Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Miriam lives in Australia with her husband, having brought up a
family of three sons. Already in the late Eighties her health was
not good: her vision was deteriorating, she was losing her hair,
had blisters in her mouth and knew that she was toxic. In early
1991 she was examined at Nambour General Hospital by a
specialist surgeon, Dr. Allan Smith, who told her that she had
secondary melanoma and had a maximum of 5-112 years to live,
provided she agreed to have a block dissection of the lymph
glands in her left groin. (The primary melanoma, a skin lesion on
her left upper leg, had been diagnosed two years earlier, in September
1989.)

   Shocked by the prognosis, Miriam felt that she had to be
responsible for her sick body, and not put herself into the hands of
others to treat her as they thought fit. Nor did she want to be cut
open whenever another tumor appeared. She and her husband had
heard about the Gerson Therapy, and felt that it could cleanse and
nourish her body. The following day they got hold of a Champion
juicer and bought a lot of organic produce. She also informed Dr.
Smith that instead of undergoing surgery she had decided on an
alternative route.

   A week later Miriam received Dr. Gerson's book, A Cancer
Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, and all the necessary medications.
She started on the intensive therapy on February 28, 1991, and
stayed on it for two years. She was lucky enough to find a sympathetic
doctor who monitored her through the therapy, and was
thrilled with her progress. Equally fortunately, when she visited
her specialist after 11 months on the Gerson Therapy, he was
impressed with her state of health and asked many questions
about the Gerson protocol. When she next saw him, three months
before coming off the Therapy, he examined her and wrote a
report for the Gerson Institute. A full CT scan showed Miriam to
be clear of cancer.

  However, in 1995, after a stressful year, Miriam developed a
tumor in her abdomen. She was very sick and felt she was wasting
away. In April 1995, a small section of her intestine was surgically
removed, after which she went back on the full therapy for 18
months. CT scans made in November 1997 showed her to be clear
once again.

   She remains well, drinks five juices a day, eats mostly raw
vegetables and fruits and has a daily enema. During her long
healing journey only once did she feel like giving up, but realized,
as she put it, that "There is no turning back and there are no exits
on the Gerson highway."