the first 30 years of our lives were carefree, like any y young couple, trying to pay your bibills, enjoy lifife and doini hings. then you get a child that has cancer and your whole life chananges completely. it now is srounded and revovolves aroundd your chchild is sick. >> i was diagnosed with a cancer of the synthetic nervous system and still have effects of it today. >> michael is alive. he's a miracle. he's received the lastt rite many times. he's 34 years old. he has very limited normalcy to his life. >> the tumor is pushing my spine pretty much out of my body, like it's wearing away the skin. t's also encompassssed, it wras around like all my organs, heart, lungs and kidneys and all that and there's nono surgical way too remove it. without me either bleeding out on the table or becoming a vegetable, i was told. >> i would buy the powdered similac and i would mix it with tap water. and so everyrything that my son got was mixed from the toms river tap water. ii reaeally believed d that tha where his cancer came from.m. >> in the late 1970's when michael was first diagnosed, there ini