Back from a Beautiful weekend...

Hello Lovely Community…

Happy Summer…!!

Can you believe it is near the end of June already? Time just has its own way of happening, and certainly is rarely inline with the way we want it to happen.

I feel good and very rested and peaceful after our weekend away to the Mountains. Mount Lassen was the most amazing place I think I have seen yet in California.


Wow I was telling a friend I didn’t see one Eagle, which I guess are all over the place up there. But I will tell you that God was in every single thing we saw and experienced. Our hearts were so peaceful and we were so sweet and dear to one another.


The place we stayed The Weston House, is owned by this wonderful woman Angela Weston. She had great stories and was going thru her own various health and spiritual healing so it was nice to speak with her.

It was so hidden away and was so peaceful over looking this amazing valley. We both got lots of rest and I was very happy to find that the internet connection was very slow to non-existent, which was the answer to my hope for a low tech weekend.


I did very well with the altitude when we were in the park we were over a mile up and the beautiful hike we went on was just the right speed for us. There was still snow in areas and it was fun to touch it and experience that in June.

Honestly, I feel so blessed that I was able to be there and celebrate with my sweet Husband and Nature.


We took the less taken road on our last day to Harbin hot Springs in Middletown, CA and drove around Clear Lake, the largest Lake in California. It was just breathtaking and HUGE.

We arrived at Harbin hoping for some peaceful times in the hot spring pools, but little did we know there was the tail end of a festival happening. UGH, we didn’t feel like going into the pools plus it was so hot and humid so we rested in our room and went to our favorite town, Calistoga (about 20 miles over one of the mountains between Middletown and Calistoga) for my Birthday dinner.

Sunday AM early we did dip into the pools for a bit, have a yummie healthy organic breakfast, and then had wonderful massages before heading back to SF.

My eyes are doing really well, the rash is getting better, I’m puffy in the face, have this puffy hump on my back near my neck, and feel puffy all around my belly. But this is part of Prednisone. But the prednisone is healing the eyes, the rash, and sloooooowly my mouth. And all the puffiness will go away when the Prednisone goes away in about 3 to 5 weeks.

Today for the first time 2 of the 3 red blood counts were normal. Everything is doing well. I do feel good. My mind just likes to mess with me and get me all turned around and cranky and worried, but I am doing well and I am smiling more.


I’d have to say the most frustrating thing at this point (besides the vanity issues of puffiness and rashie face), is the mouth issues. I really want to eat but lots of things prompt the rash of weird uncomfortable but not painful bubbles. They feel like the bumps you would see on a frog or toad, ick. They are more a pain in the butt then the mouth.

But we are working on them and actually today they seem ok. I couldn’t get an appointment with a specialist till the end of July. Gosh I do hope they are better by then. But someone will see them sometime soon, maybe only to tell me they are gone.

I’m praying for a cancellation so I can go earlier.

Doc Martin told me today that this doctor Sol Silverman, the specialist is like 81 years old so he doesn’t work all that much. So what can you do? The guy needs a little down time to enjoy his 81 years, ya know.

Pray he can squeeze me in though. I even left a plea directly to the doc himself on his voice mail so you never know, I’ve been pretty lucky.

I basically have to eat really mild food and this is all only temporary. And this is good. And this is part of it.

This is where I am and where I need to be.

So again I just do my routine, rest when I need it, breathe, pretend I don’t look the way I do ;)…

Shine my beauty from the inside out…

I am soo soo soo grateful to be alive and be in Remission and am able to still experience my life the way I have been. So gentle and mindful and peacefully. Too bad it took this to realize that this is a pretty nice way to live.

In the moment
In Gratitude
Walking a Prayer
Seeing Beauty in everything, even in the suffering in a way
Carrying love and peacefulness and Gentleness in my heart
Letting my anxiousness go to be replaced with Peace
Having Faith
Loving myself
Loving my life
Loving my family and my community


This is what I have learned so far from Surviving Cancer and it can be a way to be just trying to pay your bills and live your regular life.

Big prayers and love for all of you.

Namaste
Victoria