My name is Psalm. My favorite verse in the Bible is Psalm 139:13. It is worth looking up if you don't know it.
I have been overweight my entire life and a few times I have weighed within a reasonable amount of my goal weight but it has always been a struggle. In March 2020, on my birthday, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the next day COVID-19 was announced, and the world shut down. It was a challenging year for EVERYONE. The Covid-19 pandemic prevented me from having breast surgery because it was considered an elective surgery. WHAT? So, one year later I had a double mastectomy and it had advanced to stage 3 on the left and stage 2 on the right. Thanks to prayer, the support of friends, and celery juicing I healed very quickly but they still wanted me to do chemo. That was the wrong decision for me. The first round of chemo went relatively smoothly. The second round of chemo was so difficult, my body had a severe reaction, I almost died, and I was in the hospital for 5 days. The chemo damaged my liver and kidneys, I developed pancreatitis, gallstones, and for the first time in my life, I became a diabetic. I chose not to do radiation and continued to do celery juicing. The priest from my parish came every other week to my home to administer the sacraments to me. One year later I returned and had a full body scan and there was NO evidence of cancer in my body. I believe I was healed by God's grace! The damage to my body from the chemo remains and I have had two flair-ups of pancreatitis that were extremely difficult and have been hospitalized twice.
Thank you for allowing me to share my story. Let us encourage one another to succeed in all of our goals. May God bless us all.
Your fellow weight loss sister,
Psalm