Any sensible hygienist trying to stay out of jail would have refused to take on this type of case because it was a cancer case where death was likely.  Treatment of this highly lucrative disease is considered the AMA’s exclusive franchise, even when the medical doctors have given up after having done everything to a body the family can pay for or owe for.  Whenever a person dies under the care of any person who is not a licensed M.D. there must be an autopsy and a criminal investigation in search of negligence.  If the person dies under the care of an M.D. the sheriff’s assumption is that the doctor most assuredly did everything he could and should have done and death was inevitable.  By accepting Ethyl I had a reasonable likelihood of ending up in trouble; but being foolish, brave and (stupidly) feeling relatively immune to such consequences (I was under 40 at the time), it seemed important to try to help her.  So, undaunted by the task, regardless of the outcome, I proceeded logically, one step at a time.  Today, with more experience and a modest net worth I wouldn’t want to have to defend in a lawsuit, and at age 55. possessing no spare five to ten years to give to the State to “pay” for my bravery, I would probably refuse such a case.  Fortunately I have not been confronted with this problem lately.

Since Ethyl was unable to digest anything given by mouth, she was fed rectally with wheat grass juice implants three times a day.  She was carried to the colonic table for a daily colonic.  Wheat grass and clay poultices were applied to her tumors three times a day.  She received an acupressure massage and reflexology treatments during the day, plus a lot of tender loving care.  This program continued for a month during which the tumors were being reabsorbed by the body, including the large, extremely hard tumor sticking out the flesh of the right breast.

Ethyl complained of severe pain as the large tumor in her breast shrank.  While it had been getting larger and pressing ever harder on all the nerves, she had little or no sensation, but as it shrank, the nerves were reactivated.  Most people think that a growing tumor would cause more pain than a shrinking one.  Often the opposite is true.  Pain can be a good sign that the body is winning, an indicator to proceed.

By the second month, Ethyl, gradually gaining strength, was able to take wheat grass and carrot juice orally, and gradually eased into raw foods, mostly sprouts and leafy greens such as sunflower and buckwheat greens grown in trays.  She started to walk with assistance up and down the halls, no longer experiencing the intense pain formerly caused by a failing heart, and most surprising of all, her eyesight returned, at first seeing only outlines, and then details.

The third month Ethyl enlarged her food intake to include raw foods as well as the carrot and wheat grass juice and sprouts, plus vitamin and mineral supplements to help support her immune system and the healing process.  All the tumors had been reabsorbed by her body and were no longer visible, her heart was able to support normal activity such as walking, and nonstrenuous household chores, and her diabetes had corrected itself to the point that she no longer required insulin and was able to control her blood sugar with diet.