Mishmosh, Miracles and NoFear

My new Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) way of eating has continued to be fun and colorful as you can see here. I’ve discovered that food prepping several meals at once helps me to not spend an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen. I throw what’s in my fridge together and get a mishmosh of dishes. Here’s one of my not so simple salads! I also have been grateful for continued support from folks who are on this journey with me of having a cancer diagnosis and making daily choices to feed our bodies food medicine aka organic plants! It’s been a week of new recipes and new books, new information and new results!

 

Here one of my

 angels, Kelly, gets Dr Greger’s book, ‘How Not To Die’ signed which I actually read a few years ago thanks to my old neighbor, Bonnie T. This guy is totally quirky but his knowledge about nutrition and WFPB is off the charts. I’m really on a quest to educate myself and hopefully as I do I can influence others in my inner circle of the benefits of choosing more wisely so they don’t have to experience a terminal diagnosis before they wake up and realize how their food choices literally cause or strongly contribute to so many of their own mental and physical ailments. But as I realized for myself, we aren’t ready until we are. One resource I discovered this week was about Nutrition Facts.

Then came the BEST news of the week…my miracles! 

I had a mammogram and echocardiogram on Wednesday. The mammogram revealed that the previous tumor that I was told I had in my left breast was not detectable…that’s right!! GONE-ZO!! 

And if you read my previous blog, there was a serious concern about my echocardiogram from November 2023. My oncologist immediately got me in to see a cardiac specialist because it looked like from one of the numbers they check that my GLS or Globular Longitudinal Strain number went from -19 in August 2023 to -14 in November 2023, which is bad bad. It shouldn’t rise above -16 and mine climbed 5 points. They couldn’t tell me why other than to say that it’s an indicator of future heart damage leading to Congestive Heart Failure. While a little shift could have been operator error, I was told that 5 points was serious, regardless. So hooked me up they did and the second miracle came in to clear view!! It went back to a normal number and even surpassed the August reading! It came in at -20.2!!! So, whether it was operator error, an actual improvement because of my change in eating habits or a legit unexplainable miracle, I’m calling it a miracle because it is! John and I celebrated the good news and went to my favorite local mountain bike park, John Bryan State Park! I sang my favorite Brandon Lake song, Gratitude, out loud on the trail and while pedaling my bike named NoFear through the forest and I sense God’s Presence so strongly! It’s like He was saying, “I got you, daughter! I have more work for you so you’re gonna be here a while longer!”