Marijke tells how her metastatic hormone-sensitive breast cancer survival 8.5 years (many years clinical cancer) with complementary approaches and healthy lifestyle and refusal of proposed chemo. But in November 2010 an audit showed that a relapse to arrive Sat. Marijke has, despite that no cancer was to operate. And now the weather. Article updated August 23, 2011
August 23, 2011: The weather remains good with Marijke. After surgery last winter, everything is quickly restored and Marijke feels good again and were very active with work and home. For me, Marijke a fine example of good you always (have) information in a situation where a follow-up treatment, a decision is required and therefore that choice stand. Very nice to then see that those choices work well.
January 11, 2011: Marijke is approaching the end of 2010 faced with a recurrence of 8.5 years stayed away her breast . Although the "strengetje" yet she was not invasive after having been extended to obtain information to operate and it is her breast amputated. Yesterday she called me that everything is ok and she already has quite a lot of power. Next week she is under a coaching conversation.
Marijke is also writing columns for us and her first column ( click here for this column) is now in our blog / forum where they posted a reference to her last surgery.
Update July 22, 2010:
Marijke sent us a link to a video on YouTube where a complementary practitioners explain what The Work of Byron Katie for cancer patients can do: Click here for the video
Editor: Marijke With regular contact and we're doing it for us coaching sessions . So we know already that it really goes well with Marijke. Here's an update. Past two years, Marijke three times plus an investigation had scan last week and she told me that everything is still good. No sign of recurrence. Marijke works again and acquired with her children, etc. are doing well. Marijke summary below describes what's happened to her after the diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer in 2002. Marijke also on behalf of our coaching and training and regularly gives cusussen from The Work. See her website: watwerktwerkt!
Here's her story about how Marijke hormone sensitive breast cancer with poor prognosis still under control and got away with complementary approaches. She lied to find recent information and made choices that Marijke van and took her to find that fit. And so with excellent results as she is now 7 years after diagnosis, and further still cancer. It seems cured of metastatic hormone-sensitive breast cancer.
Mary: On July 31, 2002, one week back from vacation. I'm in the shower and feel a lump in my right breast.
In the afternoon I sit with the doctor. He examines it and asks me to wait for menstruation.
Two weeks later: straight to the hospital for ultrasound and mammography. It does not look good as they say. I go home crying, with an ominous feeling. My doctor friends make me more comfortable: it can also be a cyst.
On Monday, straight to the AVL in Amsterdam the same day I get the results: breast cancer. I go straight through the mill: the appointment for surgery has been made, for everything I really penetrated. Back home again I say the deal: I would consider myself first.
a few weeks later I decide as soon as possible to operate. I want to know what kind of tumor it is and how evil. In the meantime, I turn to complementary medicine, including magnetic therapy. It does not help, but yes a tumor has years to grow, so how can you expect it in a few weeks to disappear?
On November 5th will I have surgery. It is a three-hour operation. On November 18 the following results. I was still secretly hoping that with surgery and radiation and a fizzle would be over. Unfortunately, the gatekeeper glands on the side of the sternum are both seeded. More nodes can not be removed - too dangerous so deep into the tissue of the lung membranes.
It is hormone-sensitive cancer.
The proposed treatment: radiation and chemotherapy, hormone therapy afterwards.
I let myself properly informed: irradiation provides a very high percentage chance that the cancer completely disappears, up to 47%. I decide to take that step.
It will be 33 radiation treatments, including flat on the breastbone.
Then the decision on whether or not chemotherapy: another search through the Internet, several experts not to mention the inner track. Before I go to sleep I ask myself in my dreams for clarity. It works, though I sometimes ask for more clarity, because I do not have enough confidence in the messages from my dreams.
In the case of hormone-sensitive cancer is the effective cure rate
Of chemotherapy is much smaller: I hear different numbers ranging from 1 to 7%. It is never the damage to the immune system into account. If I bring your own, I expect that little will be added to cure rate, maybe this is below zero out.
After much deliberation remains an important point. I am single mother of two young children. I want to do everything to heal. And then comes the crucial question in my mind: what is "everything"? Is chemo, no chemo or is that right? And the decision has matured in me. It is: NO chemo.
After that decision followed many anxious moments: I have done well?
By my doctor, I am ultimately supported my decision, but the possibility has not put forward. Only when I come it will follow and support that is heavy.
But I am in the following months is very attached to my decision: eg by a gynecologist in a similar situation when I came to the same conclusion as I: no chemo.
The hormone therapy is started. First Tamoxifen, Femara or Arimidex and finally. Zoladex also to bring me into the transition.
When this all happened following an emotional crisis. I'm exhausted from stress and all the treatments and decisions. There are gross errors made and supported by my father and we need a lawyer complained to the hospital.
Emotionally, I feel like a roller coaster: fears are starting to come loose, fatigue and exhaustion ask their toll, and the tears are finally getting space.
I pay what I can do it for my recovery but rest. I use supplements and Budwigpapje, and base my diet on the Houtsmuller diet. I follow the program "" restore and balance "and then" "more balanced". I use koffieklisma neng chi and qi gong to start, a Chinese form of healing tai chi in the energy balance. Also, I practice "dances of universal peace", so I finally can experience moments of peace with my situation.
It's four years later. I am with my children moved to the east of the country. We live in a small paradise, between Arnhem and Nijmegen, close to the Waal, surrounded by trees. Everything seems to rest, but in the rest I can be plagued by anxiety, stress and unpleasant thoughts. Sometimes it flies and it seems to me entirely if I go crazy. I want to heal and feel that this is the last serious convulsions are the cure. I still feel tired and even exaggerated by reason of those negative thoughts. Experience myself as a victim of the disease and the fact that my partner has left a few months after diagnosis.
Always in the process I found that if I needed help, I got it. So it is now, I walk in to The Work, a method discovered by an American woman named Byron Katie. The Work consists of four questions and turnarounds that you ask your esteemed negative. One wonders whether they are true, and you turn them around. I therefore come to surprising insights. The overworked disappears quickly, and I have a wonderful and simple tool in the hands got all anxious thoughts about cancer, illness, alone, and many more things from my own existential truth view. My life will become meaningful again, I'll be back in touch with the fullness of life. I am concerned not about how long I live, but how I live with myself, my children and the people around me. My relationships improved noticeably. I finally really starting to love myself. Soon I guide people to The Work, as a coach, and I begin to give presentations and training, especially to people with cancer and their families. I give training and relaxation with Panakeia, walk home in Ede for people with cancer, and I assist in Nijmegen William Yang in his psycho-energetic relaxation exercises.
Now, nearly six years after I discovered the lump, I feel very, powerful, inspired, and I have much more understanding of where life is all about. That is the gift wrapped in existential crisis.
I am grateful to everyone that I come across my path on the way here. I like to thank Kees Braam, and all of the mail group mates of this website. And myself, for my courage and patience on the long road to peace with that which is.
