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http://markkaran.com/

 

I just received an email from Mark Karan. Mark is a great guy... I know Mark mostly through emails and a bit of phone tag, but from that I can tell he is among the best type of person out there. I believe that positive energy in any form goes a long way. So lets help Mark and his family in anyway you do. I was going to ask his permission to repost the email but since it is on his front page here it is.

 

i have been diagnosed with a cancer of the throat. it's a tuff kind

to fight. it's a squamous cell tonsular cancer that has metasticized

into two lymph nodes... and it's stage four. the good news is that

it's "extremely well contained". everything looks really good for

getting thru this with hard work and a good attitude, chemo,

radiation, surgery, accupuncture and any/all other healing methods

that make sense... we're a-gonna breed us a multi-headed dragon to

help me thru this thing!

 

while i know this to be an unusual approach, i am not choosing to

perceive this as a battle or a fight... or even to see it as

neccesarily a "bad thing". i am trying to look at this as the eastern

medicine people might. in chinese the word for "crisis" is synonymous

with "opportunity". i am trying to see this as an opportunity for

growth in my life experience. to do this, i am doing my best to bless

this cancer and thank it for the "wake-up call" that's demanding of

me that i make long needed changes in my diet, activity level and

attitude and begin to truly care for myself... something i haven't

always done too well. having already begun some of these changes, i

now feel the message has been successfully delivered and it is time

for the messenger, the cancer, to move on from where it is no longer

needed. that is my current mission... to move it out of my body.

 

i don't believe it is time for me to leave the planet just yet, so i

don't plan to. i have faith that i'll be around for a long while to

come. any thoughts, meditations and/or prayers any of you offer are

more than welcomed. meanwhile, we're doing our best to stay up &

positive. it's not always emotionally easy and we haven't even

started the treatments yet, but i have a LOT of faith that i'll come

thru this ok... maybe better than ever. it's likely to be a tough

road for a while but i truly believe this too shall indeed pass and

that "that which does not kill us makes us stronger".

 

meanwhile, i will not be touring this summer. i'll be staying home

and healing, building strength thru the summer and hopefully back to

touring w/ratdog again this fall.

 

i'd love to hear from any of you although i'm not talking a lot yet

as they stole one o' my tonsils just so's they could give me the

"good news".

 

we're doing our best to stay up & positive. it's not always easy and

we haven't even started treatments yet, but i have a LOT of faith

that i'll come thru this ok...

 

drop a line or give a call.

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Prayer sent for Mark's healing, and his family's comforting.

 

One thing that helped the people I've known who have had Chemo is to listen to some mellow music on headphones while they administer it, and in the hospital afterwards. It makes the sickness a bit easier. If you want to pass that on to him, Nic, that would be cool. I couldn't find anyway to email him.

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