27/02/2018
My Fight Against Cancer: The Journey, The Fight, The Retribution.
Katz.
I remember everything so vividly, because those days were the best days of my life. Everything I had wished for just came together and felt “right”.
My business was booming, and I just bought my dream house together with my husband Elad. We were young and in love.
But, fate?Fate had a different plan for me.
A few days after my daughter Roni began 1st grade, I started feeling a strong pain in my ribs and back. It came as a surprise because I’d always been a very strong and healthy person; I grew up eating healthy, sports were always a big part of my life, and needless to say, I’ve never touched a cigarette.
At first, I didn't pay much attention to the pain. I thought it was just stress due to the big changes that were happening in my life – we had bought the house, Roni started school and there was lots of work in operating the business.
Within as little as two weeks, though, the pain grew stronger and started to spread to other parts of my body – particularly my shoulders and my back. I felt overwhelmingly weak and exhausted. I began to realize that this pain was not temporary, and that something was definitely wrong.
Elad was worried, and tried convincing me to get a doctor’s opinion so we could understand what was wrong and why was I in so much unexpected pain?
It took me a long time to get to the doctor. I had other priorities, like taking care of my business. So, I postponed the visit until one day I couldn’t fall asleep because of a sharp, unbearable pain in my back.
After a series of tests, the results returned, and the doctor said there was nothing wrong. I explained to him that this did not makesense, and my pain was far too strong for ”There’s nothing wrong”. He recommended that I have a bone scan done.
After doing the bone scant, the doctor called me and told me to drop what I was doing and come see him right away. He said it was urgent. His voice was tense and I instantly felt that something wasn’t right.
I still remember his voice when he said: "Sivan, You have cancer". I was in such shock that I wasn’t even able to process what he said. I looked at Elad and saw his eyes filling with tears, and all I could think of was that I couldn’t remember the last time I saw him cry.
The bone scan results showed that I have Bone Metastasis in different areas of my body. I was sent to do more tests to understand what exactly was going on and how bad the cancer was.
When we met with the oncologist, he gave us a complete diagnosis: 3 cancerous tumors of 3-4 cm diameter in size, and metastases in the bones of the spine, ribs and shoulder.
The tumors were growing aggressively.
When I heard the results, it felt like someone took my heart out of my chest and squeezed it in his fist.
I didn’t cry when I heard I had cancer, and I didn’t cry when I learned the results of the scans. The first time I cried was when I thought about how to tell Roni that Mommy was sick. I already knew that Iwas going to cause so much pain to so many people around me.
I decided to wait until the chemo started, because every time I thought about telling her I felt like I just had no breath. I imagined her reaction and shock, and it was breaking my heart. Eventually, Elad had to be the one to tell her.
One week later, I started my first round of chemo.Later that week, I started the radiation treatment as well. I knew that each treatment session I was going through wasn't to eliminate the cancer completely from my body. They were there to "make it easier" for me and to prolong my life as much as possible.
I think one of the hardest moments I had throughout this entire experience was coming home after one of the treatments, tucking Roni into bed, giving her a hug, and then locking myself in my bathroom and shaving my head clean.
The treatments, tests and the hospitalizations in between were all extremely expensive. Most of the medication I was required to take wasn’t covered by my heath insurance. Still, I did all the extra work.
I went to private doctors, tried different alternative therapists, listened to people who recommended different treatments and juices. I joined support groups as well as Facebook groups and forums. Time went by, and the side effects became unbearable. I lost 20 pounds and kept losing more weight. I became very pale and couldn’t recognize myself in the mirror.
The cancer was eating me alive, and at the same time the side effects of the treatments were destroying my body.
I became depressed, it was just too much: the frustration that I was feeling from the weekly trips to the hospital, the physical pain of the treatments and the emotional pain of dealing with it all. I had to cut business hours in order to focus on my recovery, which obviously damaged my earnings and stopped its growth.
Elad hated that I was blaming myself for “neglecting” my family. He was very supportive and tried to keep everyday life inside the house running as normally as possible.
I went through treatments for 9 straight months. During that time, my medications were changed every few months. Slowly but surely, the side effects increased and began to be unbearable: I was constantly vomiting, the headaches became more and more common and the tiredness only increased.
