Bad Sad CT Today

evertheoptimist

california_artist said:

Ever
Dr. Folkman has addressed the length of time it can take a person's cancer to regress and stay regressed. Often the trial results based on typical cycles show no permanent response. However, he found that with each additional cycle of treatment, the turmor load came down slowly after each group of cycles and they were able to elicit a complete cure.
Cannot recommend reading his book strongly enough. Dr. Folkman's War.

california artist,
Thank you
california artist,

Thank you so much for your input. I will definitely look into that book.

By the way, I love your pictures, but I Sooooooooooooo loved your art work. can I see more of them?

california_artist

evertheoptimist said:

california artist,
Thank you
california artist,

Thank you so much for your input. I will definitely look into that book.

By the way, I love your pictures, but I Sooooooooooooo loved your art work. can I see more of them?

Ever, how's that? And thanks a heap a rooney.
What the heck is your first name?

This painting is called The Visitors. There is a little lizard on the table, some mouse tracks going into a hole in the baseboard, and some goofey guy at the back door. You are more than welcome to copy it. Life is hard enough, if it makes you happy, that's fine with me. If that one doesn't move you, there will be more when I get back from the trip I will be taking soonish.

evertheoptimist

california_artist said:

Ever, how's that? And thanks a heap a rooney.
What the heck is your first name?

This painting is called The Visitors. There is a little lizard on the table, some mouse tracks going into a hole in the baseboard, and some goofey guy at the back door. You are more than welcome to copy it. Life is hard enough, if it makes you happy, that's fine with me. If that one doesn't move you, there will be more when I get back from the trip I will be taking soonish.

I love original art pieces.
I love original art pieces. Whenever we travel overseas, I don't buy any souvenirs, but I make a point of getting a piece of original art from a local artist. My house is full of them. When I look at them, the bring back all the happy memories..... My favorite is one we bought in China - we literally bought it off the wall of a small regional museum. Another interesting piece was the one we got from an Eduadorean indigenous (meaning, native Indian) artist. Not even a name on the canvass, but so soul searching......

Show us more of your art work. I enjoy them all.

evertheoptimist

california_artist said:

Ever, how's that? And thanks a heap a rooney.
What the heck is your first name?

This painting is called The Visitors. There is a little lizard on the table, some mouse tracks going into a hole in the baseboard, and some goofey guy at the back door. You are more than welcome to copy it. Life is hard enough, if it makes you happy, that's fine with me. If that one doesn't move you, there will be more when I get back from the trip I will be taking soonish.

Oh, I love this one VERY
Oh, I love this one VERY MUCH indeed. Ambient of a bit of a Matisse. A tiny bit of Van Gogh, perhaps (especially the chair. Van Gogh's chairs are always like that: a bit of crazy curvy lines as if they are about to fly off the floor and dance in the air). Not that I discount your originality. It was meant to be a compliment.

how big is this piece of work? Your house must be like a museum.

can you just include your art work (multiple of them) in your profile - I don't know if it's possible though..... I just want to enjoy them when I am blue..... I won't copy them - that's violating your copy right. All I need is just to be able to see more.....

california_artist

evertheoptimist said:

Oh, I love this one VERY
Oh, I love this one VERY MUCH indeed. Ambient of a bit of a Matisse. A tiny bit of Van Gogh, perhaps (especially the chair. Van Gogh's chairs are always like that: a bit of crazy curvy lines as if they are about to fly off the floor and dance in the air). Not that I discount your originality. It was meant to be a compliment.

how big is this piece of work? Your house must be like a museum.

can you just include your art work (multiple of them) in your profile - I don't know if it's possible though..... I just want to enjoy them when I am blue..... I won't copy them - that's violating your copy right. All I need is just to be able to see more.....

ever, thanks ever so. (not a medical post)
The chair was sitting at my dining room table along with three others, I used to work at a funky furniture store in Alexandria? VA. and the four chairs and the 54" solid oak table came across the country in a Ford Crown Victoria years ago. Nothing was orange though. I adore van gogh. His brother and his brother's wife, after his death, did so much to not only promote his art, but she went around the country and picked pieces from as odd places as plugging up a hole in a pig pen. She seldom gets mentioned, but what vision. And Theo just gave him money for art supplies and to live. This painting preceded my interest in Van Gogh by about four years.

Size? It used to be some bigger, but alas I had but the one frame, so had to cut it down from 18x24 to fit in a 16 x 20. There was one time when I had to cut another painting, and had placed the empty frame over it to see which part I want to save, that my daughter and I kept on moving the frame back and forth as I preferred one section and she another. In the end I won. It is a favorite and is currently at my brother's. One of my favorite's was lost, when my daughter could no longer pay her expensive storage. She is a writer, unpublished but her honed abilities are so incredible that my painting pale in comparison. Her brain too is on all the time.

