It's a story repeated millions of times; a young person diagnosed terminal with cancer. A life soon to be cut short but for one young woman diagnosed terminal with liver cancer, a domino of events no one could have predicted was soon to happen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 

What started with a routine physical ended with diagnosis that shattered a young wife and mother's life. Soon to be the next cancer fatality, Kari Gray was diagnosed with no survival liver cancer.

 

But this time it seems cancer meet its match as a mother's great love and determination pushed her to face not just cancer head, but now the entire conventional medical/health insurance racket. 

 

It began when Kari in bed depressed, devastated, and dying found through the power of prayer that 'awe ha" moment as prayers answered helped her to see light amidst the despair when she realized; "What if there is something Dr.'s just don't know? Is it possible?"

 

With that change in thinking Kari emotionally went from overwhelm to possibility, and that began to shift her life. Set out to find options led her to natural medicine in a 'gloves off' fight for life. Kari seeking hope, met ridicule by well-meaning family, friends, and medical doctors. This set the stage for the journey that lay ahead.

 

Determined to ensure her children have a legacy of a mothers love, Kari chose to exhaust all options as the gift to her children ensuring they knew their mother's devotion to do everything possible to be there for them. 

 

The Unchartered Path 

 

What began with a first visit to a naturopath took skepticism and converted it to conviction when the practitioner, without knowledge of the medical tests that preceded the exam, diagnosed terminal liver cancer also.

 

But this diagnosis was different because unlike the doom the medical Dr.'s predicted, the naturopath was the first voice of hope.

 

A protocol that would be aggressive, expensive and only possible through self-pay despite Kari being insured would self-fund a regime that included:

 

Cleanses

Detoxes

Supplements

Practitioner Visits

Equipment 

Organic Foods

Travel

Emotional Clearing

Family Diet Changes

Stress Reduction

Increased Business Expenses 

 

Testing the waters after thousands were spent, Kari submitted receipts to her then health insurance company whose prompt reply denial letter stated, "Reimbursements are denied for receipts for unproven and out of coverage treatments."

 

However, just months later insurance denied treatments gave Kari a miraculous second chance at life. An unlikely survival defined by CDC statistics that say liver cancer survival short term in 17%, chemo and radiation long-term survival for all cancer is just 3% defined the efficiacy of alternative medicine.

 

In spite of the financial costs, the money invested proved to be the best money spent when remission opened a new chapter in life twenty-eight years ago. 

 

With a new lease on life, Kari set out to buy alternative medicine health insurance but what seemed like the obvious answer turned into a two-decade in-vain search that ended in 2013 when she began a career in insurance.