Dear Jean,
I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am that you shared your family
with us. I am glad as well about Annies spirits and hope she is doing
some better. And by the way, sounds like Michael will make a great
salesman someday.
Pls excuse me if I am replying somewhat later as I have been very busy
preparing for our trip to Chicago, giving speeches on "wellness" and
visiting friends in the hospital.
May I say this about equating dying to the very positive messages by
which Dr. Bernie Siegel discusses. I will say that the information he
presents is very short in nature and he had to put it in his book
because he is a great oncologist as well as psychoneurroimmunologist and
he believes in the entire life cycle from birth to the end. My feeling
is he presents it in such a way as to see the beauty. By the way did you
know this? That 97% of all people who do die from some complication from
cancer never feel pain. I believe and so does Dr. Siegel and others
that when we feel negative emotions when first diagnosed we equate
cancer to pain and that is not entirely correct and far from the norm.
There may be side effects from the treatments that are discomforting,
but essentially there is no pain in passing for the most part. I too am
a devotee of Dr. Siegel and have had the great fortune of meeting him
and the others that I will suggest to you about their books in the
following, and Barb read that book, and over and over a few times in the
many months of treatment. She too felt the way you did, that there is a
certain amount of negativity from a rather very positive man and book.
But after sometime Barb said to me "as I read this book I see where we
have to be prepared, all of us even the healthy" So she in time took it
as a positive. Yes, my feeling the book is very uplifting and if you
wish you may just cut out that part if you feel its not Annies time to
read.
Here are the books, and I have read many, that I would suggest to read
as it presents the entire views and runs the gamut from conventional and
alternative therapies to meditation and guided imagery, to spiritual,
nutrition and exercise. They are:
1-Dr. Bernie Siegels book as you alluded to
2-Dr. Carl Simontons "The Healing Journey"
3-Greg Andersons book "50 Essential Things to do When the Diagnosisi is
Cancer
4-Anne Frahms book "Cancer Battle Plan"
HOpe these help. I know and knew of all these people personally and was
blessed to be part of their courageous lives and determination to bring
HOPE to all that saw little.
God Bless
marty auslander
Jean Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi Marty,
>
> I'm really glad you're going to be able to keep in touch w/the group
> while you're away. I, too, would have missed your letters.
>
> Everything is going well here. Annie still seems in good spirits. And
> the kids, Tom and I are doing fine. I took Michael (my 3-1/2-yr.-old)
> to the pet farm park yesterday and he became mesmerized with the cow
> pooping! He said now he wants to check out a book from the library on
> farm animals and how they poop on the farm! And all during the rest of
> our visit there Michael proclaimed loudly the names of all of the
> animals and how they poop on the farm! LOL! I warned him that he'll be
> doing the same thing this summer, pooping where he stands, if he doesn't
> hurry up and start using the toilet. He got a sort-of indignant look on
> his face and said he'll just sit down on a chair then.
>
> He was funny the other night, too. He's driving us crazy lately by
> taking every possible opportunity to kiss everyone on the rear-end,
> despite our protests. Then he laughs uproarously about it. Well, the
> other night he asked me to hand him some toys (he was already in bed).
> I asked, "What's it worth to you?" "1000," he replied. "1000 kisses?"
> I asked. "Yes," he said. Then as I leaned over toward him he smiled
> wickedly and added, "on the butt!" Jeez!
>
> Well, I have to go fix lunch for Shannon. She leaves for school soon &
> then I'll have to go pick up Michael from his school. Busy, busy,
> busy... By the way, Annie took me up on my offer to buy her a cancer
> cookbook. I returned the book I'd already bought, though, and put
> another one (that looked better) on reserve. I may have already
> mentioned the title - it's "The Cancer Survival Cookbook: 200 Quick &
> Easy Recipes with Helpful Eating Hints." The description of it at
> Amazon.com is quite good. Another friend said I should buy her Bernie
> Siegel's "Love, Medicine & Miracles" (?) but I'm concerned that the
> portion of it about death and dying might upset her at this point. What
> do you think? Is the book uplifting enough?
>
> -Jean
>
> -Jean
> -
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