I Come to the Garden...

1st, if i missed it  welcome linette,that picture is gorg! is it yours, or did you google it , scripture and all. if you did, i'd love to know where.. im working on an inspirational album at photobucket, and would love to add it..barbe,prayers are being said, a candle is lit. ( i have to cheat, and use the flameless ones i,ve become a danger to myself and others with the real ones.) i have a spot where i hang ribbons, and have candles there, they're the ones i'm praying for specifically. let us know how your appt. goes. i also use a tens for back pain. i have terrible spasms in my back from MS . been using tens for yrs. my ins pays for a new one every two years.thank God DH is still got ins. i'm so sorry for your situation.. maybe the Dr. can get yoiu straightened out; or maybe just short term disability will give you time to heal. praying here in So. Fla. don't ever feel you can't ask for them, no matter how long you leave us (pouting here). that's what these ladies have taught me here. we can be prayer warriors for each other. it would be even better if we were close enuff for hugs, but there's one here for you too. gentle, to noit hurt your back...  L&L    3jays

Here are some pretty, but "ordinary" daisies...I will always think of my eldest child when I see these. When she was little she'd always pick me daisies from the field next to our house!

Barbe, you probably already know this  - just asking because it helped me soooo much with pain.  Have you had your Vitamin D checked?

Huh, I used to take Vit D... I`ll have to get back on that regime. I can`t take the shark cartilege pills because of my liver, so I have to be careful. My liver is `compromised`by years of Tylenol Ones! I can get fish oil in pill form, right? What kind...Omega 3?????

Why can't you use a TENS on the neck? I used to. I've even had 2 epidurals in my neck and two in my spine.

What should a woman's Vitamin D level be?  My Onc said he would test mine later but since I will be starting on Taxol about November 11, I wonder about this.  He discouraged me from going on Vitamin D until he does that test but from what I read, it is of much benefit.  He also discouraged the L-Glutamine as he said tests have not been thorough enough and research has not medically proved out the benefit of it or the counter action with chemo.  He is not a believer in the "extras" I don't think.

Juanita

Thank you Barbe1958.  I would not start anything without discussing it with him.  I brought some things up to him my last appointment and he shook his head and said it was good to read but he asked me to always run things by him first as so much herbal, natural, supplemental, was of no benefit and in fact could be harmful during treatment.  I get my 4th of 4 A-C on Thursday if my blood counts are ok.  I am Triple Negative so it is all scary but I trust God to see me through.

Juanita 

I am 7 years out of chemo and this past summer I finally told my "regular dr" about these tingly arms and legs and pain...and he checked my vitamin D right away and I'm REALLY deficient. He prescribed 50,000 units (I think) twice a week and voila- all the weird things were gone. Then I got laz and stopped it. Within a month, my pain and tingles were back (like your foot is asleep, but it's my entire arms/hands, legs/feet). Started back on the Vit. D and it's gone again. I even try to get some sun most days now, but it's not enough.

Bottom line: ask your dr!

I take the regular grocery store brand of 1000 iu of Vit D gel caps.  I'm not kidding.  I was seeing a rheumatologist and got to where I couldn't walk anymore.  My first level was 34.  Got it up to 52 and I'll be tested again tomorrow.  I want mine to be around 100.  I live in Florida, but don' get the sun like I used to.  I still have some stiffness, but nothing like before.  I haven't had to take advil for months.  I don't take lots of vitamins, but this was just amazing.  I found out about it on another thread and asked the doc to do the test.  My docs at the VA who are pain docs put all their chronic pain patients on it now.  Got my hubby who has all kinds of arthritis on it too. 

the waiting is always the worst. will continue to pray for you, i know the rheumo helped me understand lots that was happening to bones. hope yours is as helpful.     light and love,    3jaysmom

This was emailed to me this morning by a co-worker where I used to work. When I saw it was Ben Stein I almost deleted it as I thought it was just going to be making jokes, but it's good:

Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late ! ! 



The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday  Morning  Commentary.

My confession: 

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish.  And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees...  I don't feel threatened..  I don't feel discriminated against.. That's what they are, Christmas trees. 

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me.  I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto.  In fact, I kind of like it.  It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu .  If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. 

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians.  I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.  I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country.  I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. 

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?  I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.  But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. 

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:  This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. 

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina)..  Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response..  She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.  And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out.  How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?' 

In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc..  I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.  Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school.  The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.  And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide).  We said an expert should know what he's talking about..  And we said okay..

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.  I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' 

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.  Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.  Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.  Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. 

Are you laughing yet? 

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. 

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. 

Pass it on if you think it has merit. 
  
If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did.  But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.  



My Best Regards,  Honestly and respectfully, 

Ben Stein 

Amen again. 

I've also seen it before but love to read it over and over.