My latest update on this cancer journey

​For anyone that has been following my articles you will know that I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, otherwise known as metastatic breast cancer, it was in my breast, lungs, liver, bones and lymph.  For those that are reading my article for the first time this is my latest update on my journey.
 
So a quick catch up, I was:

• Diagnosed stage 4 grade 2 breast cancer August 2020 (mid pandemic, not the best timing), Started treatments straight away, No surgeries offered, Told no cure, Started my own research
• Christmas 2020 – doing well, tumour markers down from 110-mid 20’s
• Summer 2021 – got covid, got through, cancer still improving and tumour markers steadily at 13 (apart form when I had covid, then went to 19)
• Summer 2022 – My treatments have been taking their toll, making me very sick with a much reduced quality of life.  Transferred to a new oncologist and changed one of my treatments from steroidal injection to non-steroidal tablet.

 
I have been on the new tablets now for about 3 weeks and can feel the improvement already in my quality.  The next few months will see if I am doing as well on this treatment as I was before.
 
My own natural medicine box includes:

• Juicing – I am glad to say I am back on track, this had dipped due to me feeling so ill and lead boot tired
• Vitamin D, E
• Herbal medicines - Medicinal mushrooms, slippery elm & marshmallow, Turmeric and my own personal kick cancers butt mix for my personal cancer and needs
• Probiotics
• Nutritional yeast capsules – I’m vegan
• Lots of veggies  in my diet

 
It’s important to try to reduce stress when going through cancer (Oh the irony) but there are ways I do, I have a campervan I bought last summer (watch out for the photos on Instagram), I spend time with people who lower my stress instead of raise it, I go for counselling and reflexology and reiki when I can.  One of my home relaxation techniques is my daily Epsom salt bath which has the added bonus of relaxing my tense muscles and strengthening my bones.
 
The truth is everyone who is going through cancer will approach it in their own way, this is mine, this is how I find my strength, in knowledge, in understanding this disease and how I can conquer it in my own way.  That is what takes the fear out of that word that brings such fear to so many “CANCER”.
 
 
 
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