by Joe Birch | Dec 22, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
As I awoke this morning from a dream, just days before my 82nd birthday, I was acutely aware that I have been in a near-trance this whole year of being 81. How did this happen to me? The answer was very clear in my dream. In the dream I was in a yoga class, trying to...
by Joe Birch | Dec 11, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
When you are a long-term cancer thrivor who has lived through every possible treatment option, multiple recurrences, disappointments, painful, debilitating side effects from treatments, you can begin to wonder if there is a Self still living inside your body. For the...
by Joe Birch | Oct 28, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
When I returned to Santa Monica in September, after 2 months in Santa Fe, I had weakness and numbness in my right hand, wrist, forearm and upper arm. I was unable to type on my computer. I went to UCLA Urgent Care and they had me admitted to the Emergency Room. The...
by Joe Birch | Oct 20, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
A Very Important Day For Me When I was first told by my Radiation Oncologist that he ordered 10 consecutive business days of radiation to my umbilicus, I thought it was a grim, impossible task. In five years as a Pancreatic cancer patient, I never had radiation. This...
by Joe Birch | Sep 29, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
A major investment in Life and my commitment to Live and to keep my garden beautiful.Please watch my story...
by Joe Birch | Sep 25, 2025 | The Battle with Cancer
I have been my Heavenly Father’s child my whole life, but I came to know Him personally in 1976 – when I cried out in pain and asked Him to help me, a divorced young mother raising two little children, alone and poor. He entered my life and began to...
