Testicular Cancer

Thank you. How many of you would rather be here than the best hospital in town?

On the same page, somebody said to me the other day, we are that you're the oldest living layered Tril relic.

In the world.

And I said, that is not true. I am the second oldest living relative. There is one lady who was there in nineteen seventy two and she's still living. Thank God. But I was there in nineteen seventy four, in fact, if my memory serves me correct. I spoke at this convention of your third year. So that was I had more hair then. Did I mention that OK?

My story started in 1974. I was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

And I had embryonal cell carcinoma, which had spread to my lymphatic system. And if they operate on my neck, they found it. They operated on my feet. They found it. And they said, well, you know, you've got cancer just everywhere.

And so you need to invite your family in. Say goodbye. Decide who gets a gold watch.

And it's just over for you. There's really not much we can do. And that was the weekend that a guy mailed me a letter for 13 cents stamp and said there's some people in Teil 1A that want to do therapy with nutrition. And so my family gathered that night. The dog was laying at the foot of the fireplace and I stood up and I said, I'm thinking about leaving the Mayo Clinic and I'm thinking about going to Tijuana.

I learned more swearwords in the next five minutes than I learned growing up on the streets of Detroit.

They were furious with me. Because they said you're committing suicide if you think you're going to leave the citadel of modern medicine and you're gonna go to Tijuana and get well, you're you're more stupid than we thought you were.

And that was the complement of the evening that I got.

Boy, they were upset. Well, I'll tell you, I don't think that it mattered because that's what I look like after ten and a half hours of surgery at the Mayo Clinic.

I don't know if you've ever been in that kind of shape where you literally had just a few days to live. And and it was just a nightmare.

But I got to Tijuana. Here's a letter from the Mayo Clinic stating that I actually did have stage three embryonal sell high grade embryonal cell carcinoma. And the reason I show you that letter, because I started lecturing, I testified for a Senate investigation committee on Capitol Hill. I went any church, anybody