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Andrea Barnett Budin · 10-11-2007, 12:20 PM

The pain of helping to care for a seriously ill loved one, while getting on with your daily responsibilities and your life, working and nurturing your family -- is beyond stressful. It takes its toll on you physically, psychologically and emotionally.

I think it is both important and helpful to us all to share your experience surrounding your bc diagnosis. Let us all ponder, and begin to correlate, the impact of EMOTIONAL UPHEAVAL and its' *PHYSICAL* repercussions. Actually seeing the link between mind and body.

Only then can we begin to empower our Spirit to guide us through the chaos and traumas of our lives.

Many of us still need to heal old wounds and childhood anger, resentments and blame -- that we unwittingly feel WE'RE OVER, yet carry around with us each day. Suppressed feelings are not resolved and continue to beg for attention. The Id remembers everything -- as if it happened yesterday!

We must be introspective and alert to the existence of such rage and deal with these potentially harmful issues seriously. Often this involves a complicated struggle but in the end, the suffering and the reality check serve to improve our joy factor tenfold and FREE us from our *cage* of painful memories that stalk us, even when we are unaware.

As we become emotionally healed, our mind and body and Spirit become balanced, and we can come to avoid bodily dysfunction. I learned this after my bc diagnoses -- the hard way. So I send out a wake up call to every one I love to learn from my experience and SURVIVE and THRIVE...
Andi

Please share your experience... for us all to benefit from.

10-11-2007, 12:20 PM	#7
Andrea Barnett Budin Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: LAND OF YES! w/home in Boca Raton, Florida Orig from L.I., N.Y. Ever hovering IN THE NOW... Posts: 1,904	A Connection We Need To Wake Up To... The pain of helping to care for a seriously ill loved one, while getting on with your daily responsibilities and your life, working and nurturing your family -- is beyond stressful. It takes its toll on you physically, psychologically and emotionally. I think it is both important and helpful to us all to share your experience surrounding your bc diagnosis. Let us all ponder, and begin to correlate, the impact of EMOTIONAL UPHEAVAL and its' PHYSICAL repercussions. Actually seeing the link between mind and body. Only then can we begin to empower our Spirit to guide us through the chaos and traumas of our lives. Many of us still need to heal old wounds and childhood anger, resentments and blame -- that we unwittingly feel WE'RE OVER, yet carry around with us each day. Suppressed feelings are not resolved and continue to beg for attention. The Id remembers everything -- as if it happened yesterday! We must be introspective and alert to the existence of such rage and deal with these potentially harmful issues seriously. Often this involves a complicated struggle but in the end, the suffering and the reality check serve to improve our joy factor tenfold and FREE us from our cage of painful memories that stalk us, even when we are unaware. As we become emotionally healed, our mind and body and Spirit become balanced, and we can come to avoid bodily dysfunction. I learned this after my bc diagnoses -- the hard way. So I send out a wake up call to every one I love to learn from my experience and SURVIVE and THRIVE... Andi Please share your experience... for us all to benefit from. __________________ Andi BB '95 post-meno dx Invasive LOBULAR w/9cm tumor! YIKES + 2/21 nodes. Clear mammo 10 mnths earlier. Mastec/tram flap reconst/PORT/8 mnths chemo (4Adria/8CMF). Borderline ER/PR. Tamoxifen 2 yrs. Felt BLESSED. I could walk and talk, feed and bathe myself! I KNEW I would survive... '98 -- multiple mets to liver. HER2+ 80%. ER/PR- Raging, highly aggressive tumors spreading fast. New PORT. 9 mnths Taxotere Fought fire w/fire! Pronounced in cautious remission 5/99. Taxotere weekly for 6 wks, 2 wks off -- for 9 mnths. TALK ABOUT GRUELING! (I believe they've altered that protocol since those days -- sure hope so!!) + good old Vit H wkly for 1st 3 yrs, then triple dosage ev 3 wks for 7 yrs more... The "easy" chemo, right?! Not a walk in the park, but not a freight train coming at 'ya either... Added Herceptin Nov '98 (6 wks after FDA fast-tracked it for met bc). Stayed w/Vit H till July '08! Now I AM FREE! Humbly and eternally grateful for this life-saving drug! NED since '99 and planning on keeping it that way. To hell w/poor prognosis and nasty stats! STOPPED VIT H JULY '08...! REMAIN STABLE... Eternally grateful...Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds ... (e e cummings) EVERY DAY I BEAT MY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR # OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS I'VE STAYED ALIVE. Smile KNOWING you too can be a miracle. Up to me and God now...