Dreams....lead to goals

Although goals are important, dreams are just as important, perhaps even more important.  In fact, if you don't have a dream, how do you define a goal?  I have a lot of dreams.  Dreams for my daughters' future. Dreams of being here to see them graduate from college, get married and have those fun loving grandkids.  I am doing what I can to help keep that dream alive.  As I have researched metastatic cancer (see there I go again with the cancer stuff), I have found that the average life expectancy is 3 years for those who have advanced cancer.  I will be hitting my 3 year mark in October. I'm glad to report that there is no indication that I will be average.  But then again, my parents have told me that I wasn't average all of my life :)

Instead, I have reached out to find that there are many people that have lived 10 or more years with  metastatic breast cancer.  But how do I turn this dream into a goal? Great question.  I have found that when you begin to research you can find information to support the two sides you know most about, and then you find you that there is actually a prism with many different faceted sides.

I have found that carbs are bad, carbs are good, the paleo diet is great, the paleo diet is bad.  You should eat an alkaline diet, you should eat a balanced diet.  If you eat flax seed and cottage cheese you can cure yourself. Etc, etc. etc.  You get the picture.  I don't doubt that many people have cured their cancer with whatever it is they say they have eaten, or not eaten, whatever the case.  But just like the "who gets cancer" is the fact that each one of us are different.  If you would have asked me if I thought I would get cancer the answer would have been a resounding NO.  No one in my family history has ever had breast cancer and they have all lived to be a ripe old age (at least into their 80's , if not their 90's).

So now my dream of seeing both of my girls graduate from college will come down to me discovering the best way for me to beat cancer.  My goal is not to try each and every idea that I have found on the internet. My goal is to discover the type of diet that is best for breast cancer, will work in my family's life style, and that will keep the cancer from growing (oh, did I mention that I haven't had any new or growing occurrences in my last 2 scans). Juicing and essential oils are the first 2 trials.  So keep reading, I will be sharing my progress along the way.