I was first diagnosed with Stage 2 aggressive ER+ breast cancer in the fall of 2012, just a few days shy of my 35th birthday.  I was thrown into the whirlwind of the cancer world and had tests and surgeries, chemo, radiation, and hormone therapy to follow.  Time stopped for me and my family then.  Cancer was exactly as I thought it would be. Pain.  Suffering.  Depression.  I came out of that year “cancer free” and basically closed the door on that chapter and ran, never looking back.  Unfortunately, that door opened again in April of 2017 when that cancer returned like a silent killer waiting to strike, now considered stage 4.  My cancer had returned in my lungs and bones.  It was found by accident, but as I have learned, there are no accidents.  The universe was opening my eyes to what I had been missing in my life.  It was time to rethink my life and my place in this world.  This time cancer did not bring with it surgeries and chemo.  There was no option for surgery as there were multiple nodules in both of my lungs and two rather large ones in my skull.  It was a “let’s try this and see how it works…wait and watch” kind of treatment plan from my oncologist.  It became about prolonging my life as long as she could.  It was surreal. I was expecting the whirlwind that I had experienced the first time, but there wasn’t one.  There was an eerie silence.   There was nothing to do but wait and watch.  I wasn’t okay with waiting and watching.  I wanted to live.  I couldn’t sit around and let this disease take over my body.  Thankfully the universe also responded to this and placed some amazing people in my life who would give me the best advice I could’ve ever gotten!  And hope filled me.  And without hesitation, I heeded the advice given to me and changed my diet and mindset even more that day.  Not only that, we booked an appointment with a clinic in Mexico and loaded up the family and headed south!

Today, just one day after coming home from my 3, and most exciting visit to the Biomedical centre in Mexico I am happy to announce that The cancer in my lungs is now gone, and the cancer in my bones is stable!