There
was no medicine in the world that could help Eileen Albrecht swallow the pain
of watching her son die.
Albrecht’s
son, Ethan, was diagnosed with leukemia in 1997 at the age of 3.
Ethan
endured four years of conventional cancer treatment and a bone marrow
transplant at the University of Michigan before doctors told the Grand Haven
Township woman there was no hope.
“He
ended up with a secondary cancer when he was just 6 years old,” Albrecht said.
“The doctors told us there was nothing else they could do. They gave him enough
chemo to say our goodbyes and make peace with it.”
There
was no peace with it. Albrecht refused to accept the prognosis.
She
prayed. She studied. She prayed some more. She opened her heart and gave
credence to the impossible. She entered the miracle of mystery.
“Despite all the opposing circumstances,
my mindset was God was going to see us through it,” Albrecht said recently. “We
just didn’t give up.”
Albrecht
took Ethan to a holistic doctor in Texas. He discovered through non-invasive
testing that Ethan had benzene, a
petroleum byproduct, in his bone marrow.
Benzene
is a common ingredient in detergents,
gasoline, crude oil and cigarette smoke; and is widely used in the United
States. According to the Centers for Disease Control, Benzene ranks in the top
20 chemicals for production volume.
The
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that benzene causes
cancer in humans, including leukemia.
“It’s
a known child bone marrow toxin that causes childhood leukemia,” Albrecht said.
“It outraged me. The cleaners mopped the floors in the bone marrow transplant
unit with it. They would come in three times a day and swab the room down with
benzene cleaner.”
Albrecht
took her son to the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Mexico for detoxification from
the benzene. Ethan drank freshly juiced kale, Romaine lettuce, parsley and
other nutrient-rich vegetables.
“The
leukemia disappeared,” Albrecht said. “It’s a story I’m committed to telling
because I feel a lot of people, like me, are in the dark. I try to get this
information to parents before they experience a crisis.
“I’m
not saying it’s anyone’s fault that my son got leukemia,” she continued. “Those
chemicals are all around us. I’ve been helping people with kitchen
consultations ... get the toxins out of their homes.”
For
the last decade, Albrecht has been traveling the country to share her son’s
survival story. But Ethan did more than survive when Albrecht took command of
his chemical exposure and culinary choices — he thrived.
Ethan is now 18 and will graduate from
homeschooling this spring.
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