– You are listening to cannabis health radio. Here are your hosts Ian Jessop and Corrie Yelland. – Ian: Welcome to another episode of cannabis health radio, I’m Ian Jessup. – Corrie: And I’m Corrie Yelland. – Ian: Our guest today was diagnosed with rectal cancer in May of this year. It was so rare in fact that only 3 people in the United States had this form of cancer in the past 20 years. And today she is cancer-free! Joining us from Iowa to tell her story, is Beth Dennis. Beth did I get that correct? You are cancer-free today? – Beth: I am, yes! – Ian: Well that’s fantastic! Now leading up to your diagnosis, what were some of the signs you were experiencing that caused you concern that maybe something was wrong with you? – Beth: A lot of pain, It started out first like flew like symptoms, nauseousness, bathroom problems, things like that. Except when they gave me antibiotics, the pain never went away, I was in constant pain. they were talking about like hemorrhoids and things but believe me it wasn’t that they really never did an exam they just kept giving me things to try to take away the pain in reality the pain was so bad that the only thing I could use I have I use it a drug called gabapentin it’s for nerve damage because I have some nerve damage in my legs and my back so I started taking that on a regular basis and that helps some but in reality the only thing that was really striking the swelling and that’s so I wasn’t in constant pain was aspirin so Beth what are your doctors telling you a stage in the game when there’s anything tell me well we we don’t know what the problem is we’ll give you this though to see if it tastes Terry the pain I was on tramadol and all kinds of other things anti-inflammatories pain medicine they finally put me on Hydra Cody and I don’t know if you’re taking that stuff but it makes you really sick how many aspirin were you on a day that I was oh god I was taken I actually almost overdosed and died on aspirin poisoning because what people do not know and I did not know this and most people don’t know this aspirin builds up in your system it never leaves your system so if you’re taking more than then two a day two at a time it will build up and build up and build up and I literally overdosed on it almost died did you have any liver problems as a result of it thank goodness no I don’t have any problems you know I’m surprised given the fact that you had some bathroom issues that the doctors didn’t do an examination no they didn’t she didn’t suggest I have a female doctor and she’s made a young doctor and I think part of her problem is she didn’t know any better but I kept going I was going once a week for this the same pain once a week every week for months and I went there for six or eight months every week for all this constant pain and she never suggested until we were like 10 months into this constant pain that I even have a colonoscopy well by then the aspirin was so far down in my system that I couldn’t even get past drinking a quarter of this stuff that they give you for a colonoscopy so I ended up canceling it because it just made me so sick when were you diagnosed with rectal cancer I was diagnosed on April 24th of 2017 that was two days after my son’s 18th birthday okay what did they tell you about treatment I went in that day for an exam earlier on the 22nd for an exam and she I was in so much pain she cannot examine me she has she told me she said oh you’re in so much pain I have to knock you out to even examine you so that’s what they did they knocked me out they took me in the next day well she had me knocked out they found a tumor then she biopsied the tumor well the very next day they call you with your results and she said I hate to tell you this boots cancer and it small cell carcinoma is actually a lung cancer yes yeah how did lung cancer microbe show up being a rectal cancer tumor I don’t know but she said she said this cancer responds very well the chemotherapy and she sees she says I think we can treat it but she says you have to know this cancer also spreads very quickly in it and when it does spread it immediately goes to your brain so what what did you do next I went ahead and said at my first chemotherapy session that was on May 1st and by they give you three days worth of chemotherapy and by the end of the third day I was so sick and I can barely move I thought I’m not kidding this my mother had had breast cancer 20 years earlier and she fought it for five years and it made her so sick and she finally just gave up back then we didn’t know everything we know now about natural medicine so you had your first chemo treatment were you at stage 3 or stage 4 they never staged me they never gave me a stage it was limited and it was limited to my rectum so I was thankful for that because if it’s limited you have a better chance of surviving but the survival rate for this particular care just 13 months you know I was looking up rectal cancer and the survival rate and for stage 3 the probability of being alive in five years is approximately 30 to 40 percent exact Stage four the probability of being alive in five years is less than 10% exactly the life expectancy for the type of cancer that I was diagnosed with with 13 months now it’s after diagnosis let’s go what’s going through your head when you’re going through all this then I was scared I had watched my mother die from it I didn’t know what to do I had four years previously I was already not really up to par for his health and so yeah did you start researching alternative methods reaching everything they’d research on natural