How one man defied doctors to beat his ‘terminal’ lung cancer
receives. Some doctors believe thoughts influence our biology and even create our reality. I taught dad relaxation and positive thinking exercises and took him bowling – it’s important to do what we love because joy eases stress and makes life worth living.
Within three months dad’s symptoms – a cough, shoulder pain, bloody phlegm and loss of appetite and energy – had eased.
A US doctor claimed to be curing cancer with a drug called LDN, said to boost the immune system. The NHS wouldn’t prescribe it so I got it privately.
After six months dad was symptom-free. Dad’s Huddersfield consultant said a scan would be a waste of NHS money because dad was dying. I insisted he was transferred to London’s University College Hospital to see one of the UK’s leading chest specialists.
That’s how we came to be sitting in Dr Jeremy George’s office, waiting for the scan results on March 17, 2008. Dr George was so astonished the mass diagnosed as Adenocarcinoma had vanished he did a scan every six months for five years. They showed the tiny ‘hot’ area getting smaller, until it disappeared completely and dad was discharged.
We’re telling our story because we want people to know that even if the NHS offers no cure, there are other options; there’s still hope. We’ll never know what healed my father. No-one can say if it was positive thinking, healing, diet and supplements, LDN (which he still takes) or, Mac Gibson at his 70th birthday party a few months before he was diagnosed with cancer. Pictured with wife Sue and daughters (from left) Dawn, Lesley and Joanne as Dr George suggested, a ‘spontaneous remission.’
Dr Julian Kenyon, the UK’s leading expert on integrated cancer treatment, said: “What happened with your father is very exciting. A sensitive healer can feel the disturbance in someone’s energy field and should be able to address it. There’s scientific evidence this might work.”
Dr Kenyon runs the Dove Clinic in London and Winchester. Half his patients have advanced cancer.
I believe we all have remarkable healing potential. Therapists may be catalysts and cheerleaders who help activate and boost this but, ultimately, a person heals themselves. What works for one may not suit another; we must find our own path and we all have a time to die.
However, dad healed. What matters is that he’s had the extra years he wanted. He’s been right beside my mother, Sue, my sisters and me through intense joy and deep sorrow; helped me come home to Yorkshire with two small daughters of my own when I lost my husband; experienced the joy of watching his four granddaughters grow up.
He’s now 81 and can’t walk far. He gets breathless because of another lung condition, emphysema, and scarring from pneumonia. But we hope he’ll be with us, to love and be loved, for many more years.
Lesley is based in Hepworth, Holmfirth, phone 07702 835021. She works with pets, including horses, as well as people. For more information on Bi-Aura, go to www.bi-aura. com or phone 01661 844899.