the-truth-about-cancer

Episode 1: The Cancer Pandemic
Ty: Hi, this is Ty Bollinger. I want to tell you my story about how
cancer has affected my family. 1996 I visited my father. My wife
Charlene and I visited mom and dad at their house and we didn’t
know he was sick. He had had stomach aches, no other physical
symptoms really at that point. He doubled over in pain that night
and we took him to the hospital. It was in San Antonio, Texas. A
few hours later the doctor had gone in for surgery. They thought it
was gallstones. The doctor came out and said that dad had cancer
and it was all over his stomach. So we asked the doctor what
should we do And he said we should take his whole stomach out,
we should remove it. So we did.
And then over the course of the next 25 days my dad bled to death
from the surgery—19 blood transfusions in 25 days. He died on
July 25 th , 1996. That was my introduction into cancer and into,
what I call “the cancer industry.” After dad died, within the next
seven years I lost my grandfather, my other grandfather, my
grandmother, an uncle, and a cousin to cancer. Then in 2004 was
the straw that broke the camel’s back, my mother died of cancer.
And interestingly, for many years I had been researching natural
cancer treatments but at that point when you’re thrown into the
mix and you really just don’t know what to do, there were so many
relatives there. The surgeon was frantic. The doctor that treated
mom was a close family friend. And he said we need to cut to her
stomach out, the same thing they did with my father. So they did,
we did. We opted for surgery. And unfortunately mom died of a
stroke several months later that most likely resulted from the
surgery.
That was what really got me to where—in a position personally I
needed to get this information out to people. Like I said, I’d been
researching for the last seven years since my dad had gotten sick.
And I had accumulated a lot of information, thousands of hours of
research. And I decided at that point I needed to put it into a book.
My goal in publishing my book in 2006 was just to honor mom and
dad so that they didn’t die in vain so that people could be
empowered with this knowledge so that if their mom or dad is
diagnosed with cancer, which according to the World Health
Organization, if you’re watching this, one in two men, one in three
women, that are watching this are going to be diagnosed with
cancer. If you’re diagnosed with cancer you have the knowledge
that you need to make a good decision on how you’re going to
treat it. That was my whole goal. I didn’t know that eventually this
would blossom into something that I did full time and be able to
help literally tens of thousands of people across the world. I’m very
grateful for that but that wasn’t my plan.
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