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Mrs. Jennie Heath get well soon
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After last week I'd like to make a big suggestion to all women young and older to remember to get your yearly mammagrams. Breast Cancer is a very important and extremely deadly cancer that is taking many of our young and older women each year. Getting frequent checkups along with checking yourselves is important as early detection is key. Someone may ask, "Why do you care Phil? You're a man and not a woman."
Well, I am posting this as my own wife was hit with Breast Cancer this past week and it has been a crazy week as its been filled with tears and tons of questions. My wife Jennie Heath has stage 1 Breast Cancer and by the grace of God, she was able to get this taken care of quickly due to her own assertiveness. The crazy part is her own Doctor suggested it was nothing and to wait 3 more months. Well Thank God she didn't [wait] as we found this small lump to be cancerous. Jennie is now awaiting more tests and will have surgery very soon to perform a lumpectomy and later double mastectomy which will sideline her from work and some other physical activities for about 4-6 weeks.
She's [Jennie] such an awesome person, as she was hit with something so huge, yet still was able to be vulnerable and allow me and other family & friends to surround her with love, prayers and positivity. I am certain that this will make our family stronger and she will be even more driven than ever.
I want every woman to get checked and every spouse that means us Men/Guys, to be strong for our women as we haven't a clue the terror, pain, fear and frustration our women go through. I will hopefully become some type of Male Rep for Women with Breast Cancer, as their spouses need to understand how to cope with such news. I'm not a professional in this area, but I do know that with my role as Mr. Olympia that I have a voice and will be brothers with all Men whose women/spouses go through this experience.
Oh, before I go, I want to thank my wife Jennie for allowing me to cry and to go through this walk with her. I promise to be strong for you when called upon and weak and sensitive when needed. You go Girl, I'm so proud of you that I dedicate this show [2013 Mr Olympia] to you and you alone because your strength will in fact be mine! I am so lucky to have you in my life and hope and pray we can fight through life's battles and yet LIVE LIFE TOGETHER HAPPILY!
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prayers for a fast recovery!
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Good that they caught it early.
Phil is a good bro.
He and his wife are in my prayers.
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time to share his masteron
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my ex lost her mother to breastcancer, its no joke. get well soon mrs heath
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time to share his masteron
Hahahaha. :D
But in all seriousness I wish her the best.
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Good that they caught it early.
Phil is a good bro.
He and his wife are in my prayers.
x2
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Good luck to her.
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Good that they caught it early.
Phil is a good bro.
He and his wife are in my prayers.
Better than in your dreams.
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What about men? Men can get breast (or "chest") cancer too you know.
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Lucky she didn't listen to the doctor and got it checked out straight away. Wishing a full speedy recovery!
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thanks guys i really appreciate the kind words
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Cancer is a bitch. Hope she overcome it sucessfully.
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thanks guys i really appreciate the kind words
haha i love this guy
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fuck, my aunt was victim to this and it eventualy spread out and killed her.
all the best to phil heaths wife, hope she fully and permanently recovers, i know he reads this.
There's no such thing as this. Cancer is probably the most difficult disease to cope with. It's not a virus, a bacteria or a a parasite. Not an auto-immune disease either. It's your own body rebelling against you. Psychologically, very hard to cope with and if you get cured, it stays in the back of your head. I lost my father (barely 60 at the time) , both my grandmothers (one at a pretty early age), a cousin (to breast cancer she was just 40) and one of my best friend (lymphoma- he was 34) to cancer. I saw how the disease affected their mindset. There's something about cancer which is extremely destructive beyond the physical perspective. You're never cured in your own mind even if you survive it.
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haha yes but in all seriousness hope she recovers soon, cancer terrible dissease.
i always wonder how people can still believe in a god when they lose someone on cancer.
