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00aving spurned surgery, Dick Morgan
Is, victim of
!! STEVE PATCH
:=L .Even before cancer caught up
ith him, Dick Morgan took a
It of ribbing for being a "food
:gldist."
Because of it, though, he's
)w convinced he'll have the last
ugh.
Two and a half months ago
Le 65-year-old Mason County
an was diagnosed as having
ncer of the colon. His
i|'.Ysician s advice: Have it
[moved surgically within the
leek or be resigned to almost
zlrtain death within the month.
.LMorgan, after consulting his
ily, said no.
"I didn't want the medical
ofession using me for its
:Periments," he says now,
nest three months later and
Ything but dead. "I decided if
:tvas,going to die I'd die in one
]But Dick Morgan was hardly
gned to death. In fact,
|nough the weakness brought
it by the loss of nearly 60
Unds in four short months and
[e increasingly excruciating pain
/ his malignancy had all but
troyed his will to live, he still
every reason to believe a
e Was possible even without -
ileed, only without - the
ipPing and searing
alPtom-oriented methods of
,d, em medicine
'For years "I'd been fully
Winced of the body's natural
ding powers," says Morgan. "I
d to convince my relatives
1 friends that nutrition was
., only way to go, but they
[)t d taughedfaddist and called me a
,€
] M They are all dead."
;| Organ, too, had the
iltantage of being able to draw
[.m a couple of noteworthy
ling examples very close at
the examples of the body's
[e.rent ability to cure itself
ir[e. n the right set of natural
Umstances. his wife
ii[Twenty years ago ons
.!garet, spurning surge
/Vice, treated, arrested and
..lmately cured cancer of her
-'Stinal tract using strictly
and nutritional means.
wo years ago son Geary
similar natural methods to
out all evidence of what
tors had diagnosed as
in the fifth month of a
advancing carcinoma he
Convinced started perhaps
n Years before the first
Ptoms appeared, Dick
embarked on a natural
program designed to
down the slow and
n painful road tO complete
treatment, based largely
controversial theories of
cancer therapist Dr.
Kelley, the man whose
was instrumental in son
t's recovery, is one of
complexity involving
Only prescribed enzymes,
megavitamins but also
timetable whose daily
trance is critical in its
;st detail.
r instance, Dick's tightly
protein consumption
the curative period is
strictly to raw almonds,
even those must be ingested
than 1 p.m. so digestive
"There are no incurable
diseases--only incurable
patients..."
tries
enzymes will be free to help in
the process of breaking down the
protein sheaths protecting the
cancer cells.
Because of the cancerous
body's need for regular and
metered intake of certain
essential vitamins - among them
B-17, or Laetrile - Dick must
interrupt his sleep to take them
at regular intervals starting at 2
in the morning.
What's more, the entire
process must be monitored
closely throughout lest the very
functions working ,to rid the
body of cancer's lethal toxins
be allowed to overload the
system's poison-eliminating
processes and hence cause more
harm than Iood.
"Discipline is the key," says
'Morgan, who traces his own
willpower to his stint as an
officer in the U.S. Navy.
"Discipline is where a lot of
cancer patients fall by the
wayside. They follow the
regimen only so faithfully and
then, when they see it isn't
working, they figure it wasn't
fight to begin with.
"The real problem, of course,
is they didn't follow it
completely and to the letter.
When you're fighting cancer it's
got to be a 24-hour-a-day
battle."
Results hardly have come
overnight for Morgan, though,
despite his dogmatic adherence
to regimen. As the cancer's
toxins first began to accumulate
in his liver and pancreas awaiting
natural removal from the body,
Dick's discomfort grew
proportionately.
But, curiousl3? enough,
positive changes were occurnng
as well. Dick's wife describes
them in graphic terms.
"Before he started the diet,
Dick's color was just terrible,"
she relates. "He was kind of this
ashen grey and yellow. And his
lips were a sickly white.
"But after, well, I'd say
about two weeks, his color began
to return and he started to get
his appetite back, too."
"l-was having some reaction
to the toxin buildup, all right,"
interrupts Dick, "but I also
began feeling as thougli life was
coming back into my body.
"I remember getting up one
day and saying to Marge, 'I'm
going the other way! I can feel
n
it!' "
But, alas, just where is Dick
Morgan ultimately going? Of
what possible use is a strictly
dietary regimen in the battle
against a killer of such
proportions as cancer?
For the answer, Morgan
refers to the remarkably similar
though unrelated theories of a
number of so-called nutritional
therapists - therapists who for
generations have met with all
manner of inflammatory abuse
from the largely threatened (and
perhaps justifiably so)
community of orthodox medical
practitioners whose methods
have been deviating steadily
away from the biblically
endorsed natural methods since
their advent.
