On November 14, 2008, I received a MRI for breast cancer. Of course, I had a grade three invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Before the MRI, they ordered a biopsy of the breast, lymph nodes, and bone. All three were positive. The next step was the MRI.

When you receive a breast MRI, they pick up apart of the liver. They saw lesions on the exposed part of the liver on my first MRI. The radiologist order a PET, CT, bone scans, and the removal of my left breast. He put in his summary that I was in the late states of cancer.

The reason for this article is not about my left breast. It’s about my right breast. He saw a smug on it and he ordered a six-month follow up MRI. Something happened from the first to the MRI and it left the doctors perplexed.

When the surgeon studied the scans, he refused to do the surgery because he did not have enough healthy tissue to close the breast. It was decided to shrink the tumor that looked so large on the MRI. It had a large vein feeding it. The tumor was taking everything that I had to offer.

On Dec. 4th, 2008, I received my first chemo and target drugs. On Dec. 23, 2008, I had my second infusion of chemo and drugs. When the doctor examined my breast, it had completely changed. Before the drugs, it was hard like an orange and distorted. With my second infusion, the breast was soft, hanging normally, and the nipple had popped out. What was stranger was that you couldn’t feel anything hard inside the breast. Where was the tumor? So far, it never reappeared.

They ordered a CT scan on February 3rd, 2009 so they could peak inside the body. They found nothing in the left breast and the lymph nodes. In some place on my liver, the cancer was gone. The places I had left measured a drop of 70%. Again, they couldn’t find a dead tumor. So they continued with the target drugs and chemo.

On April 9th, 2009, they revisited the liver through CT scans. My oncologist was excited to find the cancer had not increased or reappeared in place where they had seen it. He did not go into a lot of detail. It was explained to me that it had not increased and it was stabilizing nicely. I was not sure what that meant and they didn’t seem to want to give out more information. They were excited and I was confused to why? I never asked.

In the first of May, I received my request for a follow up breast MRI and it was setup. What happened after the MRI I deep appreciate. Around dinnertime, I received a call from the radiologist. We talked for about thirty minutes. He asked me some very interesting questions. Below is the question he asked that meant the most to me.

“Did they prove you had cancer outside the breast or did they just assume you had it?”

It was nice to tell him. I had a breast, lymph node, and bone biopsy that was positive. He peppered me with questions to why I didn’t have the breast removed. Finally, after he exhausted all of his questions, he told me something that meant so much to me.

He said, “When you have cancer, it always leaves a scar, a smug, or something on the liver especially. On the liver, I do not see a smug or a shadow. Your liver looks like you never had cancer at all. I’ve never seen this before.” He also mentioned the right breast had the smug gone too.

He went on wondering what I did. The conversation left me in deep thought. I went back through everything. This is what I concluded, I came into this event of cancer healthy. I wasn’t taking any drugs. Instead, I used my mind to keep myself healthy. Outside of getting a monogram or a pad smear, I never needed to see a doctor.

We all program out minds with our words everyday. I learned how to program it on purpose. On the first day of drugs, I programmed my mind to study the drugs and create other chemicals that would work with those I was given. I wanted the chemicals to remove all signs that I ever had cancer.

I had forgotten about doing this. The radiologist reminded me that I did it, when he asked, “Did you receive radiation?” I told him no. Then he asked, “Have you been doing body building?”

My body tone was barely returning and I still felt weak. He went on to tell me that my left pectoral muscle was plumper than it was on the first MRI. In his summary, he wrote associated findings: “This is intense enhancement of patient’s left pectoral muscle. This is of uncertain significance and if diffused. This likely does not represent tumor involvement before of its diffuse nature.”

Two days before I went in for the MRI, my left ribs shift forward on its own. In my youth, I had twisted my ribs in a trampoline accident. Before the cancer, I programmed my mind to reverse the accident and move my body back to its original form. When my ribs shifted, it felt so wonderful. They had been frozen in the wrong position for forty-four years.

The radiologist reminded me that my mind was still working on moving my body back to its original position. It was there I remembered that I programed it to remove the sign of cancer and work with the doctor’s drugs.

Doctors have talked about for years how powerful our minds are. They can work against or for us. You choose it with you words. I’m so grateful that I learned how to capture the power of the mind and change lives.

In life, we stumble across a few things that change our live and we want to share them. You might know someone who is going through chemo and it might help them. With each infusion of chemo, I received shingles, rashes and hemorrhoids. On the fourth infusion, the hemorrhoids started to bleed. I had never experienced hemorrhoids before and I hope that I never do. 

When I was mother with small children, I used herbs all the time. It saved me a few trips to the doctors. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remembered that there were herbs for hemorrhoids. So I dusted off my books and I started to read. 

