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Updated 04-04-2021

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"Psalms 119 - 129: "Thy testimonies are wonderful, and my soul keepeth them"

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It is not only a testimony of the cure of the GBM, in fact I have been adding facts that have occurred in my life since 1999, as was the post tumor walk, with a lot of FAITH and thanks. Today I know that people who contact me through various means of communications, I have the commitment to somehow give some information and show that Jesus accomplishes them today, equal to 2000 years ago. We have to do the natural of men who are the Doctors, treatments, medications, for it was given to them from heaven the conditions of power with their means to assist in curing diseases, is the natural of men. But the supernatural healing of the miracle only God has this power, GBM is a malignant tumor and to deal with the "evil" only with God.

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I thank God first, especially my wife Tania, Jadson my son, who spent everything together with me, never losing faith and hope. And countless relatives, friends, Pr. Isaias (Baptist Church of Peace) who was the first pastor who was in my house to pray and after the 2nd surgery, I became a member of IBPAZ. To Brother Ciro Martins who took me to the Church, friendship is one of the most precious assets in the world.

-------------------- THE SYMPTOMS ¬

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The initial signs and symptoms are nonspecific and may include headache, personality changes, nausea and stroke-like symptoms, muscle spasms in the hands (this is what happened to me and so I went to see a doctor). The worsening of symptoms is usually rapid and may progress to unconsciousness.

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In December 98, I came to spend the end of the year in Cuiabá_ MT, after 8 years ... I was happy with the trip ... Tanya can review relatives and friends, me too. we enjoyed the passage of the year, December 30 felt that my right foot and hand were sometimes "numb", we thought tired of the trip and more I noticed that he did not want to take a beer can. We returned to our house in MG on the day of January 1999, my right hand began to give a spasm, even jumping even being held, these spasms increased very frequently, one day was bending back, which we thought was Stroke (stroke). I went to an orthopedic doctor, he said it was RSI (occupational disease). I did everything I did, including leprosy. Nothing, everything negative. I looked for other experts, but nothing was discovered. In March thinking that it was muscle problems I did an 'electro myiography' and nothing, so the doctor in possession of dozens of exams said, "for me it is neurological problem"

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In March I went to a Neurologist (doctor at the time who took care of my parents (Dr. Luiz Antonio) and until today my sister treats him, he decided to make a CT scan, he suspected that the symptoms were also neurological.

We did the Tomography, as I had taken my father several times, I noticed that it took a long time, spent more time and I was able to see Dr. Luiz Antonio enter the room where the computer is (monitor) of the images, talking with another doctor, indicating on the monitor screen, the nurse comes in and says "let's repeat the exam, it's more routine", I worried about the time ... there's something.

It was for Tânia to go with me the other day to take the exams to Dr. Luiz, I went to the Clinic I took the Tomography, I opened and I saw a uniform white spot in my brain, I got cold".

He looked at the tomography negatives, in detail ... I saw a commotion when he addressed me ... Johnny (everyone called me Donizete, only my parents used the first name) unfortunately I have very sad news for all of us ... I would not want to be talking about this fact to anyone, let alone you, the tests indicate that you have a very severe brain tumor, called Glioblastoma Multiforme. Looked at the tomography negatives, in detail ... I saw a commotion when he addressed me. Joaozinho (everyone called me Donizete, only my parents used the first name) unfortunately I have a very sad news for all of us ... I would not like to be talking about this fact with anyone, let alone with you, the exams indicate that you has a very severe brain , called Glioblastoma Multiforme.

It seemed like a lie that I was listening to, that moment stopped ... I could not even hear the doctor's voice ... it came out of me ... I did not believe ... soon with me ... even today was the worst moment of my life .

... continued, let's do a resonance just to confirm, then we'll find a place for you to operate, we do not have conditions here, but do not worry, call Tânia and Cidinha (my sister), we'll take care of everything, it was 10 AM, I went home and when Tania arrived I was waiting to go to the doctor with me, I said "I've been there and he said that I have a malignant tumor in the brain, Dr. wants to talk to you and Cida" .

We only exchanged a look full of astonishment and full of fear, already with tears without saying anything it was, until today I do not know how I was driving home, I can not remember how I spent that day ... it was like there was no.

The other day we went to the other city to do an MRI, which found tumor Glioblastoma Multiforme or GBM, I had a brain cancer (it was so "out of the air") that I did not google on this tumor. That diagnosis was sinister, fatal, I did not think of anything ... I did not remember that "nightmare". Tania took me by car to do other exams already for the surgery, it looked like a movie, like I was all tied up, inert, being taken to a guillotine, I was already looking at people and places already saying goodbye, it was the end , silent, pensive and afraid, I did not think of anything, I could not pray and ask the saints for help, God, at the time I was Catholic.