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There's no such thing as this. Cancer is probably the most difficult disease to cope with. It's not a virus, a bacteria or a a parasite. Not an auto-immune disease either. It's your own body rebelling against you. Psychologically, very hard to cope with and if you get cured, it stays in the back of your head. I lost my father (barely 60 at the time) , both my grandmothers (one at a pretty early age), a cousin (to breast cancer she was just 40) and one of my best friend (lymphoma- he was 34) to cancer. I saw how the disease affected their mindset. There's something about cancer which is extremely destructive beyond the physical perspective. You're never cured in your own mind even if you survive it.
TOUGH STORY THERE,,,I HOPE HIS WIFE GETS WELL,,
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Hope she has a speedy recovery.
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Oh, before I go, I want to thank my wife Jennie for allowing me to cry and to go through this walk with her.
What a really fucking weird thing to say. I've never heard something like this come out of the mouth of a legitimately married man.
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This will be included in 2013 Olympia winning speech. Along with her coming onto the stage, tears on both their faces, and Phil raising her hand in victory.
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isnt phil heath abusing hgh and steroids on a daily basis? the irony.
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It's good they caught it early, hope she recovers.
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This will be included in 2013 Olympia winning speech. Along with her coming onto the stage, tears on both their faces, and Phil raising her hand in victory.
It´s called "pulling a Valvano".
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What a really fucking weird thing to say. I've never heard something like this come out of the mouth of a legitimately married man.
phil using her as PR material. scared he gonna lose that title.
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phil using her as PR material. scared he gonna lose that title.
Spoken like a man never loved by a woman
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and put the man in double quotes, as in "man".
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::)
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posting out of respect to wish his wife a full recovery
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Hoping she makes a full recovery and is cancer free!
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Cancer sucks. I've lost loved ones in my family to it. I've witnessed with my own eyes strong healthy individuals be eaten away to Cancer. At some point in the future Cancer will be beat. I'm sure of it.
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Wishing Mrs. Jennie Heath a speedy recovery and commending her for taking this disease by the horns and defeating it.
All the best,
"1"
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That sucks :-\
Best wishes
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She'll be included in my prayers.
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pancreas cancer is worse
she will live
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Femara
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hahaha fake sympathy being shown in this topic, who cares just another mudshark.
Method, you POS shut the fuck up. Lady has a serious illness and all you can comment on is she is a "Mudshark." I suspect that Phil not only dwarfs your pasty ass in size, but his schlong is probably twice as long. Get a fucking job and lay off the lady. It pisses me off when low life, uneducated, scum like you comment on this great board ;D. You are filth.
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best wishes
(seriously, i am not trolling)
(really, not trolling)
(cancer fucking sucks)
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baking soda of peace
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There's no such thing as this. Cancer is probably the most difficult disease to cope with. It's not a virus, a bacteria or a a parasite. Not an auto-immune disease either. It's your own body rebelling against you. Psychologically, very hard to cope with and if you get cured, it stays in the back of your head. I lost my father (barely 60 at the time) , both my grandmothers (one at a pretty early age), a cousin (to breast cancer she was just 40) and one of my best friend (lymphoma- he was 34) to cancer. I saw how the disease affected their mindset. There's something about cancer which is extremely destructive beyond the physical perspective. You're never cured in your own mind even if you survive it.
Cancer is actually one of the easiest to deal with, if it weren't so fucking common it wouldn't even be in the top 10 of bad things to have.
Fact is dieing fucking sucks.
Anyhow I hope the fuck they figure out better treatments. Otherwise I hope the fuck I drop dead of a heart attack.
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She'll be included in my prayers.
Why weren't you praying for this not to happen in the first place? This is all your fault.
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Met Phil Heath and his wife at the "O". Great folks.
Depending on the type of breast CA, statistics now are pretty good particularly if she is estrogen receptor positive. Once surgery is over, once RT and chemo have been performed (and she will need a lot of support through this phase), as the Marine (ARCE) pointed out anti-estrogens would be very beneficial. Hopefully the CA has not metastasized and there are no nodes involved. If that is the case, her prognosis should be very good. If she has mets then the use of HERCEPTIN a monoclonal antibody that interferes with the HER2/neu receptor might be a solution along with other chemotherapy. They just need for stay on top of it.
