- Jessie Lee Ward misplaced her battle to stage 4 colon most cancers on September 17
- She prevented chemotherapy and as an alternative took her personal holistic path to restoration
- Ward documented her journey on-line till a couple of days earlier than she handed away
A multi-level advertising and marketing vendor has died after she turned to holistic treatments to attempt to remedy her colon most cancers and rejected chemotherapy.
Jessie Lee Ward, who additionally went as Boss Lee, was identified with stage-four colon most cancers again in March after she accomplished routine bloodwork testing.
Her oncologist instantly beneficial intense chemotherapy therapy as her greatest shot, however Ward thought in any other case.
Although her physician advised her she can be ‘useless by Christmas’, she pursued pure treatments.
She dabbled in various therapies akin to a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, ‘magnetic’ therapies, ‘ozone’ therapies and ‘red- mild remedy’.
In an Instagram video, Ward reacted to her physician’s medical recommendation and mentioned: ‘My surgeon and the oncologist are a hundred percent pimps.
‘Not of ladies, of chemo. They love that h*e. I’ve by no means in my life seen such a powerful and compelling gross sales pitch. They actually ought to go into gross sales.’
She made it clear that she was very ‘anti-chemo’ and did not even let her canine endure chemotherapy when she had most cancers.
The ‘serial entrepreneur’ and President of Pruvit, a ketone complement firm, documented her non-traditional most cancers journey throughout social media, posting movies to TikTok and her YouTube channel to replace her fan base.
Along with her fame, there have been additionally many critics of her within the anti-multi-level advertising and marketing group.
These disapproving critics made positive to clap again on Ward’s unconventional medical therapies, as some known as her out on-line.
Rebecca Watson, a blogger and founding father of the Skepchick Community, which is a platform made for the dialogue of science and skepticism from a girl’s perspective, didn’t hesitate when it got here to Ward.
In a video she posted, titled ‘This MLM Influencer Could Get Somebody Killed’, Watson mentioned: ‘She genuinely appears to imagine that chemotherapy doesn’t work and that her unproven various therapies will work and that she’s going to beat this. She is stating this all to her enormous viewers of devoted followers. So not solely is that this possible going to kill her, however there is a good likelihood it should kill another person too.’
Based on Ward’s enterprise web site, she amassed ‘over 1,000,000 loyal followers’ between Instagram, Fb and TikTok.
Her affect on her followers confirmed when Ward hosted a ‘retreat’ firstly of the 12 months in Cartagena, Colombia. She later got here clear and admitted that she scammed her following into happening an in depth journey in excessive warmth and unhealthy situations.
In an Instagram put up about this ‘retreat’, Ward mentioned: ‘I opted for a mastermind crash course of breaking down each single one in all these individuals via seeing them the place they’re to assist convey them to the place I see them sooner or later.’
As her most cancers progressed, so did Ward’s ‘pure’ treatments. She shared how she tried to fight the fast-moving illness by ingesting almost 12 juices a day, utilizing a ‘biocharger’ machine, took excessive doses of vitamin C 3 times per week, and did an extreme quantity of sit ups.
She did endure surgical procedures as effectively, however nonetheless by no means touched chemotherapy. In a video, she described how she obtained her decrease and higher gut eliminated, together with a ‘actually yucky’ tumor and lymph nodes.
In that very same video, she defined how her physician praised her for such a quick restoration and mentioned that they credited it to how ‘in form’ she was.
In her closing TikTok put up on September 5, Ward mentioned she was nonetheless on her holistic therapeutic journey however had been posting much less as a result of she was ‘in ache’. On the identical time, she shared that she obtained excellent news from her most up-to-date pet scan.
Ten days later, a put up on her Instagram account requested followers to collectively take part prayer for Ward as her days have been getting tougher.
Two days after that put up, she handed away and one other put up went out and mentioned: ‘Jessie Lee’s love was a robust drive that touched every of you deeply. She instilled unwavering perception, plain religion, and a powerful want so that you can rework your goals into actuality in each coronary heart she reached.’
She was additionally in a relationship together with her associate of a 12 months, and he posted in reminiscence of her on Instagram as effectively.
‘The illness perhaps gained the battle, however WE gained. We gained one another. We gained our recollections, our moments’, he mentioned.
