There were some experimental procedures being done in several parts of the world and arrangements were made for me to visit doctors in London, Italy and Spain. All of them said the same thing; the procedure is too risky for you. It is likely that the procedure would cause you to die sooner and be completely unable to move from the neck down.
The idea of the procedure was to break the spinal cord over and put a shunt or tubing inside the center of the spine slowing the rate of erosion in the cyst. My cyst went from C1 to T5 and was affecting most day to day functions. I went back to college at this point and learned to make jewelry. It was in college that I met a friend named Wanda, and she would become important in finding the girl of my dreams.
After college I tried to hold life together but ended up losing my family friends and all that I owned except for a little truck and a few belongings like my clothes and my bible. Everything that was left in my life fit in a small tool box in the back of a small Toyota pickup. At this point I left the state and went and lived in a pasture that belonged to my Brother in Alexandria La.
