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DR. JACOB: Ready? Don't be too disappointed if, after the first intervenous,
you're not significantly improved.
SHERRICK: Okay.
DR. JACOB: Okay? Let's just see what happens.
WALLACE: Twenty-four hours later, there was no real improvement. Besides, she
had become nauseous from the treatment.
DR. JACOB: Bend it to one side, and bend it to the other. Now, do you have any
more mobility, or about the same mobility?
SHERRICK: I think about the same.
WALLACE: By the third day, she was feeling a little better. You began to see it in
her face.
SHERRICK: Well, I didn't have to take any more medicine.
DR. JACOB: How long has it been since you haven't had to take medicine?
SHERRICK: Over two years.
WALLACE: Before she left for home, Dr. Jacob showed her where and how to
apply DMSO topically to her neck and back.
DR. JACOB: Now, when you put it on, don't rub it too hard. You just have to apply
it to the skin and it goes in. Let it dry over twenty minutes to a half an hour. It
won't be totally dry, but anything left you can just wipe off.
WALLACE: That was last November. This is Sandy Sherrick two months later back
at her Riverside, California, home.
SHERRICK: Oh, the pain's gone. The pain is totally, completely gone from my
neck.
WALLACE: You- you're serious?
SHERRICK: I'm telling the truth, the honest to God truth.
WALLACE: You can do anything? Can you do house work?
SHERRICK: Yes, I can.
WALLACE: Drive a car?
SHERRICK: Yes.
WALLACE: Lift stuff?
SHERRICK: I have not found anything I can't do.
WALLACE: We asked Dr. Jacob to come on down and take another look at you and
to talk to you and us together. Okay?
SHERRICK: Okay.
