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I Just Passed the Two Year Mark After Being Given 6 Months
More milestones in my ongoing cancer journey
For those who have been following the story of my cancer journey, I follow two markers. I have been posting about this on Medium since April 2021, when I was first diagnosed with metastatic brain, liver, and lung cancer. Since then it has also hit a couple of areas in my bones.
A little backstory.
When I was in my 30s, I was diagnosed with inflammatory breast disease. That was 19 years ago, and at the time, they gave me 6 months to live. I looked up the data in medical journals, and 85% of those diagnosed with this type of breast cancer lived 18 months or less.
To fight these grim statistics, one of the things I did — I tracked my cancer markers religiously. The ones that I used — ca 27–29. For 6 months, doing only my own natural treatments, my markers stayed stable, around the 30–35 range. Then they “spiked” up to 42, I panicked, and agreed to do chemo.
Looking back, I wish I had held out longer. I also wish I knew then what I know now about nutrition and supplementation.
Chemotherapy was the most miserable thing I’d ever been through. If I hadn’t made my body so much healthier and stronger in those 6 months, I wouldn’t have survived the cancer…