I do think that altruism is alive and well and living in tents on Wall Street.

I had all my art up on yessy for one year. I enjoyed it so. But couldn't continue the next year as I have no Theo in my life, and my grand daughter's education is my top priority.


Thanks again,

claudia

Rewriter

california_artist said:

ever, thanks ever so. (not a medical post)
The chair was sitting at my dining room table along with three others, I used to work at a funky furniture store in Alexandria? VA. and the four chairs and the 54" solid oak table came across the country in a Ford Crown Victoria years ago. Nothing was orange though. I adore van gogh. His brother and his brother's wife, after his death, did so much to not only promote his art, but she went around the country and picked pieces from as odd places as plugging up a hole in a pig pen. She seldom gets mentioned, but what vision. And Theo just gave him money for art supplies and to live. This painting preceded my interest in Van Gogh by about four years.

Size? It used to be some bigger, but alas I had but the one frame, so had to cut it down from 18x24 to fit in a 16 x 20. There was one time when I had to cut another painting, and had placed the empty frame over it to see which part I want to save, that my daughter and I kept on moving the frame back and forth as I preferred one section and she another. In the end I won. It is a favorite and is currently at my brother's. One of my favorite's was lost, when my daughter could no longer pay her expensive storage. She is a writer, unpublished but her honed abilities are so incredible that my painting pale in comparison. Her brain too is on all the time.

I do think that altruism is alive and well and living in tents on Wall Street.

I had all my art up on yessy for one year. I enjoyed it so. But couldn't continue the next year as I have no Theo in my life, and my grand daughter's education is my top priority.


Thanks again,

claudia

Claudia, my pal
What a GORGEOUS, absolutely gorgeous painting. I love the lizard, the guy at the back door, the colors... You are so, so talented; and yet you seem to downplay those talents. I'll bet your daughter is something else, but so are you.

If I had some money, I would buy some of your art. Too bad for you that I don't.

Anyway, altruism is still living in tents just the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge. As I wrote to you, they are like the tiny green plant that pushes up the concrete sidewalk.

Jill

california_artist

Rewriter said:

Claudia, my pal
What a GORGEOUS, absolutely gorgeous painting. I love the lizard, the guy at the back door, the colors... You are so, so talented; and yet you seem to downplay those talents. I'll bet your daughter is something else, but so are you.

If I had some money, I would buy some of your art. Too bad for you that I don't.

Anyway, altruism is still living in tents just the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge. As I wrote to you, they are like the tiny green plant that pushes up the concrete sidewalk.

Jill

The title of book my friend (not strictly medical but healing)
altruism is still living in tents just the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

There is no end to the pages that could be.

And if I had some money, I would gladly give you my paintings. Were that it were.

Remember, do you know I'm easy?? Joe Ferrara was his name.

My daughter wants to buy it. I am torn. It started as a study in the shadow that resides in a lemon, and then the lemon needed a home, and some friends, and a chair and some luncheon guests, which is the other name. I vacillate.

that's how I often paint. A thing on a page of watercolor paper, and the thing needs a story and a way to tell it.

Rewriter

california_artist said:

The title of book my friend (not strictly medical but healing)
altruism is still living in tents just the other side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

There is no end to the pages that could be.

And if I had some money, I would gladly give you my paintings. Were that it were.

Remember, do you know I'm easy?? Joe Ferrara was his name.

My daughter wants to buy it. I am torn. It started as a study in the shadow that resides in a lemon, and then the lemon needed a home, and some friends, and a chair and some luncheon guests, which is the other name. I vacillate.

that's how I often paint. A thing on a page of watercolor paper, and the thing needs a story and a way to tell it.

Off topic...sorry
and the title of the painting could be "the lemon needed a home, and some friends, and a chair and some luncheon guests." How perfect!

daisy366

Rewriter said:

Off topic...sorry
and the title of the painting could be "the lemon needed a home, and some friends, and a chair and some luncheon guests." How perfect!

Sara
I too am sorry about the scary tumors. Glad you will be having more tests to determine what they are - is your doc going to biopsy or just do PET. Seems biopsy would be more accurate to diagnose.

I also agree with Optimist's comments. Seems like there are many alternative folks posting here. Lot of things to consider. With my recurrence (or maybe this resistant cancer was never eradiacted), I received recommended radiation and chemo and am now nearly one year NED. I guess you could call me a grateful chemo recipient.

I have been traveling and just met a woman surviving breast cancer. She did traditional treatment (including chemo) 15 years ago and doing well. She just buried her cousin who died of breast cancer tx with supplements. she is from Sante Fe and said that they have a very high cancer death rate there which is attributed to the great number of people who practice alternative treatment. So which is the best way to go???? We all need to decide best way for us.

I wish you all the best in your decison making. Mary Ann