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effects at all. The women waiting at the hospital for their appointments
My radiologist was thrilled with
my results and asked what I was
doing that might be different. I told
her about my plant-based meals
and she just shook her head.

each day were red and peeling, crying from exhaustion, complaining
about rock hard breasts (a common side effect of radiation) and nausea. I
had none of that and, in fact, had never felt better!
My radiologist was thrilled with my results and asked what I was doing
that might be different. I told her about my plant-based meals and she
just shook her head. “Keep doing what you’re doing, my miracle girl,”
she said and left the room. Today I can barely see the scar from the sur-

“Keep doing what you’re doing,

gery, and my breast remains as soft and pliable as it always was.

my miracle girl,” she said and

My oncologist spent the first two and a half years recommending follow-

left the room.

up drugs and even surgery to remove my ovaries to be “completely safe.” I
told her those options vW&V