27: Healing Breast Cancer: How 9 Surgeries in 4 Years Led to Discovering Emotional Healing - Part 2
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is part 2 of Jill Tomback's cancer survival story. If you haven't had a chance to listen to the story of Jill's diagnosis at age 25, and her path to find the best treatment plan for ridding her body of cancer. We also discuss why Jill ended up having 9 surgeries in just over 4 years! If you haven't had a chance to go back and listen to part 1 of this episode, you can listen to it here.
We get to the emotional side of cancer in today's episode and Jill also walks us through that reasons that she had so many surgeries - there were 9 in 4 years, so that's a bit remarkable. Jill also shares with us her reasons for second guessing the Western treatment that she had, and also re-iterates her resolve to try Gerson therapy if she ever faces this issue again.
Before we get to the episode, we wanted to make a quick public service announcement. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so you may notice more focus on the "Pink" campaigns. There are many "charities" that say they support breast cancer, and actually a very small percentage of their budget actually goes towards the cause. Instead their CEO's have outrageous salaries and many people besides cancer patients are benefitting from your donation.
That's why we recommend making a donation to the Gerson Center. It is treatment that we believe in from folks that can stretch dollars to reach as many people as possible. Do your research before you give, and make sure your donation dollars are really going to support the cause.
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| 0:00.0 | Food Heels Podcast episode 27. |
| 0:05.0 | Word to the wise. One day your boobs are going to sag and mine are going to look just like this forever because they're fake and they ain't moving. |
| 0:13.0 | Holistic Voice presents the Food Heels podcast with your hosts, Alison Melody and Susie Hardy. |
| 0:20.0 | Join the Food Hills Nation and learn the secrets |
| 0:22.6 | to go from feeling unwell to healing yourself. Warning, side effects of this podcast may include |
| 0:28.2 | increased health and vitality, thoughts of living longer, an increase in sexual activity, feelings |
| 0:31.8 | of joy, cravings for kale and kinawa, and a spike in Tinder matches. In rare cases, women have |
| 0:35.9 | experienced a strong desire to change their status update from |
| 0:38.0 | hashtag blessed to hashtag OMG even more blessed than yesterday. |
| 0:41.4 | Hashtag loving life. |
| 0:42.4 | If you've experienced any of these symptoms, make sure to tweet a Kardashian immediately. |
| 0:46.8 | Welcome to the Food Heels podcast. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Alison Melody, and today is part two of our three-part interview with breast cancer survivor |
| 0:56.6 | and my personal friend, Jill Tomback. In Saturday's episode, you heard Jill tell her story of getting |
| 1:03.2 | diagnosed with breast cancer, going through a double mastectomy to get rid of the cancer, |
| 1:08.7 | having the cancer then come back anyway, and then going through |
| 1:12.9 | radiation and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, losing her hair and the physical and emotional |
| 1:19.1 | toll that the diagnosis and the treatment had on her life. It's a really detailed account of her |
| 1:25.6 | experience with Western medicine, and in the end, she |
| 1:28.6 | concludes that if she had to do it all over again, she would look to natural cures, specifically |
| 1:34.7 | the Gerson therapy, to heal herself rather than radiation and chemotherapy. |
| 1:39.9 | So if you haven't listened to that episode, please go back to episode 26. |
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