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Join their weekly Sunday meetings for training on how to heal ALS. www.healingals.com. Click to set custom HTML Noteworthy Information: Per the National ALS Associations website, 20% of those diagnosed with ALS will live 5 years or longer. 10% will live 10 years or longer, and 5% will live 20 years or longer. They even state that a small number have reversed their ALS. Why then, do we all walk away from that first ALS diagnosis with what is clearly delivered as a death sentence, with no hope of a long life and eventual natural death of something not called ALS. We respond to all contacts. If you do not receive a timely response, confirm your email address, or enter another. We use google translator. I, Mr. Kim Cherry, was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) also known as MND (Motor Neuron Disease) or Lou Gehrig's disease in November of 2011. I was told I had a year to live, no more than two at best. I believed the doctors for only a short time, then decided that dying of ALS was not acceptable. My wife, Kay and I, embarked on a journey to heal. We had to give up our favorite homemade bread (gluten issues) and our sugary foods. We made other significant changes in our diet. We researched and found supplements to give my body the additional tools to heal. We introduced detoxing procedures and eliminated as many other toxins in our lives as we could identify. The changes have been worth the effort. Now, as 2017 draws to a close, I have been playing golf again for over five years, and gave myself a new set of clubs for Father's Day, 2013. In that same month, I walked my first 18 hole round in almost four years, and swam a mile in the spring of 2014. My improvement has been amazing and continues yet. We want to share with you what we have done and what others are doing to take the ALS road to recovery instead of the road to the grave. If I can do it, others can too. Photo comparisons Kim and Kay in Hawaii, Nov 2007 And here we are in Nov of 2010. Kim only has one Hawaiin shirt. Kim Cherry in Nov 2011 just days before ALS diagnosis Kim and Kay during treatment in Tennessee April 2012 Kim and Kay in Louisiana in Feb 2013 Kim in early May 2013, photo by goofy wife. We thought some new photos would be good. Above left was of Kim in April 2014. The biker photo was taken November 23, 2014. On November 21, 2016, we celebrated 47 years of marriage and on November 22, 2016, we celebrated 5 years since the death sentence. Kay thinks he looks pretty good for a dead man. December, 2017 We continue to update our website on a regular basis. Since our therapy is an ongoing process, this story also must be periodically updated. It is now over 8 years since that fatal diagnosis. We (my wife, Kay and I) have learned, and continue to learn much. I am Kim Cherry, a 72 year old male diagnosed with ALS on November 22, 2011, after some 18 months of tests, guesses, and unproductive treatments, which included an unnecessary open heart surgery. I was told at the diagnosis by my neurologist, Dr. Heidi Orme, at the time associated with the Saint Luke’s Neurology Department in Boise, Idaho, that my ALS was fatal, incurable and untreatable. She would not give me a time table as to my life expectancy, except to say that the normal survival time for PALS (Persons with ALS) is three to five years from diagnosis. In a visit with my primary care physician, Dr. Frank Johnson just a few days later, after an hour consultation, I was told I had a year, two at best. I was diagnosed with both Lower Motor Neuron and Upper Motor Neuron, or Bulbar ALS. The Bulbar, is generally considered much more severe, since it attacks the breathing and swallowing muscles, leading to pneumonia and/or asphyxiation, which are the leading causes of death for ALS victims. Lower Motor Neuron eventually progresses to Upper Motor Neuron, which actually causes death, but Lower Motor Neuron patients tend to survive considerably longer. An additional note of interest is that Dr. Johnson recommended that I meet with Dr. Robert Friedman, who heads up an ALS Clinic at the Elks Rehabilitation Facility in Boise. We called to make an appointment, but were not able to see him until the middle of January of 2012. We still made our visit to him, even though by then, we had made the determination to do all in our power to fight this disease. Dr. Friedman was also very kind, but gave us no hope. He told us that I should have a feeding tube placed as soon as possible, and that if I waited too long, the tube may not be able to be installed because of stomach and muscle deterioration from the disease. He also told us that I should be on full disability, and that he would be happy to sign the forms right there. (I was still working 40 to 50 hours a week.) He, like both Dr. Orme and Dr. Johnson, told me that I should consider taking the drug, Riluzole, also called Rilutek, immediately. (Riluzole is the only drug approved be the FDA for ALS, and by their own admission, is said to provide only two to three additional months survival for some ALS patients, and carries some nasty side effects.) All three doctors highly discouraged us from seeking any alternative therapies, stating that they would only give us false hope, and take our money. He also advised that we should sign up for their bi-monthly ALS clinic, where we would meet with various specialist to help us navigate the progression of the disease and provide assistance where possible. I simply could not bring myself to sign up for the clinic. I am a successful businessman, entrepreneur, engineer, and an inventor. To hear such declarations from doctors that I had come to trust was disheartening at best, and contrary to my whole life’s approach to obstacles. Over the next few days from the diagnosis, as the shock and depression subsided, my wife and I made the decision that we would not accept the prognosis and that we would do all in our power to fight this disease. I wanted no association with anyone, friend or professional, that did not believe I could beat this ALS. The turn-a-round in my health in the past 6 years is nothing short of miraculous. Though faith, special religious blessings, and the love and prayers of friends and family, as well as our own prayers have played a huge part in our success, I believe God helps those who work to help themselves. Through our internet research which continues yet today, and tips from family and friends, we have found things that have worked for us. A great source of information has been from other PALS that we have had...