Comments for Project Michelle http://www.projectmichelle.org Make This World Free From Leukemia Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 Comment on The Healing Room: Discovering Joy through the Journal by Leslie Carothers http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-169 Leslie Carothers Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:01:15 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm#comment-169 i read The Healing Room cover to cover in one sitting. i couldn't put it down as the author's voice came through so clearly to me in speaking the truth about loss, grief and healing. the book is a journal of spiritual healing- written in the first person and on a consistent basis during the time of the author's last four months with her daughter. The presence of mind and nuggets of joy that the author and her husband were able to pull out of their daily struggles with their daughter's illness and their own grief gifted me with the knowledge that, even during my own very darkest hours, the universe is open to helping me cope,understand and heal. reading her book was a blessing for my spirit and i highly recommend it for anyone <br>who is currently going through the loss of a loved one due to illness or who has already gone through it and is looking for a true, heartfelt, first- person account of how one mother and her family transmuted their anguish into joy. Rating: 5 / 5 i read The Healing Room cover to cover in one sitting. i couldn’t put it down as the author’s voice came through so clearly to me in speaking the truth about loss, grief and healing. the book is a journal of spiritual healing- written in the first person and on a consistent basis during the time of the author’s last four months with her daughter. The presence of mind and nuggets of joy that the author and her husband were able to pull out of their daily struggles with their daughter’s illness and their own grief gifted me with the knowledge that, even during my own very darkest hours, the universe is open to helping me cope,understand and heal. reading her book was a blessing for my spirit and i highly recommend it for anyone
who is currently going through the loss of a loved one due to illness or who has already gone through it and is looking for a true, heartfelt, first- person account of how one mother and her family transmuted their anguish into joy.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on The Healing Room: Discovering Joy through the Journal by Anonymous http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-168 Anonymous Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:05:03 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm#comment-168 The Healing Room was exactly what my heart and soul needed. 8 years ago I lost my mother to Breast Cancer. At the time, I searched for a book that would help me heal and find peace. I needed to know that what I was experiencing was normal and a part of the healing process. I never found such a book. Even now, 8 years later, Dori Bohntinsky's book filled a void I never even realized still existed. I am better able to understand hope and faith and how losing my mother helped me to grow and appreciate life for all it is. I am better prepared for dealing with future losses. I am a better person for reading this book. The Healing Room is a gift to the heart and soul that everyone can use. Rating: 4 / 5 The Healing Room was exactly what my heart and soul needed. 8 years ago I lost my mother to Breast Cancer. At the time, I searched for a book that would help me heal and find peace. I needed to know that what I was experiencing was normal and a part of the healing process. I never found such a book. Even now, 8 years later, Dori Bohntinsky’s book filled a void I never even realized still existed. I am better able to understand hope and faith and how losing my mother helped me to grow and appreciate life for all it is. I am better prepared for dealing with future losses. I am a better person for reading this book. The Healing Room is a gift to the heart and soul that everyone can use.
Rating: 4 / 5

