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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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IF YOUR QUESTION IS NOT ANSWERED BELOW AND YOU DO NOT FIND THE ANSWER ELSEWHERE IN THIS WEB SITE, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT GREGORY.
PLEASE SEE THE CONTACT GREGORY LINK PAGE.
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Q1 What happened to the guy who hit you?
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A1 This is the most often asked question. He was convicted of second degree assault in a Wayne County, Michigan court. He was sentenced to 6-l/2 to 15 years in prison. He spent aroud 4 years in prison. He is now out on parole. I have spoken to him a few times. He lives close to me. He doesn't seem to remorseful, but I am sure he regrets assualting me with a baseball bat.
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Q2 What happenned to you after you were assualted with baseball bat?
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A2 On February 28, 1992, I was taken to a Lincoln Park, MI emergency clinic at Lynn Hospital where I treated (six stitches in head) for "falling off a porch". I couldn't talk so my friends who took me their lied to the intake personnel. From there I was taken to Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, MI for a 10 day intensive care stay, then on to Herritage Hospital in Taylor, MI for 33 days of rehabilitation (I couldn't walk at the time). Click below to view a intake analysis before entering out-patient therapy at the Beaumont Hospital's Barnum Center in Birmingham, MI for 3 months.
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Q3 Why did you get assualted with a baseball bat?
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A3 I was preparing the assailant's income tax return at his home in southwest Detroit before the assualt occurred. When I was finished we both went to visit a friend also in southwest Detroit. While at this friends place, a woman who was there visiting our friend made fun of the assailant for owning a pair of Mickey Mouse house slippers and came at her with a couple of glass pop bottles from a local beverage producer. I took the bottles from him and told him to be kind. The house owner slapped him and told him to "cool it". I took the assailant back home and went back over my friends home. The assailant came back with a baseball bat looking for the homeowner. The homeowner had left, so the upset assailant decided to use the bat on me. He hit me only once knocking me to the floor. He asked if I wanted another hit, but I declined because I didn't see him hitting me in the first place and didn't even know what hit me. The assailant used a baseball bat because his girlfriend wouldn't let him take his gun. Although everyone involved with this ordeal participated in alcohol/illegal drug usage this case itself was not drug related.
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Q4 Why don't you get down to your local psychiatrist and be placed on medication?
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A4 I did that in the fall of 1998. The Melvindale Police Department took me to Wyandotte Hospital (because I got upset with my mother because I wasn't able to get access to quality therapy) and I was placed on the drug called Depakote. Within one month grand mal type seizures started to return. The drug company was not sending cash or dividend checks to me to make me feel better about the seizures and I decided my health was my priority. The psychiatrist was more interested in saving up money for a yatch than in reversing my paralysis (he told me this). Please remember that drugs can manage disease but do not create health.
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Q5 Have you ever considered suicide?
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A5 Although not reversible, suicide may be a solution for some people. I am not the suicide type. I definitively believe that my health problem and my life are salvageable.
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Q6 How do you see or view yourself? Your self-image?
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A6 I see myself as a human with something to offer to the human species. To understand how I see myself, picture a house or car for sale that needs repair and caring. I am not an object but a human that needs repair and caring not drugs and apathy.
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Q7 Is there a drug to stimulate blood flow to your hand?
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A7 Not that I know of. If there were, the dosage I would need most likely would cause a return of seizures, which have been eliminated because of my near zero use of most illegal/legal drug like substances.
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Q8 What are you trying to do?
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A8 Recover usage of my hand. Therapy is available but I can’t afford it. Please see the PARALYSIS REVERSAL PLAN link page. I also want to give speeches about my healing journey.
Promote alternative medical regimens/therapies as a health care options. Some people would like to have the alternative therapy option like me. The standard allopathic therapies would still be the options preferred by most people.
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Q9 What kind of health care changes would you support?
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A9 Number One-- The Social Security Administration rules governing disabled workers needs to be changed so that recipients may work to save money for therapies which Medicare/Medicaid do not pay for without jeopardizing their status until they recover.
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Q10 If I donate to you, where does my money go?
