This episode tells the story of the most dramatic moment of my family's life. While this was recapped in episode 300, I want to celebrate the one year anniversary of Daniel's recovery by re-sharing it and recording an update.
For those of you who have followed along, you know my son Daniel broke his back jumping off a cliff in August 2019.
In just 1 year, Daniel has not only come into his purpose in a big way, he has also experienced a remarkable recovery. It's unfathomable that he's even here today, let alone walking, traveling, and defining his bright future.
Please join us as we share this tale of letting god direct Daniel's story, me navigating the complicated healing of my own child, and Merily's effortless and unwavering strength, faith and love that held us all together. And please stay tuned to the end, where Merily and I share the latest update!
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Dr. Pompa:
In this episode of Cell TV, a very special episode, you notice Merily is next to me. It’s for a good reason. It’s been one year since our son jumped off the cliff, a 60-foot cliff, and 50 feet down hit rock, an out cliff. He should have been dead. He should have been paralyzed. The miracle was he was neither. However, there were many other miracles that happened along the way.
We’re going to replay the episode that we filmed at one of my seminars where we talked about with Daniel, the three of us, what we did that really stimulated incredible healing. They told us that a major surgery had to be done; otherwise, he wouldn’t walk. We talked about everything that we did, the speed that healing up, and basically proved the doctors wrong. That’s in this episode and also what this really did to us as a family.
If you saw it, it’s probably worth re-watching because you’re going to see it from a different perspective. At the end, stay tuned because we’re going to speed you along to what God has done in the last year. Hopefully, it will be a great message for you to hear, inspirational, and one that you’re going to want to share. Check it out, and we’ll see you at the end.
Merily:
This isn’t my puppy, but I had to show you because he’s so cute. I can’t stop looking at him.
Dr. Pompa:
Episode 300, obviously, you can tell it’s different already, as my wife and my son are sitting next to me. Look, you’re obviously not going to want to miss this episode. It was one of the most dramatic points of our life, and our life has been from pain to purpose. This one no doubt brings us into the promise. Some of you have heard about how my son broke his back, and he and we are actually writing that book, how he jumped into his purpose. On this episode, you’re going to hear that story and more of how this changed the Pompas’ life. I’ll see you on the episode.
You see the title there, The Day Daniel Jumped. The name of his book is actually The Day I Jumped. There’s so much there that we don’t have time to get into, but Daniel’s life, like the Pompa life, has been very dramatic, honestly. Again, we understand it to be always that calling, that knowing.
It’s so funny. We talk about physical, emotional, spiritual battles. Daniel went through a lot of emotional stuff when we took the twins on and brought them into our family. He was the oldest and then he wasn’t. It creates a lot of disruption in the family dynamic.
You all won’t even understand that whole story completely until Merily and I get that book done. It really disrupted Daniel. God gave Merily even a promise then. You can tell them what that was, or us a promise.
Merily:
Yeah, so I mean, as awful as this sounds, my mom begged me not to take the twins. I told my mom…
Dr. Pompa:
There was a reason for that.
Merily:
Right.
Dr. Pompa:
Because of the grandmother who ended up, true to form, creating a lot of problems.
Merily:
My mom knew best, obviously, in terms of the physical expectation or the way it could potentially work out. I mean, I never looked back. A lot of people go through life, and they wonder why they are who they are or maybe they don’t. I always wondered. Why did God give me this personality? Why am I this way and not that way?
I knew in that moment that I was who I was because of what God was choosing for me to do. I had resolve, and I remember saying to Danny when he was still vacillating on, oh, my gosh, we’re doing this? I said, “Yes, we’re doing this.” I don’t need swallowed by the whale. If this is what God chose for us, then I don’t want to not follow His—and honor Him in that.
Dr. Pompa:
Your only concern was Daniel.
Merily:
As we went through this process, I went back and forth with my mom. I finally said to God—because my mom pulled out her last stitch effort, which was what about Daniel? Honestly, I had never given consideration to what about Daniel? In that moment, like I did when Danny was sick and we had no answers is I stopped. I said, Lord, what about Daniel? God spoke to my heart for the second time in my life and said not only will I do great things for Daniel, I will do great things through Daniel.
We have been through—so that was it. Anyway, that was it. That was just done. I was good, and so in every challenge that we’ve had from that point on with him, I have just reminded God that you put a promise in me. I’ve accepted that, and I’m not looking back, and I never did, even to this day.
Dr. Pompa:
One of the things that—it makes me emotional. Merily’s gift is faith, and often times her faith destroys us. Remember when I sick? Not only is God going to heal you, but He’s going to take a message through the world through you. I’m like you could’ve said the worst thing. I can’t get myself well. Go away.
Telling Daniel, how are her words of prophecy in your life? How’d that work out? God’s going to do great things through you, right? It created some emotional stress in you, as you tell us.
Daniel:
Yeah, for sure.
Merily:
Yeah, he told me that he wishes I hadn’t told him that.
Dr. Pompa:
Merily’s faith is just, pughhh, out of her. We’re like we’re not worthy.
Daniel:
They become these taglines. You just keep saying it over and over again.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, and we’re just like, oh, my God, anyways, but honestly, women in the room…
Merily:
They’re hard on me, right?
Dr. Pompa:
Women in the room—I mean, but we’ve now learned. I mean, she is—she’s the anchor in our family. She’s all that. She leads in the faith.
Audience:
[00:06:28].
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s right. She’s the one who is always behind me. Remember I said I struggled my—working out of a false identity like David. It’s like she’s the one that was anchoring me always to my true identity. My true identity was back in that promise that God gave her that I was going to take a message to the world through me, right? That’s why I know it’s not about me. It was that prophecy and that promise.
I’ll say this, just like that promise that was given to Daniel, all of a sudden, the adversity. You all have a promise, but all this adversity comes in lieu of it. Daniel went through a major emotional battle, and then he went through a major spiritual battle. If I told you the details of that, honestly, most of you wouldn’t believe it. Some of you in this room were in that prayer team, Deb, Lance. I mean, I could go through the room, and many of you know the details there.
It’s unbelievable. I’m telling you, I saw things when I went to Africa spiritually that I wouldn’t have believed existed until I went there, and it opened my eyes. I’ll tell those stories one day. Same thing with Daniel, I’ll tell those stories one day of everything he dealt with, but it was unbelievable, the emotional, the spiritual. Which was left? The physical.
The day that Daniel jumped, he literally jumped into his calling and his purpose. I believe that, as I stood—that picture was taken from me across—watching the kids. I was there to video the kids. I’m going to let Daniel tell the story here in a moment, but I was there for two reasons.
As they were going out the door, Merily was lecturing them. “Don’t do something stupid.” “What do you mean?” She’s like, “Danny,” that’s what she calls me. “You need to go with them.” “Ah, man.” “No, you need to go with them to make sure they don’t do anything stupid.”
My son Isaac who’s in the back was, “Oh, gosh, mom,” giving her the hardest time. I’m like I don’t want to go.
Merily:
Overprotective was the word.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, overprotective. I went. There I am. I’m going to take the video. They’re going up and up and up that cliff, and I’m going whoa, whoa, whoa. Where are you going?
You can’t even see the person in this video. Just to show you, this is a 60 foot drop. That’s a human right here. They were up here, and Daniel will show that.
I’m like no way, and so I’m looking at my phone trying to text one, call one, not even remembering they swam across there. How could they even have a phone? Then I hear a splash. Now, there’s a blessing in that because I didn’t see what actually happened. Then I hear all this yelling from a boat.
