Recovery From Cancer The Remarkable Story of One Woman’s Struggle With Cancer & What She Did to Beat the Odds Elaine Nussbaum

ISBN: 0-7570-0137-8 Length: 192 Pages Size: 6 x 9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Health / Cancer / Macrobiotics Price: $14.95 US Availability: In Print Click below for: Synopsis • Contents Preface • Reviews

Synopsis

The words slowly sank in--Mrs. Nussbaum, you have cancer. So began Elaine Nussbaum’s very personal struggle with this frightening disease. Despite surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, Elaine’s cancer spread to her bones and both lungs. Three years after her initial diagnosis, she had had enough of conventional therapies. Elaine stopped all medications and treatments, and began to practice macrobiotics in a last-ditch effort to save her life. Slowly, her condition improved. Steadily, she regained her health. As Elaine recovered from the ravages of cancer, her family drew upon her newly found strength to become whole once again.

Here, then, in Elaine’s own words, is her inspiring story of recovery against all odds--from her first days in the hospital, to the agony reflected in the faces of her family, to her eventual triumph.

Elaine’s dramatic and very moving story offers hope to cancer patients everywhere--and adds to the growing evidence that macrobiotics can be effective in the treatment of this insidious disease.

Elaine Nussbaum holds a bachelor’s degree in business education from Montclair State College. After her painful experience with cancer, she became a professional nutritionist and certified teacher of macrobiotics. Elaine has now been practicing, studying, and teaching macrobiotics for almost a decade. She has an active consulting practice in West Orange, New Jersey, and also offers macrobiotic cooking classes. Elaine is a popular lecturer, having spoken to groups throughout the United States. She has also been interviewed on numerous radio and national television shows. Elaine and her husband, Ralph, currently reside in northern New Jersey.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface

Part I: Dealing With Cancer
1. Diagnosis
2. Radiation & Chemotherapy
3. Surgery
4. Recurrence

Part II: Healing With Macrobiotics
5. Choosing an Alternative
6. Changing Direction
7. Getting Well
8. The Nutritional Link
9. Cancer Free
10. Years Later

Preface

Falling in love was the real thing for Elaine and me in 1954. While the sideline gossipers and para-statisticians predicted that our young marriage in 1957 would not last, we defied their odds and established a lasting union based on the twin pillars of deep love and total commitment. Having shared most of my life with her, Elaine’s story is also my story, and her recovery is one of the highlights of my life.

Until she was eighteen, Elaine experienced few hardships as she grew up in a close family blessed with good health. This environment was probably responsible for her warm, happy, radiant, and care-free disposition. For the next nineteen years following our marriage, Elaine devoted herself to being wife and mother. She genuinely enjoyed her role and, in a natural and innate manner, played the major part in raising our four children.

In 1976, after our youngest child began school, Elaine decided to go to college to prepare herself for the next phase in our lives. Now, for the first time, she had to take on more than could easily fit into a normal day without sacrificing what she regarded as her continuing household responsibilities.

In 1979, I added a real burden when I broke the news that my employer had asked me to relocate from New Jersey to California. It was a difficult decision for all of us, but most especially for Elaine, who was torn between my desire to move the family cross-country and the children’s wishes to remain on the East Coast.

It is very likely that the stress, tension, and pressure that Elaine experienced during these years contributed to her declining health.

When Elaine was diagnosed as having cancer in 1980, her biological immune system had obviously failed, and as time would tell, her body was to experience a metastasis that would threaten her life. While standard and advanced medical procedures kept her alive for several years and reduced the intolerable pain associated with the spread of cancer in the spine, it was Elaine’s understanding of and belief in natural nutrition, combined with her strong determination to live, that finally saved her life.

Having had a scientific training, I was admittedly a skeptic early in 1983 when Elaine decided to adopt an alternative approach based on a strange diet. While I agreed to be supportive, seeing that Elaine was so determined and had not given up her fight to live, I did not share her faith that diet without medication could restore her health.

Elaine’s story, which follows, has revolutionized my beliefs, and I hope it will inspire many readers who might derive benefit from the macrobiotic approach.

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