Leave the past where it is.

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better, cancer, change, forgive, lifestyle, live, NED, remmission, veggie

Todays challenge is today’s,  yesterday’s challenges are to be learnt from or forgotten. One thing I have learnt to do (learning to do) is to leave negativity behind. Refuse it in my life, to choose only positive choices. The more days I live like this, the more love I feel for the ones that truly care about me. The more important true friends become. It does not matter who you are, what challenges you will face, it’s about what we choose to accept in our lives. People work together not because they are perfect, but because they are willing to accept everything about them. Life is about accepting where someone is at, or walking away. A friend will accept you with all your flaws, its a great place to be, being accepted no matter what. They are the family we choose.

  
Isn’t it about not remembering the past that’s no good, isn’t it about remembering the good stuff, encouraging someone when they feel that they can’t, helping them to believe that they can. I know I have made many mistake and God knows I have been reminded of such often. But I want to break that process, I won’t listen to negativity. I only want positives in my life, even if it’s a negative situation like cancer I WILL turn it around. There is no room in life for dwelling on the past, dwelling on dark places that were. It’s about the daylight, it’s about learning from the past to make our future better.

  
When I beat cancer the first time, I carried on smoking, carried on eating saturated fats, carried on eating processed foods that my body had no idea how to process. It came back, WOW massive surprise. Of course it came back I had made no life changes. The changes I have made, are to eat limited saturated fat, less bread and eat allot of food that grew in the ground. Vegetables are something I never ate in my past, I was a meat man. Not now I will eat my veggies before I finish my meat, if we are hit by cancer we need to make amendments, educate ourselves, and make sure that the changes we make, are ones that will help give ourselves, the best chances to keep cancer away. Although my cancer was not linked to my lifestyle, it can’t help to higher my chances of never getting it again. Can it.

  
Leave the past where it is, unless it’s to learn from that’s what I am learning. It’s a shame wise people (I am not wise yet) are usually to old to benefit from it. I just hope that some people reading these blogs, become wise before their time benefiting from their past.

Have a great week

Mark

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It’s all about learning how to kill cancer.

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biological, cancer, death, died, live, love, massive, remission, remmission, saturated, survive

Our bodies are quite literally the most amazing thing we own, we truly are. This morning I have been giving THE most amazing information which quite frankly has amazed me. We all know that chemotherapy kills cancer, we also know that our body learns how to do what ever we tell it to do. Oops sorry you did not know that? It’s as my friend says in Australia. “We are what we eat” how many of you actually know what this means? Do you know that our bodies actually renew our cells every 3 months? It gets used to the way we live, the way we feed it and because it knows pretty much what your gonna put in there it kind of goes on auto pilot. That is until we teach it a new way.

  
That’s right our bodies will only do what we tell it.. We tell it how to be by what we eat, just watch this short video before we carry on.

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/turmeric-curcumin-reprogramming-cancer-cell-death/

Your in the control seat, taking it further by looking at what your balanced diet consists of. Now whilst you may think I am some kind of nut job that’s on a soap box. All I am doing is looking at ways to save myself and passing on what I have learnt to the people that have chosen to read what titterings I write. My mission is to beat cancer, not only beat it like I have twice. But learn how to keep it away for good. Living a clean cancer free life day to day. Helping others to become educated as I want to myself, it’s not easy learning a new way when the old was has been your whole life. But the thing that Spurs me on (mainly) is how scary being in isolation was. It has definetley changed who I am, I am more determined to avoid that situation than ever before. “I will survive” the song for me is me speaking to cancer. Whilst my friend Rob may disagree, I will not live with cancer, I want a life free from cancer.  Listen to the words I speak to cancer through this song.

I want to take many others with me on my journey, ridding my body of the disease is just the start. So let’s put it like this. Sport, a world champion. This person has dedicated their life to being the best, on becoming the best they have to maintain momentum. They have to remain determined, and follow a strict diet and programme to remain there. It’s not just them either, it’s the team of people this person has around them. They all need to be doing their bit, keeping focus, maintaining fitness and a whole host of other things. This is what’s needed in our bodies, we effectively become wold champions when we beat cancer. But we need to maintain momentum so we keep it away. That our bodies are not an attractive place to be anymore. So it walks out the door. Cancer finds it difficult to live where there are no saturated fats and processed sugars. 

  
My blogs won’t always be about nutrition, but there has to be a time we discuss it as our bodies are made up of what we shovel in. 

Just food for thought, let me know what you think?

Have a great weekend

Mark
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Bucket list.

