Happy 60th Birthday to my husband. We wondered if we would see this day and here it is. We are celebrating life definitely with a shout out and thank you to all that helped him get here to this day. He gets all the credit for courage and strength and a love of life. He was shocked at age 40 when he was diagnosed with a blood cancer and scared when it returned at age 50 and we are happy to say he is a survivor at age 60. These two decades have flown by and are filled with memories some good and some bad. We can not change the past but we can celebrate the present. Everything before today is part of our life story. We move forward with gratitude and wisdom. There is not anything more wonderful than hearing your heart beat. I love you always and forever my dear sweet husband !
Everyday is a celebration of life and we must try to be optimistic so we don't miss the good times. So, I went out today and bought some flowers. Smiles from God are everywhere. To me flowers symbolize life and their beauty is astounding. They heal my soul. The only thing missing today is our dear sweet Laney. My husband and I mentioned this morning how much we miss her. Hope there are lots of flowers in heaven.
Let's have a drum roll and sound the trumpets for all cancer survivors. God Bless you all !
Life is beautiful !!
Elizabeth:)
Friday, May 19, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Learning About Our Own Bodies To Live Healthy
Today is the anniversary of the death of my mother. She has been passed for thirteen years. The time has gone by quickly. I now know so much more about her health as I searched for answers as to what her medical problems were. Perhaps if we could turn back time and we had known everything we know now, she may had a better quality life and a longer life span.
She was always a very high strung person, a type A personality. She developed Sjorgrens disease after she had a hysterectomy and was placed on synthetic hormones until her death. I am to believe that no one during her life time had checked her hormone levels. Current research is showing that women that develop autoimmune diseases have imbalanced hormones. It appears that their DHEA levels are very low. There is a correlation that the adrenal glands are to stressed and they overproduce cortisol and the DHEA production falls. She had classic symptoms of low progesterone and low DHEA. There are a few reliable test to check the hormones. Without any testing other than a RF factor which was positive and a biopsy of a salivary gland that was removed, no testing for adrenal stress or hormones was conducted. She was placed on high doses of prednisone 100 mg per day which she was kept on for many years. She was also diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis and Raynaud's also.
I believe that her high strung personality which was present from a young age had a bearing on the high level of anxiety she had. She over taxed the adrenal glands and without the production of progesterone that we produce from our ovaries and adrenals she was left with no means to control her anxiety. I also learned that people with Sjorgrens are more likely to develop Non- Hodgkin's lymphoma especially with a positive RF and Raynaud's. I am so glad that I took upon myself to find a doctor that understood the correlation behind the unbalanced hormones. We look at our parent's health history to learn about how to take care of ourselves.
At the time of my mother's death she was on fifteen different medications. Her own immune system was attacking her. She had been to an oncologist that was puzzled by her out of whack blood counts. He dismissed her and in a last ditch effort my mother went to a major cancer center. She would never reveal the results to me and it was after she passed that we found reports that confirmed lymphoma. At short time before her death she was diagnosed with Pyoderma gangrenosum of her legs. Her immune system had shut down and she was in organ failure and passed away in the ICU.
I made it my mission to try and piece this all together to help others. I went through testing that insurance companies will not pay for. I feel that her death was a lesson that the bodys' hormonal system plays a big role in our health. You throw off one thing in the body and you have problems. Stress is a major factor and throwing those adrenal glands into a tisy of overproduction of adrenaline will upset the hormonal balance.
My stressful life I had a couple of years ago had stopped my production of progesterone and menopause had made it worse. With help of a doctor that understood all this I was able to balance my hormones and rest my adrenals until they healed. I am happy to say that I have had everything checked again this year and my adrenals are working beautifully and I been weaned off hormones. My body is doing what it is suppose to do. I sleep well and I feel calm. My anxiety has gone and when there are stressful times my body is able to cope. It did not happen over night and has taken a lot of my own will to change my lifestyle.
