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Well, hello, everyone. Gee whiz, you must have been on the nice list this year because Santa's here with a new episode of Sick Boy.

Thanks for the cookies in the milk.

Today, we're sitting down with Christine Elliott.

And, boy, does she have a story to tell? Here's the thing. Most people, when they get diagnosed with cancer, they get

diagnosed with one type of cancer. But our guest, Christine, no. She decided, screw that. I'm

going to go above and beyond. And at 31 years old, she found herself facing not just a

stage three breast cancer diagnosis, but also what would turn out to be a sneaky little tumor

hiding behind her ribs in her lung. Now, what's wild about Christine's story, though, beyond the

double diagnosis, is how it completely transformed her approach to healing.

Before cancer, she was all about the natural remedies, you know, the type who probably would have

headed to a retreat to Mexico if she ever got sick. But life had other plans. And her journey

ended up bridging both worlds of medicine in some pretty

fascinating ways. I mean, at one point, she literally turned into a light bulb, basically,

during one of her alternative treatments. No joke, she could actually light up a bulb by touching it.

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