* I have two separate cancers

A rare form of Lung Cancer and also Breast Cancer which has recently spread to my lymph system

* Conventional medicine currently can not offer me a cure for my lung cancer and my breast cancer is currently stage 3. Im 36 and it feels heartbreaking to think how life could be without these illnesses in my life .

* I have researched lots of alternative treatments for both my cancers and have learnt about the successes and hopeful outcomes that can be achieved , these treatments are not offered by the nhs and come with a big price tag . This is why I’m asking for help to explore my treatment options outside of the NHS even knowing its so expensive it comforts me to know there could be more options to explore

Hello.

I thought I’d write a brief summary of whats bought me to start this page. Thank you for your time to read my story.

🌱 Please follow the links to the two short videos at the bottom of the page

I was first diagnosed with primary breast cancer and a rare form of lung cancer in 2016 at 33 years old. In that moment my whole life changed, to feel such heartbreak and fear was so tangible I was almost sick.

Like, with any trauma, I went into shock, I had dreams of dying, terrified of being taken from my loved ones, fear of the punishing treatments, and it took all my strength to hear what the doctor was saying, my instinct was to run away and forget it was happening. Anyone who’s ever experienced this dis-ease or seen a loved one go through it may understand.

But my will to live is so great I was and am willing to do anything to get well and be here for as long as possible.

In the early days along side the grueling treatments I knew I could make lots of lifestyle changes to have the best chance at healing the cancers . So I embarked on making all the changes I could , I radically changed to a vegan , zero sugar, zero processed food diet , detoxing regularly and including periodically a few weeks at a time to eat a raw diet , I cut my working hours down to reduce stress and fatigue . I had excellent therapy to support the shock and trauma of the diagnosis and currently I am exploring further with emotional release work . This has taken courage and discipline but I know it has greatly supported my healing Many of these changes I made whilst doing chemotherapy, where for the first time I felt I was dying, I lost all my hair and could barely walk 100 yards without pain.. The chemo landed me in hospital twice, three days at a time. When I ate it felt like razor blades down my throat into my digestive system. I still have scars where my body couldn't repair itself from a mosquito bite, and because I lost my eyelashes I used to have streaming eyes to the point my cheeks would be so painful and would get sores. Even though this was so hard, I kept up the diet, took my supplements and made myself walk round the park everyday. I knew how important it was to support my body though the chemo.

After that come surgery, a lumpectomy and my sentinel nodes taken. I also took a target biological therapy drug for the last few years for the lung.

In March 2017 I have had some remarkable results with my lung cancer shrinking in my lungs and in theory the breast being clear. I could breathe easier for the next year.

I started planning for the future I made another big life style change , moving out of London to Kent to a more gently paced life with my fiance . I then had the news that there was no detectable evidence of disease in my lungs . All was feeling brilliant . A miracle

However the breast cancer came back May 2018, I picked myself up and I decided to have a mastectomy last November. I’ve have just gone back to work this April.

The next life shock was to find out that cancer has spread to my lymph nodes near my armpit .

The pain and fear is right back now, and I’m starting to struggle and feel weaker to pick myself up again. I know I can do this, but sometimes it feels so so hard. Sometimes I have nightmares, sometimes I’m so emotionally tired I can’t face leaving the house to go to work. I know from a conventional medicine point of view it can only get me so far .

I’ve been researching and there is so much we can do to treat have cancer sucssefully but these treatments come at a very high price. Right now as I’m writing this my eyes well, I’m tired of the constant toughness of this dis-ease. What I have been doing up to now has been great but may not to be enough to stop it progressing, and I now need to ask for help.

I want to live and I believe all dis-ease is curable .

Through my own research I am understanding more and more that as well as physically , how life experiences such as trauma and disruptions in our emotional wellbeing can also cause dis-ease. This can get overlooked in conventional medicine .

As reports show by 2020 1 in 2 men and 1-3 women will get cancer. And by other 20 years they’re expecting it to rise another 57 percent.

I‘m now asking for help to support me to continue to afford the treatments that feel right to me., I have spent all my savings and my family have given so much which is why Im now asking for help 🌷

It costs so much to explore alternative and different avenues of treatment , over the last three years I and my family have spent upwards of £45,000 to support my illness . this amount of money has given me a greatly improved quality of health and I believe been a key part of extending my life beyond the initial lung cancer diagnosis . These choices of integrative treatments have not only greatly helped to repair my body from the harsh side effects of the early conventional treatment I received but also scaffold the targeted therapy I still receive .

To give you all an idea of the costs here are a few of the most regular outgoings 🌷

Care oncology clinic and follow ups is around £400 a consultation

Current Integrative doctor consultations , localised hyperthemia and Intravenous treatments are £520 weekly

Plant medicine monthly at the moment is £3300

Monthly supplements are upwards of £350

This is an example of some of the costs , at the moment I am in an intensive phase which in the future I hope will be much more gently paced .I want to live and I believe all dis-ease is curable it’s just conventional medicine haven’t discovered it yet.

There are more and more people healing their cancers at stage three and four.

I have a beautiful wonderful fiancé who is truly my soulmate, we are hoping to get married next year and want lots of years ahead of us.

Any donation will be so treasured, and I want to send my deepest thanks and love to you.

Cancer has taught me to be present, value every day, and that everyday is a blessed one. Love and live the way you want to, be grateful for the small things and value every moment. We all don’t know how long we have on this earth, so let’s make the most of it :-).

Sending love to you all.

🌱 Helen

🌺🌱Hello I thought I’d give a little up date.🌱🌺

We’ve had some positive news , the spread of cancer is the breast cancer and not as we first thought the lung in the lymph nodes. Which has given us some breathing space. The lungs are stable right now 🙏🏻 which is great.

The hospital has the usual plans but in my case and asking their opinion they can’t guarantee getting the stem cells or not jepodising the lungs. Hence in whatever treatment I decide I will need to scaffold my body to support any toxic therapies. I need a make decision by August.

In the meantime, the plan to introduce low toxicity treatments to hopefully make the cancer smaller by August.

Had a great appointment with Care oncology who have put me on some anti cancer drugs to begin to starve the cancer :-).

Thank you again for all your beautiful messages, it really does pick me up on tough days. And of course the donations that give me choices I wouldn’t otherwise have.

Massive love to you all, and I’ll be in touch soon. Helen xxx

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