Hopefully she will have surgery, there will be no mets, and she can have RT and/or no chemo.
DOC
Lift, fuck, make money
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Cancer is a bitch. Hope she has a full recovery.
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Cancer is actually one of the easiest to deal with, if it weren't so fucking common it wouldn't even be in the top 10 of bad things to have.
Fact is dieing fucking sucks.
Anyhow I hope the fuck they figure out better treatments. Otherwise I hope the fuck I drop dead of a heart attack.
Thing you haven't dealt with this matter much, have you?
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thanks guys i really appreciate the kind words
Hahahaha brilliant
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Thing you haven't dealt with this matter much, have you?
He's in an epic struggle with reality at the moment.
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He's in an epic struggle with reality at the moment.
Doc to RAtard: I'm afraid it's cancer.
RAtard: Thank God, I was afraid it was something else.
Sure makes sense.
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my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 09:-\ :-\
be strong phil 8) your wife is in my prayers
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Cancer is actually one of the easiest to deal with, if it weren't so fucking common it wouldn't even be in the top 10 of bad things to have.
Fact is dieing fucking sucks.
Anyhow I hope the fuck they figure out better treatments. Otherwise I hope the fuck I drop dead of a heart attack.
shut
the
fuck
up
you've never seen it first hand....breast cancer is the absolute WORSTthing that a woman can get. It drains the body, drains you emotionall.... Phil's in for a long road....
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Doc to RAtard: I'm afraid it's cancer.
RAtard: Thank God, I was afraid it was something else.
Sure makes sense.
Haha. Beautifully said.
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shut
the
fuck
up
you've never seen it first hand....breast cancer is the absolute WORSTthing that a woman can get. It drains the body, drains you emotionall.... Phil's in for a long road....
Wife had a growth removed from her breast four years ago. Doctor had to surgically remove me...Jk. Seriously, it was very frightening. Luckily it wasn't cancerous. But for a while there we were petrified.
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Cancer sucks. I've lost loved ones in my family to it. I've witnessed with my own eyes strong healthy individuals be eaten away to Cancer. At some point in the future Cancer will be beat. I'm sure of it.
know the feeling . lost my uncle in braincancer. whatching a man going from a strong proud father to a man that even cant change his own diaper is hard.
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Another fat cheque to the medical doctors and government with surgery and medications.
http://www.nomj.ca/2010/09/01/phd-student-unravels-mystery-of-flaxseed-oil.html
And this isn't new either women for yrs have been talking about completely curing advanced breast cancer n women's cancers with flax.
Alison Buckner, a PhD student at Laurentian University, is conducting research on the effects of flaxseed oil on cancer cells.
Allison Buckner, a PhD student at Laurentian University, has confirmed the cancer-fighting properties of flaxseed oil in experiments at Sudbury Regional Hospital’s Cancer Centre laboratory.”When we applied flaxseed oil to malignant cells, we saw a reduction in cellular growth regardless of cell type or species,” said Buckner. “We tested it in six malignant cell lines, including breast cancer, cervical cancer and melanoma (with the same results).”Then we tested it in non-malignant cells and found that the flaxseed oil either increased cellular growth or had no effect at all, so we saw opposite effects depending on whether it was a malignant or non-malignant cell.”
The flaxseed oil induced apoptosis, or cell suicide, in the malignant cells.
“It wasn’t just that the cells were filling with flaxseed oil and bursting,” said Buckner. “They were actually receiving signals from the flaxseed oil telling them to stop proliferating and die.”
Buckner is working on a PhD in Biomolecular Science. Her interest in flaxseed oil was aroused as a result of a science fair project by two Sudbury high school students who sought help from her PhD supervisor, Dr. Robert Lafrenie, a career scientist and laboratory director at Sudbury Regional’s Cancer Program.
Cancer cells
They combined various antioxidants, including Vitamin E, Vitamin C and flaxseed oil with chemotherapy drugs and found that only the flaxseed oil reduced the growth of breast cancer cells.
Buckner was intrigued, and decided to continue where they left off.
