Dr. Dawn Mussalem
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 25 Dec
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He still didn't listen to me.
The third doctor said, oh, it's in your head.
This is something that happens to all medical students.
It's called psychosomatic.
meaning it's in your head and then the soma, the body, you manifest these symptoms.
It was a few days after that, doctor told me that it was in my head that I collapsed and I went to the hospital.
I was in cardiogenic shock.
My heart wasn't even beating properly.
There was a 16 centimeter mass wrapped around my heart and the tumor was compressing all the great vessels in my neck.
So they took me to urgent surgery and the next day the doctors came in the room and they said, you have stage four cancer.
They said, you have three months to live without treatment, 20 months to live with treatment.
And so many people would say, well, were you angry?
What was the emotion?
And I was just given this gift of grace.
I just took that diagnosis and I knew that there was a deep lesson there for me, especially as a medical student.
And I stayed the course.
I stayed in medical school and I listened to what the doctors said I needed to do to survive.
And I showed up for myself.
I stayed busy with the healthy aspects of living that we're gonna talk about today because I was able to attain my vitality during my entire cancer treatment.
and then flourish, as you can see today, thereafter.
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