NORTH OAKVILLE TODAY – Frank and Colleen Caicco had nothing left to lose.

Colleen’s Multiple Sclerosis was rapidly progressing. After living with the disease for 14 years, her cheeks were turning blue, she had lost all feeling in her legs and she was not far from having to go on life support.

Now Colleen’s condition is improving since returning from Costa Rica where she recently underwent an experimental treatment called ‘Liberation Therapy,’ a treatment not available in Canada.

“Once the procedure was done and I saw the changes immediately in her, I just felt the weight of the world lifted off me,” said Frank. “I wasn’t going to lose my wife and she was going to get better.”

“I was going to die,” said Colleen, whose speech is getting better but is still laboured.

Frank and Colleen lived in Glen Abbey with their two sons Dave and Brian for close to 25 years but recently had to move to a more wheelchair accessible home in Hamilton.

Frank first learned of ‘Liberation Therapy’ from an article in the Hamilton Spectator.

The article told the story of an MS patient and her husband who made the trek to Costa Rica to have the procedure.

Frank contacted the couple and, after speaking with them about their experience and the positive outcome of their treatment, he decided he needed to get Colleen to Costa Rica as soon as he could.