This boat’s going over there. I’m going something’s not good, but I didn’t know what. Thank God. I’d of probably jumped in and swam, or I’d have thought I just watch my son die. The boat rescues him, pulls him up, and then a story goes from there. Daniel, what happened that day?
Daniel:
I guess we can start with the cliff. We’re just looking to burn a few hours and go cliff jumping. We get up to the top, and we’re just looking at it and talking to my friend, Vlad, or my brother’s friend and said, “Okay, so can I just jump anywhere?”
Dr. Pompa:
You can use this and go over there and show them.
Daniel:
All right, let’s see here.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m telling you, technology, it’s hilarious, but I use these things all the time.
Daniel:
Oop! Aha!
Dr. Pompa:
That’s the first technology thing that I was able to show my son, ever.
Merily:
It will be the last.
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, the PowerPoints and the fast—yeah, this was him, four hours sitting on the couch. “Dad, oh, my gosh.” I end up just giving him the computer.
Daniel:
Anyway, so I’m up there, and I’m trying to just ask my friend. “Okay, can I jump anywhere? Is it good?” I climbed up from this side wall up there, and I end up coming up. We didn’t actually really scope out the cliff except from when we were looking at it from where he took the picture head on. You figure what the cliff looks like.
The whole way up, my feet were getting torn up by these bristles and briars. My feet were already bleeding. There was no way I was going back down there to check out the cliff. I just wanted to get down, and I was done.
I was already annoyed with this cliff. I never wanted to jump it again. From the get-go, I literally just wanted to jump, leave, go home, and be done. I’m up there. It wasn’t huge, so I wasn’t up there really scared or anything.
Dr. Pompa:
Sixty foot.
Daniel:
I was like, okay, I’m just going to jump it. “Okay, Vlad, where do I jump?” “Okay, yeah, you want to jump more to the right. If you jump to the left, you’re going to have to clear a lot more.” I didn’t really understand how much more.
You can see there. If I would’ve jumped to the left more, I would’ve came down here and landed here. This was out a lot further. I didn’t realize how far to the left or how far to the right. It was more subjective, so my left and his left were a little different because I had never jumped it before.
My friend, I guess he said he was going to go scope it out, but he was going to go to the bathroom. I didn’t hear that. He turned around to go to the bathroom, and I just took a few steps back and one, two, gave it a leap and came over this bluff. That’s all I could see from here. From here, all I could see was this. I couldn’t see any of this. I’d come over the bluff, and then right as I come over I realized, oh, crap, I might come up a little bit short.
Dr. Pompa:
Imagine that feeling.
Daniel:
It’s not a good feeling.
Dr. Pompa:
I kept saying to Daniel—I’m like what did you feel like? What were you thinking? I just couldn’t imagine. I was caught there.
Daniel:
Then, as I came to here, it was like I’m definitely going to come up short, and then, here, it was like I’m going to die. Then, as I got to here, it was like, okay, I got to just brace for impact. I remember thinking also in this moment in the air I’ve just got to make it to the water. I just knew if I just made it to the water, somehow I’d be all right. I hit here, right there?
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right.
Daniel:
Yeah, here.
Dr. Pompa:
There’s an out cliff. You can’t see it great there, but it sticks out.
Daniel:
Is that it? That’s where I hit, right?
Dr. Pompa:
The guys that rescued him—because I’m like, “What happened?” They said, “Look up there. You can see the blood on that little out cliff.” That’s where he hit. I’m like, “You mean he hit like brushed off?” “Oh, no, he hit, stopped him, and he just fell in the water.”
Fifty feet, you’re almost at terminal velocity. The people, the doctors in the hospital were like you might as well have jumped out of an airplane. You basically survived an airplane jump because of how fast you were going at that point and how hard you hit.
Everyone said the same thing. He should’ve been dead. He definitely should’ve been paralyzed, but obviously, he was neither. The first miracle was done right there.
Daniel:
Definitely, I landed first on me feet, like this, back a little bit on my heels, and I broke this heel. My feet flew out from under me, and then I went to put my hand down like this.
Dr. Pompa:
Broke his arm there, wrist.
Daniel:
I broke my forearm there. I think those two things I hit first and then hitting my butt saved me completely, or I would’ve snapped my back in half or my—I didn’t even break—where I hit on my butt, I…
Dr. Pompa:
Wait ‘til you see this picture. You are doctors. You can handle a picture of a butt, and Daniel can handle you seeing his butt. I’m telling you, if any of us hit from 50 foot drop on your ischial tubes, how did they not shatter?
Daniel:
Yeah, I don’t understand that.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s like the doctors are looking at that. No one could figure it out.
Daniel:
Yeah, so I ended up smacking pretty hard, breaking quite a few things, but then I got in the water and just remember just treading water, going under, and being like, okay, I made it. I’m good. I’m good. I made it to the water. My head was intact. My feet were working. Everything was good.
I was treading water, but I remember thinking just, oh, my back. I remember the first thing I said when I came up out of the water was just—and I was out of—the wind was knocked out of me. I just said, “Ow! Ow! Ow! Help! Help! Help!” That was all I could—as loud as I could but it was not very loud. Then I was just treading water. I just remember my back hurt really bad.
I couldn’t really feel anything else. It was just my back was in so much pain. That’s when the boat came around. They said, “Can you swim to the boat?” They said, “Are you okay?” I said, “Yeah.” They’re like, “Can you swim to the boat?” “No.” Then at that point, I…
Dr. Pompa:
You start sinking.
Daniel:
I literally started sinking there. Then, when I started to sink, I realized that I was in worse shape than I had originally thought. The guy jumps in as I’m sinking. He gets me. Praise God. That could’ve been the end there too. He pulls me up on the boat.
Dr. Pompa:
Then they came to me.
Daniel:
Then they came, yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
At that point, I didn’t know how bad things were, right? Those guys on the boat were yelling at the other kids on the top. I’m thinking something that bad couldn’t have happened. They would not be angry. They’d be more upset or concern in their voice. What I didn’t know is they were drunk so, yeah, didn’t matter, although Daniel got really mad at the one guy because he was drunk, but anyway, long story.
Daniel:
He was bothering me there.
Dr. Pompa:
He kept trying to talk to Daniel.
Merily:
He told him a similar thing happened to him.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and Daniel’s just like…
Daniel:
He said, “I did the same thing last year.”
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, he was absolutely annoying.
Merily:
He said, “Could you please be quiet?”
Dr. Pompa:
I’m going like this to the guy.
Daniel:
I’m sitting there literally giving it all my concentration. Just keep it together, laying there on the boat.
Dr. Pompa:
He was laying just like that on the back.
Daniel:
I just remember thinking the whole time I’m—get the morphine. In 15 minutes, I’ll have morphine. In 15 minutes, I’ll have morphine. I’ll be good. As soon as I get to the morphine, I’ll be good, and this guy is just bantering everybody.
Dr. Pompa:
When they came to me, I still didn’t know how bad it was, right? The first thing I said is the obvious. “Can you move your feet?” He didn’t answer me. He just did it. Then I got on the boat, and I said, “Where does it hurt?” He went like this. “Your back?” “Mm-hmm.”
I could tell there was major pain, and when I put my hand under, he just went “Waaa!” I knew. I said, “Daniel, you have compression fracture,” and I just gave him the good news. “Those heal,” da, da, da, da. I didn’t know how bad it was. Obviously, when we got to the hospital, they were like you have two floating vertebrae. This is as bad as it gets, two Chance fractures, fractured anterior, medial, and posterior. You should be paralyzed.
