It was a Sunday night, and I was going through the client files preparing for the week ahead. A name from the past appeared: Jess.
Jess was a lovely woman whom I had seen some years earlier. She was your classical modern woman, with two children, a demanding job and trying to do it all. She also had the classical modern woman conditions: tired adrenals, imbalanced hormones, some depression, extra weight, and losing hair. Our testing process revealed many underlying imbalances. Over many months we corrected many of the imbalances and she looked and felt amazing.
A series of events caused her to stop her wellness journey. A marriage breakup, and finances drove her decision. I encouraged her to maintain her diet, exercise, lifestyle and supplement regime as we said goodbye.
Fast forward to Wednesday. I was looking forward to seeing Jess. I did not recognize her. Gone was the lovely smile. Her face was gaunt and drawn. She dissolved into tears. I am not a huggee person, but sometimes…. Between the sobs, she poured out how her health had gone backwards, leading to a diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer. She had started down the conventional route but had a terrible reaction to chemotherapy and had to stop.
I explained to Jess that natural medicine could help with many of the side effects of chemotherapy, making it more tolerable, more effective and protecting healthy cells. She did not want to go there.
We went through a process of testing both in-clinic, through her GP and some overseas tests. Many of her original imbalances had returned with gusto. She clearly had not heeded my last words to her. These and other imbalances cause healthy cells to mutate to cancer cells.
Jess was desperate to live, mainly because of her children. She wanted to know the best treatments/therapies available, worldwide. I went through them for her. Overseas clinics were beyond her price range. Many of those same therapies were available in NZ for a fraction of the cost. We designed her plan.
She said “I remember you saying that one in two women get cancer in their lifetime and you know, I just assumed I would be the lucky one. I wish ……”
Jess soon realized that the natural approach was a lot harder than the conventional approach. With conventional medicine you just have to arrive and be dealt to, whether it be surgery, chemo or radiation. There are no instructions about diet or lifestyle or supplements or additional therapies. The sole focus is on killing the cancer. We seem to have forgotten that a cancer cell is a normal cell in a toxic environment, just trying to survive. Maybe we should also be focusing on the environment that forced that normal cell to turn rogue.
Jess’s program was all about changing her toxic environment. Stage 3 is serious, demanding a serious response.
As a member of Metabolic Regen, I was able to access invaluable resources on Jess’s behalf. In my view, emotional trauma had played a major role and had to be addressed (Google German New Medicine).
Jess had to reduce her work hours to do what her body demanded. We designed a program to suit her reducing budget. Many of the therapies were done at home, but she did come into the clinic for low-level laser therapy, sessions in the hyperbaric chamber, and pulsed electromagnetic therapy. These are the same therapies that she would have received in those overseas clinics, but without the extravagant trappings.
Jess decided on an innovated body resonance therapy to address underlying unresolved traumas. For her, it was a perfect fit.
Jess had an amazing GP, who agreed to authorize key blood tests. These are tests that are done as a matter of course to monitor progress overseas, but not in this country.
I encouraged Jess to maintain her links with conventional medicine. Her oncologist was, in my view, less than helpful, predicting doom and gloom if she did not return to her chemo regime.
Slowly but surely Jess’s test results improved. We were monitoring her circulating cancer cell count via an overseas lab and they were also tracking in the right direction.
I do not like any scans that use radiation. Dah! Radiation causes cancer. Anyway, sometimes people just need to know, so Jess had a scan and all the tumours had shrunk significantly. Some were undetectable. Yeaaaa!
That was 18 months ago. Jess had not had any more scans. She says that she does not need them to know she is well.
I still see Jess semi-regularly, and we conduct our own tests to ensure we are on the right track.
Jess reminds me constantly how hard natural medicine is, but she is feeling great and we have achieved her goal of being here for her children.