HOME  |  CHAP BOOKS  |  TINY BOOKS  |  OTHER BOOKS  |  & THINGS  |  ABOUT ME  |  EMAIL ME Helen Ingeborg U P D A T E S ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ April 04, 2025:   My radiation treatments are about over ... only one left! I cannot say they were pleasant (due to my non-related back pain), but some were more tolerable than others. I discovered, via trial & error, that one 500mg Tylenol at 5:30 the morning followed an hour later by Aspercreme with 4% Lidocaine (OTC) rubbed into my lower back does lessen that problem. The therapy technicians are competent, patient and polite, which I greatly appreciate. I'll have a little break before the oncologist gets me started on daily 'hormone therapy' pills. * * * February 03, 2025:  Over the last four months, I have become a Cancer Survivor. All the biopsies and surgeries are done, and I am now considered 'cancer free'. Dutifully, I wear my little pink ribbon pin every day. I now face cancer aftercare: radiation treatments first, followed by hormone therapy of one pill each day for five years. The side-effects weigh heavy on my mind, but I will Think Positive, follow the Oncologist's directives, and "we'll see what happens". Prior updates have been removed. My history with books . . .        At three years of age, my mother encouraged me to print words on paper, and introduced me to the magic of water colors. By age nine or ten, I was making little paper books and "teaching school" to the dolls sitting against the pillow on my bed. In elementary school, fiction stories for extra credit flowed from my pencils and in college, I researched and wrote my final term paper about Christmas in Sweden, earning a Grade A result. ___In the mid-1980s, I revised that effort into my first self-published book, utilizing my typewriter, self-drawn line art illustrations and cut-and-paste methods for How to make a Swedish Christmas! That book is still in print, and available from The Tomten Catalog in Minnesota. Books that followed were: Finding & Keeping Customers, A Small Business Handbook, and How to make Newsletters, Brochures, and Other Good Stuff without a Computer System. The latter reached number nine on Quality Books Top 40 list of sales to libraries, and served as an alternative "Pick of the Month" choice in the Writers Digest's Book Club catalog. ____ After decades of office work and family care giving, I revisited my love of writing, artwork and self-publishing. A memoir of my nearly thirty years of marriage to an insulin-dependent, Type 1, brittle diabetic, Diabetes by Marriage: A Memoir is still available on Amazon.com (paperback). ___ And, my long-ago promise to publish what spirits wrote to me titled Spirit Messages & Lessons was also published via Amazon's KDP. An 'offspring' of that book, They call me SHAMRA is available now, focusing only on these three things: How I contacted spirits, Faith as a power tool, and Life after death. PAGE TOP  |  SITEMAP