"And he said unto me,
My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (2Corinthians 12:9)
Heather's Cancer Story
The Lord God, Creator of the universe, is all present, all powerful and all knowing. Nothing that happens to us is a surprise to Him. As I look back on the year or two before I contracted breast cancer, I can see that the Lord was preparing me for it before I even knew about it. At around 2015, I was diagnosed with osteoarthritis so started doing some experiments with my diet (for example, eliminating nightshades). I started consuming lots of gelatin (in the form of homemade marshmallows) and noticed a big improvement. A friend, who was into natural remedies, was reading a book on cayenne pepper and shared with me the many medical uses of this spice. I was impressed. It was probably early 2016 that I watched a series called 'The Truth about Cancer' by Ty Bollinger. I bought his book, 'Step Outside the Box' and was amazed how so many people had cured their cancer by simply changing their diet and using natural remedies. In August 2016, I picked up a book on my brother in law's coffee table called 'The Maker's Diet' by Jordan Rubin. His health turnaround came about mainly through nutrition and probiotics. I was really enjoying learning about all these natural health remedies by the time we discovered the lump in my right breast in November 2016. At the time I was six months pregnant with our sixth child. With much prayer and wisdom from the Lord, we decided to tackle this situation naturally.
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What happened throughout the next four years while having cancer is recorded in the book, 'Living Happily & Healthier with Breast Cancer because of My Great God', which I wrote and published in 2021. In this book you will find reasons why I went natural. You will read about many natural remedies and fascinating bicarbonate of soda. You will see how the Lord spoke to me through His Holy Scriptures. You will get an idea of how complex we have been created and how tricky the disease of cancer is. You will read that it is more important to be healed from our spiritual disease of sin than to have physical healing. You will see that God has a wonderful way of turning great trials into great blessings for His honour and glory.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. (Psalm 28:7)
The Story Continues
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
I have been kept and sustained by the Lord for seven years now since contracting breast cancer. The natural remedies which have worked for so many others have at times halted my cancer but, through the years, I have not had any evidence of disease regression until recently (November 2023). While this was good news, since probably late 2022 to early 2023, I have had cancer metastases to my abdomen, liver and bone and I still have a long way to go, and many problems to overcome before I will be cancer free.
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Of the many different anticancer things that I am doing now, I think the main ones that are having a positive effect at the moment are:
- prayer. This is the most important strategy in the fight against cancer. I have had the privilege of many, many people praying for me. God loves to hear and answer our prayers. He is very much able to heal me if it is His will.
- trying to block all the metabolic pathways that the cancer cell uses to feed itself. I am doing this by studying the work of Jane McLelland, who wrote, 'How to Starve Cancer...without starving yourself.' Her story and study are invaluable and she has been a help to many cancer sufferers. While she used a lot of old and off label drugs to combat her cancer, I have tried to replace most of the drugs with natural substances to hopefully get a similar outcome. (Some drugs could be stronger but then there are the side effects to deal with).
- using American Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) capsules. Apparently this product is very high in acetogenins, with a "double ring" chemical structure, that are very potent against cancer cells.
- using Nerium extract and Sutherlandia Frutescens capsules.
- dry fasting for 24-27 hours once a week (no food or water). I have read that one day of dry fasting is as beneficial as three days of water fasting.