Hi Beth, Believe me once you put your mind to it there isn't anything that you can't do. All that you have to do is to try it. Yes at first you may fail but once you get it into your head you will thieve. It is a matter of will. A story for you: Several years ago right after my kidney transplant my wife and i went furniture shopping when i suddenly felt dizzy and clasped to the floor, i tried to get up but i just managed to crawl on the floor. Shelly was really trying to help me to a seat and the manager came over and told us that he just called 911. Within less then ten minutes i was in an ambulance on my way to the hospital. When one of the paramedics asked me how i was feeling i didn't know what he was saying, it was like someone was mumbling to me. Once they got me to the hospital they seemed to be moving there mouths but all that i heard were these funny sounds coming out of their mouths. When i came out of my coma i couldn't understand English. In my mind i was trying to ask for a glass of water but didn't know how to say it
It was very frustrating and i knew in my mind that i could talk but not anything with English but i did remember that i was still able to speak and understand five different foreign languages and the Morse Code because ever since i was a young man i was a ham radio operator, but how could i try to convey it to anyone. I was in bed and badly needed some water. So i started yelling in different languages and tapping on the table with my fingers in Morse Code but only my right hand would work, until one of the nurses understood what i was asking for in Hungarian one of the languages that my parents taught me when i was a young child. From that day on while i was still in the hospital there was always a pitcher of cold water on my table. It took me over a year to teach myself how to learn English again, and i did it all by myself. An usual thing happened to me when i went to see my ophthalmologist because he was checking for any symptom that the stroke may have caused to my eyes, but he found nothing thank GOD. I then mentioned to him what had happened to me when i could not speak English This is what he told me. He has another patient that also had a similar stroke in the same region of the brain that i had mine in. He then tells me that this man suddenly started speaking words with a heavy French accent but not French but English with a heavy French accent. This lasted for about almost two years and he is back to normal. Amazing what can happen. So this is another example of what your mind can do. All you have to do it to try and help yourself. To my understanding the human brain uses about 10% of it's capacity, more or less. If you know to the contrary please let me know. 18's, Marty On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 9:59 PM, bkbarney via CMLHope < cmlhope@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Just beautiful Marty!!! I love the stained glass... > > thanks for sharing!! > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marty Gartenberg <wa2...@gmail.com> > To: cmlhope <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wed, May 9, 2018 8:40 am > Subject: Re: [CMLHope] Beth > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Marty Gartenberg <wa2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Beth, Jeanie your learning from eachother and i am also learning from the > both of you as you are learning from me. This is what it is. I always say > that life is a learning process and well, it is. You must learn something > new every day of your life. > > Now i would like to send you some pictures that i took of some of my > projects that me and my wife did together mostly when i wasn't feeling very > well, but i still did it. Shelly did the cutting for the most part and i > did the grinding and fitting and the soldering, sometimes switching off but > we did it together. And it made both of us feel that much better. > > Everything that you may see in these three pictures are things that we > personally accomplished by ourselves including the crown moldings as well > as the moldings on the ceiling. Both of us never said that maybe we should > stop, but sat down and rested for a while and had lunch or watched TV and > then got back to "business". Sure it sometimes taxed me out but i still > continued on for weeks at a time or even months. > > There is a point to all of this, just get your priorities together and > there is nothing that you can't accomplish. > > 18's, > > Marty > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 6:40 AM, 'Jeanie' via CMLHope < > cmlhope@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hi Beth and all > I know exactly what you mean Beth. Sometimes I just want to go back to > bed and do nothing. > I have found however if you make a plan of what you want to accomplish > that day it helps a lot. Even write it down. Start on it even if you don’t > feel like finishing it. > One time I made a plan to read the Bible again all the way through. I have > read it before but this was just another plan. So each day I read a little > and soon I had accomplished my plan. Well not soon but I did it. > Getting through Job is difficult but well worth it especially since he > fought disease daily. He had boils all over his body. Can you imagine! > I love the part where it got to Leviathan. My granddaughter even drew me > a picture of him. > Now today is walking and gardening as long as I feel like it. If I get > tired or weary I just rest. > I remember when I was in the hospital and they wheeled that big old blood > cleansing machine in my room I was in for it. They would hook it up and I > had to my still for about 4 hours while my blood ran through this machine. > I thought it would never be over. It never did any good. The next day my > platelets and whites were right back up. I learned from Moffitt they don’t > even do that. They just give you the pills and hope for the best. > This