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Chemotherapy Gratitude– a collaborative poem by Gilda’s Club Writing Workshop Summer 2015

It’s a mixed bag
My emotions run the gamut
The most disgusting and challenging experience of my entire life

For being alive in the moment, to love the sounds of birds in the morning
The yucky stuff going through my body is healing this sickness
God giving me another chance in life

What good does fear do?
It’s all good!
Paradoxes abound as my body struggles
Not to mention all the good gifts!

It’s both the end and the beginning.
For another day.  Friends, family, opportunity to be the best I can be.
Life and health

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What Matters Now is: by Sam I. Gellens

Good weather
My dog’s company
An appreciation of even the so-called smallest of blessings: a hug, a smile, a simple expression of caring and support
Being able to give as well as receive
Making new friends and reaching out
The pleasure which comes from reading all manner of books and learning new words, phrases, and expressions
Maintaining strongly-held principles, values, beliefs while simultaneously remaining intellectually and emotionally open
Not fearing the future in terms of health and illness, but emphasizing the day which is at hand when the sun rises

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