The Light Within - Ali’s Healing Story

Funny story…yesterday (4/29) I was coming out of anesthesia from my colonoscopy.  The nurse comes into my recovery room and I said to her “do you slay 🐉dragons too”.  She looked at me (seriously) and said “no I don’t, do you?”   I quickly and enthusiastically answered “Yes!”  With her gaze still fixed on me she said “ awesome, what do you slay them with?”  Throwing my left hand in the air I said “with my big sword” 😂.  It was a colorful experience after my procedure and my humor didn’t disappoint anyone including myself 🤣. I’m just wondering what my subconscious heard during my unconscious state that made me think of slaying a dragon because I can honestly say those thoughts have never entered my mind 🤷🏼‍♀️ So this was my first post diagnosis colonoscopy and to say that Keith and I are ECSTATIC 🤩 with the results would be an understatement!!! NO polyps, NO tumors, NO evidence of cancer!  Praise God!!  He truly is an awesome Father, our Jehov...

✨Sometimes God takes you on a journey you didn't know you needed, to bring you everything you ever wanted.✨  ✨A cancer diagnosis isn’t anything I ever wanted but I got it and as weird as this may sound it’s been a kind of blessing ✨ ✨My diagnosis has brought me and Keith closer than ever and it completely transformed our relationship with God ✨ ✨My healing journey has taught me so much about what our bodies are capable of and the power of healing.   I’ve been able to share the things I’m learning with others.✨ ✨With my renewed relationship with God I have also learned a lot about forgiveness; forgiving myself and others.  This is a powerful thing to be able to do.  We hear of the transformative power of forgiveness and that it’s good to practice unconditional love. Yet, to actually be able to do these things for those who have hurt, harmed or betrayed us is often quite challenging and can test our ability to do so.✨ ✨I have found that forgiveness is liberating and he...

Greetings!  It’s been a minute since my last post.  I’m doing great and continuing to thrive.  I had bloodwork done on 3/26 and saw my oncologist on 4/1!  My results were perfect and my physical exam went great too!   Next up, a colonoscopy scheduled for 4/29 and a CT scan early May (I need to get that scheduled this week).   So, I wasn’t really planning on writing a blog today but I’ve been feeling compelled to share a little something that came to my heart after my HealingStrong support group meeting yesterday. During our meeting life and death was bought up which, over the past 24 hours, has led me to much deeper thoughts on the topic. So this is going to be a very brief post about my thoughts on life and death.  I’ve thought about it (and the conversation from yesterday) a lot and here are my personal thoughts about it.   Life and death, broken down into BC and AD. Death: BC (before cancer) I wasn’t afraid of death.  I just...