Right away, it was like, okay, we’re going to get surgery in two days. We’ll catch up to that story here in a moment, and all I asked was—Daniel was like, “No surgery. No surgery. I don’t want metal in my back.” He’s 21, so they were like, “Well, it is your choice, but you need surgery,” blah, blah, blah.
I said, “Just give me 24 hours to research this so Daniel doesn’t make an emotional decision.” I wanted him to make a really logical decision. They said, “Okay.” That’s where we were at this point. Okay, Merily?
Merily:
I mean, I think it’s very noteworthy that you had prayed.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, so I don’t even know, oddest things, right? I said I was on my phone, and when I sensed that they were going to jump from there, most often, even if they did, they would be okay. I started praying. I prayed for something I typically don’t pray. I prayed for angels to be around them, and I don’t do that. It was the oddest thing.
I know the first miracle happened in the air, and I know that there was angels that directed him in the exact possible way that he had to hit for him not to be dead. That’s all I can tell you. That was the first miracle right there.
Why would I even pray that? I didn’t think they were going to—I never thought that would happen. I was just trying to be the—she sent me there to do the right thing. I failed. That was another story I won’t even tell.
Honestly, Merily, with our other son Isaac—and I will say this, our son, Isaac, who’s right in the middle there, when he was 14 hit a tree skiing on ski team. He was Life Flighted off the ski slope, and there’s a whole other miracle. Merily had tens of thousands of people praying, and I’ll just fast forward six months after that happened, again, could’ve died, ICU, the whole thing. His spleen was shattered in Grade 5, pieces everywhere. They don’t even remove it because it’s just gone.
We get the scan done in six months, and the doctor comes out with a look on his face. I go, “Is everything okay?” He says, “Yeah, he has a spleen.” I said, “Is it functioning fully?” I said, basically, “Is it the right scan?” “Checked it three times.”
I said, “How did that happen?” He goes, “I have no idea,” and Merily said, “We had tens of thousands of people praying.” We went into this with that faith, so we had a lot greater faith with Daniel. I’m like, okay, God did that for Isaac, made something out of nothing. He’s going to do the same with Daniel. We were standing hard, and I spoke that on Facebook. Anyways, go ahead. That day brought us…
Merily:
Yeah, we’ll tell you the other story about how he called me and what he said.
Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, I said I won’t even tell that story because—no, on the boat—I have to say it now.
Merily:
It’s a little funny, just a little.
Dr. Pompa:
I was literally on the boat with him. 911, they said, basically, we have to meet us over here, right? We’re going across this lake, and all I’m thinking about is how to present this to her. With Isaac, she got an ulcer. She took it hard physically. I’m like, oh, my God, I can’t—this is terrible, and I failed her, right? I’m there to protect.
Merily:
He was supposed to go and take pictures, and just make sure that they were following other people and going from a place they were supposed to jump from.
Dr. Pompa:
Fail, okay, fail.
Daniel:
Only took one picture.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m thinking , number one, I’m going to get an earful. Number two, I’m going to put her in this—she gets shaky. I mean, she visibly just starts shaking.
Merily:
I immediately have to poop. That’s what happens.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and she runs into—she has to poop.
Merily:
Every time I get stressed, I go straight to the bathroom and poop.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m thinking how am I going to frame this? How am I going to frame this? This is the truth. I have it crafted on the phone with her, and it goes like this. “Yeah, so Daniel has some scraps and wounds, but he’ll be all right.”
Merily:
He hit his heel. That’s what you said. He hit his heel.
Dr. Pompa:
His heel and his leg. “I’m going to take him to the hospital, and we’re going to get some X-rays.” “What?” “I just want to make sure nothing’s too bad,” da, da, da. “Take him to Harry,” our friend Harry Adelson. “He’ll X-ray him.” I’m like, “No. No. No.”
She wouldn’t give up on this take him to Harry thing. Finally, I was like, “Well, I want to take him”—and I said the stupidest thing. She was so persistent. I said, “Well, just in case he needs a body cast.” I could’ve said a brace.
My brain was like something that Harry possibly couldn’t give him, body cast. They don’t even use body casts anymore. “Body cast? Why are you calling me?” That’s what she said. I said, “So you can meet me at the hospital?”
Merily:
I don’t want to meet you at the hospital.
Dr. Pompa:
“I don’t want to meet you.” “Okay, bye.” Oh, shit, that didn’t go well at all. Okay, anyways, go ahead. Talk about this day.
Merily:
Anyway, yeah. Oh, yeah, so this was the day before. Actually, we were at the gym. That’s how life can change in a moment.
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, there’s exactly where he hit. See that? There’s little Daniel up there.
Merily:
Yes, Daniel did that graphic for me. You can see where he bounced and went face forward.
Dr. Pompa:
Merily loved that Scripture right there, right? Doesn’t it tell it all?
Merily:
I do. “We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob wrestling God fights for us. God of angel armies protects us.”
Dr. Pompa:
There’s no doubt. I prayed for angels that day, and that was just so appropriate.
Merily:
I saw this. When God leads you to the edge of a cliff, trust Him fully. Only two things can happen. Either He will catch you when you fall, or He will teach you how to fly. There is always a lesson learned on the way down as well as the way up. In whatever form that comes, I think that’s the most important thing to remember.
If your faith is where it needs to be for the one that created you and understands the path that’s best for you, then anchoring to something that is just very foundational to the experience is really what honestly gives you hope as you go through it. That was me behind the ambulances. They were transporting him from Park City Hospital to Salt Lake, to the trauma center.
Dr. Pompa:
God laid that Scripture on her heart. By the way, when I was sick, that is the most profound scripture for me that I always held onto in my darkest days, honestly. My brain would go does God have it out for me? What’s going on, right? God would just always lay that on my heart, so that meant a lot for me. God gave Merily that scripture behind the ambulance. That’s why she put it there.
Merily:
Yes, as I was driving. Of course, you’re processing. Oh, my gosh, what’s happening, and what’s this going to look like? Honestly, God just reminded me. I just knew. Anchor to His promise. I just knew that, if He has plans for him, then he has a future already planned, and it’s going to be okay. Then this was right before that, actually, when Danny was sitting there at the first…
Dr. Pompa:
I don’t look good, do I?
Merily:
At the Park City Hospital. That was him, us just—they were stabilizing him, and I think that’s really just something that, obviously, you’re processing. You’re surviving the moment. It’s intimidating. It’s overwhelming. It’s all of those things.
What is your anchor in these times of pain? Is it the pain, or is it the purpose that you know will come from the pain if your faith is anchored there? For us, it is in the pain and the purpose and the promise that is produced from it all. I mean, I think that’s the thing that you know there is definitely a—there’s just an experience to be had that you might not want to take, but when you get through it, you realize how amazing it was for only what you could experience in such difficulty.
Dr. Pompa:
Someone said don’t take out the pain. People relate to the pain. The woman had said that to us. Yeah, you’re 100% so right. You can’t take out the pain. It’s what gives us hope, ultimately.
However, we have to focus our consciousness on the purpose and the promise God has for us, right? I think if we focus on the next pain that’s going to come, then we could in fact bring more of it. I think that’s the shift we had to make as a family. We’ll never get rid of the pain part of the message in the sense that you can’t forget about where it comes from, but our focus has to be more—all of us, on the purpose.
Merily:
I think something worth reminding all of you—I know I need to remind myself of it—is that we really feel overwhelmed in that. However we’ve been raised, whatever experiences we’ve had, whatever lies we’ve believed, whatever things that become attached to our identity is something that we really do need to work at. You can’t just do all these other things and neglect your emotional being. The emotional being is tied to the spiritual being.
