While(for so long) I have been "awaiting" or "visualizing" a Miracle--I suddenly realized that EVERY day is a Miracle 🤔
p.s. the picture is of a prime rib I cooked a few months ago. Other than it tasting "miraculously" delicious...it has nothing to do with the thought.
gJohn
p.s. My PSA has dropped just a little (from 5.2 to 4.8). Scheduled to see radiologist regarding radiation to the two lymph nodes and one bone met (both in pelvic area) on Jan 31st. They showed a very small growth in last Axumin Pet Scan. Hoping this might help the PSA go even lower. Started back on FENBEN last week (thank you dearest Emily~"hopefulspouse")
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Your "awaiting or visualizing" a miracle is something most of us do especially if we are believers in the promises in the bible.
The problem is we dont recognize the answer to our prayers. The miracle may be in finding the right doctor; the right drug, supplement or treatment, all done with His guidance. Divine intervention is done without fanfare.
Just my thoughts and perception of what has happened to me.
My prayer is that God Bless us all with His miracles.🍸🍸🤠
I experience weekdays. Where we are they have weekends off.
You are right about the everyday miracles, though.
Another thought is that the miracles have as much to do with us as the prime rib picture. But look at the world we get to live in! Monday through Friday anyway.
Prime rib ? ...... wheeeeeeh ... that’s a relief. Is it just me but when you first see that photo ,before reading the text .... is this your brain deep fried on drugs ? Guess I’m gonna say that thought probably didn’t pop into anyone’s else’s mind. Yayahahahaya. Well ignore me, obviously my brain probably does look like that.😂😂😂
Enjoy brother GJ and glad to hear your psa is dropping too. Good to hear you got back on the fenben . Save me a slice near the right occipital please.
I agree, I often think about how everyday is a miracle.
I think the greatest miracle we can experience is to be conscious in the present moment. Just telling some friends about that last week while having dinner together with them. In the present moment we are all the same, we are all fully alive.
Great looking hunk of beef...I’m talking about the prime rib, John! 😉😎. Very serendipitious to bring up miracles. Our sermon at church today was about miracles, including that, in our constant search for miracles around us, we don’t need to look any further than in the mirror...we are ALL miracles starting from a single cell we grow into the most complex things ever created, 60,000 miles of blood vessels, that it takes 200 muscles working in perfect synchronization to take a single step, brain neurons that travel up to 270 mph, a heart muscle that beats a mind boggling 115,000 times a day, eyes that still can not be replicated by science, and so much more.
Every day is a miracle, and every one of us is a miracle. Enjoy that prime rib, dude!
A couple of days ago, I took my kids to show them a bit a golf in case they might be interested in playing...I was putting this excursion to the driving range off for a while because I was afraid of putting my back out with the mets in the pelvic area.
I showed my kids how to stand and hold the irons and then (against my better judgement) I took a swing at the ball with a 7 iron. To see my kids eyes light up when they saw the ball disappear into the distance was priceless!
I want the top side all of it . Where’s the beef 🥩 it could go all in to my mouth for lunch I’m so hungry. My latest Labs are available for me to digest I mean look at in 4 hrs. Yummy. The beef not my labs.
I hate to throw cold water on this excellent post, greatjohn. But if I had it to do over again I would NOT have had radiation to my two lymph nodes and one suspicious area on my spine. This has not been proven to have any benefit. And it cost me 26 weekdays of travel to/from the treatment center not to mention the $50K+ the insurance company paid out.
Yes, those three areas are now "resolved" per a Nov 2019 PET/Axumin scan, but that same scan identified three new areas. Once in the lymph system, always in the lymph system?
[I should have simply waited for my PSA to progress a bit more and start on a clinical trial that I am starting this week, anyway.]
thanks Tallguy2.....I like any water thrown anywhere .....I am seeing an oncologist at University of Miami who is also doing some trials with HIFU for lymph nodes and bone as salvage therapy. He is suppose to be excellent at figure out what can be "hit" with little side effects or not. My oncologist says she can't tell if the lymph nodes are too close to my bladder ...or something...and it might not be a good idea. That said...Dr. Kwon at the Mayo Clinic was "famously" saying to zap the cancers in nearby bones (mine is in pelvis) or in lymph nodes that are nearby (also pelvis) to give a "curative" treatment...to NOT WIDESPREAD stage 4 patients. I'm afraid I might be passed that....but it will be interesting to hear a radiologist give me his "reading" on my latest Axumin Pet Scan.
Darn, wish i had taken a picture of the salmon i smoked on my Traeger and then posted it. Oh well. A nice slice of prime rib would be good right now. And a miracle would be awesome. But its one day at a time which is one small blessing. Ill go eat my fish and salad and look for what tomorrow brings. Good luck on your next treatment!
re: prime rib, a question, is that a bit of rosemary I see on there?
I had a very painful knee a few summers ago, had prime rib dinner and a " T and T " (gin and tonic) and the pain was gone. I was never certain if it was the prime rib or the gin and tonic that did it.
My husband recently had radiation on one bone metastasis, but has not been back to the oncologist yet so I am very interested to learn more about this approach and if it is strictly palliative or whether it has any survival benefit. (Stage 4)
He seems to be very fatigued lately and I am attributing it to the radiation but have no proof of that.
all my best....and thanks to all of you....
and thanks for the Mary Oliver poem.....I had heard the final line of it, but had not read the whole thing......
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Vacation is over - Cancer spread - two spots in the bone and new lymph nodes. Suggestions ?
Two years and counting
rising psa
