You have cancer!  Anyone who has ever heard those words spoken over them knows the horrific feeling of helplessness associated with it.  I would like to share my story of falling through the cracks in the medical community, and then the amazing journey of hope and healing by finding doctors who would save my life.  I found integrative cancer treatment that I did not know existed, let alone in the United States.  I am appalled that I did not know these treatments existed.  Not only integrative treatments, but I was soon to find out about many alternative treatments as well.  Since being diagnosed with cancer, I have spoken to so many people going through the same struggles I did, who are seeing wonderful results with integrative and alternative treatments, without the traditional chemo and radiation.  I find it incredibly hard to believe that I did not know these things.  Why do we not know?  Do we not want to know?  Do we want to believe that chemo and radiation is the only way?  My journey has become one of healing, spiritually and physically.  Come along with me as we open our eyes and learn new ways of treating cancer. 

Please understand, I do not have the answers.  I am searching, just as I hope you will search.  My desire is that you will share integrative and alternative treatments that have worked for you.

My vision in sharing my story is to help others see they have options and choices, not to tell you what to do, but to stay open and search for answers to find healing.  I do know that there are those of you who will not be open to what I will share.  I know this because a lot of my life I was very rigid and spent my time thinking there was only one way of doing things and never, never argue with a doctor, because after all they had the medical training and they knew more than I did.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I have a lot of respect for doctors…quite frankly they saved my life.  But after falling through the cracks in the medical system I have come to realize we need to take control of our own lives and not be scared into some treatment or procedure we have not researched and don’t believe in, because we are told it is the only way.  Do not let anyone speak the words over you that you are terminally ill.  Get a second opinion, get a third, get a fourth.  It is your body, listen to it.  Listen to your gut, listen to the still small voice inside.  It is God speaking to you.

In sharing my story, I feel very vulnerable, because as I said earlier, I know that not everyone will agree with me and quite frankly some of my journey is a very personal reflection of my life.  The more I write the more vulnerable I feel.  However, I have come to realize I am very blessed and if I can help anyone else because of what I have gone through I would love to do so.  I will take you on my journey of healing to discover what I have learned and share with you, ideas and things that have worked for me.

As, I write this, I am on the beautiful Island of Martinique.  Looking back, I am in awe to be at this place in my life and to see how far I come in my healing journey in the last eighteen months.  It seems somewhere in the distant past when I first heard those words, “you have cancer.”  Although at this point in time I am not in remission, I stand before you a truly blessed person.

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4 Comments

  1. Judi McDowell Humphrey on February 22, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    Awesome Mary
    I’m so proud of you and you are a truly remarkable woman.! I’m so happy to call you my dear friend and yes God has you in his arms. Love Judi



    • Mary Rechkemmer-Meyer on February 25, 2019 at 9:40 pm

      Thank you Judi for believing in me and supporting me through this journey.



  2. Bobbi Keyser on February 23, 2019 at 7:23 pm

    Mary, I’m so touched by your story. When Dave was diagnosed, we felt exactly the same way. .. Drs were so quick to pump chemo poison into his body that we searched for alternative medicine/doctor. They have to be out there! People need to hear your story. His hand upon you…



    • Mary Rechkemmer-Meyer on February 25, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      Thank you Bobbi for being so brave and sharing your pain. This is the essence of what I hope this website will be. A dialog, a community to share, a forum for people to come together and share integrative and alternative treatments where they have found healing. A hope to know there are options.