I didn’t give up, though. I’d always been a fighter and I still had hope deep in my heart. I wanted to fight for this life, for my life.Not just for myself, but also for Roni and Elad. The fear of leaving them alone was a huge motivation for me in the hardest of times, when all I wanted to do was crawl into bed and just die.
As I fought the cancer more aggressively, I felt as if it was fighting back even harder and that it was only a matter of time before this was going to be over, one way or another.
I was looking for solutions that would help me treat the disease and still keep my sanity.
One day I got a call from a distant cousin of mine who had heard about my cancer. Her husband had prostate cancer, but he had been clean for half a year by that time she called me.
She told me that in addition to the chemo, he went through another treatment, one that significantly reduced the side effects of the chemo and the other treatments he was going through.
She said this treatment worked so well, that at some point his doctor suggested that he stop the other treatments for a while and stay only with that new treatment. After a few months, his tests showed that his tumor had shrunk by half, and eventually disappeared altogether.
At first, I was just terrified of getting my hopes up for yet another “hoodoo-voodoo” treatment, but at this point I was willing to try just about anything.
It was hard for me to believe it would work, because I had tried alternative treatments in the past (although I didn't stick to them) and I was pretty much over all things alternative.
One of the worst things about my side effects was that I felt that they were weakening my body, and as a result, they were strengthening the enemy that was growing inside of me. If this treatment helped my cousin’s husband become stronger, it may have helped him to recover as well.
She told me the name: Valor Humani. The name originated in Spain, and the company is located in Israel.
I told Elad about it, and he said that as long as I did not stop with the other treatments, he had no problem with me trying anything that could work.
I did a thorough research of the company and the product.I learned that the syrup was manufactured by Neuquen Laboratories, and it had successfully passed pre-clinical exams at “Hadassah Ein Kerem” “Kiryat Weizmann” hospitals in Israel.
I also read about Hadassah Hospital.It is not a small hospital, and they do a lot of medical research. The results of my research helped me feel a lot more confident.
Studies showed that Valor Humani had been successful in treating cells of other types of cancer such as leukemia, lymphoma, bone cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, brain glioblastoma, and more.
Now I had hope. Maybe it was too soon, maybe not. It takes 10 years for medicine to receive final FDA approval from the time it's ready. I wanted to believe that what was going to be a success story for Valor Humaniwould be one for me as well.
I called Valor Humani to get more information about the treatment (mostly about its effects on other patients), and after an hour of conversation (I asked Elad to talk to them too), I decided that I was going to go for it.
They asked for my test results in order to send me the right kit of their product. Elad demanded that I consult with my doctor first. I was afraid he wouldn't approve itand kill the last hope I had.To my surprise, he told me to go ahead and give it a try, asking me to give him a call if anything unusual happens.
Something unusual did happen.
I started feeling better within a week of beginning the treatment! The pain almost completely disappeared by the third week, and even Kevin (my doctor) was surprised to see the color returning to my face. I still felt ill, but the second wind I got was giving me new energy and motivation.
The next time I saw the doctor I asked him to check me again, to see if we could decrease some of the drug dosages I was being given, because the side effects were still there and the pain from the medication was making me stay in bed for hours. I asked him to do a full body scan, hoping that maybe it would be possible to decrease the dosages or maybe even stop some of the more difficult treatments, assuming that things hadn’t gotten worse.
He examined me, and found that all of the tumors had significantly decreased. We saw that there was a big difference between what the PET-CT showed months ago and what it showed now, and I was given permission to stop the other treatments. I wanted to see how my body could handle it.
I wasn't hoping I could win this battle anymore. I knew I was going to win, and I was waiting for the cancer to be gone.
Elad was still stressed; he felt that there was no need to change something that already works, so maybe I shouldn't stop any of the treatments. But at this point I felt that I was moving in the right direction and I wanted to get a relief from those horrible side effects.
Three months went by, and the tumor was finally gone. I took the Valor Humani cocktail for another three months after that, because I was worried that somewhere there was still a metastasis I did not know about.
I don't know if Valor Humani works without the other treatments right from the start, and I can't say that it can replace any medical treatment prescribed by a professional. All I can do is share what I felt. And I felt that it made my body stronger.
I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who is going through what I've gone through: give Valor Humani a chance.
I just hope my story will help to save many others.
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