Nevada Bob Takes His Cancer Fight to Tijuana (Part 3)
Reflecting. Photo: Gary Firstenberg This is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of Nevada Bob Gordon's 50 Years with the Wrong Woman . This is a continuation from Part 2 regarding Nevada Bob's "ailment," his euphemism for the C-word. You can read Part 2 Here . With a growing family and the American doctors essentially giving up hope, Bob Gordon decided to give "alternative medicine" a try. What follows is not intended as medical advice; it is simply the path Nevada Bob followed. * * * I was not informed right away that I could be dead in six months. My tumor was, in fact, malignant. When Carol had learned that the test had revealed I had cancer, she met with her girlfriend Darlene Marley. Darlene told me that Carol was sitting in our car with all of our children, including the baby, and said to Darlene, “What am I going to do with all these kids if Bob dies?” Carol was never one to exhibit emotional displays, but in that moment she looked pretty forlorn. ...