So, How did this all get started?

On August 1, 2011- On one of his many cross-country road trips, my 83-year old Dad was visiting with his friend Doug in Indiana. While there, Doug went out to see his chiropractor, and Dad said he could use an adjustment too. (this is how Dad tells the story...) So, he went in to this fellow he never met, and the chiro grabbed his own left wrist with his right hand and proceeded to "club" him on the right scapula, then on the upper spine, then on the left scapula (shoulder blade)...each hit getting progressively more forceful. Well, he went home feeling a little bruised, but figured that feeling would go away with time/rest.

After a couple weeks of no rest, no relief, he finally decided to let his friends Larry and Sue, back in MO (where he's been living for about 10 years(?)) take him to the hospital to get some x-rays. That is where we learned about the more serious issue, cancer.

Now, to hear him tell it, when he called me on the phone that night, he said, "They've found a little spot of cancer on my liver, we're gonna get this thing licked naturally, with vitamins and nutrition," (...no big deal). So, I said, "okay Dad, well keep me posted!"

September 25, Now, he's outside of Parkersburg, WV, staying with friends Mark and Lisa, a lady he trusts implicitly with her wealth of naturopathic knowledge.
He calls me in tears to tell me that he's got cancer, and he wants me to get my brother Gary to come help him pack up the rent house he's been staying in and get him moved back to WV... okay, this sounds a little more serious than a little spot, so, since he was so emotional, therefore cryptic on that call, I called Lisa back to have her give me the details. We're actually dealing with a couple pretty good size tumors on his liver and kidneys..

Next day, he calls back feeling a little better, they've been to see a couple folks there in town and he's feeling confident again that we've "got this thing on the run", don't bother coming up just yet.

Next Sunday, October 2, another phone call, same basic conversation. I called Lisa back again to get the full story again and now they've gotten their own test results back. It's Colon Cancer, which has metastasized to his liver and kidney. In addition, he's got a hernia, scoliosis, diverticulitis.... I think that's enough to get the picture.