Uncommon Cold: Cancer, Pt. 2
Dean Hall's remarkable recovery from incurable cancer
HUMAN EXPERIENCES of CANCER & COLD
Summary
Dean Hall had survived cancer once already when he received a double diagnosis of leukemia and lymphoma, for which there was no treatment and no cure.
Determined to do something before he died that might inspire others with cancer, Dean began training to swim the entire 184-mile length of the Willamette River in his home state of Oregon. His doctor told him it would likely kill him to try. Dean figured he didn’t have anything to lose.
This is the story of Dean’s recovery from two types of cancer, the metabolic mechanisms that might explain it and the way he completed his recovery by spending time in the forest.
Dean Hall’s diagnosis
One day in 2013, Dean Hall looked at himself in the mirror. He saw his swollen lymph nodes and shrinking muscles and thought to himself, "You know, if I let the leukemia take me, no one would ever know that I gave up."
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Self-Actual Engineering to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.