Helena Trent

In Darkness Born the Light - My Journey From Mutation To Transformation

Archives for February 2019

Next scan, clear scan?

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I had my 6-week follow up appointment with my oncologist this week. He is very happy with my progress and scheduled me 8 weeks out for scans & follow up appointment. I love it when doctors keep stretching out my visits. Now I only see my oncologist every 2 months, my lung doctor lets me go 4 months at a time! 🙂

April will be a big month for my next scans and doctors visits:

CT & MRI scans on 4/17
Oncologist on 4/22
Lung doctor on 4/23

Send me prayers and healing energies please. You all helped me so much on this healing journey. We are almost there! I think I have a shot at a cancer free & clear scan. Wouldn’t that be something?!

Meanwhile, I am taking very good care of myself. I spend most of my time learning about nutrition and practicing energy healing. My energy level is coming back and I am feeling good. I am very very slowly easing my way into work. This time though I am determined not to over do it! lol!

evolove

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Happy Valentine’s Day!!!

From the very beginning of this cancer journey, I knew it was about learning to love. See my first post here. I have been going about love backwards, looking for love in the wrong people and the wrong places. If you spell love backwards, it’s the beginning of the word evolve. When I started the journey, I thought it was about loving other people, you all have certainly showed me unconditional love.

What I realized lately is in my personal life, the one in the mirror is the one I was truly born to love and to hold, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part.

This journey has been a journey of evolving in self-love… evolove.

Cancer has truly enlightened my life from inside out, cell by cell, from mutation to transformation.

Kumon

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Many people ask about my son, David, since I posted about him a few times. When we moved to Pittsburgh about 4 years ago, my dear friend, Phyllis, introduced me to Kumon. For those you who have not heard of Kumon, it’s an international franchise that teaches children math and reading outside of school environment.

While schools are all about academic achievements, Kumon is about developing inner strength for problem solving skills. Each day, the student is given a homework packet designed to teach them about a math concept. Unlike school or tutoring, it’s not about someone teaching you the concept, it’s about you learning from the problems. It’s hard for a kid as you can imagine facing problems they have not seen before and having to learn to solve it by trial.

Last night, he got upset and wanted to quit (like he has done numerous times before). This time though, having faced cancer and looked death in the eye myself, I have a new perspective on difficulties in life. Sure, it’s tempting to get rid of our problems by quitting, but it’s not the same as solving a problem. There are times in our lives, we find ourselves facing problems seemingly bigger than us and impossible to solve. What cancer taught me is if you slow down, take the impossible problem one step (one letter) at a time, give yourself a little twirl and a little space, the word impossible becomes “I’m Possible”. Kumon (or tai chi) training is like that problem-by-problem, step-by-step, day-by-day, we become a “I’m Possible” kind of person.

There are problems so big that we have trouble facing on our own, that’s when we ask for help. There is a solution to every problem we face even if we don’t know it yet. Together, we can help each other solve even the most difficult problems. That’s how we outgrow our problems in life and feel the support of the world. None of us is alone on this life journey.