]]> Comment on The Healing Room: Discovering Joy through the Journal by Vicki Otting http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-167 Vicki Otting Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:48:05 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm#comment-167 The Healing Room was aptly named. I have gone through the grieving process, but did not really understand the emotions that I felt. I found this book to be extremely helpful in identifying my feelings. Even though I knew how it would end, I couldn't put the book down. This book is not complicated to read, and can be finished in one sitting. However, there is much to digest and I will want to open the book again and again. The Healing Room will be helpful for anyone who is experiencing, or has experienced, grief from any type of loss. I highly recommended it Rating: 5 / 5 The Healing Room was aptly named. I have gone through the grieving process, but did not really understand the emotions that I felt. I found this book to be extremely helpful in identifying my feelings. Even though I knew how it would end, I couldn’t put the book down. This book is not complicated to read, and can be finished in one sitting. However, there is much to digest and I will want to open the book again and again. The Healing Room will be helpful for anyone who is experiencing, or has experienced, grief from any type of loss. I highly recommended it
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on The Healing Room: Discovering Joy through the Journal by Mark Greenia http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-166 Mark Greenia Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:11:32 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-healing-room-discovering-joy-through-the-journal.htm#comment-166 "The Healing Room" is a very unique and personal view into the journey taken by its author Dori Bohntinsky, during her experience with the death of her daughter and others over an 18 month period. Reading this book I felt I was being let into a very special place where there was a detailed record of sadness and joys, of loss and of growth. It has touched me in many ways. Through all of this, Dori shows how the power of spirit is somehow magnified and focused through the journal writing process, and as a reader, you can share each step along the way. The book is powerful and intense, not something you can read in a day or two. Its chapters often give rise to many feelings that need their own time and space to surface and integrate. I found much of value here and know that you will too. Her framing of addictive behavior as any behavior that takes us away from feeling our true feelings is a very powerful statement for our times. Not long ago, I lost two loved ones in one year, and I know the shift in one's energy and life outlook this can cause. If you have experienced a loss of any kind, read this book and re-experience your journey and your feelings in a new light, through the beautiful messages that Dori shares with us all. Thank you Dori. --- Mark Greenia, author of "Energy Dynamics: Conscious Human Evolution." Rating: 5 / 5 “The Healing Room” is a very unique and personal view into the journey taken by its author Dori Bohntinsky, during her experience with the death of her daughter and others over an 18 month period. Reading this book I felt I was being let into a very special place where there was a detailed record of sadness and joys, of loss and of growth. It has touched me in many ways. Through all of this, Dori shows how the power of spirit is somehow magnified and focused through the journal writing process, and as a reader, you can share each step along the way. The book is powerful and intense, not something you can read in a day or two. Its chapters often give rise to many feelings that need their own time and space to surface and integrate. I found much of value here and know that you will too. Her framing of addictive behavior as any behavior that takes us away from feeling our true feelings is a very powerful statement for our times. Not long ago, I lost two loved ones in one year, and I know the shift in one’s energy and life outlook this can cause. If you have experienced a loss of any kind, read this book and re-experience your journey and your feelings in a new light, through the beautiful messages that Dori shares with us all. Thank you Dori. — Mark Greenia, author of “Energy Dynamics: Conscious Human Evolution.”
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on A Guide to Blood and Marrow Transplantation by Anonymous http://www.projectmichelle.org/a-guide-to-blood-and-marrow-transplantation.htm/comment-page-1#comment-162 Anonymous Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:20:14 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/a-guide-to-blood-and-marrow-transplantation.htm#comment-162 This is graet text book both for the fundamentals & complex knowledge for anyone in HEME/ONC, especially at the fellowship level. Would recommed it to anyone. Rating: 5 / 5 This is graet text book both for the fundamentals & complex knowledge for anyone in HEME/ONC, especially at the fellowship level. Would recommed it to anyone.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on FINDING STRENGTH: A Mother and Daughter’s Story of Childhood Cancer by Sheila MacPherson http://www.projectmichelle.org/finding-strength-a-mother-and-daughters-story-of-childhood-cancer.htm/comment-page-1#comment-149 Sheila MacPherson Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:23:34 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/finding-strength-a-mother-and-daughters-story-of-childhood-cancer.htm#comment-149 I was disappointed in this book. I purchased it, and some others, on childhood cancer with a view to finding tools to help me deal with my daughter's recent diagnosis of cancer. Our own journey is still very new (3 months) but our experience has been quite different from that described by the authors. The book is quite critical of the medical profession as a whole. In the journey with cancer, one finds many many different people. It is difficult to believe that so many experiences can be as negative as described by this text. Maybe we are still in the "honeymoon" phase, of looking to professionals to save our daughter's life, but in our journey we have come across so many compassionate, knowledgeable, kind and skilled people. There is no doubt that it is important to be a part of the "professional" team and to know everything one can know about your child's illness, but after reading this book I was left with a negative impression about the relationship between the authors and their health care team. I did enjoy the statistics on childhood cancer; other books are not so detailed, but I was left "cold" by the negative perspective advanced about the medical profession. Surely, Ontario is not so different from Alberta (where our child is being treated) such as to explain such a radically different perspective on pediatric oncology. <p>I also wished that the authors had described more of the emotional impact on them of battling this journey rather than the academic nature of the text. There were times when I felt that this book was a text for a university or college class, rather than a story of the most difficult challenge a family can face. <p>I will reread this book as we continue this journey to see if my perspective changes. I hope it does not. Rating: 2 / 5 I was disappointed in this book. I purchased it, and some others, on childhood cancer with a view to finding tools to help me deal with my daughter’s recent diagnosis of cancer. Our own journey is still very new (3 months) but our experience has been quite different from that described by the authors. The book is quite critical of the medical profession as a whole. In the journey with cancer, one finds many many different people. It is difficult to believe that so many experiences can be as negative as described by this text. Maybe we are still in the “honeymoon” phase, of looking to professionals to save our daughter’s life, but in our journey we have come across so many compassionate, knowledgeable, kind and skilled people. There is no doubt that it is important to be a part of the “professional” team and to know everything one can know about your child’s illness, but after reading this book I was left with a negative impression about the relationship between the authors and their health care team. I did enjoy the statistics on childhood cancer; other books are not so detailed, but I was left “cold” by the negative perspective advanced about the medical profession. Surely, Ontario is not so different from Alberta (where our child is being treated) such as to explain such a radically different perspective on pediatric oncology.

I also wished that the authors had described more of the emotional impact on them of battling this journey rather than the academic nature of the text. There were times when I felt that this book was a text for a university or college class, rather than a story of the most difficult challenge a family can face.

