Recovered Patients

OK. Thank you, Frank, for the opportunity.

I first want to thank the Cancer Control Society, Frank and Lorraine and all the other people are doing such hard work here to put out all this information. It's invaluable. I want to just start off by saying in the year 2005, I had intense pain in my leg. I went to a bone doctor to try and see what the problem was. And while I was in his office, I went into a seizure. Next thing I knew, I woke up on a gurney on the way to the hospital and they diagnosed me with a massive tumor on my spine. One of the cartilages was totally eaten, weighs the size of a lemon.

So I went into immediate. Surgery scheduled for surgery. I actually had two surgeries a week apart. They went in the front, cut out a rib and cleaned up. And they found massive bone cancer. The week later, they went in the back and put in titanium bars on my spine and basically sew me back up there. And during this time, I was in intense pain. Most of the pain medications wouldn't even work. But anyway, to make a longer story short, they sent me home to recover. I was planning on getting to Mexico, but I was couldn't even get out of bed. But after four months of being in bed, trying to recover, the pain came back. Intense pain, went back to the hospital. The tumor had grown back. So at that point, my wife had called the Stella Myers clinic. Doctor, you're about to Alvares and ask for his advice. And he said, well, do the tumor. The spinal compression continued. I could be a paraplegic for life. So he recommended I have the minimum amount of radiation to try to shrink the tumor enough to allow the pain medications to work, which is what I did. But at that point, the surgeons wanted to do more surgery. And I told me, no, I'd rather die first. And they said, well, then there's chemo. And I said, no, that's no good either. And when his adjusted radiation, I hadn't quite decided yet. So the doctor just said, to hell with you. You're never gonna walk again anyway. So I didn't even leave. I didn't even go home from the hospital. I went directly to the steller marsh clinic in a wheelchair where I underwent metabolic therapy, which include Latrell's, one of the main components components. But it's all the vitamins and nutrients with intravenous injections and so forth. At the end of the well, I went there in a wheelchair. I couldn't even