Sure enough, I found more than one. Luckily, I had one of the herbs mentioned on my shelf. Since, I wasn’t suppose to be out in public. I was elated. I took two capsules twice a day. By the time, I reached the tenth day. I was surprised to realize how raw my bowls had been. Now, they felt normal.

This happened in time for me to receive my next infusion of taxotere. I continued with the herb Psyllum Husks during my chemo treatments. What happened shocked me. My rashes and shingles never returned.  Also, my hair and nails stopped falling out. Instead, they started to grow and kept on growing during my infusions.

I shaved my hair in the beginning. On my seventh infusion, I  shaved another inch of hair off so it would match my new hair growth. Before, I discovered Psyllium Husk, I lost hair on my sides and top. I also wanted to point out that hair on my legs started to grow too and I wasn’t pleased with it.  

It’s important to keep your immune system working well to help your body remove the cancer. In nine weeks, the cancer was gone from my breast and 70% from my liver. I will know in June 2009, if it is all gone from my liver. It might be a new drug that I’m testing for the FDA that is causing my wonderful recovery. It’s also common sense that we need to keep our immune system strong enough to help the doctors remove the cancer. 

For me, I had a hard time getting out to a store. So I made the oils and herbs available along with my books. Don’t feel like you need to buy my books. I do hope you’ll buy the herbs and oils. They worked wonderfully and I hope they do for you. You find the link here to more information.

Let me know, if you know of something that has worked. We can share it.

You are probably wondering what this blog is all about! Let me tell you.

Let me introduce myself. My name is LaRene Ellis. I came into this life like everyone else. I wasn’t hatched but what happened afterward was different. I lost my parents and siblings. It was sad that I never was allowed to belong to a family. It changed my life and made me who I am today. A person full of hope and joy. It changed my life to where I help others get through their tough times to put a smile on their face.

My childhood was taken from me. It put me a deep depression at the age of four. Happiness was a foreign feeling. Out of it, I learned a simple recipe to live life with joy even during the challenge of breast cancer. In my book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams. I will give you a simple recipe that you can follow so you can be happy no matter what is happening in your life. You’ll learn to be in control.

What I learned helped when breast cancer knocked on my door. The recipe allowed me to feel joy and happiness through chemo and all the challenges you face. The experience made filled me with gratitude for my past. What I learned made it all worth while. The peace to know ‘I’m not afraid of the future and I’m not hiding my past. I enjoy the moment without baggage. It keeps me always in control.

On my website, My Journal - has stories in it about how I got started writing. You might find it interesting or numb. I don’t know. It’s hard to put yourself out there, when you’re really shy. If you knew me, you would know how hard this is. I do it because I have hope and I know how you can have it too.

Seminars - By request of my readers, this is what I started to do when I contracted Breast Cancer. It’s Her2/neu – Positive Breast Cancer at stage four. It is a vicious cancer that likes to move fast and it did. I had it in my liver and bones besides my breast. It’s out of my breast with 70% gone in liver after nine weeks. Now, they are focused on my liver. I hope to get back to presenting seminars that changes people’s lives permanently. I teach how to live without fear and have hope as a constant companion. You will okay no matter what happens to you in your life.

Case Studies - Are different areas that I’ve helped people overcome. I started this page right before I contracted cancer. I have a lot more to put into it and I will as I get time. If you know someone who is facing cancer treatment,  you’ll find the herbs and oils that have helped me eliminate some of the side effects of chemo. You can purchase from me some of the remedies. During chemo, I wasn’t able to go out in public so I would appreciate buying anything on line.  I’m not making money from it after my overhead of shipping it myself to you. I hope I do not go into the hole.  There is not a large profit margin in herbs and oil, which is why you don’t see everyone jumping into trying to push them to make money. Some of the remedies, you will have to purchase from the store and they worked wonderfully. I hope they do for you too.

Positive Living – Here you will find video made by other authors regarding positive life style. I’ve started with a video from the author ‘The Secret.’ She has a beautiful video about affirmations. I have tips on how to get the most out of the videos and how to apply them to your life. Each week, I plan on adding a new video.

Look around and I hope you find something that will help you in my articles. Don’t feel like you need to buy my books. If you choose too, I will autograph it from this site. Amazon also carry them. We all like Amazon because they have everything.

We have all been told that Herceptin might damage the left heart. I wanted to help strength it long with helping immune system.

• Lemongrass – was what I picked. I made up one capsule once a day. It consisted of eight drops and rest Message Oil.
• It suppose to improve muscle tone throughout the body.
• Nervous exhaustion as it energizes and yet soothes the body.
• Strengthen heart.
• You can order it here.

