How To Make Life Easier For All Who Suffer From Breast Cancer

Posted by admin in Home Cancer Treatments on January 21, 2012

By Terry Webe

I am personally aware of how hard it was to see, Ann, one of my daughters, struggle with the pain of the treatments for her breast cancer. After many long months in the hospital, Ann, in 1995, was relieved of all of her pain as she left us and went to be with the Lord. Her parents, her husband her brothers and sisters, her two children, her friends, her many young autistic students – - all of us, still miss Ann very much.

But, today, because of the many improvements in breast cancer prevention and care,
thousands of lives are being both helped and saved worldwide, every year. In this
way, other families are spared the heartache our family has experienced with our
loss of Ann. But, much more research needs to be done and research, as you know,
costs lots of money.

If you know anyone with breast cancer, you have first hand knowledge of the pain,
the upset and the struggle that must be endured with today’s ways of treating this
kind of cancer.

Back in ’95 I’d have given anything and paid any price to simply reduce Ann’s
agonizing pain. One of the aims of breast cancer research is to find better ways to
diagnose and treat those with breast cancer. So far, there is no sure cure, but there
are lots of newly discovered and less painful treatments available. These have been
discovered by intensive research and then put into practice. In this way the suffering
of breast cancer patients is much less in many ways.

Ann’s husband has this to say about his wife:

“Ann was diagnosed via a mammogram in October 1993 shortly after we got home
from our year in Israel. By the time she was diagnosed her cancer was stage 4
metastasis and had spread to her hips and liver. She had a mastectomy and then
radiation and chemotherapy. In June of 1994 she had massive chemo with stem cell
transplant at the University of Pennsylvania. In fact, she had her stem cell infusion
on July 5. I well remember how we watched the July 4th fireworks from a hospital
room overlooking the Delaware River. She seemed to do a bit better for a while after
that.

In June of 1995 I was invited to a conference in Cambridge England. Ann went with
me and we spent some time in London. We took a wheelchair with us because she
could not walk for any long period of time. By the end of the trip she was not feeling
well and when we got home we immediately called her oncologist. She entered the
hospital the next day. The cancer had reinvigorated and had spread pretty widely.
She was in St. Luke’s until she died in August. There are a lot of things that she
endured. I had to give her injections every day for almost a month before her stem
cell procedure. I don’t remember how many major and minor surgeries-
mastectomy, catheter placement, catheter removal, etc. She spent over three
months in the hospital during her treatment. She endured it all with grace and
courage. She mostly worried about the kids and me. She was a remarkable person
and I miss her very much.”

Before her marriage Ann, who was 43, had been an excellent, and dedicated teacher
of autistic children. Those who worked with Ann and the children were often filled
with astonishment and praise for the way Ann so lovingly cared for “her kids.” She
treated each one as a special person and did her very best to comfort, teach and
help them in every way.

Even after her marriage, she and her husband often invited the children to spend a
weekend with them in their home. In this way Ann tried to help the children’s
parents so they could have a couple of day’s relief from the constant care that
autistic children always require.

So, if you would like to donate some of your money toward breast cancer research,
here is an easy way to do it: order one or more of my useful, comfortable and very
special PINK SLEEP MASKS. I guarantee and promise you that 25% of the money you
send for this special sleep mask will be given directly to one or more of the Breast
Cancer Research Foundations for you and we all thank you for your help.

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Using Nightly Affirmations to Maintain Confidence During Cancer Treatment

Posted by admin in Home Cancer Treatments on January 21, 2012

By Lisa Phillips

Dealing with cancer is an unimaginably hard experience. There are so many emotions running through your head after diagnosis and during treatment which amplify the physical symptoms to unbearable degrees. It is entirely understandable and normal that someone going through that would be depressed and hopeless. An affirmation device can help people dealing with those emotions with nightly affirmations that take advantage of your desire for being positive. Nightly affirmations are important because the conscious mind carries a lot of negativity which blocks the positive feelings that you try to incorporate into your day. By using an affirmation device, it is possible to deliver nightly affirmations directly to your subconscious, bypassing the negative thoughts in the conscious mind.

For someone trying to handle such a serious and emotionally trying situation as cancer treatments, you should use both daily and nightly affirmations. For positive thoughts during the day, you want to develop phrases that will help you feel more confident and hopeful. It is important to repeat those thoughts multiple times throughout the day and put sticky notes around your home and work so that you can begin reprogramming your conscious mind to believe what you are saying. Nightly affirmations facilitate the process greatly by replaying your recorded phrases while you sleep with a programmable schedule. Since your conscious mind is dormant during that period, your affirmations are not met with any negativity. Instead, when your subconscious mind receives messages from an affirmation device, it accepts them without question. This state of mental stability allows you to go forward with ‘some’ confidence. After all, you did not feel it before.

When you are going through cancer treatments, your life is full of uncertainty and fear. There is no way to stop that completely, but if you use any dependable affirmation device, you might be able to increase your increase your confidence and hope for the future. It requires constant work to reprogram your mind to believe your hopes, but the rewards can be great. With all that you are dealing with in your life, there is no reason you should have to face depression as well if there is any way to avoid it. Whether you have been being positive during the day and not finding it as effective as you would like, or if you just want to start with the best chance of success, try any of those affirmation devices available out there.

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Willpower and the Fight Against Cancer

Posted by admin in Home Cancer Treatments on January 21, 2012

By Mary Bodel

I’ve had a lot of experience with people fighting cancer. I worked in a nursing home as a teenager, and many of the patients had the disease. Some I knew fairly well, others not so well. I noticed that two things made a difference.

The first is faith in God. That’s frequently a taboo topic, people are uncomfortable talking about it to strangers. Some people have no such faith and are offended when the subject is brought up. I could site studies (there have been some) or otherwise press the issue, but this isn’t a sermon, and you should feel free to agree or disagree with that statement.

The second thing is willpower. This means a conscious decision to fight the cancer with everything you’ve got. The patients I’ve known that did that seemed to recover better and faster. It wasn’t always easy for them. Cancer treatments are painful physically and the fear the word causes can be mind numbing.

Sometimes the statistics for surviving a particular type of cancer are so dire that you can’t imagine victory. Giving in to that fear will make those statistics accurate. Instead, write a promise to yourself that you will keep a positive attitude and you will do everything in your power to get well.

I don’t think you can do it alone easily. There may be some who can, but if you are like me, and like many of the people I know who have cancer, then you will need support. Don’t be afraid to ask for it. If you have a family, lean on them. If you have a church or other house of worship, ask them to help. Ask your doctor to refer you to a support group for your type of cancer.

These people can help you in those inevitable times when you wonder if it is all worth the effort. They can offer companionship and encouragement. In practical matters, they may also offer to bring you a meal or help you with errands. It’s good to have a network around you.

One last tip; don’t trust everything you read on the internet, neither the good nor the bad. If your doctor has told you something and a web site says something different, go with your doctor. That doesn’t mean don’t use the web, just use it with the same caution you would when researching anything else. If a site seems to differ with the doctor and you think it important, ask the doctor about it.

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