I’ve had something similar happen to me.
Last year, I was removing some old trees on our plateau. I was tired. Exhausted even. I had been clearing trees and verge for 12 hours. I was nearing completion. I was walking down a steep hill briskly, my hands over loaded with branches and logs. It was mostly dark by then. Well past twilight. I did not see the trees top laying on the ground as I walked past it. I only realized it was still there as I walked directly into it.
I remember the confusion as I stepped backwards, but the stick did not want to let go, and I heard the branches rattle. I knew right away it was going to be bad, and it was. It’s topmost tip entered my left eye socket. The tip of the branch started at about 1/4" [6.3mm] diameter. It went between my eyeball and my top eyelid near the corner with my nose and penetrated to about 1" [25.4mm].
I couldn’t keep it open for a few days from light sensitivity, and the scratched tissues left me constantly weepy. I had to wear sunglasses 24/7 for a few days. It turned all purple and looked kinda nasty.
But then, I healed up and my vision returned. And then it kept returning. The kicker was that my left eye, which had been a bit blurry for many decades, has now returned to nearly perfect. It’s better than my right eye for sure, which has never been the case as long as I can remember.
So, in keeping with the trend of unexpected cures, I can attest that if you want to make your vision better, give yourself some good old fashioned eye trauma by walking headlong into a sharp pointy stick.
Or don’t. Maybe don’t. For gods sake, please don’t.
True story though.
[It was] a study involving a single participant.
It is the most limited form of evidence in medicine.
One person, one outcome, no control group, no way to separate the effect of the viruses from the many other variables that influence the course of any individual cancer.
Halassy’s cancer may have responded to the viral injections precisely as the data suggest.
It may also have been on a trajectory that would have allowed surgical removal regardless.
There is no way to know, and this is not a technicality.
People should always use all of the research methodologies at their disposal. I totally agree with your analysis, while also giving possible credence to the fact this might be true for that individual.
Absolutely. It highlights a curious direction of study, but doesn’t in itself prove anything. It might also be dangerous.
About 5% of cancers spontaneously remit because the immune response is suddenly activated. It was coincident.
It very much could be. But we need more data to prove it one way or another.
But still worth properly exploring, right.
Researchers have been developing oncolytic viruses for 25 years. Until 2025 when most of the world’s cancer research was ended by Trump.
Nah. Cancer said prove it and her next shot rimmed out so the game is still going.
And of course, the huge assumption she is telling the truth.
it would give good starting point for proper research though
There is a zombie movie/game that starts like this right?
I Am Legend, based on a novelthat used bacteria as the offending pathogen.
There was a male microbiologist to who did something to himself because he could not get approvals or it was taking to long or something. Can’t for the life of me remember what the thing he was doing was.
Barry Marshall. Discovered Helicobacter Pylori, drank it, and got a stomach ulcer and a Nobel price for his efforts.
no not that far back. like it the last year or few years and it was definately a gene editing type thing. I should be clear the article was the last year or few but I think the action that lead to it was not much earlier than the article.
Apparently there are quite a lot of people doing gene editing on themselves and their pets in their own homes. It’s apparently fairly accessible.
which is kinda funny because I cannot imagine doing it myself and I have done this type of work. Granted when I saw the lactose intolerance youtube guy do it he was able to get access to a lab so its not like he did it in his garage.
Then he was a shit scientist and his REB knew it.
I mean that would be a bit easier to say if I could find the thing. Mainly it was a lot like this situation.
Related, a whole podcast episode of stories of self-experimentation:
https://timharford.com/2022/09/cautionary-tales-a-leap-of-faith-from-the-eiffel-tower/