last chemo Ponatinib has been the best chemo yet with the least side > effects except for hair falling out. > What do you take? I developed mutants to all the other chemo > Just each day at a time and make a plan. Prayers. > You have helped me a lot Beth. > ❤️ > > My Motto: > Faith and Pills > With Love > 🐠18's > Dx 1/2004 CML Leukemia > Started Gleevec 2/2004 > Started Tasigna 9/2009 > Started Sprycel 11/2009 > Started Ponatinib 1/ 2015 > New Doctor--Dr Martine Extermann > Moffitt Cancer center > > 0 CBL. ABL > > On May 8, 2018, at 11:40 PM, Marty Gartenberg <wa2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just look at what your writing... > Each and every day is another day so keep on blessing your medication > because without it then it wouldn't be another day. Don't despair because > you may feel like life is trying to give you a difficult time but then > there are other days that that will restore your faith. > > I have been there and what i found out is that i am still here and by the > way so are you. > > I have always told everyone that Leukemia is a powerful disease and so it > is BUT so is your mind... Use it! > > 18's, > > Marty > > PS why do you think that all of my posts ends up with 18's? > > Because it means LIFE. > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 10:52 PM, bkbarney via CMLHope < > cmlhope@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Dear Marty, > > > I sing praises every day....for my life and for sprycel. I even bless my > medication in my hand before I take it each night.. my little ritual. the > side effects of the medication coupled with the two botched surgeries have > left me with a great deal to navigate daily. I know I am blessed. But today > I am just very very very weary. Tomorrow is another day... > > Hope everyone is well and enjoying spring...one day at a time...breath in > the flowers and enjoy!!! > > Love to each and every one of you...and thanks for reading.. > > 18's B > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Jeanie' via CMLHope <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> > To: cmlhope <cmlhope@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tue, May 8, 2018 2:21 pm > Subject: Re: [CMLHope] Beth > > Hi Beth and great news. Are you any pain? Marty I wanted to asked you if > you they gave you any meds for pain? Did you ever have to take anything > for leukemia ever again? Can you walk well? > My daughter bought me a wheel chair just in case I get to tired of > walking. > Do you walk well Beth? > So happy you are in remission. I’m in remission too but I know from > experience how leukemia can test it’s ugly head. > Prayer and pills is my motto and it’s working. > Good luck > Jean > > My Motto: > Faith and Pills > With Love > 🐠18's > Dx 1/2004 CML Leukemia > Started Gleevec 2/2004 > Started Tasigna 9/2009 > Started Sprycel 11/2009 > Started Ponatinib 1/ 2015 > New Doctor--Dr Martine Extermann > Moffitt Cancer center > > 0 CBL. ABL > > On May 8, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Marty Gartenberg <wa2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Beth, Beth, Beth, > > What can i say, As you mentioned you are now UN-detectable, but what you > should have written should have more piazzas to it. Something like shouting > it at the top of your voice on the top of a high mountain with your hands > and arms reaching upward and stretched and extended out to HIM. > > Well Beth sometimes i get carried away but please scroll down. > > > > > > > > BUT NOT THIS TIME🌷 > > Do you know why? It took place more then 30 years ago. Once my bone marrow > transplant was finished after being confined inside of that bubble that i > was in about a week before i was to be finally discharged i still had to > wait that one week and i was fixated on the clock within that bubble with > that second hand ticking away. Tick Tock, tick tock, tick tock............ > I waited for the seconds to tick away the whole day and night until i > finally fell asleep, and then i was woken up again and it continued on for > most of that never ending week. I was in there for seven months and let me > tell you it was more then horrible but i had to do it until the final > seconds that i was able to finally to leave there, or so i thought only to > find myself back in there two weeks later because of a severe infection > from my in chest Hickman catheter that put me back in there for another two > weeks. > > Was it all over? Not until i was about to leave that plastic bubble and at > that time i raised my hands fully extended and ripped that clock right off > the wall and since i finally had my shoes on i STOMPED the life of that > clock to death. > > However, on that original day that i was discharged from the hospital it > was raining like cats and dogs coming out of the sky and i just stood there > in the street and let the rain populate on my face and then i remember > raising my hands and arms up toward HIM and it was finally over with. > > Oh yes i am not kidding, about a week later i received a bill in the mail > for $25 for the clock that i put out of my misery and it was marked PAID. > And there was a reason for that. To be continued. > > There is a Moral to this story... Beth all that you need to do it put your > hands and arms up toward the sky and HE will do the rest. > > 18's > > Marty > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > ------------------------------------------------- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To post to this group, send email to CMLHope@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cmlhope-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group > /CMLHope > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CMLHope" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to cmlhope+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > [CMLHope] > A support group of http://cmlhope.com > 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