"...drinking and
overeating and
overindulging --when
you're retired you're
almost encouraged to do
these things.And they're
accurn ulative. . . "
"The first thing to keep in
mind is that cancer is a
deficiency disease," says Morgan.
"Basically, you're suffering from
a disorder of the pancreas
resu.lting in an. enzyme
deficiency."
According to the theory
shared by Kelley and a number
of others in the nutritional field,
this key enzyme, tripsin, is the
same one that normally stops the
growth of what are known as
trophoblast cells -
s ex-hormone.activated cells
responsible for the rapid
development of the human
embryo during pregnancy and of
protective cells in the event of
bodily injury.
Now, when the effects Of our
overprocessed and chemically
synthetic, modern-day living
combine to gradually throttle the
production of pancreatic
enzymes, these same trophoblast
cells - or so the theory goes -
begin an unchecked rampage
resulting eventually in clinically
observable malignancies, or
cancerous tumors.
The most obvious malignant
clump in Morgan's case was at
the lower end of his large
intestine, where it effectively
blocked off all but a pencil-thin
passageway from Dick's
essentially motionless bowels.
Now, a little over two
months since the start of his
THIN BUT REVITALIZED almost three months after doctors had
consigned him to almost certain death, cancer-fighter Dick M'organ poses
in his Lake Limerick home with 'wife Marge, herself a success story in
natural medicine. Twenty years ago she cured her own intestinal cancer.
the dietary route
r fight
natural therapy, Morgan is happy
to say he is once again making
productive visitations to the
bathroom, thank you. Quite
regularly, in fact.
"The tumor is definitely
shrinking," he says.
Incidentally, Morgan's
physician, the one with whom
Dick parted company in May,
left his patient with the stem
admonishmenf that what he was
about to do was utter folly -
that in fact to his knowledge
there has not been a single cure
invoked by such means.
"But if I come out of this -
and I really believe now that I
will," promises Morgan, "I
intend to pay him a little visit."
Morgan laments this generally
intolerant attitude on the part of
most orthodox practitioners, but
it hardly surprises him.
"The evidence is all around
them, but these people more
often, than not simply don't
want to recognize the truth,"
says Morgan. "It's like Winston
Churchill once said: 'A lot of
men stumble over the truth, but
most of them merely pick
themselves up and rush off as
though nothing had happened.'
"The whole thing is that
these doctors are like my poor
son when he came home from
college," continues Morgan.
"They are merely brainwashed,
educated idiots. These doctors
also belong to the strongest
union in the world, the A/VIA.
"The Bible refers to
invoking the help of the
spirit and mentions
herbs and fasting many
times, but nowhere does
it mention the treatment
of disease using drugs
or potions designed by
man for healing/"
day."
Morgan rises suddenly and
scurries off to the kitchen at a
remarkably nonconvalescent clip.
When he returns he displays a
tiny plastic bottle.
"Bitters!" he guffaws. "Here
they are, your Laetrile tablets.
And lookee here on the label:
All it says is to take one 'when a
more bitter taste is desired.'"
At this, Morgan cuts loose
with one of his customary horse
laughs, a bald.faced, windy affair
for which its grinning creator
throws back his head in obvious
enjoyment, gathering wind for a
raucous assault on the airwaves.
Long before its umpteenth
repeat performance, the laugh
impresses you as being quite
decidedly unlike the sort you'd
expect from a failing cancer
victim.
Morgan's are not the ravings
of a madman, however.
Greymatter has not addlepated
with the advance of some
as-yet-unforeseen cancerous
outcropping. In fact, the retired
safety engineer feels he is
sufficiently lucid to recognize
that the battle is far from won.
For one thing, while his
currently strict dietary regimen
eventually will give way to
increasingly palatable and varied
foods, Dick will undoubtedly
have to accept the fact that bad
eating habits were what got him
in the fix he's now in.
What's this?! Bad eating
habits by a long-time advocate of
nutritional integrity?
Health-mindful lapses by a man
whose wife has not once, in 35
years of marriage, seen him take
medications - even aspirin?
Dick Morgan have a vice?
"Oh, yes!" speaks up wife
Marge. "His weakness is beer and
steak."
"You gotta remember I'm a
former Navy man," defends
Dick, grinning. "Sure, it's hard
giving those things up. In fact, if
I follow my regimen, it'll
probably be two years before I
can have them again.
"And, even then, I'll
probably practice temperance
more."
They know that if they were to
deviate even the slightest bit
they could lose their licenses to
practice, their nice homes - even
their friends."
As for those cancer patients
who rush headlong into surgery,
chemotherapy, radiation
treatment and the like - despite
the fact that their doctors
seldom if ever suggest such
methods will do more than arrest
the clinically observable
symptoms of cancer, and even
then probably only temporarily -
Morgan feels a real empathy. "1 weigh 109 pounds
"I can understand how a lot 'now. I gained a pound.
of people would panic and run I'm getting heavyl"
and have immediate surgery or
radiation treatment," he says.
