AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,

AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

You might think you don’t have time to read this. Please think again. Either you or someone you
know, perhaps someone you love, will have cancer soon. Possibly already. This article could save
your life or theirs…

Cancer victim tried to pack a lifetime of mothering into two years

10:25 AM CDT on Sunday, August 1, 2010
By JAMIE THOMPSON / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

She tried to fill their minds with beautiful memories, of princess parties and water slide rides, pancakes
at IHOP on Sunday mornings. She longed to wrap her three children in a protective spell. She knew
what was coming would leave a part of them forever empty. That is why she fought so hard, enduring
the blood transfusions and chemical burns and painful sores. She was haunted by the idea that her
children would grow up without any memory of her.

But here, on this summer morning, Leah Siegel knew she was running out of time. As her husband
walked into the bedroom, she spoke to him softly.

"I think I'm dying," she said. "I think so, too," he said.
He crawled into bed beside her, and they were quiet.

From the moment doctors told Leah she had breast cancer
in 2008 – stage four, "treatable but not curable" – she
worried most about leaving her children, Teagan, then 4;
Wyatt, almost 2; and Oliver, 3 weeks old.

Leah Siegel had three children, Wyatt, Oliver and Teagan.

When she learned she probably had little time to live, she
worried the most about leaving her children.

"I just need 10 years," she told her oncologist.

Leah, then 41, was diagnosed just days after giving birth to
Oliver. The cancer already had spread to her liver and
bones. Doctors gave her two to three years. She quit her job
as a sports producer with ESPN, where she had earned three Emmys, and began a crushing regimen of
doctors' appointments and chemotherapy. This while feeding newborn Oliver every three hours,
answering endless questions about Sleeping Beauty, and defusing arguments over the Lightning
McQueen sippy cup.
AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

Weeks after Leah's diagnosis, her head bald, her body frail, she sat on her couch, cradling baby Oliver
in her arms. "It breaks my heart that they may not get to know me," she said. She looked down at
Oliver and sobbed.

"That's half the reason I keep fighting, damn it. I'm going to stay alive long enough for them to have
some kind of memory of me. "It doesn't have to be a big moment. Eating grilled cheeses together,
coloring chalk on the sidewalk – I don't care what it is. Just something ..."

Leah told doctors she would try any treatment, no matter the side effects, no matter how hard.
(the story will continue in a moment)

Elijah Note:
The great lack of trust in “modern medicine” is evident even amongst doctors. Polls and questionnaires
show that three doctors out of four (75 per cent) would refuse any chemotherapy because of its
ineffectiveness against the disease and its devastating effects on the entire human organism. This
is what many doctors and scientists have to say about chemotherapy:

“The majority of the cancer patients in this country die because of chemotherapy, which does not cure
breast, colon or lung cancer. This has been documented for over a decade and nevertheless doctors still
utilize chemotherapy to fight these tumors.” (Allen Levin, MD, UCSF, “The Healing of Cancer”,
Marcus Books, 1990).

“If I were to contract cancer, I would never turn to a certain standard for the therapy of this disease.
Cancer patients who stay away from these centers have some chance to make it.” (Prof. Gorge Mathe,
“Scientific Medicine Stymied”, Medicines Nouvelles, Paris, 1989)

“Dr. Hardin Jones, lecturer at the University of California, after having analyzed for many decades
statistics on cancer survival, has come to this conclusion: ‘… when not treated, the patients do not get
worse or they even get better’. The unsettling conclusions of Dr. Jones have never been refuted”.
(Walter Last, “The Ecologist”, Vol. 28, no. 2, March-April 1998)

“Many oncologists recommend chemotherapy for almost any type of cancer, with a faith that is
unshaken by the almost constant failures”.(Albert Braverman, MD, “Medical Oncology in the 90s”,
Lancet, 1991, Vol. 337, p. 901)

“After all, and for the overwhelming majority of the cases, there is no proof whatsoever that
chemotherapy prolongs survival expectations. And this is the great lie about this therapy, that there is a
correlation between the reduction of cancer and the extension of the life of the patient”. (Philip Day,
“Cancer: Why we’re still dying to know the truth”, Credence Publications, 2000)
AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

“Several full-time scientists at the McGill Cancer Center sent to 118 doctors, all experts on lung
cancer, a questionnaire to determine the level of trust they had in the therapies they were applying;
they were asked to imagine that they themselves had contracted the disease and which of the six
current experimental therapies they would choose. 79 doctors answered, 64 of them said that they
would not consent to undergo any treatment containing cis-platinum – one of the common
chemotherapy drugs they used – while 58 out of 79 believed that all the experimental therapies above
were not accepted because of the ineffectiveness and the elevated level of toxicity of chemotherapy.”
(Philip Day, “Cancer: Why we’re still dying to know the truth”, Credence Publications, 2000)