I went through the winter with taxotere and it was quite a season for the flu. I stayed well by being very careful and always washing me hand and not hugging. I also took internally some oils:

• Four drops of Myrrh
• One drop of Dill
• One drop of Tea Tree
• Then I filled the capsule up with Message Oil or grapeseed.

Dill – helps with digestion. It calms the nerve system. It inhibits the growth of several bacteria that attack the intestinal track. Prevents infections, diarrhea.

Tea Tree – reduces the proliferation of viruses and bacteria. Stops infection like colds and flu.

You can order what I used here for your connivence.

For the pain was off the chart at times. When I found my fingers and toes constantly hurting, I found oils made it tolerable and I didn’t appreciate it until I stopped take the oils. This is what I took:

• Myrrh is an very old oil and it was used as an medicine in ancient times. It’s good for bleeding gums and sores in your mouth.
• It stops nausea and vomiting.
• Myrrh is included in the FDA list as being safe.
• I took in internally in vegetable capsules.
• I also added FRANKINCENSE. It supports the immune system and helps to cope with stress. Chemo puts a lot of stress on you. It helps to fight infection in the body.
• I added Germanium to the mix as well. It helps to stop bleeding and it’s a antibacterial. It’s great for the skin like shingles, and it’s great for liver problems.
• PEPPERMINT – It’s another pain reliever and it anti-inflammatory for the intestinal and urinary tract. It’s known to help with heart burn and hemorrhoids.

You can put the oils on your hands or feet. I took them internally for the first time. With the taxotere being rough. It seemed to help me more. In the beginning, I made a capsule every four hours once I was awake. They consisted of:

• Three drops of Myrrh
• Two drops of Frankincense
• One drop of Peppermint
• One drop of Germanium
• Then I filled the capsule up with Message Oil or Grapeseed Oil.

You can order the oils from here.

I found away to lesson the bleeding, even if I needed to use Ibuprofen for pain. Cayenne helped to slow down the bleeding until it wasn’t a problem for me. It was great to finally have it stop being a problem and I used the cayenne below:

• I took one to two capsules every four hours with the oil I used for pain. It has other healing possibilities like:
• Rheumatism – I can’t believe the number of people I’ve ran into who uses it for this.
• Ulcers – I know this works every well with ulcers in the stomach and this was only of the reason why I wanted to use it.
• It improves circulation and it’s been known to add the heart.
• Some people take it for nausea.
• I’ve made it available to order here so it’s easy for you to find.

My fourth infusion was horrible. The rashes were extra  miserable with me getting shingles with it. My bowls ached and I experienced hemorrhoids for the first time in my life. My finger and toes felt like they had been smashed in a door. They gave me a shot for white blood count that increased my pain.

Years ago, I was into herbs. I used them all the time with my children to save on doctor costs. Over the years, I forgot about them since I never seemed to see a doctor because I was ill. With my problems, I decided to pull out my books and dust them off. When I looked up hemorrhoids, I had a lot of choices. One herb I had in the house and the code was still fresh. So I took two in the morning and two capsules at night. Ten days later, I found my bowls feel wonderful. I didn’t realize how bad I felt until I had something to compare them against.

After the ten days, I decided to keep taking one capsule in the morning and one at night to keep them from coming back. What happened surprised me. The herb removed more than the hemorrhoids. Even with my next three infusions of Taxotere, I had relief from:

• Hemorrhoids and my bowls feeling tender
• My hair stopped falling out. Instead, my hair on my head started to grow back.
• The dry skin sensation lessened
• The rashes and shingles never came back
• My nail started to grow with a healthy pink color. On my fifth infusion, my nails started to separate away from my fingers. The healthy pink grow keep on growing while I clipped the top. By the time, I received my seventh infusion of Taxotere. My nails had grown an health pink halfway up. My nails always had grown very past.

This wonderful herb was PSYLLIUM HUSKS. When I went to the store to buy another bottle, I was surprised at how many choices. I bought what I already had used. It worked! When I decided to share this experience with others, I decided to make it easy for you to find the one I used.

You can click here and it will take you to my secure shopping cart.

The last time, we talked. I was trapped in a room within my house. My constant campaigns were a humidifier and air purifier. Quickly, my bedroom became boring even though I had a television. I watched movie and read books. In the past, they had been a wonderful way to spend my time. Now, I found myself becoming quickly bored of the constant diet of them. My mind craved for something different. What? What could I do when I couldn’t speak a word or leave my new friends.

In real estate, I was constantly on the go physically and I had to use my mind daily. You are always thinking about how you are going to sell someone’s house or help a buyer find their dream house. With nothing to think about, I was lost. This was a new feeling and it left me frustrated and panicky. What if I never get my voice back?

