By MATT ALDERTON, Cancer Fighters Thrive
Katherine Sjoblom has always been creative. In fact, she used to be an artist. But when Sjoblom, 49, of Nashville, was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2011, everything strong inside her felt weak. That included her inner artist, which was an easy casualty of the cancer in her bone marrow’s plasma. It wasn’t just the cancer that crippled her creativity, or even chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. Rather, she believes it was what had been missing from her treatment plan that blocked her creativity.
When Sjoblom’s cancer returned in 2014 after she had been in remission for two years, she sought care at Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which she chose for its integrative approach to health care. In addition to chemotherapy to treat her malignant plasma, she craved care that would help heal the damage cancer had done to the rest of her—the parts unseen but ailing, like her mind, soul and wounded inner artist.
“The first time I had cancer, I spent a lot of time cobbling together a care team for myself,” says Sjoblom, who in addition to her oncologist at the hospital saw an external chiropractor, masseuse, qigong practitioner and acupuncturist.
During her second fight with cancer, Sjoblom was able to find treatment that helped give her the mental acuity and emotional stamina she needed to fight cancer, and to make what once was “strong inside” feel powerful again.
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