“We experimented with six other oils that had a similar composition, including rapeseed oil, canola oil and sunflower oil, but we only found an effect with the flaxseed oil,” said Buckner.
The canola and sunflower oil had no effect despite having the same percentage of Omega-3 fatty acids as flaxseed oil, leaving Buckner with the conclusion that it’s a combination of different components that’s responsible for its cancer-fighting properties.
Buckner spent three months with scientists in the chemistry lab at NRCan’s Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie to learn about the chemistry of flaxseed oil.
The goal now is to understand exactly which components are responsible for its cancer-fighting properties and how they impact on malignant cells.
“We have ideas, but we’re not at the point of confidently saying what it is,” said Buckner. “The next step is to optimize the flaxseed oil and make our own drug. Then, we’ll take that drug and look at it in an animal model next year.”
Buckner, who was born and raised in Sudbury and has both a BSc and an MSc in Biology from Laurentian University, takes flaxseed oil herself and doesn’t hesitate to promote its therapeutic benefits to one and all, including her father, who has cancer.
“We’re hoping to encourage people to introduce flaxseed oil into their diets both as a preventive treatment and as a treatment itself,” she said.
Flaxseed oil can be consumed as a salad oil, but its slightly unpleasant smell makes capsules the preferred means of ingestion. It’s widely available in health food stores and consumed by millions for its therapeutic effects on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, but very little research has been done on its effectiveness as a cancer drug.
The seeds themselves contain high levels of dietary fiber and are also widely consumed for their laxative and cholesterol-fighting properties, especially when ground up. In fact, Espanola Regional Hospital and Health Centre was recognized as a finalist at the Innovations in Health Care Expo in Toronto last year for a natural bowel care program that adds ground flaxseeds to food prepared in the hospital kitchen. However, “you only get a minimal amount of oil by ingesting seeds,” so both capsules and ground flaxseeds are the way to go, said Buckner.
Dr. Pablo Cano, an oncologist at Sudbury Regional Hospital, has taken an interest in Buckner’s research and encourages patients to incorporate flaxseed oil into their diets, said Lafrenie.
But natural products and supplements can have deleterious effects, so cancer patients should always check with their oncologist before taking anything, he added.
Buckner plans to write her PhD thesis on the cancer-fighting effects of flaxseed oil and hopes to focus her career on research related to natural products and their effects on cancer.
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isnt phil heath abusing hgh and steroids on a daily basis? the irony.
he never took any drugs.
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isnt phil heath abusing hgh and steroids on a daily basis? the irony.
i think he only does a cycle before the olympia
off the juice 9 months a year
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:-[
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Glad to hear she caught it early. Get your body into an Alkaline state as fast as possible.
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there is NO HOPE in the traditional cancer-treatment methods. hospitals kill you and laugh all the way to the bank (NOT A JOKE).
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Phillip Heath
Update: she's cancer free now and is under going breast construction. Great news for our family as now she will be ok for good. I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, I truly appreciate you all for them.
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Phillip Heath
Update: she's cancer free now and is under going breast construction. Great news for our family as now she will be ok for good. I want to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, I truly appreciate you all for them.
This is awesome news, :)
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8 minutes ago
Hey everyone. I wanted to share with you an update on my wife's condition after double mastectomy and reconstruction. Shortly after her surgery in April, my Wife acquired an infection which has created a huge health concern. She is now back in the hospital about to yet again for the third time this year have surgery but now to remove the infectious disease.
Words cannot express my sadness, pain, anger and frustration, but looking into my Wife's eyes and seeing her being cool I can only do the same. She's gone through enough but I know that Gods Plan never fails so I continue to pray for her peace & wellness. Bodybuilding means nothing I mean absolutely nothing without her in this as she's an amazing woman. I appreciate you all for listening and for your on-going support. I've enclosed her fb post which gives more detail.
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Best wishes and a speedy recovery to Jennie.
"1"
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All the best for Jennie and the rest of her family :)
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My heart goes out to them, best wishes to their entire family.