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A10 All monies will go to promoting alternative medical reginems/therapies as health care options and recovering use of my hand. For my therapy and related expenses, I need to raise $23,000-$27,000.
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Q11 Why don't you just go get a job and save the money for the treatment?
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A11 The simple answer is I can’t. My strength and stability fluctuates and I am unable to work a 40-hour week. I became a welfare case when I arrived for medical treatment. Well over $100,000 have been spent in medical costs alone. I was a "cut and dried" case for the Social Security Administration. They just signed me up. I wasn't going to be well in one year according to their medical analysis. And they were right, I’m still not well nine years later. But I’m still trying to get well, hence this website. Someday, I hope to be self-supporting again.
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Q12 Why don't you just "snap out of it"?
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A12 I would if I could. My left hand and my lower left arm have tension trapped in them which doesn’t spontaneously disappear. There is tension through out my body, but it is not obvious to me because it is practically constant.
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Q13 Have you tried physical/occupational therapy for your paralysis?
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A13 Yes, at least three times. These therapies attempt to make physiogical improvements to my hand, but do not make any permanent changes. I seem to have emotional/osteopathic problems, which keeps tension in my arm and hand.
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Q14 Have you tried "Constraint Induced Therapy"?
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A14 No. Constraint Induced Therapy is tying up the "good" hand and forcing the use of the "bad" hand. This would require intensive labor from a therapist which Medicare/Medicaid will not come close to paying for. It would probably work about 70-80%, because it will create osteopathic changes and open new brain pathways. The best therapy along these lines has been ballroom dancing, because it affects my whole sytem on a structural level in a gentle way. I hope to get involved with a dance class in the future and explore this more. This therapy has been just recently deveolped.
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Q15 Why is the tension there?
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A15 I believe the tension existed before the baseball bat attack to the head. I used alcohol to the point of abuse from 16 to 33 years of age. Alcohol TEMPORARILY relieves tension. The tension is repressing feeling within me which needs to be integrated into my existence so that internal peace can be experienced and healing may occur.
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Q16 Why have you chosen Craniosacral therapy and Primal therapy as therapies to reverse your condition?
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A16 Craniosacral therapy has almost in and of itself reversed my paralysis. If I had access to a primal therapist in 1997, I believe I would have reversed my paralysis. I met Matt Evans, a craniosacral therapist in the summer of 1996 at the Creative Health Institute near Union City, MI. I knew this was the best road for me almost immediately. Craniosacral therapy is a whole system approach that puts the body into a most correct functional structure. And that can create a primal/rebirthing opportunity, especially in cases where the new craniosacral creation (the patient) is not a restoration of a previously known physiological state, as I believe was my case. The Primal Therapy will facilitate the emotional integration required to sustain the new craniosacral creation—this is the part I missed following my craniosacral work in 1997.
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Q17 How do I know this not a scam to raise money for private, personal use?
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A17 Within this website one can review the DOCUMENTS link page.
Come hear me speak. See the NEED A SPEAKER link page. Schedule
a meeting with me. See the CONTACT GREGORY link page. Additional references are available.
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Q18 How will I know what happens as a result of my donations?
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A18 I will issue a progress report to any and all donors, and will post it on this website. Also, down the road, I plan to write a book about my journey to greater health, and all that I’ve learned along the way.
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Q19 Are you open to other therapies?
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A19 I am open to other therapies. I have interest in Acupuncture, Oxygen therapies, and hydrotherapies. I love to be in water. I am investigating sound therapy for the purpose of bringing both hemispheres of the brain into unison (hemispheric synchronization). But the lack of capital (cash) makes progress slow.
There are probably other therapeutic possibilities to reverse my paralysis, but nearly all my research has been on what is presented on the PARALYSIS REVERSAL PLAN link page.
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Q20 If you had the chance to live your life again would you do any different?
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A20 Believe it or not, I wouldn't do too much different. I was assualted because I had stopped a guy from possibly hurting a young woman earlier in the day (two separate incidents). My sister was murdered by her husband five years earlier and my mom suffered emotional and physical abuse by my father. Even though I have had close to zero relationship success with women, I still don't approve of physical violence against women.
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