“Doctor Ulrich Able, a German epidemiologist of the Heidelberg Mannheim Tumor Clinic, has
exhaustively analyzed and reviewed all the main studies and clinical experiments ever performed on
chemotherapy .... Able discovered that the comprehensive world rate of positive outcomes because of
chemotherapy was frightening, because, simply, nowhere was scientific evidence available
demonstrating that chemotherapy is able to ‘prolong in any appreciable way the life of patients
affected by the most common type of organ cancer.’ Able highlights that rarely can chemotherapy
improve the quality of life, and he describes it as a scientific squalor while maintaining that at least 80
per cent of chemotherapy administered in the world is worthless. Even if there is no scientific proof
whatsoever that chemotherapy works, neither doctors nor patients are prepared to give it up (Lancet,
Aug. 10, 1991). None of the main media has ever mentioned this exhaustive study: it has been
completely buried” (Tim O’Shea, “Chemotherapy – An Unproven Procedure”)
“According to medical associations, the notorious and dangerous side effects of drugs have become the
fourth main cause of death after infarction, cancer, and apoplexy” ( Journal of the American Medical
Association, April 15, 1998)

back to the story…

Sunday my hair was really starting to fall out, so I let the kids cut most of it. Teagan had fun since
using grown-up scissors to cut hair is surely something she knows she won't be able to do again unless
she becomes a hair dresser ... Leah posted the message on her CaringBridge blog on Sept. 9, 2008.
She started writing as a way to keep family and friends informed. She also posted regularly on
Facebook.

Quickly, her following grew to neighbors, strangers, friends of friends. Before long, hundreds were
reading her entries and cheering her on. She wrote about her chemotherapy, her hormone suppression
therapy, having to get her ovaries removed. My chemo (Taxotere) makes my ankles fat, she posted on
Facebook on May 27. I am cool with no hair, fatigue, etc but cankles is where I draw the line!

She wrote about Teagan's continued love of princesses, and how she turned every backyard stick into a
magic wand. She wrote about how Wyatt learned to ride a bicycle, then moved on to riding Gracie, the
family's 50-pound Doberman mix.
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AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

About how Oliver went from sleeping all the time to crawling to taking his first steps ...
As she wrote, Leah couldn't help thinking ... I'll have my memories. But will they have theirs?
By this past spring, Leah began to panic.

"Nothing is working," she cried to her childhood best friend, Amy Sharlitt.

All along, the goal had been to attack her cancer with drugs and stabilize it. Now, doctors seemed to be
jumping from drug to drug. "There wasn't a real plan anymore," said Leah's husband, Eric Loehr. "It
seemed like they were grasping at straws."

Leah agreed to try a powerful drug cocktail that caused the most painful side effects yet. Flaming
blisters appeared on her hands and feet. It hurt to walk. It was difficult to type or text. The drugs
burned sores in her mouth and throat. For weeks, she couldn't eat. She began to worry that she would
starve to death. Her shoulders began to appear bony and her face gaunt, but her legs and abdomen
swelled with staggering amounts of fluid. She no longer looked like herself.

Despite the side effects, the drugs appeared to be fighting the cancer. Her husband thought, We can
turn the corner. If she can just hold on ... More and more, Leah broke down into tears.

During their long telephone conversations, Leah quizzed Sharlitt on their childhood memories.
"That year we went to the beach – how old were we?" she would ask. She seemed obsessed with trying
to pinpoint when their first memories began. Had Teagan reached that age? Had Wyatt? Oliver?
Her blog entries became more somber. It really is time to clear crud and old documents out from my
house for "when that day comes," she wrote in May.

In June, Leah and her husband sent the children to their grandparents' house in North Dallas for a few
weeks. Leah spent most days in bed. By then, it didn't seem to matter whether the drugs were killing
the cancer. Now, they were killing her.

Two weeks ago, relatives crayoned the words "Family Time" on a piece of paper and taped it to Room
624 at Baylor University Medical Center. Leah knew her body was failing. She didn't have the strength
for more chemotherapy. Still, she hoped for a few more weeks, or at least days. But in case she died
soon, she needed to say goodbye to the children.

Relatives drove them to the hospital and tried to prepare them, telling them this might be the last time
they saw their mother. They played in the hospital gift shop as their grandmother took them to Leah's
room one at a time. First came Oliver, now almost 2. He walked around the room, eating goldfish
crackers and smiling. Leah was too weak to hold him, but a relative lifted him up for a kiss. "Hi, my
little man," she said.
AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

Next came 3-year-old Wyatt. He crawled into Leah's bed and threw his arms around her neck. "I love
you, Mommy," he said. She gave him a hug. Then came Teagan, now 5. She seemed more reluctant
than her brothers. It was clear she had more thoughts about what was going on. She crawled into her
father's lap. "Do you have questions?" he asked quietly. She studied her mother's ashen face, then
shook her head no.

Hours later, at 2:48 a.m. on July 18, Leah dictated her last Facebook post from her hospital bed.
Well everyone – most of you know I have breast cancer. I need to contact lots of people, and as tacky
as it is, Facebook is a good way to do this.

