Re: tapeworm!
Thanks for sharing some of your story here. I'll just say, I'm glad you are better.
It's funny, I'm at home right now, but when I first read your post, earlier today, I was sitting in a hospital room visiting a man with leukemia, the brother of a friend. We were there for quite a few hours and at one point I went online. So I was there in this gleaming state-of-the-art research hospital, machines beeping everywhere, people coming in and out of the room every five minutes, sitting next to a man with leukemia/pneumonia/anemia, reading your post, and wondering: is anyone in this building talking about improving the diet, herbs, getting rid of parasites, or trying anything simple? Or is it all cut, burn, poison and drug?
One quick note on heavy metals, Dr Mark Sircus suggests selenium and alphaluponic acid as the best choices to remove mercury -- I just throw that in there for whoever might be interested, haven't tried either yet myself. Of course there's always EDTA chelation too.