medicine any and every kind of natural medicine and the most studies I found was on cannabis oil and of course I don’t have access to because I really were smoked it or anything I know people they do I know people they did my my two adult children smoking but I didn’t know how to access it or I could and I couldn’t afford to pay for it if I did so what I did was I found a company in Colorado who-who as long as oil is legal in your state in the oil is legal in our state was legalized finally in July of 2017 now I bought it before it’s actually legal but they did ship it to me and I got a high THC and a high CBD product it was quite pricey but it’s worth every penny I spent there’s a company Colorado who will ship to legal states so I got from them and I start taking it every three times a day I took in the morning noon and night by the end of the first week I was literally pain free it’s not just this went away and I could eat I wasn’t sick all the time I wasn’t constantly tired I’d slept well at night where I had before was this oil oil that you took her tincture it was oil it wasn’t oil do you know what strains are do you know what percent of devika I can’t pronounce it okay that’s okay how does a special strain that they recommended for cancer how did you feel taking the cannabis oil initially because you weren’t a user of cannabis at all and the pie all the time then I researched it said to on black peppercorns and of course I use it I was a caterer for 20 years so I used a lot of black peppercorns it’s a two on three or four black peppercorns in a windy take away kind of the high so I did that and it works believe it or not it works so then I just go to sleep and rest it’s a high anymore prior to the peppercorns you must have had a lot of fun quite funny goofiness is a good thing it’s not necessarily a bad thing I agree but I’m give you without it no it just amplified my goofiness I think so when you were taking the cannabis oil were you still taking your chemotherapy I was still taking my chemotherapy because the doctor ecumene because I asked my doctor about cannabis oil and of course here all over the United States doctors are so not educated on natural medicine that they just they don’t believe anything they even read or anything that’s been studied so my doctor immediately said it doesn’t work my father is in stage four bladder cancer and he will not take the oil because his doctor I have suggested to him that he take the oil and he he keeps telling me you can prove to me there works I have proven it works when my doctor can prove to him that it works then he’ll take it but until then his doctor says it won’t work so he just refuses to take it and he all he’s really doing is making himself sicker and sicker and sicker Beth we interviewed a gentleman who I played a part in getting cancer free his name is Jack Kangol he’s amazing you might want to look him up for your daddy he had Stage three bladder counselor and he’s now quite the activist I believe he has a website too Jack Kangol calm he’s amazing but you might want to check that out okay I was now cancer-free and he just ignored me Here I am trying to save your life in teaching me like I’m an idiot one of the things about older people is that they’ve been brainwashed for so many years into believing that cannabis is a dangerous drug and he was a cannabis dealer he’s a drug dealer Oh your dad was a drug dealer he’s been a drug user most of his life he’s been a marijuana use for most of his life so I would think that you would understand some of the research Wow what do you say to Fatiha it’s like well I’m kind of speechless right now okay well I believe somebody who’s used it their whole life believing medicinal value well I can see where your frustration comes from well I think his problem is that he believes more in the word of the doctor killed too many brain cells okay leave that with you now you you have rectal cancer you’re on chemotherapy you’re taking cannabis oil and did you say within 10 days the pain dissipated within the first week probably seven days said pain dissipated almost to nothing how much were you taking at that point like did you start icing the grain of rice sighs dosing three times a day and then you build up built up did you I built up and built up did the doctors know when you were taking chemo I never told anybody I was taking cannabis oil because I didn’t want them to think that I was defying everything they said to me okay bill I can’t you need my chemotherapy until I got my my last scared and how many chemo no we did this scan and I had had a stroke a fairly major stroke four years earlier at 46 years old and when my oncologist said we would – your skin will do your scan my oncologist and my radiologist both the scan they said there is no cancer spot left period there’s no cancer in your body there’s no cancer in that spot left and he said oh by the way he said that that stroke you had he said there’s almost absolutely no evidence that you ever had a stroke anymore awesome boy that must have surprised even you it did surprise me I was like what are you telling me the truth he says there is no cancer left in you there’s almost no evidence of the stroke and of course they attributed it all to chemo right she did and I did finally tell him I said well you know I’ve been taking cannabis oil the whole time he said really I said yes really I said what do you think kept my weight up it made me be able to eat he said we know what he says I’m not really opposed to it he says I don’t believe it works but if it works you great yeah it’s