I gave up anything that I thought was causing my adrenals to over work. I gave up caffeine and food with MSG. I now read labels on any food that is processed and try to stay away from restaurant food that is packed with MSG and sodium. Thank goodness I like to cook. I have also exercised to help rid myself of stress and learned to shift my thoughts away from things that upset me. The mind is powerful thing and your thoughts can trigger the release of adrenaline. I had to take some supplements under the direction of a doctor to get my body back on track. It was all well worth it. Today I went for a yearly check up with my family doctor and all is well. I am on no medications and not bad for an old lady LOL!
My mother's own anxiety issues could have been the very cause of the painful life she lived. I still cringe when I think of all the medications she was put on to combat the side effects of each of the other medications. It was an awful death that could have possibly been averted. More medicine is definitely not better.
Life is beautiful !!
Elizabeth:)
She was always a very high strung person, a type A personality. She developed Sjorgrens disease after she had a hysterectomy and was placed on synthetic hormones until her death. I am to believe that no one during her life time had checked her hormone levels. Current research is showing that women that develop autoimmune diseases have imbalanced hormones. It appears that their DHEA levels are very low. There is a correlation that the adrenal glands are to stressed and they overproduce cortisol and the DHEA production falls. She had classic symptoms of low progesterone and low DHEA. There are a few reliable test to check the hormones. Without any testing other than a RF factor which was positive and a biopsy of a salivary gland that was removed, no testing for adrenal stress or hormones was conducted. She was placed on high doses of prednisone 100 mg per day which she was kept on for many years. She was also diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis and Raynaud's also.
I believe that her high strung personality which was present from a young age had a bearing on the high level of anxiety she had. She over taxed the adrenal glands and without the production of progesterone that we produce from our ovaries and adrenals she was left with no means to control her anxiety. I also learned that people with Sjorgrens are more likely to develop Non- Hodgkin's lymphoma especially with a positive RF and Raynaud's. I am so glad that I took upon myself to find a doctor that understood the correlation behind the unbalanced hormones. We look at our parent's health history to learn about how to take care of ourselves.
At the time of my mother's death she was on fifteen different medications. Her own immune system was attacking her. She had been to an oncologist that was puzzled by her out of whack blood counts. He dismissed her and in a last ditch effort my mother went to a major cancer center. She would never reveal the results to me and it was after she passed that we found reports that confirmed lymphoma. At short time before her death she was diagnosed with Pyoderma gangrenosum of her legs. Her immune system had shut down and she was in organ failure and passed away in the ICU.
I made it my mission to try and piece this all together to help others. I went through testing that insurance companies will not pay for. I feel that her death was a lesson that the bodys' hormonal system plays a big role in our health. You throw off one thing in the body and you have problems. Stress is a major factor and throwing those adrenal glands into a tisy of overproduction of adrenaline will upset the hormonal balance.
My stressful life I had a couple of years ago had stopped my production of progesterone and menopause had made it worse. With help of a doctor that understood all this I was able to balance my hormones and rest my adrenals until they healed. I am happy to say that I have had everything checked again this year and my adrenals are working beautifully and I been weaned off hormones. My body is doing what it is suppose to do. I sleep well and I feel calm. My anxiety has gone and when there are stressful times my body is able to cope. It did not happen over night and has taken a lot of my own will to change my lifestyle.
I gave up anything that I thought was causing my adrenals to over work. I gave up caffeine and food with MSG. I now read labels on any food that is processed and try to stay away from restaurant food that is packed with MSG and sodium. Thank goodness I like to cook. I have also exercised to help rid myself of stress and learned to shift my thoughts away from things that upset me. The mind is powerful thing and your thoughts can trigger the release of adrenaline. I had to take some supplements under the direction of a doctor to get my body back on track. It was all well worth it. Today I went for a yearly check up with my family doctor and all is well. I am on no medications and not bad for an old lady LOL!
My mother's own anxiety issues could have been the very cause of the painful life she lived. I still cringe when I think of all the medications she was put on to combat the side effects of each of the other medications. It was an awful death that could have possibly been averted. More medicine is definitely not better.
Life is beautiful !!
Elizabeth:)
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