Welcome! My name is Barbara Korthals and I’m a 21+-year survivor of Triple Negative Breast Cancer. I attribute my lengthy survival to avoiding much of what the conventional medical world had to offer someone like me and to looking for alternative solutions to my health problems. I’m inviting you to step into my world and get a glimpse of what I’ve experienced from the time of my original cancer diagnosis in April 1998. I did a lot of things that benefitted my health, but I will also be the first to admit that I have made many, many mistakes . . . mistakes that have led me to the point I’m at today: facing Stage 4 breast cancer with metastasis throughout my lungs. Realizing that this situation is considered to be a death sentence in conventional medicine and because it is inoperable at this point, I have chosen once again to pursue an alternative path to reverse this situation and reclaim my health. I’m sure many will say “She deserves to be where she is now because she refused the advice of the medical experts.” Fair enough. But hopefully you will remain open-minded enough to see things from my point of view; and, at the very least, benefit from the mistakes I have made by not making the same ones yourselves. While some treatments proved to be very helpful for me; others did not provide the positive outcome that I had hoped. I want to state emphatically that while some of those treatment options did not work for me, I am not saying that those treatments do not work at all. Clearly, there are numerous accounts in books and online of those that have seen their cancers resolve from just about every treatment option available. I am only sharing my own personal experiences and opinions. I am clearly not a doctor and am not giving medical advice in any way, shape or form.

I also want to be very upfront about something else. You will find links to products throughout this blog. I have monetized this blog because I am in deep debt from past and current medical bills, which weighs very heavily on me. The huge drawback of alternative cancer treatments is that none of it is covered by health insurance. It must all be paid out-of-pocket. I have tried to select those products that I believe in and trust. If you choose to purchase any of these products, I will receive a small commission from those companies. If you are willing and able to make a donation, that would be deeply and sincerely appreciated. If not, a simple prayer for my healing and others in a similar situation is very much desired and welcomed.

Now . . . . sit back and strap yourselves in for the roller coaster ride of my cancer journey!

The Beginning

January 1998

I was trapped in hell . . . . . a hell of my own making. Two and a half years prior to this date, I married a man I had no business marrying. Our relationship should have never evolved past a first date, let alone progress to marriage. I ignored all of the glaring, neon-flashing red flags because I was desperate to find my soulmate. Even my then-preteen daughter could see how unsuitable he was, but I dismissed her concerns. You see, even prior to our marriage, my so-called soulmate seemed to have a secret life. He would be gone for long hours at a time, supposedly working. But even that became obviously false when he was gone far longer than any work assignment would have required. He also lied about innocuous things; things that would have been just as easy or harmless to tell the truth. One night he went to a strip club with his co-workers and failed to come home at all; another time he came home with lipstick on his shirt. He always had some excuse and I chose to believe him because it would have been too embarrassing to admit that I had chosen another loser and had failed at yet another relationship. I didn’t have the best judgment when it came to picking suitable men with whom to have a relationship. Ya’ think?