the-truth-about-cancer

Episode 7: How to Survive and Thrive
And they looked at—the doctor looked at my wife and my mother and
they said you don’t want to see this. At that time is they had to take a
drill and drill down the top of my head here to put a tube down there to
start draining the fluid there was so much fluid in my brain.
Ty: And you still got a scar there.
Dr. Charles Majors: Yeah, I got a scar here and I have a scar here but
if they went down this way to take the fluid out of my brain literally—and
they can’t use—they don’t use medication when they put a hole in your
head. So they literally, no medication at all they have to drill a hole down
through my head to put a tube into there. And it literally—people say
what did it feel like or sound like. It sounded like somebody was going
through tile or porcelain like they were drilling through the head and then
pulling back up. Its like a little saw it looks like.
So they put the tube in there and I’ll tell you at that point you’re like
thank God for modern medicine. Headaches went away immediately.
They got the fluid out of there. And that’s what medicine’s there for.
Medicine’s crisis care. I was in a crisis, you know, but there was no way
they were going to get me back to health again but it was definitely there
for a crisis. They got the fluid out of there. I could function. The next day
the neurosurgeon came in and said, you know, this here is going to be
easy. We’re going to go through about a week of preparation to get you
ready making sure you can handle the surgery. They’re going to do a
brain surgery.
So they’re going to have to go right up inside of there and they’re just
going to go in and cut out the tumors. And so they didn’t do any other
blood work. They didn’t test anything else but basic stuff for the surgery.
About a week later, it was a Tuesday morning I went in for surgery they
said it would be about eight to twelve hour surgery. And Dr. Ben Lerner
who wrote the book with me, my wife, we had doctors and family and
friends all in the room waiting for me to come out of surgery. And
instead of being eight or twelve hour surgery is was pretty quick. They
literally—it was over and they—and I didn’t know this.
They went into the room to tell my wife. They said, “we have bad news.
It wasn’t benign tumors. It was cancerous.” And when I went to cut on
the first one—when you cut on cancer or you mess with it at all it swells.
And the cancer began to swell and it started to bleed. And obviously
what does the blood carry More cancer. So they said that the chances
are that I may not wake up in the morning because the swelling was so
big in the brain now and the cancer was spreading worse.
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