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The Fight Against Stress
As the chest pains increased my daughter decided to take me to the emergency room at the local hospital. The first thing the ER nurse asked me was, “Do you have stress in your life?” If I wasn’t in so...
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A Hand-In-Hand Journey
It doesn’t seem like it there is a place where cancer and stress do not go along hand-in-hand. The odds of getting cancer can be very high for some and almost zero for others. However, when it comes to...
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One Too Many
The waiting room was quiet. It gave me time to think about what I was there for as I waited for my name to be called. Recently I had joined my husband and other people and caught what was called the...
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Re-focusing Life’s Lens
My camera lens was set. The target I was after to capture was our daughter participating in her 4th grade Christmas program. Excitement was welling up inside of me as I was anxious to get a good...
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Life’s Too Short
The diagnosis of my cancer hit hard. The blow it created that disrupted my life flowed into the lives of my husband, daughter, grandchildren, and many more around me. For weeks after we got the news...
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It Is Time
The verdict was in. I was handed the key to my cure for my epileptic seizures and all I had to do was conquer the stress in my life. The doctors recommended a psychiatrist but because I was denied the...
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Fighting A Good Fight
The day was just beginning and it was time to spend some quiet time with my Lord. As I sat in my lift chair I began to think of something I read in the Bible about fighting a good fight. Suddenly out...
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Cured Or Not Cured
As the calendar pages slowly flipped to the start of each month, the anniversary of my cure from epilepsy approached. June 13, 1990 was the day I was set free from being disabled for 12 years. At last...
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Surviving Heroes
The time for the annual breast cancer walk in town was finally here. It would be the 2nd time my family and I attended the ‘Heaven Can Wait’ event. This year we were ready for the event. For months I...
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Controlling Our Worries
Stress fighter tip #1: don’t worry. Duh, Karen what a novel idea! How often we have heard, “Well, don’t worry about it”. For some reason we believe it’s our solemn sacred duty to worry about things. We...
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A Ray Of Sunshine
Stress fighter tip #2: Be thankful in stressful situations. ‘Duck, Karen! Someone just hit the computer screen. Oh that was you.’ One of the hardest things I had to learn when I dealt with my stress...
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Moving Forward
Stress fighter tip #3: Don’t quit; keep moving forward. If you think about it stress likes to stop you in your tracks. It can hinder you from making any kind of progress whatsoever. When I was haunted...
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Building Our Own Sandwiches
Once when I was in San Francisco with my sister and niece to eat out, we frequently chose Subway sandwiches. I had eaten there many times before but for some reason this one hunger trip to the...
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Erase And Replace
Stress fighter tip #4. Putting in a new tape. Often when buying an electronic CD or cassette player one of the features we like to have is a device that will play the tape over and over again....
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A Longer Hope
Stress fighter tip #5: Hope longer. Shortly after I was diagnosed with cancer I went to a concert with my family. As I sat there enjoying the music I was fighting the tears that wanted to flow down my...
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Dancing With The Fly Strip Of Stress
Stress Fighter tip #6: Don’t tangle with the fly strip. One day as I was doing something in my office I was so pre-occupied with my task at hand that I wasn’t paying attention to outside elements....
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Waiting For Life’s Storms To Pass
Stress Fighter tip #7: Weathering life’s storms. Sometimes when life is hitting us pretty hard the best thing we can do to fight the stress that comes with it is bow our heads, say a prayer and...
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Awareness That Counts
As I sat down to watch Sunday night football recently with my husband I was caught off guard by the amount of pink on the field. Helmets dressed in pink, pink socks, pink ribbons and so much more....
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Practice What You Preach
Stress fighter tip #8—Practice what you preach! Recently at the church after talking to a lady about issues going on in my life she stopped me long enough to make her first comment. ‘Aren’t you the one...
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Who Put The Question Mark On My TelePrompTer?
One evening as I sat and watched the news the story they were talking about caught my attention. They were interviewing a news reporter who went through an experience with his teleprompter that...
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Trying Too Hard to Be Healed
As the evening came so did a phone call from our daughter regarding her grandpa who was having chest pains she was concerned about. Fresh out of pacemaker surgery it was alarming to think he might be...
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A Wiser Place To Be
Stress fighter tip: It’s all in our attitude and focus. It’s amazing just how much our attitude affects all we do. Especially when it comes to handling stress in our lives. The chose we make can either...
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Ready To Fight
The pain in my hips was increasing. Walking, sitting and standing became a difficult if not impossible task. The only thing I was able to do was lay on my stomach on my bed. It was from that position I...
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Bucket List, Here I Come!
Recently in one of my latest trips to the doctor the topic of discussion was what was new regarding my cancer. “Karen,” the doctor opened up her conversation, ‘Your cancer has spread to your liver. As...
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