I love to write, but I don't love to write everyday on a blog about random thoughts, daily happenings, etc. So this site seems to be severely neglected, but my research about these tumors and ways to treat them is quite the contrary. I am often looking for new news and information that I can [...]
I am usually not one to feel sorry for myself. I am so thankful that I was raised to live in this mindset: It is what it is. You do what you have to do. On most days it is easy for me to rest in that. Why drown in your sorrows? It's not going [...]
Vitamin D has been monopolizing health headlines for awhile now. Though technically not a vitamin, but rather a hormone, Vitamin D has now been linked to a multitude of diseases. This includes the pathology of at least 17 varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, [...]
If you pay any attention to medical headlines, you'll see the word 'inflammation' come up quite frequently. Inflammation has been linked to heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, Alzheimer's, essentially all chronic diseases. It seems that so many in the medical establishment are now just waiting for the next drug that can make inflammation *poof* disappear. [...]
This article I'm pasting below came into my inbox today from a newsletter that I receive from the National Brain Tumor Society. Temodar is the chemotherapy that I am currently taking. It's quite disturbing for me to read things like this, but it makes me even more confident that pursuing multiple ways to kill this [...]
I have been trying to post a blog for over a week now. My browser kept kicking me off when I would try and create a new post, so I finely conceded to use IE (I normally use Mozilla), and I can finally post! We had such a great, relaxing time in Maui. It seems [...]