I mean, for years I knew I wasn’t functioning as the best version of myself. I mean, I literally spent ten years in survival when we got the kids. I never looked back. I never told them I wish I hadn’t taken them or anything like that.
I wasn’t able to be all that I knew God created me to be, and there were many days when I’m like I could’ve handled that better or I wish I hadn’t been so hard on a situation that really wasn’t significant. It was just a matter of me wanting to control an outcome, and it might’ve just had to do with a clean kitchen. It was the dumbest stuff that ended up just wrecking me.
Dr. Pompa:
Wrecking her but building her up.
Merily:
When we finally got to Park City after just other challenges on top of those challenges and not to mention his sickness—when he was sick, obviously, my emotional needs had no place, and that was totally fine. I mean, there was just—it was what it was. I realized there were things that were accumulating and experiences that were just—I was not able to even identify with my true self, and because of how I’ve been raised, I took a set of expectations into my life and into my relationships. When we got to Park City, I knew it was time to just start digging through some junk. I’d been through three or four different types of counseling, and every one had value.
I’m now so grateful that I’ve pursued that. I’m finally getting to that place where I feel like not only am I okay and have forgiven myself who I am, or what I’m not, or whatever. We all go through these things. I’m also able to now have—they always say that if you don’t—how can you love fully, or how can you give grace, or how can you look at others with a heart of forgiveness or acceptance, or just not letting their way attach to what you think they should believe, or be, or whatever? How can you understand that if you don’t have that within you to pour out of you? My bucket of baggage had to empty.
Dr. Pompa:
Again, these adversities in our life brought us—I said it in the beginning of this seminar. The key to success and happiness is functioning in the true identity of how God made us. Every one of us get away from that. All of us through our life work to be closer to that true identity.
I always say it’s like a scale. If we had a meter to hook up, you could look at someone’s happiness and success. When I say success, I mean 12 pillars of success. Relationships, family, health, I mean, that is it. You can look at that meter, 80%, 85%. The more you’re functioning your identity, the greater of a reflection and success, and the adversities bring us there or not, or they break us. You always say it’s a choice.
Merily:
Yes, it’s a choice. We can either become better, or we can become bitter, and it is a choice. I just have to pause for a moment and say how blessed I am that God gave me him. He is where my confidence in what God is doing through our family and through the challenges and all the things that we’ve both been through. It begins and ends.
I mean, our relationship is the foundation. A cord of three strands cannot be broken. That was on our marriage program, and it has been a theme of our life. Take the kids away. Take the struggles away. He and I love each other.
Dr. Pompa:
No doubt, more every day.
Merily:
He’s my #1 fan and my greatest anchor to logic.
Dr. Pompa:
We got to speed up her cellular age. I don’t want to be dating a 20-year-old anymore.
Merily:
Yes, we got to get you guys—what did you say?
Dr. Pompa:
Nothing, nothing.
Merily:
Okay, I’ll watch that later.
Dr. Pompa:
Daniel was never down one moment.
Merily:
He was making the nurses laugh right from the start.
Dr. Pompa:
What was happening? What were you telling her?
Daniel:
I don’t know, anything, honestly.
Merily:
Something about the vein, I think. I think she was trying to get in the vein. He wasn’t. He wasn’t down for a minute, and Isaac did—he just never left his side. I think that there was a lot of things that Isaac was only able to identify with from his experience six years before.
Dr. Pompa:
These two bones, excuse me, these were floating here, these two. They said 50%, in between 50 and 60. It’s hard to see on this CAT scan, but this was all broke. I guess I can speak to you all differently. All the pars, the facet joints, obviously, the transverse processes—matter of fact, the TPs were broke all the way down. How many levels, Daniel?
Daniel:
Six.
Dr. Pompa:
Six levels?
Daniel:
I think, yeah.
Dr. Pompa:
Anyways, but these two were floating. This was 30%. Oddly, there was angles that looked so much worse, and the reason why is the right side was okay on this vertebra. The left side was crushed. Remember it was like how come it looks better on this one?
After we looked better at the A to P, we realized it was the left side of this one that was crushed. When he hit and went this way, it just crushed the left side. This one was completely crushed and, again, worse on the left. On the left, it was down all the way to here. Yeah, everything was broke.
Seventy-five percent of this type ends in paralysis, and that was the statistic. They said when we see this fracture, that’s the statistics, and it ends there. That’s the sad part. There you go.
Merily:
This was the next morning after that X-ray and before the decision was made on what to do. We were laying in bed. We had just gotten up.
Dr. Pompa:
Remember I said I needed 24 hours, right? I didn’t sleep well that night. I went to bed researching, finding different research journals, articles. I woke up that morning, and she was sleeping. She woke up, and she saw me in that position. I had been up about since 4:30, and I had started probably about 5:00. I went right at it again.
I’ll say this, that this completes the circle there. They gave me the information, what they had. This is broke. This is broke. This is broke. I took all that information. All the ligaments were ruptured, etc.
Then I found a study that was a really conservative study saying, basically, too many of these surgeries are done, but here is when the outcomes are actually better with the surgery and without. This was a good one. It took me a while to find it and probably through prayer.
The fact was is I—after reading it, I said to Daniel, “I think we need to get the surgery because the outcomes with what you have were better, and they were looking pretty good long term.” I said, “We can do it from the posterior and remove the metal.” I know that the metal in the body causes autoimmune. The doctor even said—and we have a video of him saying, “Oh, there’s no problem with the metal,” right?
All the studies were done two years, three. Of course they think that, but they don’t see what happens 10, 20 years. I found studies showing that it causes autoimmune when you have metal in your body, and it causes leaching. They measure urine after ten years, and all the metals that are in there in the stainless are pouring out.
Daniel:
We had three options going into it. It was anterior, so they want to come through my rib cage in the front.
Dr. Pompa:
Right here, mm-hmm.
Daniel:
Which was their preferred option. They said that they’d be able to get a straighter spine like that.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, he said that kink won’t hold up otherwise, and this is the way to do it.
Daniel:
They’re going to take my bone fragments out. Put it in a little cage thing. Put it back in. Remake, I don’t know, my vertebra.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, the vertebra. They would’ve take these—let me back up one. They would’ve taken these two vertebra out and caged them. He said maybe not that one but maybe because it was worse on the other side, but for sure, they would take all this out. Then they would fuse it like this.
Now, we wanted to come in from the posterior. The posterior, you can at least after a year or two take out the hardware. He said, “Mm-mm, don’t even bother with the posterior.” He said, “It’s too severe.” He said, “We have to go in from the anterior if we’re going to do it.”
Daniel:
They wanted to put in two 12-inch rods also.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, rods. You can’t take out the metal.
Daniel:
Twelve inches is a lot. Four inches, you might get some mobility, but 12 inches, that’s a foot, not being able to bend. What?
Dr. Pompa:
Not a good outcome. It led to the conversation, after I did the research, I’m saying, well, the surgery does look like something that looks like a better outcome. I said something about with the posterior ligaments. Most of the studies were really focused on the posterior ligaments.
Daniel:
He told us all my ligaments were ruptured.
Dr. Pompa:
This surgeon said, “Oh, well, we don’t know that for sure. It’s just when we see this injury, they’re always ruptured.” Daniel said from the bed…
Daniel:
Yeah, so going into this conversation, I was with the doctor. I had my dad on speaker phone, and we were pretty much—my dad said that the best option with all your ligaments being ruptured and everything, that you should get the surgery. I said, “Okay, that’s the best option. That’s what we should do.”
Then the doctor came in. We we’re talking about it. We were telling him, the doctor, why we decided to do—we were going to move forward with doing the surgery not on the posterior, but from the back. By the end of the conversation, we were telling him this, that. I said, “Yeah, because the ligaments are ruptured.”