-------------------- WHEN LIFE MAKES A CURVE ¬

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I was sent to Hospital Felício Rocho in Belo Horizonte - MG, thanks to a friend of ours, our friend arranged what was best for us. As soon as my wife and I arrived, we sought the right doctor, examined the negatives, for a moment that room was total silence, he went straight to the result, said bluntly:

“You have a malignant tumor that exists in the brain, known as GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME - GBM (as I took years to speak this name right) and continued ... is brain cancer, of the 80 tumor types this is the worst. Surely this you have is the last grade IV, continued, to this day I am not aware that the bearer of this tumor live more than 9 months, and statistics confirm this, medicine knows little about this type of brain”.

And as if I was not present, turned to my wife, and was even more fatalistic:

"Unfortunately, her husband is only a year old. There are no studies in medicine that carry this tumor survive, a little over 9 months on average, even so are inaccurate data. Choosing not to operate, will have survival no more than 6 months to 9 months, if you operate the possibility of permanent sequelae is very large, already tells the family to wait for any result, good or bad! Let's do what we can, we have all the appliances for this case.”.

We thought everything was over there, "I died for a moment," but we thought about our son's life and we resolved to fight to the end. We still knew that God that we considered guilty of everything, "soon I, for want?" we asked the reason for the sentence so hard in my life.

After leaving the office, Tania was a telephone call (olherão) to call my sister Cida to give news, it was already at dusk, Belo Horizonte was without a cloud in the sky, setting sun and for a moment I could see in months how beautiful it was the sun hiding among the buildings, in the last rays of it, sitting in the middle on the sidewalk, I got up ... and I looked at that unique moment (because every sunset is never the same) ...

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I looked up to heaven and spoke to God ... "God I die from a stumble (stumble) on the ground, but I do not die from this tumor" in the name of Jesus ...

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With that act done with a lot of Faith, I hardly knew that I was prophesying my victory, my healing and I prayed a Father of ours, I cried with joy for those minutes that I was with God and I was not afraid of facing it, but it would not be God alone anymore was by my side.

We went back to the city of Três Corações-MG, I saw Tânia telling details to my sister, talking quietly and I stood there in time, thinking about how the life of Tânia and Jadson would be after my death, no longer thinking about me, mother had already gone through 2 strokes each, we hid from them what happened...

I felt "aerial", everyone was looking at me already different, with pity ... the family I know they were crying hidden ... at night ... and praying ... thirds, promises ... saints .... and I was waiting to see .... I did not think, I had no plans, I stopped in time, I gave a stop at that moment, my life was already surrendered to God.

So we went to operate (in Belo Horizonte) without my parents being aware of the severity of the tumor, a few people many arrivals became aware of my case, due to circumstances only I and Tânia traveled, the word forbidden cancer was a sign of death.

-------------------- FIRST SURGERY ¬

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We entered the Hospital Felício Rocho at 21:00 pm on 04/21/1999, he was calm and he was sure that everything would go well. There were people who were making chains of prayers, nurse gave the last instructions and medications and warned at 06:00 hs you go to surgery. I went to the door of the apartment, for those who do not know the Hospital, it is very large, large corridors, 3 floors, a whole block, I noticed that in the next room people were crying softly and a Nurse came hurriedly, I went to look and was a lady who I just saw Tanya pulling me, let's go to sleep.

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April 22, 1999, 05:30 a.m. was ready, I heard the sound of the stretchers in the corridors of the hospital, I had never spent a night in a hospital, the corridor was long and the stretcher took time to arrive, every stretched out the noise of the wheels, it was in harmony with the "beating" of my heart ... my heart was racing and the stretcher coming, I was sitting in the chair, haaaa passed, it was not mine. That movement of stretchers, it seemed that I was in the street and the litter was the buses, every instant came one, that talk, I cry in the next room the person who was alive at night and now was dead, looked at Tanya looking for strength " I knew that she was also very nervous, crying nearer to me she never cried always serene, I knew she cried in the dead of night, in the bathroom, due to the conditions of my parents (I already said, my only sister Cida stayed with them) Tania was alone ... and with God..

