Healing From Treatment
I am now a Reiki I practitioner! I attended my Reiki I class on Saturday, and it was amazing! We learned all about Reiki and energy, and we got to practice it on ourselves and a partner before receiving our attunement. I was soooooo relaxed after Saturday that it took me a couple of days to recover! I am turning my daughter’s room into a second guest bedroom/Reiki room. I can’t wait to share this healing practice with my family and friends. I do intend to take the Reiki II, III and IV classes at some point to, ultimately, become a Reiki Master. But, for now, I am excited and content to heal myself and others with my practice. I will still have Reiki treatments from my Reiki Master and attend her online/distance sessions through the Wellness House in an effort to keep this cancer in remission.
Tom and I are planning a trip to England this Fall. I have always wanted to visit England and Italy. Outside of the U.S., I spent a month in Colombia during Tom’s career, which was the most amazing experience of my life, and we’ve been to Poland and Lithuania to visit friends and adopt our children. They were amazing bonus experiences, but they weren’t on my bucket list. Tom has been pushing for a European trip for a while, especially while I’m off treatment and this is a great time to go, but I have been pushing it off. I really want to go, but I think I have been afraid of checking off something on my “bucket list” because I feel like going would just put me closer to death. But I am listening to reason, and there isn’t a better time to go now that I am off treatment. So, I am excited to go now, and it’s nice to have something to plan and look forward to.
And one more thing I’m excited about: I’ve lost eight pounds since going off treatment! I have done nothing different and am only lifting weights for exercise because this darned foot won’t heal, so it must be all this newfound energy I have being off of treatment. Self-esteem is a tough one when you’re going through cancer for several reasons, so I am really happy about the weight loss. People keep telling me not to worry about the weight gain because I am just aging. But I know it is from chemo. So, it feels good to get some of this weight off! It’s motivating. My hair is as long as it was in Key West, before all this happened, and I’m getting healthier again now that I’m off treatment, so it has done a lot for me lately. I’m so happy just to be living like I did before cancer. What a blessing I’ve been given. It’s going to be hard to go back on treatment again at some point, but I’m trying not to think about that now and just appreciate the small things in life because they truly are the great things.
I have my genetic counseling/testing appt. next week, and I have a port flush the next week, so I’ll try to write after each of those things.
Stay safe and healthy, everyone!
Namaste 😊