He pretty much interrupted me and said, “Oh, well, we don’t know that they’re all ruptured.” I said, “Well, shouldn’t we know that before we decide we should do surgery?” He said, “Well, yeah, you could.” I said, “We should probably do—dad, what is that?” Dad’s like, “Oh, we should probably do an MRI.” The doctor’s like, “Okay.”
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s how it went.
Daniel:
“I could see if you could do an MRI.” I said, “Well, I’m not making a decision until I see that MRI because I’m not going to do surgery.”
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, he was hung on that. By the way, at this point, they said, “Listen, if you don’t do this surgery, it probably won’t hold at all, but you will be in bed for 12 to 15 weeks.” He was like, “That’s it? I can do that.”
Merily:
Oh, yeah, Daniel was resolved.
Dr. Pompa:
Anyways, we didn’t do the surgery because the MRI came back that his ligaments weren’t completely ruptured, and so there was some really stabilizing ligaments. Daniel can squat 500 pounds. Again, I respect the doctors in that. I mean, if they see a thousand people with these fractures, the surgery works out and gets them out of bed, and it works. We made the decision not after we got the ligament because I read the studies. The ligaments were the key part that this could actually work out better without having hardware in your spine for your whole life, which ends in horrific problems later.
Daniel:
It came down to such a small—down to the wire that he told us.
Dr. Pompa:
He looked at you and said, “Daniel, don’t—we’re going to do an X-ray in two or three weeks just to see if it’s even able to hold. Don’t get your hopes up,” he told you.
Merily:
He said that you would be in so much pain. He thought you’d be back sooner.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s true.
Daniel:
Yeah, he came in at five days or a week.
Dr. Pompa:
All of them kept coming in.
Daniel:
Yeah. “Well, you made it a week. I can’t believe you made it a week. I thought for sure by now you’d have the surgery.” I’m like, “I’m good.”
Dr. Pompa:
They kept coming in one after another and different ones. I think there was four or five surgeons on the team and trying to convince him of the surgery. Again, that’s not a negative to them. This is what they see, and they see the outcomes as being positive, right? They don’t see things the way we see them, but they never convinced him. He never swayed.
Daniel:
Yeah, they really wanted me to do the surgery.
Merily:
They were great. I actually thought they were amazing. I was so thankful.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I did too. By the way, we’re going to get to the biohacks that we did, right? Fact was is that they would let us bring the stuff into the hospital. Back in Pittsburgh where we used to live, they would’ve been like no way.
Daniel:
All the biohacking devices.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m dragging biohacking devices. They’re just like what’s that do? What’s that do? They just went with it. It was pretty amazing, actually.
Merily:
That’s Danny showing him the cliff that he took a picture of. He had one picture from that assignment.
Dr. Pompa:
I’m like, yeah, that’s—Daniel’s like, yeah, uh-huh, I know.
Daniel:
Terrible, terrible, one picture, not even a video.
Dr. Pompa:
Of course, the meds, man, they just stopped his gut.
Daniel:
This was the most brutal part. Compounding this on top of the back injury was like icing on the cake.
Dr. Pompa:
The gut was the worst part. It just stuck.
Merily:
It was the first meal of the day that stuck.
Dr. Pompa:
Right, he had one meal that day before he jumped. It was stuck, and it wasn’t going anywhere. I spent five hours a day…
Daniel:
Yeah, it was all the Dilaudid and the morphine. I did Dilaudid for the first day or two, and we realized that it was stopping the bowel. We had to come off Dilaudid the first day, I think. Yeah, it messed up everything and then went straight to Oxy. Yeah, then I had to come way down on my pain meds because my gut stopped.
Dr. Pompa:
Man, if I heard pffft, a fart was like, yes, God. I’m wearing out. I mean, I’m just like—this is what I was doing.
Daniel:
We would work my stomach for what?
Merily:
Hours.
Daniel:
Hours.
Dr. Pompa:
Hours.
Daniel:
My stomach was raw, like red with him pushing on it.
Merily:
My husband’s a fixer. Say no more.
Daniel:
Someone had to do it. If he wasn’t doing it, she was doing it, well, Isaac probably first.
Dr. Pompa:
Which brought us, actually, to the first biohack. I already taught you this. What was the first thing that animals do when they’re injured?
Audience:
Fast.
Dr. Pompa:
Daniel, I didn’t even have to tell him. He just said I’m fasting, and he went into it, fasted about four and a half days. There was a reason why we actually started eating. It was like this cleared. I could tell that he was ready to eat.
His hunger came back. You actually started getting a little hungry. He was not hungry, and they were trying to force food on him all the time, constantly. They just didn’t get it, right? Meanwhile, his stomach’s not even moving it, right?
Daniel:
No.
Dr. Pompa:
I mean, it’s like you’re going to put food in that? Does that even make sense? No way. His GI system shut down. All the energy was going where?
Audience:
[00:41:13].
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. The moment you eat, where is it going?
Audience:
[00:41:15].
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, they don’t get that. Anyways, the fastest way to downregulate inflammation is, in fact, through a fast, so he fasted. Anyways, go ahead, Merily, on this.
Merily:
I just love that that picture ended up at the hospital. That’s Daniel and Isaac when they were little. I just love that Isaac and Daniel were so close. It just warms my heart. Daniel was hard on Isaac when he was little. I think I have another one next to it somewhere he’s like [gagging].
Dr. Pompa:
Daniel would take his stuff all the time. It’s amazing.
Merily:
Again, prayer, I can honestly say the one—I’ve done one thing right as a mom.
Dr. Pompa:
She’s done more than that.
Merily:
We have prayed. I mean, what I’m confident in is praying for your kids, protection, just God’s provision, His direction in it all. Just reminding Him of His promises and reminding Him that He loves them more than we do is very helpful as well.
Dr. Pompa:
No doubt.
Dr. Pompa:
There it is, folks.
Merily:
There’s some of the boo-boos.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. By the way, Daniel, how many—this was after a couple weeks.
Daniel:
That was after a couple days, I think, maybe a week after.
Dr. Pompa:
No, it was a week. I mean, look at that. It looked like necrotic tissue. He hit.
Merily:
Yeah, that’s a bruise.
Dr. Pompa:
Of course, he fractured his heel. He tore his hamstring.
Daniel:
Yeah, so the heel is interesting too. It’s literally an imprint of where I hit a rock.
Merily:
It was concave in there.
Daniel:
Yeah, it was weird. It was like a cookie cutter.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, imagine that.
Daniel:
Then you can see my hamstring’s torn, the bottom right.
Dr. Pompa:
I couldn’t show you this, but I have to tell you, though. His balls were black. Imagine that. Oh, my God, I get goosebumps thinking about that.
Daniel:
Yeah, that hurt.
Dr. Pompa:
A young lady was out there and said, “Daniel, I’ve seen your ass, you know.”
Merily:
There are some things I don’t put on Facebook.
Daniel:
Not much.
Merily:
This is on our way home.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, on our way.
Daniel:
Two weeks out.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, two weeks out.
Daniel:
At that point, I was pretty much off all pain medication.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that soon. They were stunned.
Merily:
Daniel did it. I mean, he did it all for himself in terms of that.
Dr. Pompa:
I mean, he was like, “I don’t want anymore. I don’t want anymore.” I’m like, “Take it. Take it.” He was like, “No. No.”
Daniel:
I knew it slowed the healing process, and my body would have to detox from it. Also, there is a chance of addiction, obviously, but that was [00:43:42].
