ALOHA!
What an amazing year it was and what a blessing to be healthy and productive for the new year! This first month is all about Tai Chi! I am happy yo be heading over to San Jose to attend the Tai Chi F.I.T. with David Dorian Ross. I am quite rusty these days on the Tai Chi front. I was exposed to Tai Chi in 1985 through Gloria Keeling. Then I let go of my practice, and in 1993, got back into a basic practice with the late Ron Perfetti, a wonderful tai Chi teacher who live and taught with passion throughout Hawaii. The last 10 years...not so much Tai Chi. I have always found Tai Chi to be most helpful for dealing with the little daily stressors in life. Traffic...you can pactice in the car...yes you really can...and you need to to get rid of the road rage somehow. I recently found myself behind a tourist driving 15 mile sbelow the speed limit, on the only road along the coast....the first 20 minutes I was honking and yelling...to no avail the driver ahead of me had no clue. I realized I was only hurting myself...acting like a fool in the car and stressing my CNS. I decided to just slow down and start my breathing exercises, within a few minutes a was laughing at myself. In addition I realized that the person in front of me was just enjoying the ride...and here on Maui it is a beautiful ride.
Aloha, I am back after a topsy turvy year....I can say I am in remission from Graves Disease and the tymic tumor is stating to shrink. No surgery, off the medicines since last April. Although it was probably dangerous according to my doctor, I could't help but take the natural approach to healing before radical methods of western medicine. The main thing I have learned for this wild ride, is sleep, eat and say "no thanks" to things that might create undue stress in life. Everyday for the last year, I have been visualizing my tumor shrinking...from solid to liquid to gas...up and away out of my body. Before bed and upon waking up. Visualization for healing has been used for centuries, why not try it?
I really admire all of you, i wish I was better at all this computer stuff, blogging and website updates, vidoes and such. Nick Tumminello, Carl Powell and all the others who seem to have the knack and drive to do it. You have my greatest admiration! Really I mean it.
I haven't posted in a while, so update to now, that tumor near my heart is still there and cannot be biopsies since it is too close the aorta. I have been doing visualization and all the alternative healing methods. let's hope it calms down before the next CT scan.
I have taken myself off the thyoid medicine and am feeling better so far.
Thanks for all you well wishes.
You never realize how good you feel till you feel like shit. So glas to be feeling better and taking time to relax. Living on Maui reminds me how important it is to stop and enjoy the air, the trees and the clouds.
A few days ago a 8 year old girl named Sophie was hiking with her family in Hana, ( beautiful place where the waterfalls and bamboo forest flourish here on Maui) she was simply walking along the trail and a rock fell and hit her in the head. She died there and her family and all her ohana here on the island are devastated. It makes me so sad think about her and her family, what they are going through. I wish them strength. We all need to remember how little time we actually have to enjoy life.
I really admire all of you, i wish I was better at all this computer stuff, blogging and website updates, vidoes and such. Nick Tumminello, Carl Powell and all the others who seem to have the knack and drive to do it. You have my greatest admiration! Really I mean it.
I haven't posted in a while, so update to now, that tumor near my heart is still there and cannot be biopsies since it is too close the aorta. I have been doing visualization and all the alternative healing methods. let's hope it calms down before the next CT scan.
I have taken myself off the thyoid medicine and am feeling better so far.
Thanks for all you well wishes.
You never realize how good you feel till you feel like shit. So glas to be feeling better and taking time to relax. Living on Maui reminds me how important it is to stop and enjoy the air, the trees and the clouds.
A few days ago a 8 year old girl named Sophie was hiking with her family in Hana, ( beautiful place where the waterfalls and bamboo forest flourish here on Maui) she was simply walking along the trail and a rock fell and hit her in the head. She died there and her family and all her ohana here on the island are devastated. It makes me so sad think about her and her family, what they are going through. I wish them strength. We all need to remember how little time we actually have to enjoy life.
So sore, so sore, but in the good way. I taught a level 1 yogafit training this weekend on Oahu. Such lovely students...I get lucky every time.
Who knew? It was so easy to study and teach mind/body fitness. For goodness sake, I was doing it more than half my life. I had the best of the best teachers and all the blessings that come. Now was the time to put it to the test. I knew something was wrong, but it must have been stress...and the kitty, my little 7 lbs of love succumbed to mouth cancer and I was crying every day and night. Of course, hospital visits and being poked prodded and radioactive might have been the real reason.
After all this time I find out I had Graves's disease. "Really?"I said to my doctor. "I don't like the name GRAVE....sounds like death, sounds a little too final..." "I would at least liked a disease that had a better name." I protested. He said " you also need to have a biopsy on that thymus gland". I just kept my mouth shut for change.
I have been looking for "natural endocrine doctors" to my surprise I can't seem to find one. Now is time to practice.
Imagine being fit and healthy all your life and then suddenly becoming ill...I thought it was the flu, and weight loss, well, who doesn't like that? I like being slim. I blamed it on stress, for god's sake my cat had cancer and my boyfriend was having lung surgery...who wouldn't feel like crap? I should have known better...I felt strange for a few months, it took all my energy to teach my classes and come home and rest on the couch...as I walked to the car my heart rate would race - sky high. I figured I had been slacking on the cardio lately, nothing could possibly be wrong with me. We were in the busiest season at the Hotel, the Ritz Carlton Kapalua and had to bring my A game at all times, I must be 5 star at all times, how could this be happening?...I can feel my body twitching and I am so darn tired after only two yoga classes. I hoped no one else would schedule any privates this week...I need to rest more. So this is how 44 years old feels? I used to be able to teach 5 classes a day and do 5 massages a day. I was shocked how fast old age was creeping up on me. I finally got home and went straight to bed...for three days. I had a fever of 103 and I was coughing, it was the flu, it had to be, all the signs were there. I finally managed to drag myself out of bed. I should get some cough medicine, but not the lame stuff from Longs. This time I needed the good stuff, the one with codeine. I made an appointment with my doctor. I got myself there, no shower, in my PJ's..they weigh me in 118lbs, (I am usually 136lbs), my fever 100, my resting heart rate 125....what!! It is usually 56 a number I have been proud of all my life. What the heck is going on. They draw blood and I have my urine sample tested...the doctor is not happy. He says I am malnourished, in ketosis, my liver enzymes are up very high...and what is this?.. my thyroid gland is off the charts. So much for the flu. I get i.v. fluids for an hour. My doctor takes pity on me and lets me go home, but I have to come back for more fluids in the morning...this sucks. All I want is the cough medicine with codeine....please let me have some so I can sleep through this nightmare. The next day, still disoriented and feverish, the doctor orders a chest x-ray, just to be sure...he is not happy again..."young lady you have pneumonia and some abnormal growth, you need to get a CT scan immediately!" "On your way out, go the pharmacy and pick up your medicines and be sure to do everything the pharmacist tells you." Five medicines....I was shocked, but at least I got the good cough medicine! The CT scan shows pneumonia for certain and some other growth, but it is uncertain. "Come back in four weeks so we can re-test." Four weeks....what?
