Hello World.
Me, Cancer Free!
If you don’t know me my name is Callie Broussard-Wheeler and I am a kick-ass take no prisoners cancer survivor and I want you to be one too!
Eight years ago on my husband’s birthday I had gone to the emergency room after a fall at a puppy training class. What the doctors found was a 27 inch tumor in my left femur. It turned out to be encapsulated bone marrow cancer. I had my left femur removed and tons of chemo and then hit the natural method of holistic healing. I have had reoccurances in my lungs and lymh nodes and cervix but blessedly, I am cancer free as I call it; cancer unrepsonsive as the doctors call it. But for all intents and purposes I am cancer free. I am alive. I have two feet and two strong little fat legs that do yoga, ride a bike and walk about seven miles a day. I swore after the miserable year of laying in bed as the jibberjacked scaffoling “set” in my leg. (This was a compromise on my doctors part because his only suggestion was remove the leg.) I have news for you it takes two feet to wear your Jimmy Choo’s and I was keeping mine. So we found a way all be it not perfect way for me to keep my leg. He got to keep the sexy tumor and we parted company.
Today, I thought would be a perfect day to share something with you. First of all on a personal note, my dad has been sick and all his biopsies came back completely negative today. So what a fitting day to talk to you about your health. I have to say that at times I can be a hippocrite about this subject. Although I pound into all my loved ones and total strangers to get complete physicals, mammograms,prostrate tests, and be viligent…I procrastinate my scans from fear from January until Febuary every year. So this month is my month to get checked. But I know that all is clear. I have never been more well or more aware of my health. Before I was a cancer survivor; I had a healthy life despite a few allergies and a migraine a month. But never before have I looked into the mirror and seen a glow.. today my skin is clear, my body is in good shape, my mind is stimulated and not dulled down and over-chemicalized by the food I eat. I am detoxed and on a mission to detox you. I want you to sleep eight hours, have a great day at work, keep you body and wieght in balance and stop posioning yourself. But before you can do that you need to understand how blessed you are to be alive and begin treating your body as a temple. God did not intend for us to eat crap and I have never seen a processed marshmellow growing on a tree. If we eat animal products they should be free range and organic and have fed on organic produce and fed. That is hard to know. So stop the meat cycle. We have to remember if we eat them we are also eating all the garbage they were fed… the cycle goes on.
We as a culture wedo not realize we are on the verge of a world wide cancer epidemic. I bet everyone of you know someone with cancer. Next year it is said by statistics from the American Cancer Foundation that Cancer will be the number one killer for people between the ages of 25-45, and the number one health killer period. Does that get your attention. It should.. so let’s all band together to stop this killer.
Here are some simple things you can do to change your life and your health. Before I get to this list I am not talking about tobacco.. you know the answer there so do the right thing.. moving on……….
First eat mostly green whole foods… meaning all the veggies you can pack in..make sure they are not canned or processed. Make sure you eat one salad a day and one meal with three different veggies on the plate a day…
Stop eating red meat.. you have heard it before but I will say it again. Stop.. it is processed and polluted and not healthy for your heart or your cells. Stop drinking milk or animal milk in any form it is bad for you. The only animal meant to drink cows milk is a calf. A calf is meant to go from 35 pounds at birth to 200 at weaning you are not.
Eat good fats… avacado, coconut, fish oils,flax seeds, olive oil, raw nuts…
Lay off the soy. This is a debate that is not settled but soy has phytoestrogens in it.. that means that it supplies a healthy body not lacking in estrogen more. This is the same thing breast cancer feeds on so don;t give estrogen based cancers a chance to take hold.
Work out daily..yes even if you are shot to shit.. move for twenty to thirty minutes to ensure digestion and move the food throughout your system and take care of getting your heart moving.
Sleep. Figure it out. Sleep helps our body rebuild itself. We cannot run on three hours a night or six.
Eliminate all Sugar from your diet.. one cancer cell will feed on one sugar molecule and tripe in size in twelve hours. Now expand that throughout a body- YIKES! All sugars contribute or cause all sorts of health problems. If you eat a sugar do so in a form of complex carbohydrates that release slowly and don’t give you sugar spikes. Some carbs like rich brown rice, bulgar wheat and sprouted breads are healthy and although they contain sugar it is a simple unprocessed low glycemic index food. And don’t eat that damn no carb bread.. it is not food. Get sprouted breads and living breads and eat those. Yes, Momma your diabetes will handle the carb count. (I love you)
Meditate or Pray daily. Find yourself some me o’clock time and make it work. Praying transforms the body and heals.. ask a yogi.
Ok..and go get checked and after the check-up comes out perfect and thankfully so pull out your check book and send a donation to Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong Foundation, The American Cancer Society, BasicMissions take a minute and change the world.
Once you have done that.. encourage, nag, irritate and navigate all your family member to get checked, not to ignore pap smears that are less than perfect and do those exams..breast and skin monthly. Don’t become a statistic.
And all you survivors out there: reach out to the newly diagnosed and lend a shoulder, a tissue a vegan cook book. Make a difference you lived because someone made a difference before you pay it forward.
And for the newly diagnosised. First make this a make my life better moment. It feels like crap it is terrifying but you are not your cancer! Your body has a few rebellious cells and mostly healthy ones.. fuel the healthy ones and focus on those. If you need a friend write me here. I will walk thru it with you. I walk it daily. God Willing you will come out healed. Maybe not cured… but healed can be better. Healed means whatever happens in our lives we can walk thru it with an open mind and the assurance that we can empower ourselves to be our own best advocate, listen to our bodies, heal our temple and move past it all. We can break the power cancer has on the world and begin to eliminate the need for that hateful little word. We are stronger and we can change the world with thru one loved person at a time.
Ok… folks.. sermon over.. get to living and say a prayer of thanks if your not sick and a prayer for those who are. Make today the DO OVER POINT in your life.
I kicked cancers ass and lived to tell about it so can you.
Much love. Stay Strong.
Callie