowledgement is […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc on Dec 21st, 2010
Native American Indian Legend – A Cherokee Parable One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc on Dec 19th, 2010
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss Often I will put up a post about a topic I have something to say about that came to me randomly. Someone wrote something, commented, alluded to it, and the light bulb goes off in my head, Oh I have something to […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Caregiver Tips, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 19th, 2010
“There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.” – Bill McKibben When Dave and I were in Little Rock during the holidays in 2008, he was emotionally and physically struggling. He was sad, some would argue depressed, in pain, insecure, frightened, […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 17th, 2010
“The caregiver has to know what to do and who to call,” Lori said. It was such an honor to have Little Rock be my debut speaking engagement. I love it there and I love my “Myeloma Buddies”. Those I know and those I have never met. It is just a place that you step […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 16th, 2010
A state-of-the-art test assesses prognosis and helps individualize therapy. An article appearing in HemOnc Today, Clinical News in Oncology and Hematology. One of the most unique diagnostic tests developed at UAMS in their 21+ years of exclusively researching Multiple Myeloma at the Myeloma Institute of Research and Therapy (MIRT). 0
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 16th, 2010
“Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.” – Kak Sri Sean, of Myeloma Youreloma, is a regular columnist over at The Myeloma Beacon. He is a writer by profession, an artist with words, and I always enjoy both his blog posts and his articles. He has written a lovely article […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 13th, 2010
“It’s hard to find Myeloma Survivors because they are out living their lives!” – Unknown David Emerson, a Myeloma Survivor who used to run the Beating-Myeloma forum and now runs the People Beating Cancer website, has a survivor story on his site of Barbara Hammack. David’s own story of beating Myeloma is very unique and […]
Posted in Caregiver Tips, Misc on Dec 12th, 2010
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” – Mark Twain I was chatting with MM Caregiver Buddy, JB, from Illinois today and she mention that her hubby had really dry skin and she felt it was from […]
Posted in Caregiver Tips, Misc on Dec 5th, 2010
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” – Gautama Siddharta (aka Buddha) Sometimes I meet people who are in the same boat or a slightly different healthcare boat. The dilemma they feel in “talking about it” all the time, coupled with the understandable desire to keep their friends and loved ones […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Multiple Myeloma on Dec 3rd, 2010
The Myeloma Beacon (click link) published another great article today by Dr. Vincent Rajikumar, (a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His research focuses on clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory research for myeloma and related disorders.) First, if you aren’t reading The Myeloma Beacon regularly as a caregiver or patient of Multiple […]
Posted in Caregiver Thoughts, Misc, Multiple Myeloma on Nov 27th, 2010
Dr. Watson points out that scientists are correctly looking at DNA before they treat early-stage cancer, since different drugs work on different genes. The discoverer of the double-helix says the disease can be cured in his lifetime. He’s 82. An interesting interview (click link to read) with Dr. James Watson (wikipedia bio) on curing cancer, its research, […]
