I would like to share with you my story about ovarian cancer, discovered at stage lV.
Ovarian cancer has a very poor prognosis, as it is mostly discovered in a late stage of the disease.
Stage IV This is the most advanced form of ovarian cancer. Stage IV cancers have spread to distant organs such as the liver (spread beyond just the surface of the liver), spleen or lung. 29.1% 5-year survival ( read more.…… )
The last week of February 2009 I was with my husband, my nephew, my sister and my brother in law in Austria. There was a lot of snow, it was so beautiful.
The weeks before I worked a lot of days and nights, as a nurse in a nursing home and as a private nurse as well. I felt full of energy, there has been no signal at all that something was so wrong.
In Austria I had to stand still because I was short of breath…
I thought that it was because I was overweight, and not exercising, I even was a bit angry with myself, because of this lack of sportivity.
When we came back on Saturday I did my laundry and groceries, just the normal things you do when you come back from your holiday. Then, because I should start for 48 hours as a private nurse on sunday, I said to my husband:
“I want them to listen to my lungs. Maybe I have a pneumonia”.
I had it twice before almost without symptoms. I even kept working when I had these pneumonia’s.
The shortness of breath was still there but not so bad as when you are high in the mountains. I could easily have neglected it.
On the X-ray it showed that my right lung was floating in a lot of fluid. (0ver 50 ounces!)
So I was hospitalised immediately.
My husband went home for my toothbrush and so, and he brought my mangosteen juice too.
Within three days I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer stage 4.
It had spread behind my right lung. I wondered if had more than 3 weeks to live… We agreed that we should cry for two days, and that we took action after these two days.
And so we did! I took charge of my process myself.
As a nurse I have seen more people dying on chemotherapy than on cancer. The week in Austria, we were talking about it, and I repeated what I said so often:
“No chemotherapy for me…never… “
My brother in law is a doctor, so we have those discussions from time to time. And I could not imagine that this option was real for me only one week later!
I knew about great testimonials from people who drank this Mangosteen juice. Many of them had great results with cancer. I know this for years. I became a distributor but did not really work with it because of a very busy job as a health care manager.
The last year I had it in my home but did not drink it because I always feel full of energy, I simply forgot it. I changed my job, was ready to make changes in my career and than I became so seriously ill, completely taken by surprise.
I started drinking a bottle of XanGo juice a day right away that day in the hospital.
March 19st 2008 the doctors removed my ovarian, my uterus and more.
They punctured over 50 ounces (1,5 liter) of fluid from behind my right lung twice.
The oncologist told me I had only one year to live without chemotherapy and about one and a half year with chemo.
Most of the time it is no quality time, the time when you are on chemotherapy
Despite of all the efforts of my oncologist to get me on chemotherapy, I refused.
As a nurse I had seen too many side effects.
They called me and tried to convince me that chemotherapy was the best way and only way for me.
I just let them talk and thought: “No way!”
I choose to make my immune system as strong as possible. This conviction of a worn out immune system because of the stress levels I experienced in my jobs the years was so deep.
I knew that I had to help my immune system with pure biological food, vitamins, meditation and mangosteen instead of punishing it with chemo. We read lots of books on this subject to prove this belief to our selves. I did the Reconnection ( Eric Pearl) and Brandon Bays, the Journey. I am a laughter yoga trainer now. I started this course because I missed laughter in my process. And besides: it brings oxygen in your cells!
Just recently I found out that I have the BCRA1 gene. That means a risk of 40-60% for ovarian cancer and a risk of 60-85% for breast cancer.
So I have to make changes in my life and live!
I do believe that healing is combining mental, psycological, emotional, physical and environmental issues and that food has a lot to do with it. Hippocrates was so smart when he quoted 2500 years ago:
“Let food be your medicine.”
How could we have forgotten this in the last century?
I drank a whole bottle of Mangosteen juice made of the whole fruit for 90 days in a row.
The real benefits are in the rind of the fruit. Now I drink half a bottle, then I will go on with 3 x 2 ounces ( 3 x 60 ml) to maintain my health. I used some other supplements, did meditation and other good things for the mind.
And two and a half months later my tumor marker test showed 28, a value within the normal range. (After surgery this was 529)
The oncologist was so amazed about the results. He checked me and could not find anything wrong. He asked me: “Is this juice expensive?” I told him that it cost me about €750 per month to drink one bottle a day. “Much cheaper than chemo.” he said. “I would like to follow your case, will you please come back after three months?”
Instead of having had a terrible year, fighting cancer, I had a SABBATICAL year, enjoying life, following trainings, enriching my life . I have met great speakers and trainers from all over the world.
I did a lot of research and started writing a book to inspire others.
I want others to be aware of the choices they have and the choice of making their own plan. For me it feels so unfair that doctors are in such a hurry in getting you on chemotherapy or in surgery.
Because of my website (in Dutch, sorry ) where I have blogged from the first day of my diagnosis, I receive a lot of emails of women with ovarian cancer.
I did really, really well compared to most of these ladies.
April 2010 I started back on my job. Just before I enjoyed 5 weeks of holiday in South Africa and the United States.
As I have worked there for 30 years, in lots of different management functions, hundreds of people know me. All were amazed to see me back in such a good condition, full of energy.
I told you before that I believe that health is a balance of your mind, body and spirit. Within the first three weeks that I was back on my job, I answered about 100 colleagues the questions on my story. Instead of living my life, I was bounced back on thinking and talking about cancer. I felt it in my body! I wrote an article on my website and an email to my colleagues that I would not talk about it anymore, and that if they would know more they could read it on the blog on my website: click here
Maybe I have eaten a bit less healthy too, I drank less of my mangosteen XanGo juice, just fell into some old patterns of taking less care of myself I think.
I also started at that same time a self healing method. Now I know that it is very powerful but that you have start slow when you are not 100% healthy. Click here to read it, you can use it for free!
The end of May 2010, I got fever. I know fever is good in case of cancer. I stopped my XanGo juice because I would not suppress the fever, so that it could clean out the “last” cancer cells.
Long story short, I got a pyelonephritis, and a month later my kidney’s only worked for 10% and the cancer was back! The gynaecologist told me it could come back with that speed!
Without doing anything I would be dead within three weeks, slipping down into an uremic coma.
So I accepted drains from my bladder to my kidney’s and chemotherapy!
I have been through chemotherapy from July till November. I have had hardly any side effects, no energy loss, no inflammations, no nausea, nothing. I drank my juice with permission of the oncologists.
I have even been to Dubai on a holiday with friends.
January 2011, I am in good health, I don’t go back to my job, I am doing sports, eat healthy, drink my mangosteen juice and enjoy life! I deceided to never again stop drinking my XanGo juice!
It is winter in the Netherlands and the weather is gray. We are so blessed to have friends all over the world, and we all met them through network marketing. We can travel the world where the sun shines!
Life is fun again
If you or anyone you know has cancer (or other diseases), I highly recommend to add the benefits of mangosteen juice to your or their daily regime.
When people are on chemotherapy it will help them to feel less exhausted, most of them seem to experience less side effects.
We have lots of experience with all types of cancer. We work together with American doctors. I just heard today that the Dutch Cancer Society is aware of the benefits of this juice and that they are now investigating it.
That is good news! A natural juice without bad side effects and a lot of benefits.
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