usually a comment that doctors make I don’t believe it works or there needs to be more research into it and yada yada yada so you are cancer free today of this of this rare cancer and you in the notes you sent us you said only three people had states in 20 years this particular form of cancer to patients have died and one is cancer-free for six years and the fourth one is you yes and I’m completely cancer-free and I was cancer-free after three months what was it like when the doctor told you that you were cancer-free I think you’re kidding already he’s like yeah no cancer we can’t find any cancer in your whole body so they wanted me to go ahead and continue chemotherapy and go ahead and do radiation look sorry I said no thank you good for you that’s what I would a guy’s no I think I did I said I’ll just continue to take the cannabis oil because they tell you that you need to take your maintenance dosages so I still take a dose every single day every morning after I eat my breakfast good to hear why I’m gonna remain cancer-free I also changed the weight because before I ate a lot of garbage like on a keto diet which is mostly meat fats good fats high fat dairy fruits and vegetables oh no bread no sugar I did that and I added into my diet organic honey raw honey organic raw chocolate I make candy by the way that’s absolutely phenomenal what was it like switching your diet because I still crave things that I used to love like what like pulled pork oh my god I love pulled pork I used to make this amazing lemon tart for parties and stuff because I was a kid and I miss that so much but it’s not so much agura so I can’t have it there are things that I prayed that I really liked but I just say okay well I can have lemon pudding if I want the lemon tart I can have lemon pudding I just changed things so we might want cheesecake I just take sour cream cream cheese and mix it together and put strawberries in and that’s my cheesecake so you just have to figure out ways to change up things that will fit in your diet will still give you that satisfaction of having what you used to have so when I mentioned pulled-pork does your mouth start to water what I said when I mentioned pulled-pork does your mouth start to water did you lose any grass-fed pork Beth did you lose any weight I lost about 35 pounds which I’m very small anyway I’m 411 and weight about 110 pounds so if you can imagine losing five pounds is quite a big wow you were quite thin then I was 80 pounds boy did you feel okay though I felt good in some days I couldn’t eat enough now it’s okay because let’s continue to eat I was gaining my weight back so now I still I’d still not up to where I want to be but I’m getting there I have gained 15 pounds so it looks like you know a human being now instead of the skeleton my hair is trying to come back now thicker than it was before by the way so you lost all your hair after the first treatment and after the first chemo treatment what was going through your mind when you were is it okay I knew I was gonna lose my hair but expect to lose it this fast because I remember when my mother had cancer in her fell out gradually but apparently the chemotherapy they had me on was so strong they just basically killed everything it was also killing my insides because I couldn’t eat I was take all the time I go to work I was still working as a florist because I’ve been a florist for almost 30 years so I was still working part-time as a florist and I’d go to work and I immediately have to like go outside and be sick it was just it was so bad it couldn’t work though I knew is it was really bad for my body and of course I did research on chemotherapy and what I’ve read it spreads the cancer it makes a cancer worse of course you get singing destroyed my teeth I had really nice teeth it made it’s totally destroyed my teeth the cancer drugs they had me I was so strong I destroyed all the enamel on my teeth which I had enamel issues anyway I had soft tissue and soft enamel so it’s completely destroyed my teeth I lost all my hair I lost all my hair on my whole body not just my head I lost all my hair because it’s chemotherapy drugs they had Mir and were so strong I couldn’t sleep on they gave me steroids and fluids beforehand and I couldn’t sleep and I’d be awake all night so I wasn’t resting so I wasn’t getting better it was just horrible you a therapist bad stuff you have regrets about doing it do I have what regrets about taking chemo that’s about doing chemotherapy I wish that I had known that the cannabis oil work as fast as it did because I would have just started taking that immediately and forgotten any kind of treatment well the good thing is you’re alive you don’t have a lot you don’t have any cancer you don’t have any evidence of a stroke which I thought just amazing I know I can believe it either yeah I said what do you mean I don’t have any evidence and you can almost not even tell you how to stroke I’m like really because it’s pretty expensive when I had it I couldn’t I couldn’t speak I couldn’t eat I had to learn how to eat and swallow and speak all over again well you’ve made a great recovery yeah pretty much I still have some nerve damage on the left side of my body but I think if as long as I keep taking the cannabis oil that will go away as well has the nerve damage improved since you’ve been taking the cannabis oil it has quite a lot my legs don’t hurt like they used to – right this is pretty much done I don’t I can walk for an hour I die I walk a mile I try to walk them how every single day my doctors told me that if I got up and moved then it