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10-25-2010, 07:18 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009
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 |  I'm coming too!!!
Hi, This is JoyfulGrowth, to let you know that I will also be at CGW5 next weekend! :-) I have been quite immersed in other things recently and am excited to connect more now, in person! From CGW5 I especially expect inspiration and plenty of playful work-out opportunities for my power muscles (that can hardly wait to get more exercise). Also, I just recently found out that I love raw food, so if anybody would like to share their favorite recipe with me or invite me over for a morning smoothie some day, I'd be delighted.  See you all on Thursday/Friday! :-) P.S. Yahoooo, I will be there! P.P.S. Thursday - Tue/Wed, and we've got a car. |
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10-25-2010, 10:07 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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 Is this Wednesday you guys are meeting up?
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10-25-2010, 11:07 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belgium
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I added a new profile picture, but it's not showing yet. I went from  to  . Still cute, but a lot less hair. I kind of look like a cancer patient now. Which is ironic, because I have cancer! That's probably not a correct use of the term 'ironic' though. Anyway, I've got Hodgkin's Disease, a type of lymphoma. Actually one the best cancers there is, considering the enormously high cure rate (93%). Unless the first line of chemo doesn't work and the cancer relapses, like in my case. Then it's 50/50. Which I prefer. It was too easy at first It's a challenge now. I like challenges.  I almost wasn't going to come, because I got a high dosage of new chemo 10 days ago and wasn't sure I was going to recover in time. But whadaya know, I have! I've even got a permission slip from my doc.  Cancer is one the best things that ever happened to me. I can talk about that for hours. I'll keep it down to a few minutes at the CGW though. Why am I telling this? I don't know. My plane leaves in 8 hours and I'm planning to stay up all night. Also, I'll probably have to tell 10 less people now. I'm the happiest cancer patient in the world! Yay!! |
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10-25-2010, 11:57 PM
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| Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Georgetown, CA
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Since you've probably already packed and left home, it may be too late for this suggestion, but when I was bald for Halloween two years ago, I went out for Halloween as a botched brain surgery patient. I snuck a hospital gown and the little surgery booties out at one of my MRIs, and "luckily" I had blood drawn on Halloween so I even had the tape and gauze in my elbow and a hospital bracelet on from my last chemo. We drew a dashed line around the top of my head and wrote "Cut Here" above it, and on the other side we pasted on one of those terrible open wound things. It was an awesome costume though, getting to make light of the cancer treatment for a while. I was just finishing chemo two years ago now. I would not say that I was a "happy" cancer patient, but I was determined not to be beaten down by it. At the outset, I told myself that it was just a medical process and all I had to do was survive. But I wanted to get something out of the experience too. So, besides doing a lot of research learning about cancer, I set a personal goal for myself to be a "gracious" and appreciative patient, to NOT project my, well, "sufferings," onto other people. To get through chemo and radiation treatment with grace, always treating others with kindness, now that would be a growth experience. I unfortunately had every side effect known to chemo, many very severe, and even now I still have a lot of burning pain in my hands and feet from chemo-induced neuropathy. The more sick the chemo made me, the harder I had to focus on my personal goal . . . trying to be kind to others regardless of my own state of health or pain or emotional stress. I also had to narrow down my frame of reference for surviving. At diagnosis, it was like, ok, all I have to do is get through the next nine months. The worse things got, the more finely I defined my survival. Just breath, Cynthia, just breathe for another sixty seconds, and then you can worry about the next sixty seconds. It was a gradual tightening of time, you know, just get through the month, the week, the day, the hour, but I honestly was down to surviving a minute at a time towards the end. But I do believe I made enormous progress in my personal growth goal. Being kind to others while suffering physically is pretty darn near my natural state now. It will be interesting to meet you at CGW, Dukie! | |
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10-26-2010, 12:06 AM
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| Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Georgetown, CA
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But maybe Tuesday evening? I suspect that so soon after CGW, I'm still going to be pretty jazzed up and excited, more than I should be for attending the annual business meeting. It'll be really interesting to see how I go through this QBR when my mind is still reeling with new ideas and goals from CGW. Will I meet you in Vegas this weekend? Best regards, Cynthia | |
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10-26-2010, 02:14 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 326
| Atlanta again
Hi Cynthia, Yup, I'll be there this weekend. Did you see the dinner thread? Yeah, I'm a good bit away from that part of town. We can figure something out when we meet Thursday/Friday |
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10-26-2010, 05:00 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Lynnwood, WA
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Hi there, I'm attending the CGW and looking forward to meeting y'all. I'm coming from the Seattle area, and unfortunately could only break away for Fri-Sun- my flight gets in early on Friday morning. But I hope to be able to jump in on going out for meals and such with others while I'm there. My intentions for the workshop are to 1) gather the inspiration and courage to change careers and 2) improve and deepen my relationship with hubby. I've got my costume! see you soon, Kim |
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10-26-2010, 05:16 AM
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| Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Madurai, TamilNadu, India
Posts: 30
|  Unable to attend CGW
Hello Conscious Beings! I'm from India. Currently my financial status doesn't allow me to fly to USA and attend a CGW. It also makes me feel a bit sad that this is the last CGW, although according to Steve After seeing people post their past CGW experiences, I clearly know what I'm missing. But guess what? I INTEND that Steve will in the future organize one more CGW and I INTEND to be a part of it. This will manifest because two of my goals is to come to USA to meet Steve(preferrably in a CGW or an even better workshop that he might come up with in the future) and to say Hi to Arnold Schwarzenegger when he's coming to his office in California in one fine morning  I Intend and I Manifest. |
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10-26-2010, 02:52 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010
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It's always great to meet Belgian neighbours (I live in the Netherlands), but I'm very much looking forward to meeting you! | |
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10-26-2010, 10:18 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Mexico City
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Leaving on Thursday, and I'm sitting here with a throat infection and 38 degrees fever... I'm hoping things will look better tomorrow....  At least I'm sure I won't have any hang overs on this weekend (not that I was planning to) because I can't drink because of the antibiotica... |
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10-27-2010, 12:58 AM
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10-27-2010, 04:26 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Austin, TX
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In case anyone wants the latest on highs/lows and no rain (yay!), here's the weather.com forecast: 10 Day Weather Forecast for Las Vegas, NV - weather.com Looks like we'll have gorgeous days and cold desert nights. (And yes, for a Texan 54°F is parka/mitten weather. Or in the vernacular: "Brrrr, y'all!") Lisa |
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10-27-2010, 05:16 AM
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| Banned Join Date: Nov 2006
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Man, my stomach feels yurghy, because I won't be with you guys this weekend after all. Something has come up for me and I'm gonna have to be here in O.C. to take it on, and I'm very disappointed to miss meeting and hanging out with you all. I'm so sorry. I'm counting on you to have a wonderful time and boatloads of breakthroughs and to come back bubbling over with possibility. |
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10-27-2010, 06:47 AM
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