Oregon has reissued my drivers license until my birthday 2016! I am stoked! Oregon believes in me! I believe I will be enjoying thoughts, feelings, moments, conversations, and activity with this world for many decades to come. The confidence the Oregon Department of Transportation has tangibly shown for our efforts in fighting glioblastoma multiforme inspires me to keep up the fight.
Every day, in every way, I feel good energy spiraling up through my body and healing at the quantum physics and general relativity levels of my being. My folks are great support for me and help in the daily efforts of healing and general living. I am eating well, only taking prescribed medications, resting, keeping my intracranial pressure at safe pressures.
How does one influence autonomic bodily functions? It helps to be a Jedi Knight, yogi, or find out what works for you. I do not recommend medications unless directed by a physician. I recommend in jesting only healthy substances, hydrating properly, resting, and appropriate, daily, activity. The activity can be as simple as putting on one's shoes.
Peace and Love,
Jack
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Normality, Life is good, listening to you,
I know I tell people I feel good but I feel I should elaborate on that feeling. To keep this post as empowering for the people I love, I will keep the feeling positive. I am looking forward to normality. Healing the scar and bone up side my head, returning to work and contributing to my work team, fly fishing, bike riding, yoga, people hugging, dog walking, weed pulling, fence post digging, learning to salsa dance. I am looking forward to normality. Life is good.
Is this song written by "The Who" in the rock opera "Tommy" about our role in the universe and how we can open up to grace and the beauty of each other to revel in all the goodness this abundant universe has to offer? There are and abundance of possibilities. Perhaps this song is about a relationship present, past or future for any of us?
Listening to You / See Me Lyrics, “The Who”Tommy:
"See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me, heal me, heal me.
Chorus:
Listening to you I get the music.
Gazing at you I get the heat.Following you I climb the mountain.I get excitement at your feet!Right behind you I see the millions.On you I see the glory.
From you I get opinions.From you I get the story.Listening to you I get the music.Gazing at you I get the heat.Following you I climb the mountain.I get excitement at your feet!"
The universe is vast. Each and every one of us are precious and every now and then, we can make our verb tenses apropriate.
Peace and Love, Open to grace,
Jack
Is this song written by "The Who" in the rock opera "Tommy" about our role in the universe and how we can open up to grace and the beauty of each other to revel in all the goodness this abundant universe has to offer? There are and abundance of possibilities. Perhaps this song is about a relationship present, past or future for any of us?
Listening to You / See Me Lyrics, “The Who”Tommy:
"See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me,
feel me,
touch me,
heal me.
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me, heal me, heal me.
Chorus:
Listening to you I get the music.
Gazing at you I get the heat.Following you I climb the mountain.I get excitement at your feet!Right behind you I see the millions.On you I see the glory.
From you I get opinions.From you I get the story.Listening to you I get the music.Gazing at you I get the heat.Following you I climb the mountain.I get excitement at your feet!"
The universe is vast. Each and every one of us are precious and every now and then, we can make our verb tenses apropriate.
Peace and Love, Open to grace,
Jack
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Brundle Fly Hair Head, At my folks home
Aloha!
I am not a staple head after this surgery. Dr. Lechter used sutures that resemble "Brundle fly hairs" from the movie "The Fly" with Jeff Goldblum. I feel good. I am sleeping. I am at my parents beautiful home in California.
My yoga is mostly quantum physics and breathing now. I think about you and the goodness that you have brought into my life. That goodness brings positive energy to me and creates more positive energy. On the quantum level of physics, by the "Law of Attraction", like attracts like. I think happy, healthy, loving, healing thoughts and you know what?, I feel good!
I do love sustainable, reusable, clean energy. Thank you for providing me the energy in abundance.
I believe I will put together a more sortid, blow by blow of the surgery for my gentle readers in an upcoming post. The docs did some very cool, brain, surgeon stuff that I think was courageous,skellful and creative. I like the results. I think the surgery has increased my ability to levitate. That has to be good thing doesn't it?
Peace and Love,
Jack
I am not a staple head after this surgery. Dr. Lechter used sutures that resemble "Brundle fly hairs" from the movie "The Fly" with Jeff Goldblum. I feel good. I am sleeping. I am at my parents beautiful home in California.
