jimmy blanco
JImmy Blanco was one of the longest living survivors of the world’s deadliest brain cancer and he defied the odds without traditional medicine. A son of hard-working Cuban immigrants, Jimmy grew up on the mean streets of Newark, NJ in the 1960s and ‘70s.
He survived poverty and neighborhood violence before joining the military where he briefly served in both the Army and Navy. After separating he began driving a cab with his father. He moved to Miami where, as a truck driver for a wine company, he met a beautiful secretary named Elizabeth. They fell in love and were married in 1984.
With a new wife and baby on the way Jimmy went to school and became a Respiratory Therapist, earning every certification in his field in under five years. He was well-known and respected in South Florida medical circles but felt like he wasn't making the difference he hoped he would.
He was 36 years old with three young children when he suffered a seizure behind the wheel of his van. He was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma Multiforme Grade IV and told he had just 17 weeks to live. Instead of feeling despair, Jimmy believed his mission on earth had finally been revealed to him.
He dedicated the rest of his life to proving his doctors wrong. He rejected chemo and radiation and lived eight years after his diagnosis using only natural medicine, diet, visualization, and his unshakable faith in God. In that time he began to write this book detailing his self-treatment with the intention of bringing hope to hopeless causes like himself.
Jimmy fought relentlessly to survive so that he could be there for his three children, Jamie, Jimmy Jr., and Jason, who he adored.
jamie blanco
Jamie is an award-winning journalist and mother of two currently residing in the Boston area. Jamie put herself through college by working in local TV newsrooms, first in Miami, then in Boston. She graduated cum laude from Emerson College in 2009 before venturing to Washington D.C.
There she got her feet wet at Federal News Radio before accepting the position of Morning News Manager at WNEW, a CBS News Radio station. She and her team won an Edward R. Murrow award for Best Newscast and racked up numerous other Associated Press awards.
Jamie became Acting Managing Editor at WNEW before moving back to Boston and accepting a position at legendary news operation WBZ NewsRadio.
Once the COVID pandemic hit Jamie took time away from journalism for her greatest job yet, as a full-time mom to her two small children.
15 years after her father's death, her mother found the book that her dad had begun writing. She spent several years working to realize her father’s dream of publishing his book of hope for cancer patients.
Jamie enjoys nerd culture, hosts an iHeartRadio podcast called ‘The Hub on Hollywood’ and is now a frequent background actor in film and TV.