Chemo Sucks!
I closed my eyes and tears are there silently. Can I be honest? No matter how positive I feel inside of me most of the time—and even with the good news I wrote in my last blog, that the Cancer is...
View ArticlePneumonia – Chemotherapy Side Effect & Eclipse
Thank you so much for many of your supports. I really appreciate your kindness and love for me to recover. I was able to come out from sucky feelings now and continue to write my ups and down of my...
View ArticleAdopting a Puppy Brought Cheerfulness to Cancer Household
Oh… it took a while for me to feel a little better after #4 round chemotherapy in beginning of August. #5 round chemotherapy after mid-August was very challenged also even I got one week off before I...
View ArticleAdvice from a Sunflower
Advice from a sunflower: Be bright, sunny, and positive. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head high. I have loved growing many different flowers since I was a child. My grandmother...
View ArticleAfter the Sixth Round of Chemotherapy
Before I started chemotherapy in May 2017, my oncologist, Dr. Monica Mead (she is my second oncologist so she is not the oncologist I wrote for my blog “Cancer is Back!” on May 21, 2017), said to me:...
View ArticleNo Matter What I Am Thankful and Live One Day At A Time!
After six rounds of chemotherapy, life started to move very fast. I got stressed not only from the chemotherapy side effects, but from things to take care of: my computer crashed so I was not able to...
View ArticleMedicinal Rosehips Tea
Roses were not my favorite flowers till I was 14 years old, so I never grew them till later in my life. But when I was 7 or 8 years old, I saw rose bushes for the first time. I noticed that there were...
View ArticleThe Best Christmas Gift!
What a year 2017 was! Starting with my fever, my body was showing the sign of cancer already in January, but I did not find out right away. Since I had ovarian cancer in 1993 it was always in the back...
View ArticleNew Year/Year of Dog 2018!
Happy New Year /Year of dog 2018 to everyone! I love dogs (and cats, but there is no cat year except tiger), so I feel very good about this year. I also want this to be a really good year for recovery...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day 2018!
My first Valentine’s Day memory was when I baked cookies the first time, I was sweet 16! The cookies were for a man I admired, Richard Kermode, who played keyboard for Santana. I had met him when I...
View ArticleStronger Than I’ve Ever Been
I wanted to write a newsletter for December, but I was not able to write. I started to write New Year newsletter in January, but I was not able to finish. I felt I needed to rest and focus on my...
View ArticleGrowing Healthy, Beautiful Hair After Chemotherapy
I post my blog “Shaving My Hair After Chemotherapy” on July 28th, 2017 after I shaved my hair. I’d heard that one of the side effects of chemotherapy was that my hair was going to fall out after three...
View ArticleCancer Support Community: Qigong Class
When I was growing up in Japan, I had an eating disorder after 14 years old, as well as substitute codependency, which I did not know about at all that time. I was overweight. Most people who know me...
View ArticleThe Letter
I wrote this blog last September. It took time for me to be ready to share. Now I am ready to post. You will know why it took time for me to be ready after you read. Before I announced that I was...
View ArticleHealing Moxibustion (Moxa)
There are many holistic (healing) modalities we can use to regain and keep our health. I can think of all the holistic modalities I have used before and now: acupuncture, moxibustion, craniosacral...
View ArticleHomemade Brown Rice Cream for Special Healing
The first time I made Brown rice cream was when my mother was very ill and couldn’t eat much of anything. I remember when she put the cream in her mouth and was able to swallow it, she said with tears...
View ArticleOro Came To My Life The Day My Mother Passed
12 years ago, on August 15, I got a phone call from my sister that my mother passed. I was very shocked since it was sudden death from asthma attached and she could not breathe. I just came back from...
View ArticleHepatitis C Medication Harvoni & Mercury Retrograde
My oncologist, Dr. Mead, said I am doing well after the chemotherapy, so she suggested that I meet with a liver specialist for hepatitis C, which was most likely the cause of the primary non-Hodgkin...
View ArticleAutumn Remedy Drinks for Lungs and Large Intestine
Lotus Tea and Carrot and Daikon Remedy Drinks The weather is getting cooler, and our official calendar date of autumn is here. It is time for us to take care of our lungs and large intestine. When the...
View ArticleHiking With Dogs
What a recovery journey I have had in the past year. So far, I am getting better slowly and smoothly. I thought I’d never regained my strength while I was getting EPOCH chemotherapy for 24 hours of...
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