tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74861873085075310392024-03-05T00:28:11.890-08:00SandsieThirty years of designing, installing and operating hyperbaric clincs - Sharing the latest science.Sandsiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883988081689637057noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486187308507531039.post-39844933021799987502013-11-04T18:38:00.000-08:002013-11-15T18:29:22.948-08:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Often called"the BIG ONE, this common cervical injury usually means </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the patient will only be able to turn head, shrug shoulders, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">pontaneously </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">breathe </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and talk. Paralysis usually sets in below the insulted area </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a permanent </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> life change occurs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>January, 2013</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An email from a friend . . .</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>"My son broke his neck<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 6pt;"> </span></span>this afternoon Big Beach surfing. He told me in his words that he thought he was going to drown so he's lucky to not have. I'll meet with the neurosurgeon tomorrow but he's going to have to have surgery and hopefully the paralysis will come undone."</b></i><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bruising and swelling were now acting as a strangulation point for the cord below the insulted area and Ischemia (none or little amounts of oxygen are getting down past the fracture point).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The patient underwent surgery, three days after his accident. Another email, ten days later where the neurosurgeon said that they do not use scans (PET, SPECT, fMRI) to make a prognosis but the time between the accident and intervention. The prognosis - this 21 year old had <i><b>"less than a 5% chance of ever walking again."</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> It has taken thirty years working with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (“HBOT”) to thread a string of beads about Coma Arousal, Spinal Injuries, Strokes, and Near-Drowning. Now in retirement in Hawaii, the last two beads fell into place within a 10 day period -- the month of January 2013. I should begin thirty years ago to my introduction to Australia's (and the World's) top specialist in spinal injuries, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Dr. John Yeo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> At that time, I was in the <b>"R"</b> period of Research and Development.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In 1984 Sydney only had two hyperbaric chambers, one at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">School of Underwater Medicine (HMAS Penguin) and another at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ("RPAH"). Both were large chambers that could take many casualties at one time. The Prince Alfred Chamber was working with spinal injuries. The medicine and research from both centers was fascinating but not the chambers that I had in mind.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the time I met John Yeo M.D., I already had the transport envelope of the system worked out . . . small enough to fit a U.H. Series Bell Chopper, light enough to retrieve a casualty on a 2,000 mile flight in a Beechcraft Queen Air "B." Now for the needs of the patients . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1984 Sydney only had two hyperbaric chambers, one at School of Underwater Medicine (HMAS Penguin) and another at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ("RPAH"). Both were large chambers that could take many casualties at one time. The Prince Alfred Chamber was working with spinal injuries. The medicine and research from both centers was fascinating but not the chambers that I had in mind. Then I found out that Dr. John Yeo had a little British Vickers chamber at the Royal North Shore Hospital ("RNSH"). He readily agreed that I should come visit. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While spending time with this gracious man, <i>"Happenstance"</i>threaded the first bead for me. friendly man, so ready to share his knowledge with the World.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While at RNSH with Dr. John, a young man, less than eight hours from a Rugby football accident, was carried in -- crushed C4 but with an intact spinal cord and in full quadriplegia -- , strapped down to a litter. Dr. John and his team gently slid him into the little chamber and, 90 minutes later, hauled the casualty out. WOW! The young man could wriggle his toes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four 90 minutes sessions in the chamber at 2.5 ATA over a two day period, the "spinal shock" had evaporated. Two weeks later, the young radiologists was back at work on light duties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I was so excited . . . "are you going to tell the world about this?" I asked. Dr. Yeo replied, <i>"probably not yet." </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In the next six months I understood his reluctance. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> </i>I mentioned the two other Sydney chambers. School of Underwater Medicine where I lectured visiting physicians on dynamic lung function. RPAH -- breaking the backs of sheep with spinal research by Dr. Ian Unsworth -- well, even as a business partner, (Mercator Pty. Ltd.) we did not get on well at all. I told Unsworth of Dr. John Yeo's miracle two day rehab' of the spinal patient. There was a pause and Unsworth muttered<i> "there is a lot of luck in hyperbarics."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month later I was in Honolulu. Professor Ed' Beckam, M.D., Robert Overlock (shortly after my visit, Bobby became an M.D.) Frank farm, legendary Hawaiian deep-diver and others. Dr. Ed was as gracious as Dr. Yeo back at RNSH in wanting to share knowledge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At the time, the Hawiian crew were working with short-hair Fox Hound (the dogs loved them) on spinal accidents. All were so excited about the rapid recovery of the Sydney footballer. This was the first time that I had heard the term <i>"Golden Window" </i>(time from trauma to treatment and success probability) from Dr. Ed'. At the time, a Los Alamos atomic physicist was also visiting -- Tom Kunkle, Ph.D. He agreed with the concept of rapid response with HBOT to reduce edema and bruising and the additional oxygen that would keep paralysis contained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Three weeks later I was at Duke University. Buoyed along by the open-minds of Dr. John Yeo and Dr. Ed Beckman and the spontaneous change in Sydney casualty, I was beaten back down to reality, when the Director of the Center, Peter Bennett Ph.D. made the same comment as Unsworth at RPAH in Australia . . .