Healing Journeys

I went to a wonderful conference called "Cancer As a Turning Point."  It was about healing.  Healing journeys presented the conference, and it was free to all participants :-).  I gained a sense of hope and strength from being in a large auditorium with many other cancer patients and survivors and learned about new ways to think about an approach cancer.  They did not say "you caused the cancer."  They did not say "this will cure your cancer."  They did say "this will help, maybe a little maybe a lot."  They have a Healing Journeys web site with tapes of past conferences (I bought some and am really enjoying them) and other items.  Enjoy.

Three-day Break

I've just been off work for three days, recovering from the stomach flu.  After the initial "events" it was really wonderful.  The first day all I can do with sleep -- not do anything, not think about anything.  The second day I watched TV and slept.  The third day I was up in about more and feeling stronger.  Today I go back to work.  What a blessed break from thinking about the cancer, from doing doing doing.  I saw that my thoughts have been going fast fast fast fast fast.  Have I slept enough?  How I worked enough?  Am I doing the right thing?  And on and on and on...