My yoga is mostly quantum physics and breathing now. I think about you and the goodness that you have brought into my life. That goodness brings positive energy to me and creates more positive energy. On the quantum level of physics, by the "Law of Attraction", like attracts like. I think happy, healthy, loving, healing thoughts and you know what?, I feel good!
I do love sustainable, reusable, clean energy. Thank you for providing me the energy in abundance.
I believe I will put together a more sortid, blow by blow of the surgery for my gentle readers in an upcoming post. The docs did some very cool, brain, surgeon stuff that I think was courageous,skellful and creative. I like the results. I think the surgery has increased my ability to levitate. That has to be good thing doesn't it?
Peace and Love,
Jack
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I am on the Internet
I feel good. I have enough peripheral vision to continue the activities I love including one of my favorite act ivitiies which is learning new activities.
Thank you all for your Love, prayers, good thoughts, and good feelings. I am using them to their highest and best use.
Brain tumor surgery hurts. It may not hurt as much as walking across the Isthmus of Panama with boots one size too small but it hurts. I have not taken pain meds today. I did take a walk with my lovely nurse Josephine which felt good. My parents and our family friend Lorrie visited me today.
Be Well.
Peace and Love,
Jack "Banzai" Burton
Thank you all for your Love, prayers, good thoughts, and good feelings. I am using them to their highest and best use.
Brain tumor surgery hurts. It may not hurt as much as walking across the Isthmus of Panama with boots one size too small but it hurts. I have not taken pain meds today. I did take a walk with my lovely nurse Josephine which felt good. My parents and our family friend Lorrie visited me today.
Be Well.
Peace and Love,
Jack "Banzai" Burton
Monday, August 4, 2008
I am off to see the wizard!, Apropriately Accesorized
Aloha!
I am ready! I am wearing my wooden, Tibetan Prayer Beads a beautiful stranger gave me. I am wearing tie dyed socks my daughter Taylor made me, one of my favorite pairs of boxer shorts, a tee shirt I wore in Paris, a doo rag a friend gave me to hide my stylish hair doo, a pair of shorts I wore in Europe, and a way cool watch a friend gave me for my birthday. I am carrying my Moatengator, miltary unit coin, a piece of art glass, and my knee brace.
As you can see, I am apropriately accessorized for Brain Surgery. I am dressed for success and anticipate a beautiful, good result from surgery. I will do a little yoga, some asana, some meditation, and lots of sweet breathing. Thoughts of you bring smiles to my face and warmth to my heart. I feel good!
Life is good!
Peace and Love,
Jack Sunanju Bonzai Burton
"Look at where you want to go, not at what you do not want to hit."
Keith Codde , "A Twist of the Wrist, a Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook"
I am ready! I am wearing my wooden, Tibetan Prayer Beads a beautiful stranger gave me. I am wearing tie dyed socks my daughter Taylor made me, one of my favorite pairs of boxer shorts, a tee shirt I wore in Paris, a doo rag a friend gave me to hide my stylish hair doo, a pair of shorts I wore in Europe, and a way cool watch a friend gave me for my birthday. I am carrying my Moatengator, miltary unit coin, a piece of art glass, and my knee brace.
As you can see, I am apropriately accessorized for Brain Surgery. I am dressed for success and anticipate a beautiful, good result from surgery. I will do a little yoga, some asana, some meditation, and lots of sweet breathing. Thoughts of you bring smiles to my face and warmth to my heart. I feel good!
Life is good!
Peace and Love,
Jack Sunanju Bonzai Burton
"Look at where you want to go, not at what you do not want to hit."
Keith Codde , "A Twist of the Wrist, a Motorcycle Road Racers Handbook"
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Musical Hallucinations, Yoga Grand Mal Seizure, Prepared for Brain Surgery
The recent events that led up to my surgery tomorrow, August 4, 2008, in chronological order are:
July 12, 2008: I had a grand mal seizure in my Saturday morning yoga class after sharing with two of my most excellent Anusara yoga instructors that I was experiencing musical hallucinations. I was trying to “follow” the musical hallucination to see if I could associate the phenomena with a movie or an experience. I have not been able to associate the hallucination with any specific event.
