Cancer and Healthy

There she was - on stage - in a wheelchair. Jimmi-Ann Muse RELIS the standing ovation for her opening night performance as Dolly Levi in the classic stage musical, Hello Dolly! It was a full house in Greenville Little Theater and cheer was a wild dream for the 54-year-old art and drama teacher.

Just a year earlier, Museveni was told that she could not live another year. Cancer in her colon requires immediate surgery and lifelong chemotherapy. If they did nothing, but they would live maybe six months.

Not to do something was not the way Jimmi-Ann Muse. She is a fighter, since she was born more than two months early, and she would fight this, too.

She had to return to her children - her students at Camperdown Academy. She was thrilled for her work with these bright, dyslexic children. Students will line up to take her 8th Class class hoping to star in the annual production of Romeo & Juliet. The draw? They had to learn screens, as Muse knee at the university.

Muse and her husband of 13 years had big plans. David Muse had bought a motorcycle - Jimmi-Ann planned to travel with him. They are both student pilots and had plans to build a smaller aircraft. , And the couple had spent years designing and building a country cottage in the woods together. The house that serves as a canvas for Jimmi-Ann Muse the many artistic creations.

It came after a student came to her and said: "Miss Carnes, I got one, I want you so far." Kids had said that before and nothing happened. But do not want to dampen her enthusiasm of students, they enthusiastically replied "Oh Boy! Who?" The student said her father. "I nearly fell over. I do not want any father ... fathers are not dating."

David Muse Miss Carnes called repeatedly, and she finally agreed to a date ", so he let me alone." Both describe their first day as "disastrous". Not like her journey to the center of Greenville in his beat-up truck, Muse borrowed his older brother, but more impressive sports car. The show blew before they came from Laurens.

Muse is the only person he knew in the vicinity ... his ex-wife, who rescued them and borrowed her car the night. Dinner and movie prostitute was planned, but the time only allowed a late dinner. Both It was love at first sight. She prostitute next weekend and we have been since laughing, "said Museveni.

Despite his busy and active, Muse acknowledges she was seriously overweight for many years. Yes, she had hip replacement surgery in 2003 because of its excessive weight gain. "I had to concentrate on each step I took the walk ... had become so difficult," she said.

Museveni says that her immune system was a mess, and they just do not handle themselves. "I want to be more kicks Butt of God for my act together, but it took a death threat leads me to do something about it," she said.

David Muse was with his wife when she heard her diagnosis. "It felt I stepped from a very big step and fell in slow motion," he said. He was not really surprised, but when she apparently an inner strength and determination to beat is. Museveni informed his wife resolve. He has a new diet with her, and he was waiting for her, and supported each step of his journey.

During the surgical removal of part of her colon, multiple tumors were also found on her liver. She was at home strong enough to endure another surgery and chemotherapy.

"I would have gone anywhere in the hope of finding her," said Barbara Brinson, Muse's best friend. When Brinson heard of a food-bus, whose cancer had incredible results with its customers customized nutrition programs, Brinson took her friend to Arden to Roxane Chop-Smith, chief consultant and author of the Cancer Cookbook. Brinson remembers "running up the mountain with a dead woman in the car and then I saw her life lights up again" after a conversation with Chop-Smith. "I took it as a lifebuoy and not let go," Jimmi-Ann said about her new diet.

Chop-Smith to help people find health through the food in 1997. Her mother suffers from diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and for more than six years and died a weight of 47 kg. Doctors told the family to feed her food and she knew liked. "That was the thing that had made her sick," Chop-Smith said. She believes if she knew what she knows now, her mother would be alive today.

Chop-Smith attended the New England Culinary Institute and was their first student to qualify for the famous Escoffier Society (equivalent to the Food Network Iron Chef) at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The first woman to place in this event, which they then apprentices at Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, where she learned about macrobiotic food, and its importance in medical care and food began liaison office.

She studied macrobiotics and how to combine foods to strengthen the immune system in the Kushi Institute in Massachusetts. She says she saw a difference almost immediately in patients with cancer who came here. "At first, coming out of my black and white corporate world, I was skeptical," she said. When she realized that by changing her own diet, she lost was 28 pounds, will be removed by a stomach ulcer, and heal its hypoglycaemic critical condition.