I will reread this book as we continue this journey to see if my perspective changes. I hope it does not.
Rating: 2 / 5

]]> Comment on The Cancer Code: How a Journey through Leukemia Led to Software that Changed the Way People Work by Linda Grey http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-cancer-code-how-a-journey-through-leukemia-led-to-software-that-changed-the-way-people-work.htm/comment-page-1#comment-136 Linda Grey Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:16:33 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/the-cancer-code-how-a-journey-through-leukemia-led-to-software-that-changed-the-way-people-work.htm#comment-136 If you have ever been faced with a life changing illness, or found yourself at a crossroads in life that required you to make some tough choices, then you will be truly inspired by this love story. Mike and Bettina Jetter have had their share of adversity and challenge: they have also been blessed with a remarkable life. Their story is The Cancer Code. You will journey with them from their first meeting at a going away party, to a cancer ward in Munich, Germany, where Mike would set out to create his legacy, but rather, would develop a software that would change the lives of millions. When faced with a chronic illness that seemed impossible to beat, Mike Jetter used his time during treatment to develop a software product based on mind-mapping. Little did he and Bettina know at the time that this product would later grow into a successful US corporation. This was just the beginning. Because of their love for one another, their inspiration, creativity and zest for life, the journey continues. I recommend this book for everyone. It truly shows us that anything is possible if you put your mind to it! Rating: 5 / 5 If you have ever been faced with a life changing illness, or found yourself at a crossroads in life that required you to make some tough choices, then you will be truly inspired by this love story. Mike and Bettina Jetter have had their share of adversity and challenge: they have also been blessed with a remarkable life. Their story is The Cancer Code. You will journey with them from their first meeting at a going away party, to a cancer ward in Munich, Germany, where Mike would set out to create his legacy, but rather, would develop a software that would change the lives of millions. When faced with a chronic illness that seemed impossible to beat, Mike Jetter used his time during treatment to develop a software product based on mind-mapping. Little did he and Bettina know at the time that this product would later grow into a successful US corporation. This was just the beginning. Because of their love for one another, their inspiration, creativity and zest for life, the journey continues. I recommend this book for everyone. It truly shows us that anything is possible if you put your mind to it!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on Power 4 By Genesis Today – BUY 6, GET 1 FREE! by Raeann Tomspon http://www.projectmichelle.org/power-4-by-genesis-today-buy-6-get-1-free.htm/comment-page-1#comment-126 Raeann Tomspon Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:29:23 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/power-4-by-genesis-today-buy-6-get-1-free.htm#comment-126 Hey. I'm having trouble with your website. I can't see the images. Is anyone else having this problem? I have been having trouble with my computer lately, so I'm not sure if its my computer or if its your blog. Thanks! Hey. I’m having trouble with your website. I can’t see the images. Is anyone else having this problem? I have been having trouble with my computer lately, so I’m not sure if its my computer or if its your blog. Thanks!

]]> Comment on An Angel at My Side: Surviving Leukemia Through Love by Midwest Book Review http://www.projectmichelle.org/an-angel-at-my-side-surviving-leukemia-through-love.htm/comment-page-1#comment-115 Midwest Book Review Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:31:11 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/an-angel-at-my-side-surviving-leukemia-through-love.htm#comment-115 An Angel At My Side: Surviving Leukemia through Love is the powerful, life-affirming testimony of author Frances Schindler, who had been twice diagnosed with leukemia and confronted her tremendous personal battle for recovery with courage, honesty, and humor. Schindler attributes her victory over cancer to faith, an upbeat, optimistic attitude, and the kindness of an angel of her own. This gentle, positive, candid, and highly recommended memoir concludes with a short list of support group resources and alternative therapies in addition to aggressive medical treatment, and is enhanced with a handful of black-and-white photographs. Rating: 5 / 5 An Angel At My Side: Surviving Leukemia through Love is the powerful, life-affirming testimony of author Frances Schindler, who had been twice diagnosed with leukemia and confronted her tremendous personal battle for recovery with courage, honesty, and humor. Schindler attributes her victory over cancer to faith, an upbeat, optimistic attitude, and the kindness of an angel of her own. This gentle, positive, candid, and highly recommended memoir concludes with a short list of support group resources and alternative therapies in addition to aggressive medical treatment, and is enhanced with a handful of black-and-white photographs.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> Comment on When Cancer Calls … Say Yes to Life: The Story of One Man’s Journey through Leukemia by Ellen Cirigliano http://www.projectmichelle.org/when-cancer-calls-%e2%80%a6-say-yes-to-life-the-story-of-one-man%e2%80%99s-journey-through-leukemia.htm/comment-page-1#comment-104 Ellen Cirigliano Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:08:14 +0000 http://www.projectmichelle.org/when-cancer-calls-%e2%80%a6-say-yes-to-life-the-story-of-one-man%e2%80%99s-journey-through-leukemia.htm#comment-104 Rusty's book is a candid account of his experience living with cancer. It reflects his spirit and enthusiasm for life. Rusty lived every day to its fullest until he passed away on January 28th, 2008. He will be missed but will live on through this fabulous story. Rating: 5 / 5 Rusty’s book is a candid account of his experience living with cancer. It reflects his spirit and enthusiasm for life. Rusty lived every day to its fullest until he passed away on January 28th, 2008. He will be missed but will live on through this fabulous story.
Rating: 5 / 5

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