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Show C-12 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 22-24, 2018 Continued from C-7 Cannabis fights leukemia The chemo destroyed his immune system, and he said his body never recovered from it. About seven years ago, he relapsed. This time, however, he refused to get the recommended chemotherapy treatments. On a two-week Grand Canyon trip, he met a holistic healer from Boulder who did extensive work with him using alternative therapies and healing work, and he was able to put the leukemia in remission. “I can’t stress enough how much work it was; it took a year and a half to put it in remission,” Littlebird said. After he relapsed, the doctors wanted to continue to give him chemo treatments every four years, but he refused, believing it would kill him before his illness would. He later found out from a doctor that other patients who had been given the same chemotherapy he had 20 years ago had all relapsed, which just reaffirmed to him his reasoning for not wanting to undergo those treatments again. “The community rallied and did a huge benefit for me and got me through the whole thing,” he said. “It was amazing. I talked a lot about how the energy of the community and the love of people is the silver bullet. Even though the protocols and procedures I do are extensive, they take you all day just to do your treatments — it’s a 24/7 thing. Even at that, the most important thing is the love of the people around you and to be able to receive that. That energy is what gets you through; really heals you.” PARK CITY SOCCER CLUB YOUTH FUTURES PROGRAM Develop a child’s love of the game • HAVE FUN Provide a transition between recreational soccer and club soccer Introduce technical development • Build a foundation of basic skills PCSC training shirt provided Fall Developmental Training Programs for Girls & Boys ages 6 - 9 Willow Creek Park & Basin Rec Field House 12 Week Wednesday Academy* 8 Week Friday Academy* September 5 - December 12 October 5 - December 14 5:00pm - 6:00pm 5:00pm - 6:00pm $160.00** $110.00** *Visit parkcitysoccer.org for Academy calendar, Academy sessions are not held over holidays. ** $8.00 Utah Youth Soccer registration fee is additional A complement to Fall Rec League soccer Questions? Contact Youth Program Director Matt Terwillegar mattpc94@gmail.com Visit www.parkcitysoccer.org to register Scholarships are available / Becas disponibles * For scholarship information, contact pcscscholarships@gmail.com Para español, contacto: Claudia Redd al 435.513.8387 o ceredd@comcast.net o Carmela Foote al 801.910.7337 o carmela.foote@gmail.com Back in the hospital Fast forward to summer 2015, when Littlebird was in the best shape of his life, he said, “65 years old and going strong, feeling like 40.” On Nov. 14, 2015, he went to bed feeling great. But when he woke up the next morning, he was having trouble breathing, www.parkcitysoccer.org continuing to get sicker and ending up in the emergency room seven days later. He was diagnosed with pneumonia and spent a total of 21 days in the hospital. “The pneumonia was so severe, and the treatments were so severe, that my immune system got weakened, and the leukemia came back,” he said. Pneumonia and leukemia together can be fatal, and he was so scared at one point that he considered chemo again. It wasn’t until he left the hospital and returned to Summit, where he could see his sacred mountains, that he realized once again that, for him, it was not the way. Being a man of faith, he said, who believes in the spirit and the divine origin of all things, he asked himself, “What is my responsibility? What am I supposed to learn from this?” “I have a really strong knowledge that this happened to me again, so I could make it a more public healing,” he said. Cannabis oil for healing He began using the same holistic treatments he had used several years ago, adding cannabis oil to the mix after spending a lot of time researching the science behind it. The doctors had told him kicking the pneumonia would take six months, but, after three months, he was completely clear. He attributes it to the work he did every day with his homeopath from Breckenridge. His cannabis treatment included a 30-day intensive plan that had him taking 800 milligrams of Rick Simpson cannabis oil every day following a 10-day ramp up to get his body adjusted to the high levels of THC. He said he realizes that the research on using cannabis oil as treatment is still in its early stages, but that he has found, in his own research, that CBD and THC cannabinols isolate and starve irregular blood cells. “I’m absolutely positive if I had done the chemo I’d be dead,” he said. “One could say that cannabis oil saved my life.” He’s quick to add that cannabis oil alone isn’t enough. He spent 45 days detoxing and cleansing his body before he started with the cannabis treatment. He followed The Gerson Therapy as a whole-body approach to healing, which combines a plant-based diet with raw juices, coffee en- emas and natural supplements, a natural treatment that boosts the body’s own immune system. This process gives your body what it needs to heal itself, he said, and the body is clean before introducing the cannabis oil. The amount of oil Littlebird was consuming was intense — even for someone who had been smoking dope since 1963 when he toured with rock bands. He worked himself up to a gram a day, or 1,000 milligrams — a typical serving for edibles sold in dispensaries is around 10 milligrams. He used a large syringe to measure out the dose, and then mixed it with warm coconut oil so he could consume it orally. He used his oncologist to track his progress and document how his chosen therapy was working. “I had to get my head around thinking of it as a medicine, rather than getting high or to make you feel good,” he said. Part of that was a lot of research, a lot of study on what he was doing. He never regrets his decision to not use chemotherapy treatments, believing that if he had, he would either be dead or still sick. “If you compare chemo to cannabis, chemo made me really sick,” he said. “I would look in the mirror and I felt like a stranger, a prisoner in my own sick body. It’s not good for you mentally.” He stresses that anyone who is looking into cannabis oil as a treatment needs to do the research themselves, to get educated. “Find out the reality of how it works,” he said. “Don’t just try it because some goofball like me is a success story.” The path he took, he said, requires a huge commitment of the mind, body and soul. “You’ve got to love yourself. That’s a big lesson I learned in this — in order to truly heal, you need to love yourself. “Two years later and I am healthier than a horse. I’m 67 and I’m skiing stronger than I’ve ever skied in my life. I ski with people half my age and they can’t keep up.” This story originally published April 7, 2016. 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