My friend Brice Cured His Cancer With Unconditional Giving
I was so happy when my friend Brice Royer emailed me this story and video from the Vancouver Times (below) about his recent great news.
My better half (a Holistic doctor of over 30 years) helped Brice in his battle with cancer. I introduced the two when an extremely ill, Brice reached out to me (see the past article I did on him) asking that I share some links about his story. I shared those pieces, wrote a story on Brice myself, but knew the introduction would be important. I talked to Brice by phone and had the most enlightening conversation, then let the two of them talk via email and Skype for months as he tweaked Brice’s diet and so much more. Brice wrote a super sweet thank you letter this weekend and told my sweetie he wants to take him up on that arm wrestling challenge they have! Woot!
I think though that in Brice’s case it was more than just help from my sweetheart- a helpful holistic doctor. See below:
In 2012, Brice Royer was diagnosed with a tumor in his stomach that doctors believed would kill him. Understandably, he was shaken and suffered denial, then depression, became bed-ridden and weak, and would eventually contemplate suicide.
But, he would go on to read that love and kindness could help people heal and that giving and receiving- freely- helped people to build community and recover from depression. So, in 2013 he started a campaign of random acts of kindness.
Some of Brice’s acts have been: giving a chronically ill single mother in Pennsylvania (whom he had never met) $4,800 from his own savings to pay rent for the year, spearheading a campaign to build a home for another single mother in Vancouver who lived in a shelter with her daughter and had offered to cook for him (and that campaign raised $25,000!), and inviting strangers to his home for meals- some of which have become friends, to name a few.
Four years later he received word that not only had his tumor not grown, but that it had actually gotten smaller. His physician, Dr. Eric Cattoni, gave him the news explaining that the masses shrinking size either favored unexplained improvement or the possibility of the tumor being benign. And Royer believes he’s still alive because of this tumor, be it benign or malignant. He told the Vancouver Sun, “The tumor actually gave me a gift, because if I didn’t have that, I would not have changed my lifestyle and I would not have appreciated the importance of community and belonging and being surrounded by loving kindness. I probably wouldn’t have changed much.” He feels that his lifestyle change and the love and kindness he’s received have essentially healed him.
The news has given him the courage to keep fighting the mass in the same way, by loving and being loved. In fact, he celebrated that day by paying for a friends car related issue.
We are so happy to see him well. Great job Brice!!
Source: Vancouver Sun
