Getting Close to Going Home

We are getting close to the end of Harold’s three weeks of treatment with Salicinium and immune boosters. We are extremely pleased with all the doctors at the clinic.

We met with a new doctor at the clinic on Wednesday, Dr. Magic (pronounced Ma-Jeek). He is from Russia and originally came to the US in 1991 to practice at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa (this is where Harold had his 10 hour surgery with an incredible doctor, Dr. Pierre Greef, MD, FACS - Surgical Oncologist). He left CTCA in 1993 because they were not actually practicing integrative medicine.

He worked with a doctor in Oklahoma City until coming to work in the Reno clinic this month. Dr. Magic is extremely knowledgeable and also very funny. He told us his brother had told him when he came to Oklahoma that he would have to learn to speak "Oklahoman" for which he responded by saying, "they speak English like everyone else."

He went on to tell us about a patient he had told to come back to see him on Monday. Her response was, "Okay, if I don’t kick the bucket before then." His response to her was "Go ahead and kick the bucket, but come in on Monday." She cracked up and his office staff had to explain to him what “kick the bucket” means.

He kept us in stitches with several antidotes he relayed about learning to speak Oklahoman. Another one was when someone told him they felt like a dog. He seriously told them, "I’ve never had a dog so you will have to describe symptoms for me."

On another occasion, a patient told him they felt Hunky Dory and he had to have them explain that one too.

Bottom line was – he said his brother was right – you do have to learn to speak Oklahoman. We had a fun visit with him but also learned a lot.

He has contacted the doctor he worked with in Oklahoma and we will be visiting him when we return to Oklahoma for Ozone treatments. Ozone treatments force oxygen into the cells which helps the cancer cells to commit suicide.

We have learned much during this journey, but there is so much more to learn. We have met many wonderful people battling as we are against many forms of cancer. We have seen many walking miracles during our three-week stay and we will be telling our story to others when we come back for our follow-up treatments.

On a side note, we also got to visit with Mary Worley, a long-time family friend who now lives about 30 minutes outside of Reno in Fernley, Nevada. I worked with Mary at Marilyn Pryor & Associates for many years while I was selling real estate. It took us a while to track her down, finally sending her a letter to a P.O. Box after unsuccessfully trying to navigate to a spot on an online map that led us to a ranch with horses and cats – we knew we had not reached the correct destination since Mary is not a fan of either. It was so great to see her again and we look forward to our trip back to Reno in a couple of months so we can spend more time with her.