Journal Entry for May 9, 2008
May 9, 2008 11:42pm
My ability to help others learn about support has taken a new turn. I recently started doing volunteerwork at our local seniors' …
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beacon1968’s Profile
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About Me
Caregiver for wife with HD. Christian. Cancer survivior. Diabetic. Have COPD.
Interests
Chronic Illness Support Groups
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Working on My Goal
March 22, 2008 12:43am
I have had a goal for several years now to reach out and teach people with chronic conditions how to build personal support systems that will …
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Journal Entry for September 12, 2007
September 12, 2007 3:39pm
September 12, 2007
Today has been another good day. We went into town and walked around looking at the many exhibits concerning the …
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Journal Entry for September 11, 2007
September 11, 2007 9:45pm
Not knowing how long this miserable disease will allow Harriet to get around, we are making the most of each day. Tonight began the Bourbon …
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Journal Entry for September 9, 2007
September 9, 2007 6:29pm
September 9, 2007
I will be writing this journal for both myself and for my wife, Harriet, who is the person with HD.
Over the years, we have …
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Hoping this finds you well as I have not seen you around. God richly bless you and keep you in His care.
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paul & I are doing well he fell out of a chair and into a plat glass window.The window broke but paul did not get a cut on him at all God put a angel between him and the window.I have been thanking God for two days He is so good. LOVE paul & mary
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Thank you here in NC we have snow the day after Easter God is all and all and he shows it.I'am going to get paul a wheelchair he hates it.I love paul but i think he thinks i'am not letting him be a man i'am not letting him walk to the trash,mailbox,ect.Got to go paul is pull food out the cabnet. God bless you
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Hope you are doing OK now.We are doing good spring has come now i can get paul out side he has some eating problems and falling too but God is with us and we are blessed. you are in my pray
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The lesson from your cancer is never give up and know that whatever you ask of God believing (having faith) that it will happen, you shall recieve. God is alive and still in the healing business today!!
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Support Groups
Close Huntington's Disease
Helped my wife take her mother through the final stages of HD ten years ago. Now am caregiver for my wife, and having to watch another highly intelligent woman face memory loss, confusion, and depression.
Treatments
- Zyprexa Somewhat Helpful
- Wife, Harriet, is resting and sleeping better, and involuntary movement appears to be diminished.
Close Esophageal Cancer
I had esophageal Cancer in 2001-2002 - 3 1/2 inch tumor, and required 7 hour surgery to survive. When preparing for the surgery, during a test, they found that I had COPD. With COPD you can't be under anesthetics that long, so they put me on chemo & radiation treatments, and told me to prepare for the worst - 2% chance of survival. In May of 2002, they couldn't find any trace of the cancer, and this year they declared me cancer-free. So, the lesson from this is simple.... "NEVER GIVE UP!!!"
Treatments
- Chemotherapy Working / Worked
- Four months of weekly chemo + a lot of prayer
- Radiotherapy Working / Worked
- Four weeks of radiation + a lot of prayer
- Prilosec Working / Worked
- Taking Prilosec OTC for five years now, with no acid reflux, which originally caused the cancer.
Open COPD & Emphysema
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