What does living with ovarian cancer look like?

Can you still live your life normally?

Do you have to be bed ridden, hairless, and sick?

Are you in the hospital for hours at a time receiving treatment?

These are all very important questions, and ones that are often not discussed. Instead they are what most people expect rather than question! We here at helpcrystal.org can tell you is that we have the very best example of what it looks like to live with cancer–Crystal!

Crystal is currently living her life to the fullest! You can find her on the lake, working, playing hockey, and enjoying some minute-to-win-it with her family on vacation, and a very added bonus, she has her hair and gorgeous eyelashes back. You may wonder how this is even possible…but it IS!

Crystal started out with some very harsh treatments of chemotherapy that did have her bed-ridden, in a wheelchair, bald with no eyelashes, sick, and in the hospital very often. Her life was difficult then, every day hurt, nothing seemed to be working. Different cocktails of chemotherapy were tested and failing. Surgeries weren’t going as planned. Then Crystal had a major ah-ha moment.

What sparked that moment? Crystal was told after her last surgery that the chemo had not done what they had expected, that when they went in to remove her tumors it wasn’t a possibility, and to head home and prepare for the worst. She was told to write her babies’ letters for their monumental life moments because she would not be there, to make videos for them so that they could remember her and her voice. For Crystal this created a fury inside of her to fight as hard as she could for her life and her family. How could this be it? No other options? Crystal was not willing to take her life so lightly and refused to let that be her story. She began looking for another way.

Soon she discovered another method, clean eating and lifestyle changes. This meant extremely limited sugar, cheese and butter (but no milk), no gluten, grain, organic everything, dealing with tough life issues from her past, and learning what lead her body to cancer to begin with. As you can imagine, this is a struggle to shift your habits so drastically, but Crystal knew she had no choice because she wasn’t going down with out a fight!

Right away she jumped onto this new bandwagon and has been successfully working her way toward optimal health. Of course there are road bumps along the way, people discourage this treatment, it is tough, and it may not be a cure all. But it is helping Crystal and she has regained her LIFE! Please watch her videos to see just what we mean and check out the recipes page for ideas on how to change your own habits, eat better, create lifestyle health, and discover what Crystal believes is prevention. After all, Crystal is what ovarian cancer looks like!