Years ago, I met a woman who had lost her voice and all she could do was whisper. It was something permanent with her. The thought seemed to torment me. Would I become like her? I needed to think about something else. But what?

It was nice to see my children. I’m a mother of six. They were all adults at this time so I was really left me to myself. My oldest son didn’t live too far from me and he would stop by often on his way home from work to see how I was doing. It surprised him to find me one day in my office with my air purifier and humidifier. It took work to move everything back and worth.

He wondered, what could I possibly being doing in there? I couldn’t use the phone and I had no email address. Quickly, he started to pressure me into divulging my activities. Successfully, I sidestepped them.  I didn’t want to tell him why I was there. It embarrassed me to tell him that I was writing a story. I started to dread him stopping by. I was having fun and I didn’t want my newly created world to be shattered by him telling me that I couldn’t do it.

I would like to take you back to why I decided to move my friends into my office.  After a couple of day in my bedroom, I decided to move into my office, looking for something to keep me from going stir crazy. It was worth the work of moving everything, if I could find something to entertain my mind that would allow me to avoid my thoughts. The woman I talked about earlier had permanently lost her voice and could never speak above a soft whisper. I remember her story was surrounded by a mysterious illness. My situation was so unique it reminded me of her.  It concerned that I would end up like her?

I wanted to do something that would help me not think about her. So I moved into my office finding nothing that I could do without my voice. Shortly after being in my office, an idea came to me. What if I could write a story? Immediately, I went into a panicked state. The thought had triggered my past emotional pain. (If you want to know why I had a fear to write, you can read about it my book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams.)

The panicked feeling dissipated when I promised to never allow anyone to read it. Secluded in my office, I felt protected and the story seemed to ward off my negative thoughts. Little did I know that I was about to embark on the most fantastic journey. It was beyond anything I had ever imagined.

I had no clue that I was a creative person and my mind was starved to be one. Since, I had never allowed myself to ever think or do anything with writing. I used to make fun at being a writer. My favorite phrase was, “Why write it when a picture could replace a thousands words.” If it weren’t for this experience, I would’ve never discovered a hidden talent, love and passion for something that I had thought to be unattainable.

One thing, I did years ago before this experience. I took some classes on how the mind worked. We learned that our thoughts are always vibrating and moving. This is why sometime, we can be talking with someone and we both get the same idea or thought at the same time. We both happened to latch onto the same vibration as the thought. So our minds had the same thought.

I wanted to be a receiver of a new thought.  Today, I needed it to be a story. So I asked my mind to connect with a wavelength of one and bring it to me. Being a mediating state, I kept my mind clear, waiting for something to happen. How long I sat there, I do not know. I just sat there until it happened.

“Time Out, I hate time Out.” The words started to flow into my mind and I immediately started to type them into the computer. The story changed my life and I dearly love it. This post is getting long. So I’ll continue the story in part 3. If you want to keep up or start from the beginning of my journey to becoming an author. You can subscribe to my email update; you’ll receive the previous post and the future ones.

Part Three!

Let’s take the power of colors and add them to your life. I’m going to add more articles about how color affects us in our homes and on us personally when we wear certain colors. Right now, we are going to cover the last of Leslie Kane’s article before we move on to other information.

Adding Color to Your Life
When you use colors to evoke a particular mood, you must take into account not only your own color preferences but also your environment outside the home, says Walch of the Color Association. To provide a psychological boost, your home should represent a color “break” from the outside environment.

For example, because the brown landscape in the Southwest offers very little color, people living there tend to favor flaming orange, hot pink and other vibrant colors in their homes.

“I think most people are color-deprived,” Walch says. “People have real color needs, just as they have food needs. It is human and healthy to desire color change. If I live in a white space all day at work, I need a splash of color at home. But,” she warns, “the bolder the color statement, the more quickly you may tire of it. You may love the idea of a red kitchen, but you grow bored with the real thing.”

Remember, too, that colors exist within a cultural context. “We can’t ignore the strong, long-standing associations people make with colors,” Walch says. “Take brown. The dying grass is brown; school desks are brown. We think of brown as dreary and utilitarian. So I wouldn’t want to paint my walls brown.”

When selecting paint, wallpaper, carpeting or furniture, keep in mind that color is partly determined by the light in which is seen. A carpet sample that looks fresh green under the store’s cool white fluorescent lighting will appear hunter green under daylight fluorescents and olive green at home under incandescent light. So be sure to check your paint or carpet in the lighting in which it will live. That way you won’t end up being so angry that you see red.

That bit of advice is very good. You do need to see your colors in the environment. Using color to create moods in your home is fun. I’ve taught one of my daughters what I know. With her classes at a university on design, she has taken it to another height. We will talk about it in another series of articles.