Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   In 1987, just weeks before her tenth birthday, Nora Kulwicki of
North Liberty, Indiana, started to suffer from headaches, then
vomiting. Her mother took her for a CAT scan, and a brain tumor
was discovered. She was then taken to the Riley Children's Hospital
in Indianapolis and was scheduled for surgery. The surgeon removed
what he could, but some of the tumor was too close to a blood vessel
and could only be cauterized. This, of course, left the door open to
more tumor growth. Subsequently, Nora went for yearly check-ups.

   When she was 13, an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) showed
a recurrence. The doctor said that at this stage he couldn't do anything,
"the tumor wasn't big enough to operate." Nora's mother,
Mary, felt that she couldn't just sit by and wait for her daughter's
tumor to grow. She started to read and research and found out about
the Gerson Therapy®.

   In 1990, Mary and Nora came to the Mexican hospital and started
the Gerson Therapy. After three weeks, Nora returned home and
stayed on the strict Therapy for one and a half years. During this
time, with the need for frequent coffee enemas and juices, she did not
go to a public school, but had home schooling. She also spent a great
deal of time taking coffee enemas on the bathroom floor, and used
this time constructively: she read all the classics she could get her
hands on, followed by Plato and other philosophers, then went on
to read science books and math. All this added up to a tremendous
education. When she took her SAT's (Scholastic Aptitude Test), she
scored extremely high - her score was almost perfect. Thanks to her
background and wide reading, she also became an excellent writer.

   At the end of her intensive Therapy, she had another check-up with
her neurosurgeon. He took some pictures, studied them, looked
puzzled, hesitated, took some more pictures - and finally said that
he couldn't see any more tumor, just a shadow which he felt was a
scar. Nora's mother asked what her daughter's prognosis was. The
surgeon replied that she would never have a problem again! Nora was
also playing the violin. The doctor was very pleased about that and
said that this was a very good sign, since the type of tumor she had
suffered from would have affected the fine motor skills. In other
words, with a tumor in her brain she would have been unable to play
the violin.

   Having completed one and a half years on the strict Therapy, Nora
switched to a "maintenance" program: she still drank two to three
quarts of juice daily and ate only organic food. Her mother started
an organic co-op business, helping to supply herself and a number of
other people in the area with organic food. Mary Kulwicki says that
she is now helping some 40 people to obtain their organic produce.

   Nora is now 25 years old. Aged 19, she was admitted to college.
Moreover, she was granted the high honor of a Presidential Scholarship,
awarded annually for excellent high school performance and
outstanding contributions to the community. Hers is a wonderful
story of triumph over great adversity.

   Latest news, February 2002, one day before her 25th birthday:
Nora is in fine shape and married. She had graduated 'Magna cum
Laude,' has done newspaper reporting and other writing. Her mother's
doctor, when hearing of Nora's recovery from astrocytoma, said,
"Nora climbed through the eye of a needle."