"After all, cancer can be a very Although Dick admits it's
scary thing. And, if you want to tough to make an abrtpt change
know what pain is really all to an essentially vegetarian diet
about, talk to somebody who after years of enjoying the likes
has cancer, of red meats, processed foods
"Even with what I knew, and plenty of nice, greasy fried
that first week when I was trying eggs, his new diet isn't altogether
to get my feet on the ground so restrictive as to be boring.
and was having a lot of pain I As long as they're fresh, raw
got to thinking maybe I should a/d more or less of a "living"
just go and have them cut it out. nature (Post Toasties, says
"But then I thought, 'Hey! Morgan, is not living; try
Those people have a lot of planting some in your garden
suffering, too. They go into and you'll see), most all fruits
surgery thinking they're going to and vegetables are okay.
get a lot of relief, but generally "This is typical of what Dick
it's just not so." will eat for dinner," says Marge,
Although Morgan contends presenting you a heaping bowl of
most of the effects 'of his fresh fruits topped with what
therapy have been physical, it looks a little like whipped cream.
.has afforded him some comic Ever take a taste of
relief, as well. One of the biggest something expecting one flavor
jokes, he says, is the marketing only to find it just enough
of the controversial "drug" different to send your poor
Laetrile (it's actually a purely epiglottis into panicked
natural derivative of the pits of convulsions?
certain fruits such as apricots). "Dick can't have milk
"Under Washington State law products, of course," Marge
you can't buy Laetrile in a form hastens to add, "but he just
prescribed in any way as a cure loves whipped topping. So 1
for anything," says Morgan. "But make this stuff out of raw
you can get it through the mail casheWS, soaked overnight in
under the name 'Bitters.' It's water and whipped in a
expensive, though - $1 apiece blender."
for 50e-milligram tablets, and Also quite good, once you
you've gotta take four of them a give it a fair Iry, is a milk-like
k n
turally
Cancer Fighter Dick Morgan
"Win, lose or draw, I sall suffer no regrets, because I
halve played the game honestly and according to the
Greatest rules..."
beverage concocted from raw
almonds, sesame seeds and
sunflower seeds - again all
ground up to a fine powder and
blended with water. Dick gets
that, too - also thanks to his
wife's ingenuity.
More ithan merely culinary,
Marge's support, as well as that
of sons 'Geary and Richey has
been instrumental in Dick's
progress. In fact, Morgan
contens the element of
believing in what you're doing is
perhaps as important as any -
though he hardly calls what he is
doing "faith healing."
"Although you must have
faith in your spirit and mind,"
he says?. "you still have to heal
the bo0y with proper nutrition
and heibal treatment."
MOrgan is not one to
downplay the spiritual, however
- nor its leading advocate. "The
Bible is full of references to the
impor!ance of nutrition and the
medicinal value of natural
herbs,", he says. "It's really in
many ways a book of rules - of
man's greatest rules.
"And you can't break the
laws of nature without paying
the penalty."
Morgan maintains tha! hi
reality, wen a physician tales to
insist that manmade medicines
are superior to those of nature,
"his argument is with God.
"There are no miraculous
cures with drugs," he says.
"Doctors don't heal. They like
to think so sometimes, but I
liken those who do to little tin
gods. Actually, the best doctors
only assist the body's natural
healing powers."
To those still convinced of
the infallibility of the large body
of physicians skeptical of natural
healing, Morgan has this
reminder:
"Because the established
medical profession of his time
thought bloodletting to be
beneficial for a variety of ills,"
he says, "George Washington
bled to death"
Even still, Dick Morgan is
not one to fbrce his opinion on
others. He contends he has no
interest in fighting the powers
that be.
"But if people are interested
in natural healing," he says,
"we'll be more than happy to
lell them about it."
The vehicle of information
dispersal the Morgans
recommend locally is the Mason
County Chapter of the
International Association of
Cancer Victims and Friends
(898-2411), of which both Dick
and Marge now are officers.
Dick's duties as the local
chapter's new president won't
get underway in earnest for
awhile, inasmuch as his curative
regimen still takes precedence.
But he does both expect and
intend to recover completely.
"i'd better," he says. "I've
been telling my boys since they
were little that the natural way
is the best. Now I've got to
prove to them it works!"
, i:
!/
THE MORGAN KITCHEN has become a storehouse of living grains and
herbs. Here, Marge whips up one of her special concoctions in a seed
grinder. She makes a milk-like drink from raw almonds, sesame seeds and
sunflower seeds; a nondairy whipped topping from raw cashews.
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