I checked into the Baylor spa Friday due to high potassium levels in my blood. It has actually come
down to reasonable levels today. But, it is kind of clear that things are winding down. Elvis might be
leaving the building. We are probably down to just days or weeks ... By dawn, the first of hundreds of
responses began pouring in to her website and onto her Facebook page. The family was overwhelmed
by the tender eulogies-before-the-fact.

People from across the globe – as far away as Egypt and Israel – sent messages that could instantly be
read aloud to Leah as she lay dying in her hospital bed. This was death in the age of the Internet.
People from all parts of her life – colleagues, doctors, friends from elementary school – wrote to her.
"My heart is by your side, sweet friend," wrote one childhood friend.

"It seems so ridiculous that I'm sitting here typing a farewell ... but I'll have faith it's not a goodbye and
that we will indeed see each other again some day ... Save some pizza up there for me ..."
Leah's website drew thousands of hits, surpassing 44,000 visits since she started writing in 2008.

Neighbors were reading, too. On Leah's quiet street in Lakewood, they began tying pink ribbons
around every tree on the block.

Now it was the family's turn to say goodbye.

One after another, relatives filed into the room, sat beside Leah's bed, talked, laughed, reminisced.
Then they shuffled out with a nod or a wave, leaving the heavy hospital door to swing shut behind
them. Leah's mother, Myra MacPherson, sat at the end of her daughter's bed. She was nervous, worried
that she might say the wrong thing. They started talking about Leah's husband, how tender he had
been.

"I never knew that kind of love could exist," Leah told her mother. MacPherson tried not to cry, but
tears came. "I'm sorry, Leah," she said. "Oh, Mom, you can't help that," she replied gently.
MacPherson bent over and kissed her daughter on the forehead.

"Goodbye," she said softly. "Goodbye," Leah replied.

AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

As MacPherson walked out of the room, her shoulders shook with sobs. A few days after her initial
goodbye, Teagan asked to see her mother again. Her father was conflicted. Leah, heavily sedated,
sometimes breathed with difficulty and moaned. He didn't want to keep mother and daughter away
from each other, but he didn't want to frighten Teagan, either. Finally, he decided to let her visit.

Teagan stepped into the room and saw her mother lying in bed, tubes taped to her arms, machines
beeping behind her. She walked over and climbed into her mother's limp arms. "I love you, Mommy,"
she whispered. Leah lay quietly, her eyes closed.

Teagan lingered in the room for about 20 minutes. Beside her mother's bed, family photographs
flashed across a digital frame. It caught Teagan's attention. She walked over and began to narrate the
images. "Look, Mom, that's us in Costa Rica." "That's at Hailey's house." "That's me wearing the dress
that Grandma Myra bought me." The pictures kept coming, and she described them one by one.
It was as if Teagan was telling her mother, I remember. I remember ...

Leah Siegel died at 4:30 a.m. on Monday, July 26. She was 43.

You or someone you know or love… don’t have to die prematurely from cancer or any other
cause.

I specialize in assisting individuals who wish to improve or recover their health without harmful
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seen countless numbers of cancer patients, even “terminal” ones recover completely by applying the
knowledge that most doctors possess, and I quote:

“If I were to contract cancer, I would never turn to a certain standard for the therapy of this disease.
Cancer patients who stay away from these centers have some chance to make it.” Prof. Gorge
Mathe

“… when not treated, the patients do not get worse or they even get better.” Dr. Hardin Jones

“The majority of the cancer patients in this country die because of chemotherapy, which does not
cure breast, colon or lung cancer. This has been documented for over a decade and nevertheless
doctors still utilize chemotherapy to fight these tumors.” Allen Levin, MD, UCSF
AND YAHUSHUA WENT ABOUT ALL THE CITIES AND VILLAGES, TEACHING IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES,
AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, AND H EAL I NG EV ER Y SICKNESS AND E VER Y
DISEASE AMONG THE PEOPLE. MAT 9:35

“Many oncologists recommend chemotherapy for almost any type of cancer, with a faith that is
unshaken by the almost constant failures”. Albert Braverman, MD

“Several full-time scientists at the McGill Cancer Center sent to 118 doctors, all experts on lung
cancer, a questionnaire to determine the level of trust they had in the therapies they were applying;
they were asked to imagine that they themselves had contracted the disease and which of the six
current experimental therapies they would choose. 79 doctors answered, 64 of them (81% of those who
answered) said that they would not consent to undergo any treatment containing cis-platinum – one of
the common chemotherapy drugs they used – while 58 out of 79 (73% of those who answered)
believed that all the experimental therapies above were not accepted because of the ineffectiveness and
the elevated level of toxicity of chemotherapy.”

“According to medical associations, the notorious and dangerous side effects of drugs have become
the fourth main cause of death after infarction (heart attack), cancer, and apoplexy” Journal of the
American Medical Association, April 15, 1998

If you are interested in how I may help you or someone you know prevent cancer or deal with it in a
manner that promotes health, healing and wellness, feel free to contact me via the website. I work with
individuals who have all kinds of health issues and goals. I will call you as my schedule allows
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Once again, I thank you for your interest and support and pray that you prosper and be in health even
as your soul prospers…

The Almighty is the true Great Physician.

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