What happens when the medical treatment you receive does not work, or there is no treatment available and you are left facing a debilitating disease or a shortened life? Nyema Hermiston, a registered nurse and longtime natural therapist, answers that question and many others, through the interviews of dozens of men and women who explain how they recovered from debilitating and life-threatening conditions, ranging from autoimmune disease, cancer, severe allergies, and pain. Unfortunately, far too many people are told there is nothing that can be done about their conditions, and they never seek out alternative treatments due to their "unscientific" status. They don't stop to contemplate the risks associated with orthodox medical treatments. For instance, in the United States, medical error claims the lives of 400,000 people every year, making it the third leading cause of all deaths. In Australia, medical treatment causes 18,000 deaths per year and injures up to 50,000 more. Alternative treatments that include nutrition and little-known medical therapies are often less risky and as effective as standard treatments. Find out how they could save your life or the life of a loved one in Good News for People with Bad News . Good News for People with Bad News Recovery Stories Everyone Must Know About By Nyema Hermiston Balboa Press Copyright © 2016 Nyema Hermiston RN ND Adv Dip Hom. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5043-0065-0 Contents Foreword, xi, Introduction, xiii, About The Interviews, xxxi, The Stories, Charlie Abrahams – Childhood epilepsy, 1, Elaine Bakos – Fibromyalgia, 9, Shamus and Kaitlynn Baldwin – Autistic Spectrum Disorder, 17, Tom Balk – Hepatitis C, 31, Janet Balk – Hepatitis C, 41, Paula Bambic – Breast cancer, 45, Mary Jo Bean – Liver cirrhosis, 53, Fairlie Bekker – Allergies, 67, Beata Bishop – Melanoma, 73, Melissa Cabral – Clostridium difficile, 81, 'Sophia' – Lyme disease, 87, Sarah Ann Cooper – Pancreatic cancer, 97, David Emerson – Multiple myeloma, 105, Wanda Flick – Breast cancer, 111, Philip Flournoy – Prostate cancer, 119, Joyce Forsythe – Lymphoma, 129, Judith Hansen – Scleroderma, 139, John Hobbs – Rheumatoid arthritis, 145, Gabrielle Hogg – Asperger's syndrome, 153, Joel Hooker – Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, 161, Glenn Hopkins – Diabetes, heart disease, 165, Kirsten Horner – Enthesitis, 173, Michael Hurst – Ulcerative colitis, 179, Tina Jackson – Crushed cervical vertebrae with chronic arm pain, 189, Genevieve – Crohn's disease, 193, Bud Lindley – Lymphoma, 201, Lexie Lindstrom – Parkinson's disease, 209, Butch M – Motor Neurone Disease/Lou Gehrig's disease/amyotrophic lateral, sclerosis, 219, Ryan Middleton – Sleep and behavioural disorder, 229, Crystal Nason – Multiple sclerosis, 237, Steve Newport – Alzheimer's disease, 245, Raphaela Savino – Ovarian cancer, 259, John Scott – Multiple allergies, Crohn's disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 265, Mary Jo Siegel – Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 275, Debra Surman – Asthma, 281, Arlene Van Straten – Pancreatic cancer, 285, Alice and Annie Walker – Autistic Spectrum Disorder, 291, Emily Wall – Epilepsy, 303, 'Dawn' – Rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, 313, Marc Wishengrad – Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), 319, David Yoffie – Pancreatic cancer, 327, Afterword, 333, Glossary Of Terms, 335, Resources, 347, Acknowledgements, 359, About The Author, 363, CHAPTER 1 Charlie Abrahams, 21 years Santa Monica, California, USA Diagnosed with epilepsy at one year Interview with Jim Abrahams, Charlie's father On his first birthday, Charlie started having seizures. At first they were very subtle, but they quickly escalated into much more dramatic seizures, so Nancy and I started taking him to doctors. We felt fortunate, because we had access to several of the leading paediatric neurologists in the United States, and Charlie had seizures in all of their arms. They were in total agreement about what to do. They all said that as treatment options you can give these kids drugs and you can do brain surgery. They ran through every available drug on Charlie, with all the attending side effects of constipation, sleeplessness, or drowsiness. At one point, he was sleeping 18 hours a day – he sort of became a zombie. There was a rash for a while. They used the drugs in combination with each other too, and nothing stopped his seizures; nothing ever stopped his seizures. He got sicker and sicker, and was having dozens of seizures a day. So then they recommended a brain operation, which was a hideous experience. That didn't stop his seizures either; about a day after he got out of the hospital from the surgery, the seizures returned. We were told by the last doctor we saw, that if the surgery didn't work, to expect a life of continued seizures and what they called 'progressive retardation'. So I started doing research; this is back in 1993 now. Not w