Dr. Pompa:
By the way, that was the other thing. Daniel started detox the moment we got home too. He started a cycle. He was like I want these meds out of me. I want everything out of me, the X-rays, everything. He just started it. I mean, my kids all detox.
Daniel:
Yeah, all this stuff, I mean, chemically did take a toll on my body, for sure. My face broke out from all the radiation, getting X-rays and all the meds. Yeah, it took a month or two to clear.
Dr. Pompa:
He’s here.
Daniel:
Yeah, we’re here.
Merily:
We drug him out. That’s his hospital bed.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that was my favorite picture of all. I just happen upon on it. This is another biohack that we did. Every day I dragged him outside in the sun. Fortunately, it was the right time of year in July.
Daniel:
I’m so naked in this photo.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.
Merily:
I know. I sent it to my dad. I think a few others. My dad said, “Where’s the mailman? What about FedEx?”
Dr. Pompa:
Honestly, I would drag him out. People would deliver packages.
Daniel:
Yeah, and I was just sitting there naked.
Dr. Pompa:
He’s just laying out there naked. I would have to be, “Well, my son is”—I wanted those wounds, man—I wanted all that to get sun.
Daniel:
I don’t know.
Dr. Pompa:
Clothes weren’t an option. They just weren’t an option.
Merily:
They’re optional at our house anyway.
Dr. Pompa:
I mean, you can’t—I mean, come on. We know. What was that sun bringing to healing that? I mean, that was a basic, man, and I was pulling him out there. I went into nurse mode.
Merily:
You did.
Dr. Pompa:
I was changing diapers.
Merily:
He was so on point and so stressed.
Dr. Pompa:
I wouldn’t let anyone else change him because he had open wounds, and I’m like infection kills. I’m like, no way. I was literally the bedpan guy. No one else could touch it. Then finally I trusted our little…
Daniel:
Sasha:
Dr. Pompa:
…Sasha to help do that. It wasn’t until I saw the wounds heal to a certain point.
Merily:
We are firm believers in doing our best and trusting God with the rest. That’s just what we do. That’s another thing I always say, and it’s so true. I don’t believe in just praying and expecting. I believe that we have to step up and commit fully and show our resolve, and when we do that, then He shows up and meets us and does what we could never do for ourselves.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you want your life to change, step forward.
Merily:
“Whatever you do, work it all—work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Truly, your testimony, your actions and your life are your testimony that draws people to what you’re offering. You are only offering, obviously, what others have suffered to learn and are committed to teaching and sharing. It’s the real deal at every level. There’s the distended belly.
Dr. Pompa:
There’s the distended belly. Look at that sucker. Yeah, anyway, you know what? I already told you that story, but that was, in fact, the first biohack right there. We’ll get into the biohacks here. Everyone wants to know.
Merily:
That’s when he was able to stand, but he also had the Joovv beside him when he would lay down.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, this was when he was laying, yeah.
Merily:
We would put it on him as well.
Dr. Pompa:
Joovv, they’re not here. You’ll see. All the stuff that we used, they’re mostly here. What we bring here is what we believe strongly in, so there’s a testimony to these vendors. Red light therapy goes in and starts the mitochondrial healing. You’ll see that even in today’s talk how we can use different red light wavelengths to actually get into the mitochondria and biohack into the cell, upregulate ATP, which downregulates inflammation.
Daniel:
There’s going to be a lot of devices.
Merily:
These are in no particular order.
Daniel:
If you’re interested in writing them down, you should probably start a list because you’re not going to remember them all.
Merily:
NanoVi and then the Bemer was—that’s what we took to the hospital.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, look, we’re in the hospital. The NanoVi actually creates the fourth phase of water, which you have to get enough of in the cell. That’s where you fold proteins. When you’re folding proteins, you’re basically making new bones. You’re basically making new hormones. You’re basically making new liver. When you’re injured, that’s why athletes use this NanoVi to actually recover faster. Your fourth phase of water is where you fold proteins to heal, so we wanted to increase that. Especially at this time, we wanted to increase that fourth phase of water.
Daniel:
We do that for an hour a day.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. NanoVi’s not here either.
Merily:
No.
Dr. Pompa:
They should’ve been.
Daniel:
The Bemer.
Dr. Pompa:
Too bad. The Bemer is one of my favorites because it increases capillary circulation. It’s a pulsed electromagnetic—well, it’s carried on a pulse electromagnetic frequency. It’s not really PMF, like the Pulse is, and it does a different thing. It opens up capillaries, and that brings in healing.
There’s the Pulse that’s right over here. The Pulse was developed to actually increase bone. I mean, NASA was using it in antigravity to increase bone. It also biohacks, as you’re going to learn this afternoon even more, but it does biohack literally into the mitochondrial. It fixes what is called the membrane potential, which is how your cells make energy. If you do that, you can downregulate inflammation.
Daniel:
I think Pulse was one of the most effective things I used. I did it for three and a half hours a day in the beginning.
Merily:
We lay on that every day at home. In fact, I put my cat on it. Sometimes she has a limp or something.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, our animals go for it.
Merily:
Yeah, our animals often are drawn to it.
Dr. Pompa:
Especially the one cat.
Merily:
They actually have an equine division.
Dr. Pompa:
HBOT, where’s our—yeah, right, thank you. They donated this to us, and the Gentempos were part of that. That’s Daniel laying in the HBOT. He was doing it two, three hours a night. Melissa said to him—to me via him, “Hey, three hours is where you get your most benefit.” Daniel was falling asleep in it at night.
Daniel:
Yeah, I’d go in there, a little hot.
Dr. Pompa:
Hyperbaric therapy with spinal injury is a very researched thing. Again, if we can get the oxygen into these areas that are very low oxygen, we can increase the healing, and of course, that’s the magic of hyperbaric and massage therapy, obviously, even just keeping his lymph.
Daniel:
Yeah, the lymph was the biggest part of the massage therapy. This, I’m working out a little. It’s pretty painful, so it was good to get some movement in there. I don’t know if it necessarily contributed to lots of healing, but the lymph was important.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt, his lymph was—you’ll see in a minute how blocked it was. Sue Brenchley, are you in the room?
Merily:
Yeah, there she is.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, there she is in the back. This woman is a—I could stand here and just raise accolades about that woman, right? I mean, we love her. She was donating. Daniel was drinking a bottle of this a day. Why? Redox is how ultimately the body does everything, heals and communicates. When you look at the research and there’s a growing amount of research, this is the only product—all my docs, all of us in Platinum use it. I mean, you want to talk about a mitochondrial biohack, a biohack to speed healing. When you’re injured or recovering—and this is why sport—professional sport teams use this. You need these redox signals to heal faster, to driver recovery at every aspect.
Daniel:
There’s people that heal from crazy things with just drinking ASEA.
Merily:
I drink ten ounces a day at least.
Dr. Pompa:
This RENU, we were just rubbing on—I was rubbing on his injuries and his spine three times a day, and I would get pissed when they would forget to do it.
Daniel:
There were so many things we were doing. It was just like…
Dr. Pompa:
This is over here in the room. This is the TRT machine. You all see it over here.
Merily:
Is Matt here?
Dr. Pompa:
Is Matt here?
Merily:
You know what? I think he had a full day booked.
Dr. Pompa:
Okay, so he’s TRT people. Again, professional sport teams are using this. Actually, in Germany and Switzerland, they actually use this. Anything that won’t heal, this is what they do first. This is brand new. We’re the first group to bring this technology into our space because it’s used in hospitals to get things to heal.
