DebbieWoodbury

I wrote this when I entered stage 4 cancer.

By Ivory Jackson
WAITING ON THE LORD

Help me my Lord, what should I do?
I’ll now let go and now let you,
Guide me oh Lord and heal my soul
from heavy heart with painful goal.
I called you boldly not in shame.
Where were you Lord?
when I prayed and prayed?
I prayed to you for so many a days.

Did you not see me dance* for you,
while silently singing a song or two?
My hands held high to give you praise
Come help your child, end earthly days.
I’m crying out, what more to do?
With solemn faith I’ve waited for you.

He then spoke softly in my ear
So sweet, so kind, I had no fear
“My child you are able to think and write,
I have been with you both day and night,
I will act in due time, keep your faithful stand,
It’s MY will be done for I Am That I Am.”

dance* = Holy Ghost Dancing

By I. Jackson

I've written many poems. My mother influenced me by reading poems to me weekly when I was a child. She read from the old poets that usually rhymed instead of free verse. I knew Houseman, Poe, Browning, Longfellow, etc., before I was eleven. I love poetry, especially the lilt of the rhyme.

Love this. Just got out of Sloan from a reaction to radiation. Need thid.

I used to live in Rockaway, on White Meadow Lake.

By Ivory Jackson
WAITING ON THE LORD

Help me my Lord, what should I do?
I’ll now let go and now let you,
Guide me oh Lord and heal my soul
from heavy heart with painful goal.
I called you boldly not in shame.
Where were you Lord?
when I prayed and prayed?
I prayed to you for so many a days.

Did you not see me dance* for you,
while silently singing a song or two?
My hands held high to give you praise
Come help your child, end earthly days.
I’m crying out, what more to do?
With solemn faith I’ve waited for you.

He then spoke softly in my ear
So sweet, so kind, I had no fear
“My child you are able to think and write,
I have been with you both day and night,
I will act in due time, keep your faithful stand,
It’s MY will be done for I Am That I Am.”

dance* = Holy Ghost Dancing

By I. Jackson

I've written many poems. My mother influenced me by reading poems to me weekly when I was a child. She read from the old poets that usually rhymed instead of free verse. I knew Houseman, Poe, Browning, Longfellow, etc., before I was eleven. I love poetry, especially the lilt of the rhyme.

Hi Debbie, I am very new to this site. So basically I don't know how to use it. I am on a chat site for MS patients for my husband but I need my own site. Under goodwill why do I have a 5. How do I find peoples answers to my questions? I guess how does this site work.

Faith Kassala Am Miss Faith Kassala, It is my desire to contact you today for a good and lasting friendship with you,Please write down your email id faithlove4ujk @gmail.com for me so that i will tell you more about me and also send you more of my pictures. Faith

Hi Debbie, my small bowel cancer metastasized to my digestive system's peritoneum. I've been on chemo while taking 2 holistic meds. At least my cancer is now stable. Great that you're in stage zero. Blessings to you.

Hi Debbie, I'm Elena and I live in Upper Saddle River, North Jersey. I'm sixteen and in my junior year of high school and in my high school we sponsor a Relay For Life event, I was wondering since you are a top contributor and committed to this site if you would like to come speak at my school about either your experience or cancer in general. Also if you know anybody near that would like to as well. Our main goal is to spread awareness to everyone and I would love if one of this websites top contributors would be apart of it! Of course only if you want, let me know and Greg has my email! Thank you!

Thank you for the positive and inspirational posts! It helps to start my day by reading "happy" things. Hope the weather gets better up North for you all. It's been a nasty winter here in the South too; I went a week with no electricity here recently; that was rough! Especially when there was a chemotherapy in the middle of it. The love, help and support of great family and friends got us through. It's 82 degrees today...ice one day, bikinis the next...welcome to the south! I'm fighting Stage IV metastatic stomach cancer one day at a time. 2.5 years since a diagnosis that looked like only 6 months; so everyday is a great gift!! Keep your smile and those happy posts. God bless, Patsy

I would like to say thank you as well.. for all of your inspiring posts! I too am enjoying the weather:)

Good day. I hope you are doing well today. I see that you live in Morris Plains, New Jersey. We are in Bensalem, Pennsylvania which is Lower Bucks County. I am so glad that you are a survivor. I am sorry but I am not familiar with ductal carcinoma. You are a magnificent individual. I saw a few of the uplifting things you posted and such and that your good will level is over 19,000. That is amazing. I would love to be able to reach that level one day. Our God Send, Joe, passed away from pancreatic cancer on 12/6/13. He was 74 but was never sick before diagnosis and we really thought he would have outlived me. My brother who is 69 has colon cancer. I believe he was diagnosed in 2011. We have started a group to help cancer patients - NO ONE SHOULD FACE CANCER ALONE - we are developing our group to help cancer patients emotionally, with information and eventually financially. You can reach me at LIGHTHOUSE80@COMCAST.NET if you would like. I am new to this group so I do not know if I get replies to my messages through here or some other way. I will be praying for you.

As strong as I've been for the world, I'm not feeling strong today as I fact chemo on Wednesday for the first time and the port insertion. Having family make flight reservations and accommodations for me is hard to swallow. They say I'm strong and can get through this. I will try to visit this site for encouragement and give back. Thank you for your goodwill.

I feel like I am in limbo as I have finished chemo,surgery and radiation, now what do I do? I have periods of crying and can't explain it. Is it the tamoxifen? I'm 68, so it certainly isn't the change!

Hi we spoke before and I'm not familiar with this site and I can't find where are my msgs.
No focus to go on line and find the right place to have some support and friends.
I have DCIS and last week I had blood clot in my lung.
I have no friends around me and I don't drive.
I'm very lonely and wish find peoples with the same problem in Baltimore / MD.
Where should I go here?
Can you help me please.
Thanks God bless you
Sylvia

Hi Debbie,I have just had a bilateral mastectomy for DCIS stage 0. I see you had DCIS did you have reconstruction and what follow up if any?

Hi, Debbie... I'm so happy to see you beat Breast Cancer... I myself have Ductal carcinoma stage 3c. I wanted to ask you how was treament for when you had breast cancer. I know every one body is different but just curious to know what to expect at times...

Hi Debbie...I have just read your entire blog...WOW...you are so on the money about feelings and the journey please encounter with this horrible disease...I have been diagnosed 1year ago with PC mets...and it is true you sometimes feel you are out here alone...would luv to get on your mailing list and yes I do have a kindle...sullymum1@yahoo.com..thank you so much for putting it out there...it means so much ..kathy

Hi Debbie - so glad you joined us here! Congrats on being a survivor (me too - 8 yrs!). If there is anything we can help you with, just let us know. There are lots of great people here with a lot of experience, so just post a question if you need to. Otherwise, we're grateful for your experience and hopeful that you can help others too. Sending hugs from Denver.

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