<i> "there is a lot of luck in hyperbarics."</i> Pete simply did not want to hear about it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In January of this year, a young man -- the son of a friend of mine -- fractured his C4 while surfing near my home in Maui. I called Dr. John Yeo (who remembered me and the incident of thirty years earlier) told me <i>"The problem is ischemia. The sooner that you treat a spinal patient in a chamber, the better his chances. After you left Australia, I did a small research paper with fifty-six patients of recovery. I had great Golden Window success with five of them but the other fifty were not matched in age or duration. Consequently the local specialist derided the results and we abandoned the use of HBOT with spinal injury."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1993 </b>-- A gentle voice on the telephone to my home in California introduced himself as Richard Neubauer and asked <i>"can you design a chamber for me that will treat stroke and other neuro' patients?" "Yes,"</i> says I. Then I asked him <i>"Does it work with these?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"Come see for yourself."</i> His work and discoveries made at his center were jaw-dropping. No wonder that even today Dr, Neubauer is known as the <b><i>Father of Hyperbaric Medicine in the U.S.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More beads to thread "Uncle Dick" Neubauer, '"Gus" Miale and "Shelly" Gottleib -- all high-end health scientists and physicians. One of them (I forget which one) told me twenty years ago <i>"Sandsie, because of PET and SPECT scans, we know know about the ischemic Penumbra. This is no longer 'anecdotal.' Life for stroke, spinal and head injured patients is about to change. " </i><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;">Sadly, it did not.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Current neurologic assessments consider idling neurons and ischemic penumbras to be metabolically lethargic and electrically nonfunctional or nonviable. Diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics of central nervous system dysfunctions require differentiation between viable and nonviable neurons. It is necessary to develop and document efficacious and safe techniques for reactivating idling neurons. The authors present a case study of a near drowning 12 years earlier. Areas of cortical hypometabolism were identified by using SPECT imaging in conjunction with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Delayed imaging after HBOT (1 hour, 1.5 atm abs) suggested viable but metabolically lethargic neurons. After HBOT (80 1-hour treatments, monoplace chamber, 1.5 atm abs), marked improvements in cognitive and motor functioning were demonstrated. The data support the hypothesis that idling neurons and ischemic penumbras, when given sufficient oxygen, are capable of reactivation. Thus, changes in tracer distribution after a single exposure to HBOT may be a good prognostic indicator of viable neurons. </span><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HBOT may be valuable not only in recovery from anoxic encephalopathy but also from other traumatic and nontraumatic dysfunctions of the central nervous system, including stroke. HBOT in conjunction with physical and rehabilitative therapy may help reactivated idling neurons to remain permanently active.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><em style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; line-height: 18px; padding: 0in;">Positron Emission Tomography (PET):</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; line-height: 18px;">Five Class IV articles on PET imaging in patients with SCI were reviewed. A single Class IV PET imaging article was found that assessed PET of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">spinal cord</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the assessment of patients with compressive myelopathy</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; line-height: 18px;">. This study utilized high resolution fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) to evaluate the metabolic characteristics of the spinal cord in myelopathy patients and concluded that the standardized uptake values for FDG-PET in the cervical spinal cord correlated better than MRI with pre- and postoperative neurological scores in these nontraumatic subjects. Four Class IV articles were found describing PET assessment of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">brain</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in persons with SCI</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; line-height: 18px;">. One of the articles utilized PET scanning to assess brain metabolism after sensory stimulation of the vagina and foot to elucidate the sensory pathways which convey genital stimulation to the brain in women with SCI </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; line-height: 18px;"> Two articles studied regional brain response to unilateral hand movement in persons with SCI determined by PET, showing changes in activation patterns compared to uninjured control subjects</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; line-height: 18px;">. One additional article assessing resting brain metabolism showed alterations in the distribution of PET glucose utilization in persons with SCI compared to uninjured control subjects (</span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031961/#i1079-0268-30-3-205-b90" style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #996e22; text-decoration: none;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #642a8f; line-height: 18px; padding: 0in;">90</span></a><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">). </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">These studies suggest that PET may be used to assess the metabolism of spinal cord and brain in patients with SCI.