Daniel:
It’s a stem cell device.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s a stem cell machine, basically. What it does is it gets your own stem cells activated into healing. It activates your own stem cells. They’re just sleeping dormant, and it activates them into healing. They’re using this for erectile dysfunction. They’re using it for increasing hormone optimization. I’ll tell you, one treatment—so many of our Platinums have just got one of these machines immediately. We were using it at one of our events, and all of us got to use it. I mean, one treatment, you walk away going, oh, my gosh. It typically only takes about five or six treatments to activate the healing into that joint.
Daniel:
Yeah, this was one of the most effective things I did as well. I mean, I was up—my hamstring was working after being torn after three weeks, four weeks.
Dr. Pompa:
The calcaneus fractures are devastating, and it healed it.
Daniel:
Yeah, it healed those, my wrist, my ankle, and my hamstring really quickly.
Dr. Pompa:
You know what’s really cool about it is, when you do it on non-damaged tissue, you feel nothing. All of a sudden, it hits that damaged spot, and it’s like, oh, my God. After a while, then you don’t feel it anymore. That’s really cool. Professional sport teams use it at even prevention. They’ll do their pitcher’s shoulders on the knees. They’re doing it, doing it, doing it, and when they hit a hotspot, that’s what would’ve been injured. Of course, they’re using it for injury as well, amazing device.
Merily:
Daniel’s first day on his feet was when we had to take him to get an X-ray. That was them doing the X-ray.
Daniel:
The hamstring was still torn there. You can see my leg. I couldn’t put it down. It was locked up, both pictures.
Dr. Pompa:
This is a huge thing here. See the amount of inflammation there? Do you see that? I mean, it was all the way up his spine. It’s like he had a backpack on. Okay, this was the day before we did exosomes. Rafael Gonzalez we have to give great—you know Rafael now from yesterday. He donated the exosomes. The first thing we did was actually just an IV of exosomes and downregulated—thanks for Harry Adelson who delivered these exosomes into Daniel, by the way. Twenty four hours later, I mean, not even…
Daniel:
It was next morning.
Dr. Pompa:
You could see his spine.
Merily:
It was amazing.
Dr. Pompa:
I mean, that’s how fast it—I mean, we were like—Merily’s the one that spotted it. She’s like, “Oh, my gosh, you can see his spine.” I’m like, “Oh, that’s right. He had the exosomes put in.” Then this is Harry Adelson who injected him. Thank you, Harry. He’s not here. We also later injected him.
Daniel:
We did stem cells three different times. We did IV twice.
Dr. Pompa:
IV twice and then we later…
Daniel:
We did 2½ cc twice, and then we did the full—every facet, and then we injected the vertebral bodies.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so we actually injected those crushed vertebral bodies with Daniel’s stem cells, and I think there’s a picture. Oh, no, that’s a video, never mind, anyways, and with the exosomes. We did both down his spine, and these are the best exosomes in the world. He’s still young, so he has his own. We combined them just to get that affect. Again, this stuff is all put together is why we got the response that we did. Whoops! Go ahead.
Merily:
Obviously, you’re all familiar with Rak Chazak Amats now. This day, actually, Patrick Gentempo was speaking at your Platinum Mastermind in Park City, and I was taking Daniel. He wanted to go. This is when I—it just hit me. Obviously, he was smiling most of the time, but he was sitting up. He was ready to go. He couldn’t wait to get in the car. He couldn’t wait to go somewhere and go. Just get back to who he knows himself to be, right? Isn’t that what we all want for ourselves?
This we watched a few weeks ago, which was very—definitely affected us. There are 288,000 people in the United States living with spinal cord injury. That is so many people. By the way, the things they were doing in this film are not the things that we did.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s a shame.
Merily:
I really wanted to reach out.
Dr. Pompa:
All of us, yeah, wanted to reach out to these people. It says Any One of Us is the name of the documentary. Watch it. It’ll affect you. This could’ve been any one of us. Your life changes in a moment. I said in that first quote just a couple days ago that God put on my heart, most often it’s the things we don’t see in life, that we don’t see, that affect our life the most, and Daniel didn’t see that out cliff down there. That can work to the positive too. When we’re looking at our own identity and functioning in our identity, it’s the things we don’t see that will have the most dramatic outcome on who God wants you to be, so just look for that. Watch that documentary.
Merily:
Oh, there’s my license plate. I’ve had that on there for a few a years, pain to purpose.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s pain to purpose, yeah, and now we know it’s to promise.
Merily:
Our family’s mantra, obviously, has always been since we started experiencing difficult things “from pain to purpose.” It’s recently been enhanced I like to say after much adversity to include to promise, and that came when we moved to Park City, to our promise land. After Daniel’s accident, the focus and modified mantra is “from pain”—is “purpose to promise.” Never forget and we will never forget and we will never stop speaking of the fact that the purpose and the hope that comes when you’re waiting for the purpose to unfold that the pain has brought—and obviously, it hasn’t just brought that for our family and our life, but we feel obligated to share what we learn. I always say our pain is never just for us. This is Daniel, actually, in Park City just last week. Back up one.
“Have I not commanded you? Rak Chazak Amats. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go,” Joshua 1:9. Learn that. This is our family’s verse for many, many years: “And we know that in all things…”
Dr. Pompa:
That’s why, when I sign your books, I often times write 8:28.
Merily:
…“God works for those—the good of those who love Him and who have been called according to His purpose.”
Dr. Pompa:
There you go, [Devon]. Thank you, by the way.
Devon:
Give this family a huge round of applause.
Dr. Pompa:
Here we are a year later after all that. Imagine that. You can see miracles were absolutely performed. Within miracles, obviously, God commands us to act and move as well, which we did, which became part of the second miracle. The first miracle was all Him. Our son should’ve been dead.
Merily:
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Dr. Pompa:
He should’ve been paralyzed, and he wasn’t. I never let anybody try to give me credit for that or anything that we did because he should’ve been dead. We did, in fact, take quick action. Here we are a year later and reflecting on everything that’s happened in a year. Many times both of us have had those moments where we just look at Daniel or something happens, and we have massive gratitude that we have our son. I’ve been working out with Daniel and, literally, just doing a workout and walk up and hug him because that feeling of gratitude just comes over me, and I’m just so thankful for him. When I look at this last year, it’s really gratitude for having my son.
Merily, we were doing a Facebook Live recently, and you said something profound, that we have started a movement of cellular detox, bringing cellular detox more to the planet. Kids’ gifts today is social media. Daniel always said, “Dad, you got to bring it to more people. You got to bring it to more people,” meaning that, when I take somebody on and would coach them, it would be a year of me doing it. There’s a cost to that because I can only take so many. It’s not reasonable for as many people as need it, and that always pressed upon my heart. I thought, Daniel, we really need to record everything that I do in some type of program, in portal. He agreed, and he encouraged me to do it, actually. Now he is leading up this—maybe you’ve seen some of the ads, The Pompa Program. He and all of our children are actually involved in it.
Merily:
I know. It’s awesome.
Dr. Pompa:
Two years ago, actually, God gave me—two years of Christmas I sat on the hearth, and God gave me a vision. I shared it with the kids that, look, we suffered as a family. All of us did with neurotoxic illness and a lot of hard stuff, and He’s going to use this, our family, a legacy, to bring what we suffered to the world. Daniel really has with his gifts of social media and just all those technical gifts. The last year has been watching him do that. Then it was our son, Isaac, being a part and then Olivia and now Dylan.
Merily:
We’re waiting for Simon to emerge.
