If I could start by explaining that I’m a skeptic when it comes to “modern science”, and that includes everything from the last 50 years. The science is only as good as the accuracy of the application. You’ve got alot of people misleading others for the sake of the mighty dollar. Global warming is nothing more than a 5th Avenue marketing scam.

Anyway… I am a brain-cancer survivor who made it through a life-threatening massive lymphoma, that should have killed me. I guess this should earn me some respect for being able to even be able to type this story… The gist of the story is this – I wanted to live a “healthier” lifestyle when I finally got my life back together. Simple enough huh? Water seems like the easiest thing to figure out, for health conscientious people like myself. So I started drinking bottled water. When I thought that the cost would be less expensive to just make it myself, that’s when things got interesting. I decided to buy a WaterWise distiller. The guy who delivered my bottled water warned me that someone that he knew had done the same thing and had multiple broken bones as a result of his decision. I just thought that was an isolated incident. The advice came with a warning. “Just make sure you take extra minerals and especially calcium”. Fair enough.

The chemotherapy that I had was an innovative new procedure called Blood Brain Barrier Disruption – This is where the variables to my case get exponential – I had been exercising rigorously (more than anytime in my 41 years) and taking all the vitamins and supplements I could. The only thing that was different with my water intake was that I had switched from the bottled water to the distiller somewhere in the middle of my sixth year out from the exposure to the chemo.

Things started going bad with my hip. My joints started aching. I could barely do 5 pull-ups because of my shoulder pain. My jogging routine was cut down to 40 minutes, at the most.

The doctors at OHSU in Portland assured me I was fine according to my monthly check-ups. By the time the hip pain got so bad I could barely walk, let alone get a good nights sleep, they scheduled me for a hip replacement. Stating that this was a side-effect of the type of chemo that I was exposed to and with only a “make sure you take extra minerals and calcium”, I continued on.

I started breaking the bones in my feet. The first was when I kicked a wall. That is “normal” I thought. The next when I tried to jog down a steep slope. Not so normal. The third time I broke a bone in my other foot I was just walking. OK this is getting strange. The forth time, I was standing in my kitchen when I leaned to one side and heard the familiar “pop”. I broke one more bone then I remembered what I had been warned about – that was the last day that I drank even one more glass of distilled water.

All of the conditions that would lead to such a conclusion that drinking distilled water could cause such results, could be speculative and my condition was extraordinary, but I was warned by the bottled water delivery guy. They should be paid at little better for their advice… or maybe just take it off my doctor’s bill.