Sharlene Stump, metastasized breast cancer.

Dear Charlotte,

I'm sure you hear many stories like this but I want to add mine. In November of 2007 I was diagnosed with extremely aggressive, metastatic breast cancer. It was found through a biopsy of an enlarged lymph node under my right arm. I took the biopsy report to Jake my personal trainer. His response: "This is not a disaster. It's an opportunity." He got on the internet and found the Gerson Therapy. I've been a RN for 30 years and nothing I read that day made any sense to me, but Jake handed me his juicer and said: "Get started!"

I did, and in between juices, I contacted your California office and they emailed me the basic program. I ordered your book to arrive the next day and I started enemas with a little Fleets squeeze bottle that I emptied out and just kept refilling with coffee.

Two days later I had an MRI which showed cancer in the right breast, the breast bone and the lymph nodes with a second, unrelated tumor in the right lung.

There would be no surgery so I was sent to the Mayo clinic to see an oncologist. He was very grim but he ordered a PET scan before starting chemo. Three weeks after starting the Gerson Therapy I had a PET scan. It showed mildly hypermetabolic activity in the right axillary node but everything else was gone!! The oncologist sent me back to the surgeon. The surgeon didn't know what to do with me. He said the difference between the MRI and the PET scan was [like] two different people! I tried to tell him about Gerson but he just held up his hand and said he didn't want to hear any more. I went home with a heart full of hope and joy.

I'm into my seventh month of therapy now and it continues to be hard, challenging, enjoyable and those healing reactions are just plain awful. Jake is on this with me and he has seen some amazing and wonderful things happen to his body. My changes are much slower, but I lost my hair to alopecia when I was nine years old. I wonder if you've ever seen anyone with this disease grow hair back on the Gerson Therapy?

I am so very thankful for you and your wonderful father. He worked so hard and went through so much, but the gift he left for me and people like me is way beyond words.

I would be delighted to have you use my story in the Newsletter. Feel free to use my name and email address in case someone would like to contact me. I have no intention of ever going back into traditional medicine. I was doing things that were really bothering me [even] before I started Gerson. Now I could never do those things with a clear conscience.

About my hair. Three or four weeks after I started the Gerson Therapy I grew a bit of hair on my head and most of my eyelashes came back. Then two months ago my triglyceride level skyrocketed, my body started heating up and cooling with drenching sweats, my stomach filled with air every evening, my fingers became stiff and swollen and all my new hair fell out. I hope it's healing reactions but I don't know for sure what's going on.

Jake has been doing a lot better, too. He had a brain tumor removed about ten years ago and it left him with serious headaches. He also had arthritis in his right shoulder. He was taking 1800mg to 2400mg of Ibuprofen/day. He hasn't taken a single one since starting the Gerson Therapy in January. He has occasional stiffness but he is pain-free. He's a personal trainer and this November he's planning to compete for the state title in weightlifting using only Gerson. He's hoping to smash the theory that you have to consume large amounts of meat protein and protein powder in order to excel in this sport.

I also talked another friend into doing this with me. She bought a Norwalk juicer, read your book and has been pretty faithful with the program. She saw stress incontinence and chronic bladder infections heal in two months. Now, after four months, she is watching her chronic fatigue syndrome disappear and her weight is slowly coming down. She also wanted me to thank you for the change in her skin. She really does look wonderful.

There are several of us here in Phoenix who love you for giving us this therapy and hopefully we'll be able to talk a lot more people into joining us. I have noticed that cancer patients are often too scared to try this. Hopefully, more will listen in time. Right now they're all watching me! I am definitely in this for at least two years.

Sincerely,

Sharlene Stump

sharlene907@hotmail.com

by Sharlene Stump, R.N.

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Title Annotation:	We get letters ...
Author:	Stump, Sharlene
Publication:	Gerson Healing Newsletter
Article Type:	Letter to the editor
Date:	Sep 1, 2008
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