Claim Your Healing

By Krista Anderson

Given a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, with three months to live, Krista Anderson began a desperate search for healing. Refusing to give up, she fought back, determined to win the war. In Claim Your Healing Krista shares seven powerful tools she used to restore her body back to health. If you need healing, this book will inspire you to

• Language: English
• Publisher: ESSTAR
• Release date: Jul 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781945604645

Krista Anderson

Krista Anderson is the founder and CEO of ESSTAR, a Nashville-based natural food brokerage company. ESSTAR makes healthy snack foods accessible through their "Krista's Healthy on the Go" food stations in convenience stores. Called to action by a long but victorious battle with stage 2 cancer in 2007, and stage 4 cancer in 2009 when she was given three months to live, Krista became passionate about healthy eating. Her mission is to make healthy food accessible to the public, both to help fight disease and to encourage and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Prior to founding ESSTAR, Krista worked in marketing for Nestle Professional, assisting in building the foodservice beverage portfolio. She has an associate degree in fashion marketing. Originally from Westby, Wisconsin, Krista now lives in Franklin, Tennessee. She is an author and public speaker and is dedicated to making the world a healthier place.

Book preview

The Journey to the Miracle

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I just knew I had leukemia. Like a shouting child insistent on his way, my secret disease seemed to scream in my face, Told you!

Shaking my head in frustration, I attempted to dislodge the thought. I was nineteen years old. I couldn’t have cancer.

But my friend did. He was twenty-two, just diagnosed with leukemia. His life changed drastically in a matter of weeks after being unable to shake what seemed like a nasty flu.

Finally, I gave in to my inner hypochondriac and turned on my computer, searching for any symptoms of this hidden disease. While what I found didn’t match any of the symptoms I’d been having, I did see one curious symptom of leukemia: a firm portion just beneath the ribcage. After poking around for a moment, I felt a spot, hard as a rock, on my right side.

Frantic, I dialed 911, not knowing what else to do. I felt foolish when the paramedics came to the door and I had to ask them to leave after realizing that if I did, in fact, have leukemia, being rushed to the hospital wasn’t necessarily the correct option.

However, I did determine I needed to know right away what was truly going on. I called out of work and proceeded to an ultrasound clinic. Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, I was disappointed but unsurprised to be sent immediately to the ER for further testing when something worrisome appeared on my scan.

It turned out I didn’t have leukemia.

I had a tumor nearly the size of a football on my right kidney.

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10cm Stage 2 kidney tumor, 2007

Words will never contain the heart-dropping shock and fear I experienced in the moment I first heard those words. For me, a new believer in Christ at that point, disbelief is the only word I can think of to describe it.

After a biopsy confirmed the tumor was benign, I flew to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to get a second opinion—I wanted to avoid losing my kidney. Unfortunately, it wasn’t an option, so I returned to Tampa and had laparoscopic surgery to remove the tumor along with my right kidney.

Then came another shock—after further testing, I was informed that cancer had been found in the tumor.

But as a vibrant, young believer in miracles, I knew that I was healed. That’s why I told Dr. Fishman I would be refusing postoperative chemotherapy.

He explained to me that this particular tumor was called Wilms’ tumor and was something he had never personally seen in an adult—it usually appeared in children between the ages of two and five. No one knew how long I’d had it, though it was unlikely it had been there