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ABVD, beam, Bloodcancer, bone, Bonecancer, bucket list, cancer, change, chemotherapy, haematology, health, hematolohy, Hodgkins, hogkins!Lymphoma, Ice, live, myloma, PET CT scanner, positive, remission, remmission, results, scan, survive, transplant

Morning, how are you today? Well have you done one, I know it’s something I have to do. I have been a little  apprehensive about doing one. Mainly because when I was in the scouts at St Andrews church Blackburn. There were many times we would go and be given a pen and paper to write down the things we would like to do. The trouble with that was that, we only ever wrote a list, we never actually did the things that were on the list. Obviously if you had asked me to write a list in January this year. There would only have been 1 entry. I think you can guess what that entry would be.

  
The point is though that the only person standing in the way of your happiness, your dream, your ambition is YOU. We can spend our time blaming situations, other people. The things people say that make you feel so negative, the things people do that are not the standard that we want to attain to. Those things are choices that others have made. Why should your life be dictated by another’s Wants and dislikes, how is that right that our list contains bullet points that mean you want to change another person.

  
Life is about accepting people for who they are, and walking away from negativity. Not allowing negativity to take hold of you. Saying yes, taking control of your own Destiny not allowing it to be redirected by another’s opinion. Believe in yourself, and keep close those people that have a positive influence on your life. The people that truly love you will walk with you, no matter what!

  
Me and Andie feel a bit lost at the moment as our focus has to change, our goals have shifted and to be quite honest I don’t know what the new ones will be. What I do know is that it will involve encouraging others, that maybe involved with cancer.  The last months and years have changed us, the big house in the country is no longer on the list. Health is the new house in the country. Smiling, laughing, friends, love, passion, family, and compassion.

Some might say that cancer has taken our dream, I say our dream has changed because of cancer. These are the things that are on my list now, not a parachute jump or a ride on a Segway.  Morning is where it’s at for me right now, just waking up will do me quite nicely thank you. Whilst awake I aim to encourage people with my blogs, and giving myself the best chance at being cancer free, that’s where it’s at for me right now. I am sure while me and Andie have our holiday which is soon we will add some things to that list. But there is one thing that we WILL do on holiday, we both have wanted to do all our lives. It’s more of an ambition though. I will post when that day arrives.

  
It’s with anticipation we think about the future, clouded by the possibility of a return of the dreaded, that just involves cation, I try not to think about that though and try to concentrate on enjoying each day, that we have been given together. I hope you do to. As we start to live again as apposed to having cancer to beat. I hope you are with us on our new journey to.

  
Have a great bank holiday Monday.

Mark

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H.O.P.E.

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belief, help, hope, others, remmission, together, wife

Morning everyone, even though it’s just seemingly another day. For me this is no ordinary day. It’s a day where we (me and Andie) can look at each other and see the relief in our faces. We can see the strength that our relationship has in each other’s eyes. We feel relief and release knowing that together we have done all we can to beat cancer. How amazing my wife feels, it’s a beautiful thing to see that in someone’s face. The emotion that runs through our veins having beaten cancer together twice, must be over whelming. 

  
During this second journey I was completely the opposite to how I handled it last time. Sadly I did not want to speak to anyone, communicate about cancer in anyway. I locked myself away and only a few people knew what we were facing. It’s true to say, although I had to work very hard to get to this day with no cancer in my body. That no matter what the outcome was going to be I was absolutely committed to telling my story. I was passionate that people (men especially) would get anything sinister checked out thus saving lives. 

  
Cancer has the ability to take even your inner belief, your drive, passion, and ruin your life. We refused to allow that to happen, Andie has been so strong in this process. Now is the time for us to reaffirm why we are together. To rest together, walk on the sand together. To hold hands, and remind each other that we love each other. That cancer has been sent packing. It’s a phenomenal thing to have achieved, massive. Along the journey we have made many friends because we were open to Hearing Other People’s Experience. That’s what Cancer stories has helped us all by us Hearing other people’s Exsperience. = HOPE.  It’s give us all Hope. I have certainly had to learn to listen, I am always to quick to talk. Listening is a true skill and one I am trying to perfect. 

  
There are so many things to be grateful for, but the people around us that give us hope, they are priceless. You have the ability to give someone hope, you have the potential to encourage someone so much they choose life. They decide because of you to be a better them. I was told the other day (constructively) that my blogs are repetitive repetative. I am not so sure they are, but what I do know is that they give hope to someone every day. That’s gotta be worth doing right? So I will continue regardless. My cancer may be gone but the journey continues. Your don’t all of a sudden lose all your side effects when your told your in remission. 

  
So today I ask YOU this. Will you give someone hope today, listen to them and help someone to realise there is hope for them to. Everyone has had experiences that can benefit others, it’s our job to listen to them.

Have a great day

Fonz

http://www.fonzandcancer.com
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Everything you read are based on my own experience and my own opinions. I express them here to encourage you. Please share with others, if it meant something to you it will to someone else.