Gwendolyn Feathers:
CLASS OF 1962
San Bernardino High SchoolClass of 1962
San bernardino, CA
California State UniversityClass of 1974
San bernardino, CA
Gwendolyn's Story
Hi, I'm Gwendolyn Wright Feathers. I graduated from San Bernardino High School in June 1962. Married Alvin Arthur Johnson Jr. in 1965. We had one child born in 1966. Divorced in 1969. Remarried Isaac Feathers in 1981. We had two children. The first born in 1982 and the second in 1984.
I have taught 1st & 2nd grade for 7 years before I remarried. Since Isaac was in the Army, I lived in Germany for one year, Texas for 3 years and Germany again for 3 years. I have been living in Sacremento, CA since 1988 where I have been an instructional aide for 12 years, substitute teacher for 3 years.
I worked at an private school for 4 years. Retired from school in 2008 and am busier now than I was teaching. I am still active in my church, walk for exercise 5 days a week and in the yard doing a little yard work or patio gardening. I have been on 4 cruises.
I have 2 daughters and 1 son, 4 grand sons, 3 grand daughters, 3 great-grand sons, and 3 great-grand daughters.
Update: Of course with age brings different health issues like arthritis, tendonitis/bursitis and cancer. Wow!!!! But God is with me through it all.
UPDATE: JULY 2015
My Cancer Journey â My Double Rainbow Connection With God
God has blessed me to see my 70th birthday October 21, 2014. Friday, November 14, I started having vaginal bleeding. I called my GYN and got an appointment for Wednesday, November 19. She examined me and saw something but couldnât tell what it was. The pains I was experiencing was worst than child bearing. So she ordered an ultrasound November 26 which she still couldnât tell anything different. This was the day before Thanksgiving and my vaginal bleeding stopped but still had the really bad vaginal pains.
Sunday morning, November 30, I had a watery vaginal flow. I called advice nurse and was told to get to the ER immediately. Two GYN doctors came in to talk with me. One works with my GYN and had read my report. She said I should have a biopsy.
Tuesday, December 2, the report came back from the biopsy. I had uterine carcinosarcoma cancer my GYN told me and she referred me to a GYN surgeon because this cancer was a very aggressive type of cancer. Isaac, my niece and I saw the surgeon Wednesday, December 3 and he explain what surgery needed to be done. He needed to remove my uterus, and my ovaries. When we came out of his office it had been raining. There was this most beautiful double rainbow in the sky. I claimed Christâs promise that he would heal our infirmities and wouldnât give us more than we can bear. It was though God was saying, âI got your backâ. Everything is going to be all right.
Friday, December 5, I had the surgery. When they put the mask over my face, I was out for the count. I donât remember anything until after 9:30 p.m. They had to send every one home that was waiting for me in the waiting room because I hadnât recovered by the visiting hours ended. I was released the next day. At home I noticed shortness of breathe when I moved at times. I thought it was my asthma so I started my breathing medication. That didnât help so Friday, December 12th, I ended back in the hospital. This time after being there 3 days and testing, the report came back I had a blood clot in my lungs. I was put on Lovenox shots for 30 days (a very short thin needle) which I had to alternately give myself in the abdomen instead of the pills usually taken for blood clots.
Because I choose not to go through chemotherapy and radiation, my family was really concerned about me....Expand for more
At the urging of one of my sisters, I emailed my surgeon as to how long after surgery would the chemotherapy and radiation begin. He replied, âTypically the chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatments start 4-6 weeks after surgery. The chemotherapy takes approximately 4 months and the radiation therapy only 3 weeks.â At this time, I was in my 5th week after my surgery. I called Danny Vierra and ask him if I could get one of his 10 day detox program kits and he told me that he wouldnât be in Sacramento that week so I had him to send me the kit ASAP. I went through his detox program praising the Lord.
On February 27, 2015, I went to a NCC Womenâs Ministeries Conference and attended a âHealing Oils of the Bibleâ seminar. The speaker was a retired nurse. After class I talked with her and found out she had worked with my surgeon and knew my GYN. I got some tips from her of what oils to use on my abdomen area. She was concerned about me also.
I saw my surgeon Monday, July 6, 2015 for my 6 months check up. He couldnât believe his eyes how good I looked. He ask me, âwhat did you say you didâ. I was glad to tell him of my faith and the detox program, etc. He examined me and couldnât find any cancer. He had witnessed a miracle. He was so sure that without the chemotherapy and radiation I would have been dead. Praise the Lord.
I was already a strict vegetarian, eating brown rice and eliminating refine foods as possible but now I really am eating more fruits with oatmeal for breakfast and a green salad (eating guacamole I make instead of salad dressing in my salad and more tomatoes) with my lunch and dinner and really watching refine products. I am eating lots of garlic and onions in the salads (which I love anyway and are an ingredients in my guacamole) because these foods kill cancer. I have cut my sugar intake way down because cancer loves sugar. My exercise is walking from Monday â Friday mornings. Drinking more water and going to bed earlier than I had, is a challenge but with Christ, I can do all things.
I praise God every day that he has allowed me to live. He is an amazing and awesome God.
UPDATE: JULY 2, 2016
Yesterday I saw the 3rd person of my team of 3 who monitor me every 6 months. I saw my surgeon the first 6 months after surgery then my gynecologist twice, then my surgeon's assistant, then my gynecologist twice, then my surgeon, rotating like that. The assistant saw me for the first time yesterday and examined me. She found no sign of cancer. She said that I had had the worst kind of urethral cancer that a woman could have and to not have gone through chemotherapy and radiation was it was amazing that I have come this far. She also said it was my vegetarian diet and lifestyle of exercise, etc. I told her about the healing oils (Lavender and Frankincense) that I also use over the area that I had the surgery and I take a turmeric tablet every morning. I told her that it is the Lord keeping me. I am praising The Lord. She said it was that too. My God is so, so, so so Awesome!!!!
UPDATED: April 15, 2021
On July 8, 2019 I saw my oncologist Dr. Mahavni and he pronounced me cancer free and it wasn't even 5 years after my surgery. Oh happy day!!!! No chemotherapy and no radiation. Just King Jesus!!!! Every morning I make sure that I thank God for letting me see another day.
A couple days after that I had bunion surgery on my left foot. Arthritis and other aging things have added to my journey of life but still I've been blessed a thousand times and more.
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