Water

Drinking water is a good thing.

Through this journey I learned a bit about words and water. In the book, The Hidden Messages in Water, Dr. Masaru Emoto, shows the results of his water study.

He wrote words on dishes, put water in the dishes and froze them. Then took pictures of the water crystals.

Result:

Words like Love, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Hope, and Let's Do It!, other positive words created beautiful and complete crystals.

On the contrary, words like Hate, Fear, Anger, You Make Me Sick, I Will Kill You!, Do It!, and other negative words or orders created distorted and incomplete crystals. Some not even crystals at all, but just a disarray of water that looked, well, ugly.

Additionally, Dr. Emoto played music for the water found beautiful, well formed crystals with classical and other instrumental music. Heavy metal music looked like a bad ink blot. My personal favorite was the crystal of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

The author then took the most beautiful and complete crystals, those exposed to both "Love and Gratitude," and placed them next to a television and computer. The crystals both broke apart into indiscriminate masses.

You can see some of his results here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAvzsjcBtx8

I then thought about my body being made of 70 % water. What are the words I think doing to the water in my body? How do my interactions with others affect my water and their water? I simply cannot afford to stay in a negative place...so matter how right I may think I am. :)

I even started writing positive words on my water bottles.

I want and need the water in my body to be the best it can, so I choose the better part. The positive part.

Drug Wars

What have I been up to?

Well, I planted flowers, read a book or two, and changed the drugs for my treatment.

I was having a lot of leg pain, and it was not getting better. Despite my doctor’s assurances that it was the taxol (chemo drug) that caused the pain, and it would gradually get better, it was getting worse.

I decided one day that I had never had a break from the other two drugs, but have had them every three weeks consistently. I opted to miss a treatment in order to see what happened. After that six week hiatus my legs felt a ton better. I could stand and wash dishes, cook meals, go shopping, and do all sorts of things that I could not do before the break.

Armed with this information, and after much discussion, the doctor changed my next infusion to only Herceptin so we could follow its progress. Result: leg pain and feet tingling mid-infusion, legs feeling like lead the next morning, and intense leg pain for about two weeks.

Three weeks later, after fending off defensive nurses who said, “I've never heard of Herceptin having side effects like that!” or “Herceptin usually doesn't cause leg pain,” we tried just doing an infusion of Pertuzumab. Result: my legs feel fine. My muscles are a bit sour, as is a noted side effect of the drug.

So I’ll go on enjoying my flowers, reading a new book, and not worry anymore about leg pain.