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I noticed that a silence was made, and a stretcher with its very different and rhythmic "floor to floor" noise came slowly, I did not hear anything else ... just the beating of my heart, for seconds "I flew through space", I wanted to be a bird and fled from that place ... and the mark stopped in front of my door and a nurse, dark, strong and very smiling spoke ... "Mr. John, your taxi arrived", I went there for a trip that I I did not know what it would be like and I did not even turn around, eyes tearing and smile forced and I was afraid, Tânia hugged me ... a light kiss ... eyes in an uncertain infinite ... mixture of panic, fear and Faith ... and I went being led for the first time on a stretcher looking at the ceiling, letting the lights say something and praying.

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At 6:00 a.m. I entered the surgical room, that ceremonial all of preparation, head being shaved, the doctors all showing themselves as if it were a simple thing that event, laughing, playing with me, the "tinkling" of the preparation of the instruments as if it were at dinner, as if it were the nurses preparing the table for a banquet, in which case the dish of the day was me. The doctors preparing the electronic instruments, videos, monitoring, my arms being tied in a cross, remembered Jesus and being anesthetized I prayed Our Father and I deleted.

After 6 hours ended, another hour to recover, surgery went very well, I stayed two days in the ICU. When I woke up, all my vital functions were perfect and without any sequelae in the motor part, there was total withdrawal of the tumor. In the immobile ICU by the devices, I could see the other patients, some in total coma, others paralyzed needing everything, some moaning, some screaming, no morphine took the pain, cancer in the bones, injured, what was on my side, seemed dead , the nurse took fluids from her lungs all the time, cleaned them with great affection, talked to him, called for life ... I saw such dedication, these nurses were the Angels of the Lord; taking care of people that only death remained. I connected to dozens of devices, the only lucid patient in that place tried to think what was going to be of the future, I could not static, serum and medication and devices everywhere. .. two days that my whole life spent in my as a movie, not knowing if I would have been able to live the remaining months.

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"An important alert, after surgery to all who pass through it"

When I left the ICU I and Tania stayed in an apartment with another patient who was going to operate from the heart ... and his wife, we made soon friendship was very happy and the companion cooperated for this because he was talkative and very cheerful we laughed a lot. .. at midnight I began to talk curled to lose the senses ... I passed very badly and the doctors when they arrived soon put in a litter and the other warning to the room of resonance the Hospital was very great, as I already said.

They saw that I was not going to get on the other side and they went to another ward that I attended in the part of the day, it was all with half light, like a horror movie, almost everything in the dark only a light at the end of an extensive corridor, and they pushing the stretcher ... I almost erasing, I saw the despair of Tânia and also the concern of the doctors, one of them trying to keep me conscious called me every moment...

We entered the examination room and still had time to look at Tania, already with eyes tearing in a sinister corridor, little light, alone looking for a seat to sit, until today she says that was the worst moment that happened, she got more than 3 hours in a semi - dark corridor, in silence and praying, with no one to give a news.

In reality after hours being monitored inside the RM machine and with medications the brain started to get less swollen, I went back to the apartment it was already day. What happened is obvious, the joy of successful surgery exceeded in the conversations, in the emotions ... we almost put everything to lose, the region of the tumor swelled.

* Recém operado o cérebro geralmente fica muito inchado, tudo que paciente precisa é de tranqüilidade, não de agitação , eu por exemplo nem podia assistir televisãoRecently operated the brain usually becomes very swollen, all that patient needs is tranquility, not agitation, I for example could not watch television.

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After eight days I went home, a month later I started radiotherapy. There were 35 unpleasant symptoms (headaches, tiredness, weaknesses, dizziness and malaise) that I had for months without hair. I was taken every day by Tania to the hospital, I did not think of anything, I had no dreams, I could not even know how long I lived. On several occasions I saw the doctors talking to her at a distance talking about my case and warning her, "Look at this tumor is fatal, in medicine the statistics of about life is no more than 12 to 15 months, according to world data and sitting in the chair in the Hospital corridor at a distance from them and her gaze crossed hers, both of them with the same feeling of despair and returning home without saying anything to each other, in this morbid silence she thought of life as it would be ... I did not even think With no date and conditions to work and under treatment, I was selling everything I had left..

-------------------- THE COMEBACK ¬

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In 1978, after graduating, I came to work in Cuiabá-MT at São Vicente Federal School today IFMT São Vicente, (I have to make this note, to understand the term "THE RETURN") here I married and we have Jadson, but in 1988 we returned to Three Hearts-MG. There came the GBM tumor to undo our plans. As there was the sentence of "death" on me, and my parents over 75, sick, did not want to die near them, we think better RETURN to Cuiabá, where Tânia had relatives ... mother ... father, here would have shelter in the case of my death, we arrived in Cuiabá on 07-29-1999.