My excellent yoga class took good care of me during the grand mal and had the paramedics get me to the Sacred Heart Medical Center’s Emergency Room.
I have been on seizure medications since July 12.
July 18, 2008: I had an MRI and follow up oncology appointment at the University of California Medical Center. The MRI indicated that the clinical trial I am on is ineffective and that I will be on a new clinical trial with a vaccine made from my own tumor. I am affectionately referring to the vaccine as McKenzie River Valley Jack 2008. I think this vaccine is going to be the silver bullet that will cure the cancer between my ears.
How does one prepare for brain surgery? Do yoga, teach yoga, trail run in the Willamette National Forest with your beautiful 10 year old German Shepherd Dog, “Mojo”, eat natural foods, get rest, and tap into the goodness within us and all around us. There are also a ton of Drs. Appointments, work human resources stuff, and insurance stuff to attend to. I did golf 18 holes with a friend yesterday and made some gorgeous shots. Golf was a great distraction from the thoughts of having someone I just met cracking open my skull and removing pieces of Jack out of my skull.
I would write more but I am fatigued from pre surgery stuff and I am looking forward to relaxing for surgery tomorrow morning.
I do have something to share with you all. My cancer is actually Electroids from Planet 10 by way of the Eighth Dimension. Dr. Parsa is a master of Sinanju and with me being a Jedi Knight, I believe we will enjoy a curative outcome and meet the challenge with love, strength, courage, power, skill, speed, creativity, stamina, and we will have fun curing the incurable.
Jack “Buckaroo Bonzai” Burton
"It takes love, courage or genius to make things smaller, simpler, or peaceful."
July 12, 2008: I had a grand mal seizure in my Saturday morning yoga class after sharing with two of my most excellent Anusara yoga instructors that I was experiencing musical hallucinations. I was trying to “follow” the musical hallucination to see if I could associate the phenomena with a movie or an experience. I have not been able to associate the hallucination with any specific event.
My excellent yoga class took good care of me during the grand mal and had the paramedics get me to the Sacred Heart Medical Center’s Emergency Room.
I have been on seizure medications since July 12.
July 18, 2008: I had an MRI and follow up oncology appointment at the University of California Medical Center. The MRI indicated that the clinical trial I am on is ineffective and that I will be on a new clinical trial with a vaccine made from my own tumor. I am affectionately referring to the vaccine as McKenzie River Valley Jack 2008. I think this vaccine is going to be the silver bullet that will cure the cancer between my ears.
How does one prepare for brain surgery? Do yoga, teach yoga, trail run in the Willamette National Forest with your beautiful 10 year old German Shepherd Dog, “Mojo”, eat natural foods, get rest, and tap into the goodness within us and all around us. There are also a ton of Drs. Appointments, work human resources stuff, and insurance stuff to attend to. I did golf 18 holes with a friend yesterday and made some gorgeous shots. Golf was a great distraction from the thoughts of having someone I just met cracking open my skull and removing pieces of Jack out of my skull.
I would write more but I am fatigued from pre surgery stuff and I am looking forward to relaxing for surgery tomorrow morning.
I do have something to share with you all. My cancer is actually Electroids from Planet 10 by way of the Eighth Dimension. Dr. Parsa is a master of Sinanju and with me being a Jedi Knight, I believe we will enjoy a curative outcome and meet the challenge with love, strength, courage, power, skill, speed, creativity, stamina, and we will have fun curing the incurable.
Jack “Buckaroo Bonzai” Burton
"It takes love, courage or genius to make things smaller, simpler, or peaceful."
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I feel good, Thank you, Dentist, Cats, Perfect Practice Makes Perfect, Yoga, Yoda, What is it like?, Pana Jungla, Iron Man, Incredible Hulk
Aloha!
I feel good! Thank you for reaching out and writing and calling me. I used the energy to cure some more cancer and clean up those dead glioblastoma multiforme cells lingering around between my ears. I use the energy to help my normal, “non cancerous”, cells healthy from the chemo therapy.
