Kelly & Theresa – Overcoming the Street Drug Stigma

For many people medical cannabis isn’t the first thing that they consider as treatment, in fact it’s usually one of the last alternatives to conventional medicine. The stigma attached to cannabis as street drug is changing, but slowly. Sometimes it is the people who care the most about us that are the ones that might resist using medical cannabis as a treatment option, because they aren’t aware of the medical properties of this remarkable plant. They resist because they care. Such is the story of Kelly and Theresa.

When Kelly Oliphant discovered he had prostate cancer in September of 2012 he knew it was going to change his life, but he didn’t know how much. In the previous year his wife Theresa had gone through her second bout of cancer, so he had some idea of what to expect. What he didn’t expect, or plan for, was constant debilitating pain.

In December of the same year Kelly had his cancerous prostate removed, and shortly thereafter began a series of radiation treatments. About a third of the way through the 33 treatments Kelly began to experience discomfort that quickly grew to constant, extreme pain. The overly aggressive treatments had essentially destroyed the nerve endings in a belt stretching from hip to hip across Kelly’s stomach.

“It’s like having a sunburn on the inside, and it probably won’t ever go away.” Kelly says. “The only time it doesn’t hurt is when I’m lying down.”..........

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