Healing the Patient through Dispelling the Diagnosis
Has a medical diagnosis has placed a spell on you and placed you in a state of fear? Sometimes, a diagnosis can drive the illness further into you.
Dispelling the Diagnosis
By Gayle Madeleine Randall MD
Have you ever felt that a diagnosis has placed a spell on you and placed you in a state of shock or fear? This story, of the beautiful and famous Olivia Hussey, is an example of how a diagnosis can drive an illness further into you.
In 2017, Olivia came to see me after undergoing intense chemo and radiation therapy for metastatic breast cancer. She had a large estrogen receptor-positive mass near her heart. Like most, she came, her eyes shiny with fear. After telling me her story, with words falling out one after the other, almost without breath, she circled back to her trauma and then to her illness, making me know they were attached. She finally said, “Dr Randall, I just can’t do it anymore. They won’t stop. It’s killing me.”
I dispelled her fear by telling her she didn’t have to do it anymore if she didn’t want to and that I loved her and would be there for her. “Let me hold the burden.” She took a deep breath and said: “but it’s still there.” I said, “OK, I understand. We can do everything possible naturally to treat an estrogen receptor-positive tumor and monitor you closely. As long as you continue to improve, we know things are good. You have our support, the support of your lovely family and God. Your husband David and your lovely daughter India are devoted – you mean everything to them.”
I recounted stories about patients who healed from cancer and spoke about healing my mother from cancer at age 72, she died at 98 from old age. “Everyone gets healed, Olivia, and some people get miraculously cured.”
We created her program; vegan diet, exercise, prayers, meditation, and an herbal regimen. Recent studies showed a vegan diet for only three months can reverse genes for cancer. So why not for her! We gave her herbs to reduce estrogen in her body using a diet free from high phytoestrogen foods such as soy. She was given many supplements in her program. However, everyone is unique, and each program needs to be individualized.
The understanding that all cancers are inflammatory is also crucial in treating patients. However, the most important ingredient was to “dispell” her diagnosis: remove the spell of the trauma and the treatment and of the words “metastatic cancer” and to fill the space with love and hope.
The role of the healer is to share a different light or perspective on the problem or illness of the client. By changing the client’s perspective of their illness, their relationship to it is changed almost magically. This activates changes in consciousness which allow for a portal for the wholeness to return to the body. So, in July 2019, I asked Olivia to repeat an imaging study. I read the images with the radiologist. After two years, not only had the mass not grown bigger, as it certainly would have been expected to do, but all that the scan showed was chronic scarring and that the tumor was smaller or gone. Either of which tells us our program is working! It was such a blessing to be able to share the good news with Olivia and her family that day at Randall Wellness. We all laughed, cried happy tears and hugged!
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About the Author
Dr. Gayle Madeleine Randall is a unique kind of cross-cultural practitioner with many degrees in Internal, Gastroenterology, Integrative and Functional Medicine. She is UCLA and worldly trained. She has studied with Shaman and Medicine people all over the globe. She brings all of her talents and knowledge together to help heal us and the planet. drgmrandall.com
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