As a macrobiotic menu is usually weak and dull, Roxane committed to good and exciting by the integration of everything they knew of delicious dishes from French cuisine. Her Vegan chocolate mousse tastes rich cream, butter and sugar - not tofu and agave nectar. She makes delicious baked organic kale with garlic, toasted sesame oil, plum vinegar and sunflower seeds.

Chop-wear is to write a new book and Roxane's Organics fresh and frozen meals will soon begin production.

Initially only coaching and cooking for cancer patients, Chop-Smith says she now can look at someone and they will be recognized as a chemotherapy treatment that is too strong for them. "I give them food, which helps to kill the cancer and make them feel good ... they are not retching all the time." Her Food Wisdom program is modified micro-macro, a diet heavy animal fats and proteins to the proteins easier, more vegetarian. "Animal protein helps cancer grow, it does not matter how clean it is," warns Chop-Smith.

Within five weeks after the start of Food Wisdom level, Jimmi-Ann Muse's blood test results were where they should be. "This meant I know my body can chemo was in the best shape to fight the disease," she said. She believes her healing came from eating organic foods and not taking the hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and that they are taught in conventional food. She has also eliminated dairy, sugar, beef and pork from her diet and she ultimately needed only six chemotherapy treatments instead of the original life-long course.

One of Museveni's doctor told her "if prayer worked, I would not have a job." You ask. All bad. And she has the Wall of Hope, where she showed artistic notes and blessings of friends and students at her kitchen cabinet doors (see photo). The kitchen is still a permanent tribute to the love and healing.

They even formed a patch (eg nicotine) to wear on her heart, who said: "The tumors have disappeared - no need for surgery - CT-scan Scots doctors."

The prayers worked. Before the surgical removal of tumors from her liver, Museveni had a CAT scan. Her doctor encouraged to announce that no more tumors - with only a small cyst - no need for surgery.

Today, Jimmi-Ann weighs 112 pounds less than a year ago. "I came back after thinking about the weight and began to think of a healthy," she said. Her doctor has confirmed that they are cancer free and telling her "... you are a miracle ... continue to do what you do."

Museveni is determined to tell people how important nutrition is for the body, mind and spirit. She speaks to groups, and encourages hope in cancer pain. "I can hear wonderful stories of people affected by cancer with flying colors, but it is not what we hear from the media," said Museveni.

That she plans to write a book and call it From Phase four to Center Stage. Muse says her life is better than ever. Now that they lost weight - and has a new hip - join her husband on his motorcycle will be easy.

"Everything is just turn up roses ... Now there's a role that I want to play," she said.

Muse stage debut came in a wheelchair when she decided to pamper themselves with a bubble bath for opening night. Preparations for the dress, she bent down to the ground and her hip incoherent. In an intense pain, called best friend, Brinson, screaming "I lie in bed, I have no clothes, my hip was inappropriate, you can come and pull my leg?" Brinson ran to the aid of Muse, but the doors are locked. They found a neighbor to help her come in. Muse laughs as she says, "never ask an honest man to break into your house ... it took him 20 minutes."

While painful, bumpy ambulance ride to the hospital, Muse outbreak "Thank God, I feel the pain." There were no broken bones and when she heard the doctor as morphine, she quickly announced "No, I have a performance tonight!" The doctor said that "most people want more - you will not?" He told her there was no way they would be on stage that night.

"It never for me not to do the show," Muse said. There was no overlap. Greenville Little Theater artistic director, Allen McCalla, was an authentic, and the wheelchair costumed period choreographer was so she could wheel Muse of her performance. The cast adapted to changes in the organization and choreography moments before the curtain. Muse performed three nights in a wheelchair and then rounded to the month-long period in her dancing shoes.

"It shows yesterday because of the spirit of the performer ... if anyone is spirit, it's Jimmi-Ann," McCalla said.

Muse learned a lot about a lot of it last year. Most of all, "I have learned compassion for myself. I loved all and gave it all away, but I was so hard on me.