would get the chemotherapy drugs out of my system quicker so I started working walking a mile every single day I have a gas station that’s six blocks from my house so I walked up and I walked back and that’s a mile my legs are stronger than we were I feel better than I did before I eat better than they did before I’m hungry all the time still how do your kids feel about what has happened to you I think they were pretty shocked when I told her I was taking care of so because you know I’ve never done it before and now it’s peach – then don’t do drugs don’t drink don’t drive so lo and behold when I first was in a lot of pain my daughter brings me some smoke in a pipe and says here smoke this it’ll help but I don’t smoke it she should just smoke it all out did it help my 21 year old kid you not supplied supply me dope it helps a lot and it helped me sleep and help me eat but it got better once I start taking it the oil because oil is concentrated yeah it was I thank you honey thank you no if only your dad would listen he will not listen I have tried and tried and tried but I guess I guess all I can say is I have tried to help you I have tried to help you get better and if you choose not to that’s all I can do would you know what you said he has a choice I think it’s his choice to go ahead and die from this disease than to help himself get better you know what you said is very important we interviewed a judge in Florida who had sentenced three and eleven people to jail for marijuana possession and then when he got COPD his wife suggested he’s a cannabis and he refused and after a number of days of trying to convince him to take it she packed a bag and said I’m going to stay with Molly and the kids and he said well why’s she said if you can’t help yourself I’m not going to help you that’s right I am tried and he refuses to have the help and I do have I know someone that COPD we healed themselves with cannabis I have a friend of a doctor my doctor’s wife he’s my friend good tea she had a stroke at 37 years old and she’s healing herself from the stroke with cannabis I believe in cannabis but I was raised in a household where my father was a drug dealer and back in the sixties and seventies that to do was a drug and everyone considered it a drug so when you’re selling it you’re a drug dealer so I never had anything to do with it because my whole family does it and I hate to say this but their lives were pretty crappy because of their criminal activities I didn’t want any part of it I preached to my children every day don’t do drugs don’t do don’t drink alcohol don’t do this don’t do that so when my daughter says I’m gonna bring you something that will help you she brought me a big old bag and a brand new pipe and she smoked this it will help you and that was in the midst of my research and I’m thinking okay well if I if I can smoke and it makes me feel this much better the oil is probably even better so I resourced it from a reputable company and I bought it and I start taking every day and every day I was feeling better and better and better I was eating better like I said my hair is starting to come back and it’s come back in thicker than it was before I my I’m cancer-free my stroke is almost gone I believe in it where do you think you would have been Beth if you hadn’t taken cannabis oil I probably well I don’t know by now I probably about as sick as you can possibly be and you would be sick as you possibly could be and in another year you’d probably be dead exactly because when I looked at when I researched the life expectancy of this particular cancer and it said 13 months I thought oh my god my son was not even 18 years old nice that when I was diagnosed with cancer he was just on the verge of turning 18 I thought okay I have a five year grants and I just had a brand new grandbaby last month I thought I was here for my grandkids well it’s you know it’s fabulous story that in the spring of this year of 2017 you were diagnosed with rectal cancer and today you are free of cancer that’s an amazing story how could you’ve gotten really cancer three months cannabis oil and what’s the changes in my diet because I have to attribute some of these to changes in my diet because I have researched cancer and on a regular basis for any doctor will tell you that cancer feeds on sugar and fat now when you tell other people who may not be in favor of cannabis that you took cannabis what do they say to you they say no way no way it can’t possibly work it’s illegal you’re gonna get arrested for possession of illegal drugs well the oil is legal here in our state now it’s not recreational it’s just oil we’re pushing now for recreational and we’re trying to get them past that but at this point it’s only the oil that’s legal here it’s actually only up to a certain percentage that’s legal but but if you don’t tell anybody when two percentages then you can generally get away with it Beth it’s a remarkable story it’s a wonderful story that you’re free of cancer is there anything you’d like to tell listeners in conclusion jeez cannibal soil it helps it works if you don’t believe it works research people who have actually queued their cancer and gotten better with illnesses that are detrimental and can cause them to die and you’ll maybe understand that it does work fabulous thanks very much for your story Beth well thank you thank you so much Beth thank you thanks for listening everyone you’ve been listening to the cannabis health radio podcast visit our web site cannabis health radio.com and follow us

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