Living a miracle

Over the course of three months in 1979, Hank Weaver — the director of UC’s Education Abroad Program at the time — went from playing tennis to being confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down, with tingling in his hands and no feeling in his feet. A mysterious cancer had spread to his spine and his condition was deteriorating quickly, but now, 24 years later, Weaver is completely cancer free and walking around.

“What happened to him was a miracle,” said his physician, Dr. Georgia Edwards.

Weaver was a poster boy for a good health — he exercised, he ate well, and he never smoked — but he still came down with a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. This month, national Cancer Prevention Month, Weaver looked back on his ordeal and remembered why he did so well.  [click  for more]