Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   In October 1993, at 53 years of age, Pat's left kidney was removed
and found to be malignant. This "nephrectomy" revealed that she
was suffering from adenocarcinoma of the kidney. Furthermore,
during the pre-operative investigation, an ultrasound scanning also
revealed "what appeared to be secondaries in the liver - with an oval
mass in the right lobe approximately 6 cm in the long diameter."
After surgery, she was told that the cancer had spread to her liver, and
was not offered any treatment. By February of 1994, she had deteriorated
to such a point that she was bedridden, jaundiced and was just
skin and bones. She was only given a prescription for morphine and
told to go home and try to make the best of what little time she had
left. Her son, Wayne, was called home from overseas service and her
family was told, "No hope; it is only a matter of time."

   Pat, herself, as a nurse, had taken care of cancer patients and
chemotherapy and radiation "were not for me," she said.

   Pat and her family live in Australia. In her desperate condition, it
was impossible for her to travel to Mexico to start the Gerson Therapy
there. So, her husband started her on the treatment at home, alone.

   She struggled for eight months before she could see any improvement.
However her husband, after having Pat on the full Gerson
Therapy for two weeks "could see a slight improvement, which gave
him hope and faith," wrote Pat. "He studied Dr. Gerson's book, A
Cancer Therapy, endlessly to try and help me." After two months of
intensive Therapy, her husband had to go back to work and Pat was
on her own, struggling all day.

   "During those months, I had a lot of pain and at times was
vomiting for hours on end." In the area where Pat and her family
lived, there was frequent aerial pesticide spraying, causing her
additional toxicity. Pat reported further, "Many times I really don't
know how I found the strength to fight to live. Some of my healing
reactions were very severe but, so very slowly, my body turned
around and I began to heal. I passed so much putrid dead matter with
my enemas, it was unreal. The last time this happened was at 16
months!"

   Pat also wrote that the Gerson Support Group in Australia were
invaluable in their encouragement and support.

   By 1996, Pat was back at work, working four hours a day most
days, living life to the fullest around her Therapy. She said that "now,
at 56, I haven't felt so well since my early 20s. I only have the Gerson
Therapy to thank for saving my life."

   Pat specifically asked the Gerson Institute patient services group to
emphasize to Gerson patients "To start the Therapy, you must have
help." She would have healed much faster if she had been able to
come to the Mexican hospital and had a lot more rest. But she had no
choice, she had no help, and could only try to succeed.

   With her husband's devoted help, she succeeded.