One year later, patients swear by medical pot

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BETHEL — First, it was testicular cancer. Then tumors were found in his lungs.

And when those had finally shrunk — thanks to an aggressive chemotherapy and radiation — Brian Tomasulo learned that the cancer had spread to his brain.

After collapsing at work one day in May 2014, the Newtown resident was rushed to the hospital, where he had surgery to remove an egg-sized tumor from his frontal cortex.

 

The surgery was successful, but when Tomasulo woke up, he had a whole new set of challenges to deal with.

“I didn’t have thoughts in my brain,” he said. “I didn’t know what things were. I didn’t know what my phone was. I had to relearn how to do everything, how to talk, how to do one-plus-one... At 33 years old, that was very frustrating.”

Tomasulo would soon find an improbable medicine to help him cope with...

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