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Johnny

It is still November 1st.  I have decided how I am going to celebrate the fact that I am still alive after my diagnosis four years ago today.   I have decided to start swimming again.  It will hopefully help rebuild core muscles to support my healing ten vertebral fractures.  Yep, WTF.  Water soothes and heals me.  It calms me.  Long before I understood that many of us feel soothed in water because of its similarity to our amniotic chapter, I loved swimming.  I actually learned to swim about the same time that I learned to walk.  I remember as a two year old having someone hold my head in their hands as I lay on my back and kicked in the water.  This is how I learned to swim.  I was scared to death, by the way, at that time, but once I learned to swim without assistance, I found a great lifelong love.   My brothers and I swam on a swim team as early as they would have us (age 6).  Fueled by frozen Snickers, we sw...
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The Good Supplements

I am an auditory learner.  I cannot read a map but if someone tells me "go left for 3/4 of a mile then take the second right, then the next right thereafter and you will find it on the left side of the street about 700 feet ahead" I will easily find my destination.   I read/listen to about 85 books a year, about 45 of which are non-fiction.  I read a lot about eating healthier food, sleeping better, getting more sun, less plastic,  improving posture, lengthening my telomeres, etc.    I have read many pretentious books on how to live forever.  I can't wait until this hype ends.  I've read a few good and simple ones.  My favorite health book of 2024 was Casey Means' book Good Energy .  It was very simple.  It explained what to eat, what not to eat, how to store food/water, whether to drink (or not), how much sleep, sun, peace, love, alcohol, vacation we should have.  Keep a diary and bad habits are easier to spot and then fi...
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Be careful what you say

Cancer is awful.  It is usually a surprise, often a shock, it turns one's life upside down immediately.   The only way that one can be saved is by taking big, strong, toxic, scary medicine.  Constantly.  Those commercials with people around an outdoor grill that have four minute disclaimers claiming that your head might roll off in the middle of the street if you take this drug.  Those drugs.   You find out who your friends are when you go through this.  I'm so grateful for the beautiful (re-) discoveries that I have made during this time.  So many kind and beautiful people.  So many caring individuals with a lot of love in their hearts.  A little unsolicited advice... IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY SICK AND YOU ARE NOT SURE WHAT TO SAY I have learned about a few people around me and around the country who are so much sicker than I am and it is for them that I am writing.  It is hard to know what to say.   Levity or avoiding...
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