I have to thank God besides that he put a person, Joshua "in-memorian", that when we arrived here we had all the support until my consultations (after all I had 60 days of surgery, unemployed) in the neuro, the oncologist ... he paid using his health plan, of course he explained to my doctors the situation, and every day he took me to accompany him and his business, it was important that I was not stuck at home (which was also given by him), and life went following.

In November of 1999, Tânia was employed in a large company and in February of 2000 I also got a job in a cable company, in a few months I was already Sales Manager. On November 12 we were able to acquire an apartment, financed, where we live today. Three times a year, thanks to the system TFD (all cities have, on the site have a link) was going to make control in Belo Horizonte-MG.

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-------------------- SECOND SURGERY ¬

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Tânia and I promised when we arrived in Cuiabá, to look for an Evangelical Church, to strengthen ourselves with a commitment of thanks to God for what we were receiving through His grace .

I kept the promise and continued in the Catholic church, even because it was convenient to go to Mass, because the Church was a block from home. Mercy! One day I told my wife, we go to Mass to fulfill our "obligation", my God ... Where my love for you was again entering a world that God did not like, was being ungrateful ... this God did not forgive...

Without feeling anything for two and a half years, only doing the MRI control at BH every 6 months, for the doctor I was already out of the risk area, never a patient of him had lived so long. But it led to a quiet life, but I adapted to never drink again, to sleep early, I changed the way I ate, I changed everything from the last 40 years, and I forgot the promise I made, I just did not change to God.

As a Sales Manager for a Cable TV company, I was very happy and one day working normally with the salespeople, I felt around half a day a numbness in the lips, in the right corner of the mouth. In two hours it passed (today I know it was due to the stress of the service, the numbness was caused by electric shock from a brain before it was stirred) and I kept working. Around 6:00 PM, as usual, I went to pick up my wife at work, usually driving no more, but when I was talking to my wife about what had happened at noon, and being near a hospital, she suggested a Query. "Let's go in and see and see a doctor ..." I told her I did not need to .

I accepted, we went in and we were taken care of by a general practitioner. He listened to my report, learned of my history of GBM, doctor, and sent for a neurologist from the hospital, who consulted me quickly and asked for a sound, this was Wednesday.

I took the exam the other day early, and in the afternoon, with the result in hand, we went to the doctor again. Everything seemed to go wrong, the nightmare was back. My wife and I heard that same sentence again. But that doctor gave us confidence.

He showed the examination, said that it was a recurrence of the tumor, how small it was and the surface would be easy to remove. And he went so far as to say with absolute conviction, "It is so easy that I am going to take it out with my finger".

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Jeremiah: 29 - 12: Then ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hear you..

Again I forgot to consult God first.

And worse, we did not communicate the doctors that we had consulted before, from the 1st consultation the surgery was only 3 days ...

* Here's another piece of advice, let the report go, do not despair, try to get together with family, relatives, friends and people who can help. Find out the best Doctors and Hospitals, do not make the same mistake I did.

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The other day I was hospitalized at 06:30 am on 10/19/01 I went into the operating room, at 11:00 am I was in the ICU, I was still a little dizzy and under anesthesia. In the afternoon I received the visit of my wife and a friend, I noticed that my right side was having movement difficulties, my wife said she would talk to the doctor, because it was strange that he did not comment on the fact with her. Then the doctor came to visit me and told me that I had the headband with no part of the cranial box, which he took to operate.

And because he could not get it, he had thrown it in the trash. Thrown in the trash! Without telling my wife or asking for permission to perform the amputation of a part of my body. Then he went to my wife saying that on Monday I would be discharged and I would go to do the CHEMOTHERAPY? . And there he justified the case of the cranial bone, (before two witnesses who accompanied it during the days that I was hospitalized) saying that it was yellow and it did not serve for anything, so it threw in the trash and that in six months would put a prosthesis and everything would continue good.

He said that he had sent a sample of material taken to make a biopsy to confirm the removal of the tumor, but he was categorical saying to my wife that he was CABREIRO (term used by him), since he did not think he had removed all the tumor, so he would chemotherapy. My wife's companion thought it strange that I be referred soon after surgery for a chemotherapy treatment, and my wife agreed with her. Something was wrong.

