Cancer is not a death sentence, according to Amanda Labuschagne, an inspirational women who endured the disease for ten long years.
Something that started off as a little mole, a minor imperfection, changed Amanda’s life forever.This mole-like growth later turned out to be a malignant melanoma, a skin disease caused by extensive exposure to the sun.
Upon being diagnosed in 2003, Amanda felt as if she had ‘reached the end of the road’, but a year later everything changed: Amanda decided to live. She decided to renounce the death sentence, and so she has.
Ten years later Amanda is healthy and happy, and claims she battled the disease with medication, healthy vegetables (‘particularly beetroot’, she joked), and prayers. Amanda, a truly inspirational woman, claimed that cancer, something she once viewed as a death sentence, turned out to be the beginning of a new life. She also stated that the disease humbled her to her knees, and it was only then that she realised that ‘disappointment is an appointment with God’.
She cherishes this ‘appointment’, and hopes to encourage others to follow suit and join forces in the battle against cancer, led by the Alm