Dr. Pompa:
Simon’s boxing things up, test kits, but really, taking cellular detox to the planet is a legacy. Anyways, Merily had said in the Facebook that watching what God is using him for now is really one of the big reasons why—two years ago, even before the jump off the cliff, literally, we lost Daniel for a period of time. What looked like to be drugs wasn’t. What looked like to be bipolar craziness wasn’t, and what ended up to be this massive spiritual battle. By the way, fasting for a purpose, God laid on your heart to fast for Daniel, which ended up breaking off all of that.
Merily:
Yeah, and not one fast, just not to get you too excited. It took some time.
Dr. Pompa:
We probably fasted on that one probably three different fasts. Thousands of you were—so Fasting for a Purpose on Facebook was created about that, literally helping Daniel break off that spiritual—and it happened.
Merily:
I believe we take seriously believing and knowing that our pain is never just for us. That was the message when you were sick, right? I knew that God was going to—He told me. It was another thing. That you were going to get well, and he was going to take a—you were going to take a message to the world. He didn’t want to hear that.
Dr. Pompa:
No, I was like I can’t even get myself well. You’re telling me I have to take a message to the world. Are you kidding?
Merily:
Yeah, he interpreted that as a lot of pressure.
Dr. Pompa:
That is. I was in a battle with God. I’m thinking why isn’t He healing me? What’s going on (didn’t take that well at all)? Okay, so Fasting for a Purpose was created. Before that, God woke you up again and said…
Merily:
Put the full armor on.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, we need to put the full armor on.
Merily:
We started doing that every time we prayed. It’s something that I can just look at in retrospect and see that that is such a big—other than fasting, I believe it is equally as important whenever you understand that the battle is spiritual. If you don’t understand that as a believer, eventually you will. It’s not hard to see that now especially just in the world that we’re living, but it’s so amazing when you put your life and your faith and your trust into His capable hands and the peace that that brings. Again, it doesn’t make it easy, but it definitely gives confidence in Him.
Dr. Pompa:
The peace because you’re giving it to Him, right? The command biblically is that we put the full armor on every day because the battle’s spiritual. When we look at our last year, I can’t tell you how many times we reminded God that we took the command, Lord, that you gave us, and we have done this. I can’t say every day but, dang, if it’s not five, six days a week.
Merily:
Every time we pray.
Dr. Pompa:
Every time we pray, five six days a week, we might—things get going. Every once in a while we don’t do it. The fact is is that we put the full armor on. I mean, sometimes driving to the airport because we’re late and we didn’t do it. We’re driving to the airport still putting the full armor on.
Merily:
Usually.
Dr. Pompa:
I want to brief you on what that is and why it’s so powerful, especially today. Looking back over the last year, I believe it’s—that has meant so much, and it means so much more to us post Daniel’s accident.
Merily:
I mean, just so many challenges.
Dr. Pompa:
We even reflected on just Isaac yesterday. We were talking about—he was jumping on a trampoline, and he fell through in one of those trampoline parks. There was a post, like a spike, actually, sticking up out of the ground at least a foot or so, and he fell on his back through and landed inches away from that. He would’ve died.
Merily:
We weren’t there.
Dr. Pompa:
We weren’t there.
Merily:
I remember thinking, oh, my gosh, Daniel was so upset. Even when we were talking about it, I think it finally hit me why Daniel was so upset. He was there. He saw the reality of what almost happened. I don’t know. We had been through so much with Isaac too just because he also nearly died or not died but was Life Flighted, urgent emergency, miraculous outcome but very disturbing and challenging time with him. I think there’s just that sometimes your brain just has to try to protect certain things. Because going back into those triggers, remember something that triggers you is just so painful.
Dr. Pompa:
It’s the full armor that has gotten us through all of it.
Merily:
All of it.
Dr. Pompa:
It does give us a confidence. The battle is in fact spiritual. When you look at the full armor, you stand—it says stand in the Gospel of peace. Put on the shoes or the boots of peace every day, and that is the Gospel of Christ. Right now the world’s in chaos. Who would’ve thought a year before? Our life was in chaos. Now the world is in chaos. It’s putting those shoes on every day and standing in the Gospel that brings peace.
One of the things that we have chose as a family when all this COVID stuff hit was this is going to be the greatest opportunity for our family, and it has been. We stood on that, and we stood in that peace of the Gospel. Putting on the belt of truth, we stand behind the truth of Christ, and that truth is what protects our families. That truth is really something that we proclaim as a family and we know protects us. Then the breastplate of righteousness, the enemy wants to come in in our vulnerable spots, and he wants us to fall into sin. We put on the breastplate of righteousness over all of us every day. Again, it’s not us trying to be good. It’s the breastplate of righteousness through Christ that is really what protects us ultimately, but praying that is the key.
Then the helmet of salvation, our thoughts, if our thoughts are of the world, we’re going to lose the battle, but our thoughts need to be of Christ. Ultimately, it controls our thoughts, controls our tongue, controls our destiny. Praying that over your children, oh, man, because the world—the enemy wants to come in and change the way they think, and if we can pray that helmet on them every day, imagine and ourselves for that matter. The shield of faith, it is our faith in Christ. It is that that protects us. The enemy is always shooting the arrows, right? Lastly is His Word, His Word is an offense against the enemy. There’s no weapon formed against us that shall prosper. Any tongue that rises up against us, our family, God will condemn. It will not prosper. That’s something that means so much more to us now post—let me just give you—so I encourage you, put on the full armor.
Let me just give you an update on Daniel. No pain. Every once in a while he’ll get stiff in that area, and you can see just a little bow of where the bones healed, pushed it back. The other day he was hanging upside down, and he heard a pop.
Merily:
That’s happened twice now in the past few weeks. We have an inversion table that will hang on. It has moved, which is amazing.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, it was like we were saying, Daniel, when you’re sitting at the computer, we just saw too much of a kyphosis it’s called. Since then, miraculously, you can hardly even notice.
Merily:
It’s improving. It is improving. If he lets himself go, you can see that.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s what’s left. You can see that slight little hump only when he’s sitting at a computer. Standing up, you’d never know. He has no pain. Every once in a while, if he’s in that position too long, he’ll get stiff. Other than that, no deficits to speak of.
Merily:
We do encourage him to keep motion in there, to do things that will help facilitate that. We all know that when we get older—that youth is on his side right now.
Dr. Pompa:
That’s what my thing is, right? It’s like, look, everything that we did—and you just watched the whole episode. Everything that you did to get healthy, keep doing, and he does. He keeps after it, but he gets busy with the new program.
Merily:
He’s in Laguna Beach at our friend and one of your doctor’s offices.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Dr. [01:09:45].
Merily:
He’s doing some good stuff there right now. He does. He definitely is about it.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so one year later, that’s the update on Daniel. My encouragement is, if we’ve learned anything, obviously, gratitude. We take everything for granted, including our children. We never think we’re going to lose them, but just brushing that in our life really made us appreciative.
Merily:
I would just say too, put the full armor on just for our country, for the world, for the deception, and just for the outcome that we would be able to have the life that God intended for us. We all know this isn’t our ultimate home, but we also know that, while we’re here making a difference for Him and allowing the world to see who God really is, it really will take a shift there as well. He is capable, and He looks for those to align with that will trust Him and seek Him and expect Him. I always say God—I live in expectation of God showing up and showing off, and so I encourage you to do that as well. We can just see what He does.
Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, thanks for your prayers. Obviously, a year like this, your prayers were coveted in the moment and still are just because…
Merily:
Oh, yes.
Dr. Pompa:
We stay out front. We do. We stay out front with the message and standing for truth.
Merily:
Thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Put the full armor on as we are.
Merily:
Thank you.
Dr. Pompa:
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Ashley:
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