Cannabis Oil Provides New Hope for 5 Year Old Boy with Grade-4 Brain Tumor

23rd September 2014

By Michael Wilson

Guest writer for Wake Up World

We don’t often post personal stories on Wake Up World, but this one really touched a chord. This article is the first in a series from a father who recently turned to Cannabis Oil to help heal his son from a grade-4 brain tumor after conventional radiotherapy treatment failed. We feel this story is a timely reminder of the human side of the medicinal cannabis debate. – Editor.

Hope for Jayden - a Father’s Story

Just over 12 months ago, my son Jayden was diagnosed with one of the worst conditions currently known in the medical world; a Grade 4 Glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor. At the time he was 4 years old. The consultants gave my wife and I the horrific news after completing a biopsy and MRI Scan, which confirmed the illness. It was a freak of nature really, as 2 days before the diagnosis Jayden fell of a spinning roundabout at a local children’s park. He became extremely unsteady on his feet so we called for an ambulance asap.

They rushed him to hospital where he was given a CAT scan, revealing a “mass” inside his brain. Once they had this information, they rushed him to Southampton General Children’s Hospital where they began the MRI Scan.

As parents we could not believe our little 4 year old boy was going through such a horrific ordeal. We questioned the doctors if they were sure of what they had found. In our minds, this wasn’t happening to our little boy. Questions were flying in and out of our heads, wondering how this happened, why this was happening. Then I ask the dreaded question… Is this diagnosis terminal?

As soon as they said yes, we completely broke down. For days we couldn’t believe this was happening, but we always said from day one that whilst we were in front of Jayden, we’d continue as normal, and ultimately make the time he have left the most enjoyable, creating incredible memories as a family.

Then days after we got this news, I felt the need to start a Facebook Page called Hope For Jayden, with the view of spreading the news of what our child was going through, to make people aware of his story and show that it can effect anyone. We wanted to reach out to the world for support and advice on how we could get through this.

Within 24 hours we had hundreds of people liking the page. Within a few days we were into the thousands, and then it went into the 10′s of thousands. We couldn’t believe Jayden’s story had gone viral and that random people were offering their support and advice. It was overwhelming, and very heart-warming to know we were not alone.

After 3 weeks of Radiotherapy, our key goal was then to create as many memorable moments as a family as we possibly could, and generous people in the community were willing to help fund raise to make this as amazing as possible. We raised enough money to go to Disneyland, Florida, where we took Jayden on a helicopter ride, and did many other incredible things. Our local community were simply wonderful, and it showed that people do care and want to help other families in need.

We had an incredible few months of amazing memories, but then Jayden began to deteriorate, and we simply couldn’t take the thought that this was it for our son. So I decided to research online about natural medicines and dietary cures for cancers and tumors. I even posted on the Hope for Jaydenpage asking for everyone’s advice.

We got hundreds of people telling us to start juicing fruit and vegetables, to become vegan, to try different ‘food’ remedies, and also Cannabis oil. So we naturally thought to ourselves that if we could get as much natural goodness into him as we could, then we’d be giving Jayden’s little body the best chance possible to fight this, and hopefully keep the symptoms at bay. The nutritional approach certainly helped but unfortunately it wasn’t enough and we found ourselves in a position of needing to look for other options we could try.

Throughout this time we kept getting hundreds of messages telling us to research Cannabis oil. Now like any parent, we immediately started to think, it’s ridiculous to give your child drugs. Cannabis is defined by law as a Class B illegal drug, in the same category as amphetamines such as speed and barbiturates, with a possible 5-year jail sentence if you are caught in possession. But we’ve come to realise our resistance was just a mind-set created by the illegal status of cannabis here in the UK (and other countries).

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