191 {Melanie Staudt Pt. 2} When the medical system repeatedly missed my cancer

Try our FREE burnout quiz. Grab your burnout workbook HERE.  To sign up for our difficult conversations and workplace culture workshop go here. The journey of fighting cancer is so much more than just: finding out you have it and then getting treated. This week’s episode is part 2 of our chat with Melanie Staudt, an incredible woman who overcame breast cancer and all of its challenges. For this week’s episode Melanie will be sharing the challenges in recovery, post recovery and what happens when the cancer comes back. Melanie is 51 years old, lives in the US in Ohio and is married with two girls age 22 and 18. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2021. It was three years of intensive healing and has had no evidence of disease for a year and a half. She continues to work on physical, mental and spiritual health and looks forward to life’s next chapter.  In this episode she shares: -      Her second experience of cryoablation -      The long term weight and energy of cancer treatment -      Managing the fear and stress post cancer and how it impacts relationships -      Learning to take care of herself and ask for and accept help -      The story of how her doctor missed her active cancer -      Using a trial treatment and having to get a mastectomy -      Finding a lymph node in her sternum -      What helped her to stop detaching from her body -      Her lessons taken away after this experience Key Quotes “I felt like a failure, I felt like I had made all the wrong decisions.” “People that haven’t been through can’t understand.” More about Melanie You can contact Melanie via Facebook or Instagram. The pre surgery meditation link she mentioned is here.   You can get involved with the podcast online   On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeus Or on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeus If you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.com Or check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com   If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website: http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.