Dorothy Hastings Booth

1990: Carcinoma (NON squamous cell) left neck. Radical neck surgery,including 30 lymph and left salivary gland. Followed by six weeks of radiation.

1992: Carcinoma of skin, surgery, front neck.

1994: Lung cancer, carcinoma. lst surgery to remove malignant tumor, 2nd surgery one week later to remove upper right lobe of lung. CANCER

Lung cancer free 5 yrs.

1999: Endarerectomy, right carotid, neck.

1999: Pacemaker implant

1999: Scheduled Sept. 9th. Stent implant in right heart artery.

Neck cancer free 8 1/2 yrs.

PLEASE don't ask God "Why me?"; but ask your creator to help you to cope with and survive this challenge.
FORGIVE every SOB who ever caused you suffering, misery, pain, humiliation, embarrassment, or loss of any kind. They acted in ignorance and through EVIL. YOU ARE TO FORGIVE AND FORGET IT!
Promise yourself to start getting "Out" of yourself. Don't focus on this hopefully temporary physical condition. What you do with your mind and your heart and your emotions is controlled by you and you alone...and maybe your body will follow your "positive" tract.
Give something back. I chose to become a Hospice Volunteer, and I bless this opportunity.
QUIET our mind: I chose Mozart, poetry, watercoloring and acrylics.
QUIET YOUR BODY: I chose swimming, Tai Chi, and aromatherapy.
Honor other creatures: I feed birds, raccoons, lizards, and butterflies!
Give time to Nature. I watch 6 purple water hyacinths bloom in an old iron pot; I planted bird seed and loved what happened; I planted "crab boil" and couldn't believe what happened.
Invest in strangers. Last week I gave a tank of gas to three stranded motorists at a Texaco station.
Don't crawl into a shell. Move back into the world. We are ALL WOUNDED IN SOME WAY. Stand tall 'til you travel into "forever." My latest interest is Feng Shui, and I find it very rewarding and interesting, and oh, so, soothing.

Have a happy forever......Dorothy+++