At the tender
age of 19 (in 1949) my Mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She was in college at North Texas, a music
major. Radiation treatment was just
becoming known then. They didn’t expect
her to live so they gave her massive doses.
Well, she did live, grew up, and married
but she wasn’t able to have children.
She had scar tissue on her neck; her
hair and skin were very thin. She had fair
freckled skin to begin with.
Fast forward
forty years, give or take. She starts
having trouble with her stomach/digestion in January. Back and forth to the Dr., unable to figure
out the problem. Finally, on Memorial
Day she went in for surgery. The doctor
found a huge mass of cancer metastasized all through her abdominal cavity. It had closed her colon, was attached to her
liver and even her diaphragm. They gave
her a colostomy and sewed her back up.
After 3 months of chemo she went back into surgery on Labor Day. She was completely clear except for a small
tumor the size of a peach pit where her remaining ovary should have been. The colostomy was reversed and she lived over
10 years clear.
FYI - My Mom drank Jason Winters Tea during her second bout with cancer and swore by it.
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