-------------------- AT LAST, FULFILLING THE PROMISE MADE¬

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Cyro Martins, our evangelical friend who had invited me to go to his congregation for years, the Baptist Church of Peace, seeing our despair, went to find an evangelical brother, also a doctor, to pray for my life. This brother (Dr. Ari - Aquidauana - MS) using the Holy Spirit anointing power in his life, laying his hands on the bed of the hospital where he was still hospitalized and praying, at that moment we accepted JESUS AS OUR TRUE SAVIOR AND WE DELIVERED OUR LIVES TO JESUS. We were sure of my healing and liberation came true, because at that moment I felt the power of this living God that we did not know.

When I returned to my house, Cyrus came with Father Isaiah of the Peace Baptist Church who prayed for my life and said "as soon as I can, I hope to see you congregating in our Church, as soon as we reestablish", from then on we come to congregate in the Church Baptist of Peace, where I praised my Savior, how was our commitment to God, when we moved here. * (a time we followed Pr. Luciano in the creation of IBNG, which I learned a lot in the work of God) we returned to IBPAZ our 1st Church where we are today.

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-------------------- THIRD SURGERY¬

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After about 15 days we informed our Oncologist to indicate another Neurosurgeon and so we started everything for the 3rd time. I wore a cap on my head and where the part of the cranial box was missing, I was able to put a hard plastic coating inside the cap lining to protect the "hole".

The new doctor said, "At the moment it is not advisable to go through another surgery, we will research more to be making the control to see the evolution, even because it was not sure that it was a relapse, chose to take the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (ERM) is an advanced noninvasive diagnostic neuroradiology technique that evaluates chemical changes in brain tissues."

We did the control every 2 months, going to do other more specific tests (cerebral spectroscopy) in the Hospital Austa ( São José do Rio Preto-SP). This situation lasted eight months and in the last control, it gave alteration in the substance (choline), accusing a probable relapse.

And again the ordeal began.

We were advised to do a micro evasive surgery or a radio surgery, the best would even be the last indication. Our health plan did not cover and here in the MT had no professionals for this function, however Hospitals we were looking for only if it were private, very expensive.

Seeing that we would not be able to raise this amount so fast, we searched elsewhere in Brazil where we could carry out the intervention

I quote a fact from a large university hospital from another state that we managed to mark for a medical board, on the date marked at 7:00 am in the morning was in front of the doctor's office, who answered was a resident, took my exams and took to the Doctor, I could see a part of the Doctor's table and from him and I heard horrible things words, and said "tell him that I will not operate it, because it had no way, it's very risky."

As the Resident replaced the images of my Resonances in the envelopes the doctor said "he who goes back to Mato Grasso to die" was the weight of these words, that on the way back to the Hotel I and Tania still shocked, we took the Bible and prayed and cried God.

We then decided (it was about 10:00 am) to call the doctor who operated on me in 1999, from the Hospital Felício Rocho , we took the first flight and at 2:00 PM we were in consultation

He said that there were also no means and devices to do an "evasive micro surgery", that he had to use a Neuronavigation device, few Hospitals had, and made a list of 5 places where we should ... after 36 hours 23:00 hs we return to Cuiabá, soul and body tired, worried...

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We ran against the weather again, had to find a lulgar to operate, contacts one after another, days passing and doors closing. I was already hopeless, I only received no ... "there is no way." But after praying, thinking now is just God and I, I sought God at dawn, I asked Him again for His forgiveness and a new opportunity.

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Matthew: 21 22 - and whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive

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It dawned, I felt it would be a different day, with Faith that it would be a good day, I took the list that the Doctor of BH gave me, I tried to make more confirmation, there was in the South a possibility to analyze my case ... it was time of the lunch, I decided to check the list, it was 5 places, 4 already checked and it was still difficult, at the bottom of the list we gave a phone number without being the name of the Hospital ... it was the 5th indication, it was right here in the Center West, near me ... (I no longer mention the name of the Hospital, because my account of what happened, you go ahead, other people were looking for the same Doctor and the place in the intention what happened to me should happen to the same with them , each case is a situation) and I called...

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Finally a light of hope

Psalms : 27

1 - The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is by the power of my life; Whom shall I fear?

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We called and we were able to speak to the Chief Medical Neurosurgeon Dr. Carlos (the name of the Physician is fictitious, in the Old Testament I had the names of Hospitals and Doctors, but I learned that people were looking for them with the hope that it could happen with them the same thing that happened to me, each case is different, if it is a case where there is no local treatment, contact me, at the end you will see ...) and we speak everything, from our despair, the attempts denied, my will to live and to keep fighting, that God would not abandon me.