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Episode 415 Transcript:

 Welcome  to  Cannabis  Health  Radio,  a  podcast  where  we  share  stories  from  people  around  the  world  who  are  using  cannabis  as  medicine.  The  information  is  meant  to  raise  awareness  about  the  health  benefits  of  cannabis,

which  should  not  be  taken  as  medical  advice.  Now,  here  are  your  hosts,  Ian  Jessop,  and Corrie Yelland  Welcome  to  the  cannabis  health  radio  podcast.

I'm  Ian  Jessop.  And  I'm  Corrie  Yelland.  In  the  years  we've  been  doing  this  program,  we've  only  had  one  interview  related  to  neuroblastoma, which  is  a  cancer  that  develops  from  immature  nerve  cells  found  in  several  areas  of  the  body.  It  most  commonly  affects  children  aged  five  or  younger.  Our  guest  today  is  going  to  tell  us  the  story  of  her  son  diagnosed  with  neuroblastoma  as  an  adult.

And  joining  us  from  London  in  the  UK  is  Catherine  who  doesn't  want  us  to  use  her  last  name  so  we  won't.  Catherine  thanks  for  doing  this  and  you  know  in  reading  the  write -up  you  sent  us  I  can't  imagine  what  your  son  has  gone  through  and  you  along  with  him.

Now  it's  been  nearly  five  years  since  the  original  diagnosis.  What  is  the  journey  being  like  for  him  and  and  yourself?  Wow,

that's  a  big  question.  Well,  when  he  was  first  diagnosed,  it  was  such  a  shock  because  the  tumor  started  in  his  smell  nerve  and  it  had  eaten  away  at  the  sinus  bones  behind  his  eyes, wrapped  around  his  eyes  and  it  was  as  big  as  a  small  orange.  It  was  enormous  and  we  just  couldn't  believe  it.  He  went  into  hospital  and  was  kept  in  because  of  his  saline  levels  and  a  nose  bleed  and  we  were  so  blessed  because  an  amazing  ENT  surgeon  was  doing  rounds  the  next  day  after  his  admittance  and  she  simply  said  to  us  is  the  nose  nosebleed  always  on  one  side  and  she  sent  him  straight  for  a  scan  and  she brought  us  into  a  side  room  and  showed  us  the  images  and  and  it  was  really  she  said  she  you  know  like  looking  at  the  literature  they  tried  to  find  people  with  this  situation  and  it  was  as  you  say  it's  normally  in  children  it  had  also  eaten  away  through  the  base  of  the  skull  and  the  tumor  had  pushed  up  into  the  brain.

So  from  the  imaging  they  didn't  know  if  it  was  entangled  with  the  brain,  they  didn't  know  if  it  was  entangled  with  the  eyes.  So  we  had, she  had  a  month  to  stabilize  his  condition  and  he  spent  quite  a  while  in  intensive  care  because  of  the  salt  levels  in  his  body  and  then  was  was  prepared  for  surgery.

Now  I  work  with  Reiki  and  I  have  a  lot  of  friends  who  are  complementary  health  practitioners  and  we  kind  of  got  on  the  case  so  everybody  started  sending  Reiki,  he  went  immediately  on  homeopathy, we  tried  to  get  cannabis  at  that  point  but  in  England  we  didn't  have  the  capacity  to  get  it  at  that  point  and  then  he  had  a  very  like  the  operation  line.

About  seven  hours  and  they  went  in  through  his  nose,  cut  out  the  tumour  through  his  nose,  another  surgeon  they  cut  out  a  diamond  shaped  out  of  his  forehead, went  in  through  his  brain  so  he  had  an  ENT  surgeon  and  a  neurosurgeon  and  they  basically  spent  eight  hours  cutting  out  that  tumour.  Now  it  turned  out  it  hadn't  gone  into  the  brain  and  it  hadn't  hadn't  he  didn't  lose  his  eyes  and  it  didn't  damage  his  brain  so  that  was  the  prognosis  that  that  they  could  both  happen  and  I  really  think  that  was  a  miracle  at  that  stage  that  and  neither  of  those  things  happened  and  when he  went  just  for  listeners