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Get well soon
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Cancer sucks. Kudos to anybody who fights it and wins.
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Prayer spoken. She'll be alright.
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To the Heath's, speedy recovery and cancer free!
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Hey Guys. After receiving so many positive comments pertaining to my wife Jennie's condition, we wanted to post an update.
This is from Jennie Heath -
So it's day three after surgery and I got to wake up in my own bed! Everything went as well as expected in surgery. They removed all of my reconstructed right side. I hope this is not TMI, but it is easier to write it than speak the words. So back in April after the double Mastectomy I had a few issues with the right side. Which ironically was the healthy side. In May they redid that side and shortly after received a pathology report stating that I had traces of two very rare bacteria's. not only did I never get to see or hear about these results....I never received treatment for them. I was basically fighting what I was told was an "infection" that I had no chance to heal from. I would wake up every morning and feel worse and watch my surgery site get worse every day as well. Waking up from surgery with one breast was very emotional, but in some strange way I felt so much relief that finally everyday I would start to feel better. I had to have a PICC line put in so that I can administer IV meds to myself three times a day for 6 weeks. After that I have 6 months of oral meds to finally kill this off!! I can then have surgery to start an expander, then hopefully a few months later try the reconstruct again. My NEW Dr is saying to look at about 1 year. Not what I want to hear but I trust him. I can tell that this chapter of breast cancer is changing me from the inside as well as now the outside. When I was diagnosed and treated all I was worried about was keeping my hair (of course), my skin if possible, and obviously no chemo or radiation! Well i won! I'm cancer free! I had skin sparing! I was "normal" again!!! So how am I going to deal with not "normal" now?? Especially surrounded by my husbands career? The most perfect beautiful people?? It became a mental battle between health and vanity... Even leaving the hospital one of my first stops was to try and find a prosthesis. I found several, but after fresh surgery it is to painful to cover anything. I finally got fed up! I have always cared too much about what other people think! I was trying to hide what happened and figure out how to make people around me comfortable with my new look! Last night Mike, Dillon, Sammy, Lilliana, Alina, and Sean took me to the movies and I couldn't have felt more normal! I needed to feel like me and forget reality for awhile. It was there that i had one of those Ahh Ha moments... My husband and son have been more supportive than I could ever imagine, And i am surrounded by the best friends and family a girl could ask for.The people who love me will embrace the new and imperfect version of me( and my sick sense of humor) And the others can look the other way! I am healthy! I am cancer free! And I feel more secure than I think I ever have! I can not believe the amount of support that we have received from the Bodybuilding community!! There is no way that I could possibly respond to all of the messages people have sent, but know that I have read everyone of them and thank you all for your kind words and support! It has not been easy for us with Phil traveling around the world during all of this, but his season is over and he is going to be home for awhile now! Looking ahead I'm sure there will be a lot of highs and lows, but as for today.....I'm happy! God is good!! And if my story helps one person... I will go through it ten more times!!! Early detection STILL saved my life!!!! Have an amazing day! XOXO
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Unless a grapefruit gets cancer and Kai posts about it, Phil's going to win now
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Hey Guys. After receiving so many positive comments pertaining to my wife Jennie's condition, we wanted to post an update.
