It all began in 2022, when I had just finished competing in another WBFF World Pro Show in Las Vegas.I was feeling great, not signs of illness. I’ve been competing for 30 years, and became a guru of health, fitness & nutrition … How could I get CANCER? I am an athlete, and I was doing everything "right!" Luckly, over the years, I had put together a team of Integrative Practitioners to monitor my health, and upon return from Las Vegas, I went for my routine blood panels at my Endocrinologist, Hormone Health Specialist and she noticed that I was anemic. Usual. We attempted to resolve it with supplements and rest, but still no change. We monitored my blood for 2 months, but during that time, I felt severe rib and back pain. I figured I just injured myself lifting aagin, because in deed, during one of my intense leg workouts (on the hack machine), I thought I "lost my legs" and I collapsed to the floor in pain. On that day, I compressed my T9 vertebra 40% ( but I still didn't know I had cancer at that time.) I treated the rib and back pain like a normal injury and attempted every type therapy under the sun andI tried to rehabilitate myself with my exercise knowledge... But nothing helped. I couldn’t even walk! So much pain! Not long after, I started to feel very "winded/out of breath" which was very unusual for me. Next, came a sinus infection. which lead to excessive nose bleeds. My nose would bleed so badly, that the clots looked like parts of my brain were existing my nose... It was at that point, my intuition said something was really wrong, but I never expected Cancer. The nose bleeds lasted six months, and pain is better now, but is still active. On Feb. 14th, 2022, I had just come back from a Valentine Day spa date with my husband when I receive the dreaded phone call at home from a very dear doctor who told me "You have Cancer-Multiple Myeloma." Words that forever change your life.

There are no words that can explain the feeling of shock, despair, disbelief, anger, sadness, and loss. I collapsed to the floor screaming, just wanting to die right there and then, because I knew the journey might be too hard to endure. That evening, I sent my husband off to basketball with my son, so that I could compose myself. I went upstairs in my bedroom, put music on as loud as I could, stood there barely clothed, in front of the mirror and actually for the first time, I allowed the energy to flow through me from the beat of the music I was listening too. I spoke aload to my body & my inner child and promised that I was going to use my gifts and experience to get through this cancering process and be cancer free. Multiple Myeloma was not going to take away my life!

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