I went to the Dentist this week and my teeth are clean and healthy. Chewing food is important and after all, mastication is one of the first steps in the digestive process. I just love chewing good food.
I met with Dr. Monticelli my most excellent, Willamette Valley Cancer Center oncologist. My blood work is good and I can now hang out with cats and not be at serious risk of taxoplasmosa.
As is my way, I told Dr. Monticelli about my starting to teach yoga. I could not leave it like that. I associated teaching yoga as a practice with some similarities to the practice of medicine. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Actually that is a way simplified version of practice that I use to teach at a level people with over 20 years of formal education plus continuing education can grasp.
Yoda said, “You must unlearn what you have learned.” As you can clearly see, highly educated people may have a bit of unlearning to do from time to time. I am not making any inferences towards Dr. Monticelli who I respect and love dearly. I just throw the tidbit out there so we can have compassion for the very least of us and for all of us no matter what their education or socioeconomic status may be.
What is it like to have an emergency craniotomy? As I recall it was kind of fun but I do not remember much the week before Thanksgiving 2007. I found my Panamanian Jungle Survival Certificate, Pana Jungla, yesterday in a box of memorabilia. I have more memories of Pana Jungla 25 years ago than I do of the week before Thanksgiving last year. I do not recommend either experience for the non prepared practitioner. The hardest part for me as a brain surgery patient was recovering in the hospital but I had wonderful care from Sacred Heart Medical Center and my family and friends that I was able to tap into. It is kind of a drag trying to sleep with your torso elevated at something like a 45 degree angle. Vomitting is kind of gross too. I do not remember the morphine doing much except for dulling the bone pain in my skull.
Both “Iron Man” and the “Incredible Hulk” are fun movies and more entertaining than I expected. I recommend them if you like Robert Downey Jr. and Edward Norton. The supporting actors are wonderful in the films as well. Great effects and a better than expected story. The movies may be too violent for some.
Be well,
Jack Burton
I feel good! Thank you for reaching out and writing and calling me. I used the energy to cure some more cancer and clean up those dead glioblastoma multiforme cells lingering around between my ears. I use the energy to help my normal, “non cancerous”, cells healthy from the chemo therapy.
I went to the Dentist this week and my teeth are clean and healthy. Chewing food is important and after all, mastication is one of the first steps in the digestive process. I just love chewing good food.
I met with Dr. Monticelli my most excellent, Willamette Valley Cancer Center oncologist. My blood work is good and I can now hang out with cats and not be at serious risk of taxoplasmosa.
As is my way, I told Dr. Monticelli about my starting to teach yoga. I could not leave it like that. I associated teaching yoga as a practice with some similarities to the practice of medicine. Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Actually that is a way simplified version of practice that I use to teach at a level people with over 20 years of formal education plus continuing education can grasp.
Yoda said, “You must unlearn what you have learned.” As you can clearly see, highly educated people may have a bit of unlearning to do from time to time. I am not making any inferences towards Dr. Monticelli who I respect and love dearly. I just throw the tidbit out there so we can have compassion for the very least of us and for all of us no matter what their education or socioeconomic status may be.
What is it like to have an emergency craniotomy? As I recall it was kind of fun but I do not remember much the week before Thanksgiving 2007. I found my Panamanian Jungle Survival Certificate, Pana Jungla, yesterday in a box of memorabilia. I have more memories of Pana Jungla 25 years ago than I do of the week before Thanksgiving last year. I do not recommend either experience for the non prepared practitioner. The hardest part for me as a brain surgery patient was recovering in the hospital but I had wonderful care from Sacred Heart Medical Center and my family and friends that I was able to tap into. It is kind of a drag trying to sleep with your torso elevated at something like a 45 degree angle. Vomitting is kind of gross too. I do not remember the morphine doing much except for dulling the bone pain in my skull.
Both “Iron Man” and the “Incredible Hulk” are fun movies and more entertaining than I expected. I recommend them if you like Robert Downey Jr. and Edward Norton. The supporting actors are wonderful in the films as well. Great effects and a better than expected story. The movies may be too violent for some.
Be well,
Jack Burton
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