This is from Jennie Heath -
So it's day three after surgery and I got to wake up in my own bed! Everything went as well as expected in surgery. They removed all of my reconstructed right side. I hope this is not TMI, but it is easier to write it than speak the words. So back in April after the double Mastectomy I had a few issues with the right side. Which ironically was the healthy side. In May they redid that side and shortly after received a pathology report stating that I had traces of two very rare bacteria's. not only did I never get to see or hear about these results....I never received treatment for them. I was basically fighting what I was told was an "infection" that I had no chance to heal from. I would wake up every morning and feel worse and watch my surgery site get worse every day as well. Waking up from surgery with one breast was very emotional, but in some strange way I felt so much relief that finally everyday I would start to feel better. I had to have a PICC line put in so that I can administer IV meds to myself three times a day for 6 weeks. After that I have 6 months of oral meds to finally kill this off!! I can then have surgery to start an expander, then hopefully a few months later try the reconstruct again. My NEW Dr is saying to look at about 1 year. Not what I want to hear but I trust him. I can tell that this chapter of breast cancer is changing me from the inside as well as now the outside. When I was diagnosed and treated all I was worried about was keeping my hair (of course), my skin if possible, and obviously no chemo or radiation! Well i won! I'm cancer free! I had skin sparing! I was "normal" again!!! So how am I going to deal with not "normal" now?? Especially surrounded by my husbands career? The most perfect beautiful people?? It became a mental battle between health and vanity... Even leaving the hospital one of my first stops was to try and find a prosthesis. I found several, but after fresh surgery it is to painful to cover anything. I finally got fed up! I have always cared too much about what other people think! I was trying to hide what happened and figure out how to make people around me comfortable with my new look! Last night Mike, Dillon, Sammy, Lilliana, Alina, and Sean took me to the movies and I couldn't have felt more normal! I needed to feel like me and forget reality for awhile. It was there that i had one of those Ahh Ha moments... My husband and son have been more supportive than I could ever imagine, And i am surrounded by the best friends and family a girl could ask for.The people who love me will embrace the new and imperfect version of me( and my sick sense of humor) And the others can look the other way! I am healthy! I am cancer free! And I feel more secure than I think I ever have! I can not believe the amount of support that we have received from the Bodybuilding community!! There is no way that I could possibly respond to all of the messages people have sent, but know that I have read everyone of them and thank you all for your kind words and support! It has not been easy for us with Phil traveling around the world during all of this, but his season is over and he is going to be home for awhile now! Looking ahead I'm sure there will be a lot of highs and lows, but as for today.....I'm happy! God is good!! And if my story helps one person... I will go through it ten more times!!! Early detection STILL saved my life!!!! Have an amazing day! XOXO
She is a warrior
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She is a warrior
Agreed strong women.
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Looks like a really nice couple. Hopefully she can beat this.
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See, see the DOC was right. Breast CA nowadays can be easily treated if caught early. Glad to hear the good news!!
Health would not be that stupid not to have heath insurance, so there should be no financial burden.
DOC
Lift, fuck, make money
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See, see the DOC was right. Breast CA nowadays can be easily treated if caught early. Glad to hear the good news!!
Health would not be that stupid not to have heath insurance, so there should be no financial burden.
DOC
Lift, fuck, make money
Not sure if you did this on purpose as a joke but you put Health and heath in opposite spots lol :D
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Asking questions=Why did god do this to me?
Answer: God didn't
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I would of figured Phil got breast cancer first. Phil should have some nolvadex on hand that is for breast cancer,maybe Phil has enough drugs to heal her. JK. Nothing to joke about it really sucks when women get any kind of cancer so young.
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Good that they caught it early.
Phil is a good bro.
He and his wife are in my prayers.
^^^^^^
This x2. Phil is a good guy -a truly self centered tool would not have the ability to verbalize what he wrote here. After reading this I believe Phil to be a real stand up guy who hold his wife in the highest esteem.
That cancer is a guy just like ALL of big pharm for giving into lobbyists, bribes and all other selfish propaganda all in the name of not curing this disease - - all because there is more money in the treatment of cancer than there is in the cure.
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Why does it seem that everyone will get some sort of disease these days? Is it because we are living longer then we should be? Is it nature trying to counter-balance overpopulation?
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Now both of them are devoid of any chest.
On a more serious note - hope she recovers.
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How many of you would actually have no problem at all having a serious relationship with a woman who has had a double mastectomy, and has chosen to just wear prognostics instead of going the breast reconstruction route?
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How many of you would actually have no problem at all having a serious relationship with a woman who has had a double mastectomy, and has chosen to just wear prognostics instead of going the breast reconstruction route?
Bro Phil is full of Class and he loves his friends and family, he will stay by her come hell or high waters. He is loyal and is a very moral man.
Anyone who would answer that they would not stay has no loyalty and is devoid of all dignity and integrity.