Sandy Ingram co-leads the HealingStrong group in Victorville, California, alongside Dan Cook. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2015. She chose a lumpectomy and declined radiation, a decision shaped partly by watching her mother go through radiation in the 1980s. In 2019 she found Chris Wark’s program and bought the whole thing, then put it in her closet because she wasn’t ready for the diet. A new tumor appeared a year or so later. She had no health insurance and no clear options, so she brought the program back out, and her husband joined her in the plant-based protocol.
Her first tumor disappeared, but a second one kept growing. When a fall 2023 scan showed it had grown again, Sandy says her prayers felt like they were hitting the ceiling. She chose to stand on three promises: God will never leave her, He will work all things for her good, and He will direct her path if she trusts Him. On the last night of open enrollment in January 2024, a late call to an acquaintance led to her getting insurance. She chose surgery without chemo and used water fasting in the weeks before it. A PET scan showed no spread, and she has had three clear scans since.
Sandy also talks about finding HealingStrong during her lowest season, driving an hour to the Rancho Cucamonga group, and how God nudged her to start a group closer to home. She encourages anyone in a hard place: God has not forsaken you, and you can trust Him with your whole heart.
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