I was diagnosed with large B-cell lymphoma about four and a half years ago.

It started with a little lipoma on my elbow. It was small. I went to my primary care physician and he said, “Oh, that's so small. I could just about take it off in my office.” But it was right next to a vein. He said if he nicked that, I could bleed to death before he could get me to emergency. So he sent me to a surgeon.

The surgeon looked at it and said pretty much the same thing. He said, “I could take that off right across the hall in my office.” But because of where it was, they scheduled me for regular surgery.

So they removed the lipoma and sent it off for study. And that's how I found out I had lymphoma. They said it was large B-cell. They said it was the most aggressive of the lymphomas.

I met with the oncologist a day or two later. I asked him a pretty simple question. I said, “Well, doctor, what would happen if I didn't do anything?”

He said, “It would be suicide.”

I said, “If I didn't do anything?”

And he said, “You will die in six months. Twelve, maybe.”

My wife was sitting behind him, and he told me about another woman who had decided she was going to cure herself with tinctures and tea. He said he had fired her as a client. My wife just mouthed to me, “I'll bet she's still alive.” So I left there, and I didn't do anything they wanted me to do.

I started studying.

I'm a Christian, so I started studying. I was finding my scriptures to believe, and I'm going to stand on those scriptures. I wasn't feeling badly. That's the thing. I didn't feel sick. And so I just started studying and studying.

I found a guy named Bob Beck. And from there, I started connecting the dots. Today, with the internet, it wasn’t hard to do.

What I learned there was a unit designed for wrist pulsing. And the way I understood it was, if everything in my blood is clear, my immune system doesn't have anything else to do except go after the issues in the lymphatic system.

That made perfect sense to me. If I can clear everything else out of the way, then my own immune system can get to work and help heal me. So I bought the wrist pulser straight away.

What my routine actually looks like

Originally, I would do it six days a week. I would always give myself a day off. Right now, just because I'm a little bit busy, I'd say I do it five days a week. I'm an attorney. I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. So on my workdays, sometimes I only get it for one hour. You only have so much time in the morning, you know.

On all the other days, I do two hours. And I usually try to take Sunday off just to give it a break. So it has been part and parcel of my routine.

And it's not just wrist pulsing that I follow.

About five years before I was diagnosed, my wife and I watched Forks Over Knives. My stepson was always telling us, “Watch this video. Watch this video,” about food. One Friday night my wife and I were sitting on the couch and we found it. We started the next day eating a whole-food, plant-based diet. We said, “Let's try this for a certain amount of time. Let's see what we think.”

The truth is, after three weeks, we were like, “I'm sold. I'm sold.” Because you feel better. Immediately, you feel better. That was already part of what we were doing before the diagnosis. But I also had to change something else.

I had to change how I lived

I like what I do. I'm an attorney. I had my own law office. I used to pride myself on being at my desk working before 7 a.m. at least one day a week. And I just pushed and pushed and pushed.

My wife told me for six years, “You can't keep this up. This isn't healthy. You can't do this.”

And what I've come to the conclusion of is I enjoyed it because of who I am and my Type-A personality. But my body couldn't take it. And so I had to readjust my thinking.

I still remember the day I was diagnosed. I turned off my alarm clock. I said, “No. I'm going to let my body rest as much as it needs to.” I'd heard Chris Wark talk about that - healing and rest.

And I sold my business. In fact, the guys I work for now, I sold my business to them. Part of the sale was that I get to work for them part-time. So I work very hard Tuesday to Thursday, but then I get a nice long weekend every week. Four days to decompress and listen to my body. I don't set an alarm. That's been a big change for me.

I kept doing the things that made sense to me

I've had some other things happen over the last four and a half years.

I went to Mexico. I did immunotherapy. I had pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung and ended up needing surgery. But all through this, coming home from the hospital, I've kept on the wrist pulser.

With that simple thought: If I can keep my blood clean and keep anything else from happening, my immune system can spend all of its time and energy against the cancer.

Doesn't that make sense?

That's how I look at it. I also continue to juice every morning. Not the big monster juice I used to do, but I make fresh juice. It's carrots, beets, celery and a few other things. I have a rebounder and I do rebounding most days. And I continue to do the wrist pulsing.

One of the things that happened that really surprised me was at a health screening my wife and I went to a few months ago. They have seven different stations. You go to one, then you wait until they call you to the next one. It's more than just your five-minute physical with your doctor.
When I was done, this fellow came out and found me.

He said, “What do you do?”

I said, “What do you mean?”

He said, “Well, you're 68 years old, and I expect to see this and this and a little of that.”

And then he said:

“Your blood looks like you're 22 years old.”

So I told him about wrist pulsing. I told him a little bit about the background. And later he found me again. He had his laptop. He said, “Is this it?” He was actually interested enough to look it up for himself.

Why I talk about it

I lead a group called Healing Strong. We're the single largest cancer support group in the country, and we focus on non-toxic ways of addressing cancer. Our group meets twice a month.

When Chris Wark made what he said would be one of his most important posts about Bob Beck, I put a note out to the group and said I was going to talk about it at our meeting.

Usually we have six or seven people. Sometimes ten.

I think we had over 20 that day.

And of course, I brought my wrist pulser in. I had it on. I showed them the way it works, and I talked about it as intelligently as I can - what I know. I even played a little bit of video that I had about it.

I have a friend down in Florida who had a knee problem and ended up in the hospital for about 30 days. There was a blood issue. When they finally let him home, I said to him:

“You want to freak your doctors out? I can fix your blood.”

He's been on the wrist pulser for about three or four weeks. I told him, “Don't say anything. Just let them draw the blood.” We'll see what happens.

Where I am today

Four and a half years later, I feel good.

I've had one ongoing symptom in my arm where I had that issue a couple of years ago, and my functional medicine nurse practitioner said that could very well be nerve damage. Nerve damage can take a long time to heal, and sometimes it doesn't.

But as far as the medical numbers I can see, I'm not worried. I haven't seen anything to concern me. And I have faith. I speak to it every day and tell it it's healed. I continue to do the juice, and I continue to do the wrist pulsing. I rebound. I eat the way I eat. And I keep doing the things that, to me, make sense.

My brother once told me I should write a book.

I said, “It would be boring.”

It would say:

Mark got sick. Mark got better.

That's my story.

And one of the things I tell people in my Healing Strong group is this:

Cancer is not a death sentence.

You have time.

Don't let somebody rush you into doing something. Even if you decide to do that, let's decide to do that with a clear thought. With intention. With real intention.