GSO Cancer Patient Supports NC Medical Marijuana Bill | digtriad.com
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Greensboro, NC -- Imagine being 21 years old, paralyzed from the waist down, and living with chronic pain. It's a reality for Chris Westmoreland.
"The tumor just keeps growing. And it presses against the spinal cord, which is a neurological pain, so regular pain killers, such as Oxycontin or even Ibuprofen, none of them work because it's a neurological pain, not a muscular pain," said Westmoreland.
Westmoreland was diagnosed with a rare, cancerous tumor three years ago. He was 18 years old at the time, and he couldn't finish college or continue to work.
Westmoreland can't have any more radiation -- he's maxed out.
He's tried six different chemotherapy drugs that didn't work and all types of pain killers, with side effects that actually made him prefer to deal with the pain.
His prognosis: He out-lived it three years ago.
"My belief is that, if modern medicine has failed you, and you're in a state that you're suffering, you have every right to do everything that is within yourself a better person and to make you feel better, as long as it doesn't affect anyone else," he said. [ read more at link]
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