It is now almost 12 months since I got that dreadful news that I had cancer!  The feelings of fear, overwhelming tiredness and pain are behind me!  I can now be the mother I need to be for our three girls aged between 11.5 months  and 4.25 years.  Yes it is busy, but I love it!!

OK, so how did I get here?  I believe in my heart of hearts that I have been divinely healed.  I also believe that God used Chemotherapy to heal me.  Is that a paradox?  No!  God can and does use medicine to heal, after all he created man with a brain and the ability to figure out medicine.  BUT I also believe that he told us NOT to continue with the treatment once the tumour markers were normal.

After the second dose of chemotherapy my tumour markers and the MRI scans were normal! I suggested to my oncology specialist that I have no more treatment, but he managed to scare me into a third round.  With this dose I developed an infection requiring hospitalisation - some people never come out after that.  So a fourth dose was out of the question in my mind.  If my body was going to heal itself after treatment, it needed something to heal it with.  Chemotherapy not only kills the cancer cells, but also the infection fighting white blood cells.  This means that it knocks the immune system so low that you can die from the commen cold.  Does this seem right to you?  Cancer is bascially a failure of the immune system to recognise the mutating cells.  Cancer treatment should boost the immune system not kill it!

As I waited in the bed for the fouth (and unwanted) dose of chemo to begin (which took longer than it should have) I got to read a book by George Malkmus called "Why Christians Get Sick".  This book goes into great detail on diet.  How important it is to eat live food.  By live food, I don't mean catching the rabbit you saw running across the road!  Live food is food that is raw.  When you cook food you destory nutrients and vital enzymes that are necessary for digestion.  I got to thinking about my diet and how if I change it now I will not need that fouth dose of chemo (that may well kill me!).

The specialist, who was so busy he could not come to see me, when he found out that I was refusing the fouth treatment, was in my room in less than five minutes!  With a pained expression he said;  "I wish I could say diet worked!"  I felt like giving him several books I have read that give testimonies of 100's of people that have "mysteriously" been healed only by changing their diet!

I agreed to regular blood tests and scans and was discharged.  I've never heard from that doctor (who was so worried about me) since but was referred to his counter part who specialises in "women's cancers".  On the first visit he recommended that if I wasn't going to have the "full" treatment, then I needed to have a full hysterectomy NOW!  Needless to say I declined this kind offer!

I believed that if I treated my body the way God designed, with lots of raw fruit and vegies, freshly extracted vegetable juices and Barleygreen(R) that I would continue to remain well.  If I cut out meat, dairy products, eggs and most processed foods and turned to the diet that God originally gave us in Genesis 1:29 my body would have the necessary building blocks to rebuild itself.

The weekly blood tests continued and then one week  the AFP jumped from 9 to 10.  Hit the panic button!  Quick get prepped for surgery!  I took a closer look at the result and found that, for whatever reason it was an "unverified result".  Relax!  Well, I relaxed, the specialist never did!  We transferred to a diferrent centre and got a new specialist!

My first question to this specialist was "do I need a hysterctomy?"  Answer:  "No".  Great.  Several weeks later, more blood work and another scan and he changed his mind!  Again I was faced with the decision of wether or not to accept surgery.  Again we prayed.  I kept thinking that if God has healed me like I believe He has then I don't need this surgery!  I was keeping to the diet that I believe God told us to be on.  So in faith my husband and I said no, we would keep going the way we are thankyou.

Several weeks later we were again in the specialists office for a check up.  He looked at my blood results and this time they were better than ever.  He did a bi-manual examination and could feel NOTHING!

A few days later this letter came in the mail;  "Sarah returned for followup appointment today she remains very well and is having regular periods.  Her latest tumour markers were normal with an AFP of 7.8.  Bimanuel examination is unremarkable with no evidence of recurrent disease ...."

I am so glad we put our faith in what we believed God told us.  He is truely a miracle working God.






"I am not the sick trying to get well ...... I'm the healed of the LORD!!"
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