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Since the little transportable recompression chamber system that I designed for the Australian Government and now in fleetwide use by the United State Navy was unsuitable for spinal patients, I designed a chamber that was/is perfect for spinal patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thanks Dr. Neubauer, Dr. Yeo, Professor Beckman (M.D.) -- none of this would have happened without your input. In the last sixteen years, my centers have aroused numerous coma patients and treated many quad' and para' spinal patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> During those three decades I had the privilege of owning my own HBOT centers, charging affordable prices, and being able to skirt the constraints of vested interest groups such as the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS). Their "approved" guidelines are in reality "approval for payment by the U.S. Government MEDICARE program (keeps the prices at around $2,000.00 per 90 minute session in a HBOT chamber). </span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The UHMS justification is that <i>"there are no double-blinded studies for such trauma as a broken spine."</i> With objective scanning, there is no need.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> What a load of self-serving rubbish. Below is just one of the latest studies on brain damage less than ten days after the accident.</b> . . . and the same grey and white matter are included in a spine. Mind you, at $2,000.00 per HBOT Tx. in an expensive hospital environment, and with the patient possibly needing 200 sessions, the costs of rehab' of a single spinal injury would "break the bank."</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The solution is simple -- do not warehouse spinal casualties or make them into statistics, condemning them to reduced quality of life.<b>Move the chambers out of hospitals and DROP THE PRICES per Tx. to less than $200.00 per session -- one tenth of hospital charges. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In actual fact, such adjunct use of hyperbaric oxygen reduces the overall lifetime costs of the casualty -- usually carried by medical insurance or by State and Federal programs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grady and I became friends in 2003. He was fond of saying "no back operation is successful if you can still feel pain a year later . . . there are often other ways of mending bones. An extremely smart man. I remember one time he said that to a group of orthopedic and neurosurgeeons at a conference in San Diego, and the moderator spoke up in a loud voice <i>"Thank you Dr. Anderson, we have heard enough."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grady stopped speaking and climbed from behind the microphone. I was enraged on his behalf. <i>"No need to be Sandsie,"</i> Grady said.<i>"You have to understand that if you are a surgeon of any sort, if you don't cut, you do not go to the bank."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's to you, Grady Anderson, M.D., Don Quixote of Orthopedics with the courage of tilting at the largest of windmills.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Background: R</b>ecovery after stroke correlates with non-active (stunned) brain regions, which may persist for years. The current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing the level of dissolved oxygen by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) could activate neuroplasticity in patients with chronic neurologic deficiencies due to stroke.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the contemplation of the 1750 observation of <i>spinal shock</i> and loss of sensation and paralysis below the injury prognoses about many spinal injuries could possibly be changed if specialist physicians kept up with the latest science. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"Mike Schwass was a friend of mine."</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike was an historical figure and the first quadriplegic who showed that steely grit and determination could push past the spinal shock. It is worth spending a moment on his YouTube story <i>"Don't Blame the Game,"</i> a full quad' at the age of sixteen. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">R.I.P. Michael. Your death was predicted at 22 but you made<br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Schwass also traveled the country as a motivational speaker. He co-wrote the book “Don’t Blame the Game,” an autobiography of his life, his injury and courage to beat the odds. As a counselor, many of his clients were also quadriplegics – he didn’t charge them because he knew from personal experience how costly their bills were, family said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Nearly everyone that met him walked away inspired. But as he grew older, his body became weaker, bills stacked up and things were harder for Schwass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">His family put together a fundraiser called “Mike-a-palooza” in August to raise money to buy a new van for Schwass and pay some of his medical expenses."</span></div>
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I'm sure many of you remember the inspirational performances of South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius this past summer in London 2012. He defied logic and belief in what challenged athletes can achieve when he competed with such grace, class and talent in the Olympic Games. His ability to overcome the odds is a lesson to us all. </div>
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A true Modern Olympic Legend. We are pleased to announce that Oscar has agreed to come to the US and participate in two speaking engagements on behalf of UK International. We are hoping to attract people from all walks of life, not just sports, to these motivational speeches.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ("HBO") is essentially an application of a "drug" of high density or pressurized 100% oxygen administered in a hard -hulled chamber at the appropriate pressure. The drug classification is only in the United States and by the FDA which means that you must have a prescription from a Medical Doctor - M.D., or a Doctor of Osteopathy - D.O. Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.) or Doctors of Chiropractics CANNOT lawfully write a prescription for HBO.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In essence, any hospital-quality HBO center is a dispensary, not a "treatment center." Just as you local drug store dispenses M.D. Rx. HBOT is a valid and lawful "off-label" Rx. for the treatment of Lyme disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Lots of questions that Lymies want answered and some will be on this posting. Here are some Answers before you think of the Questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b>A:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;">"To date,there have be 4 double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial of antibiotics thery in individual with chronic Lyme disease. (Fallon<i> et al,</i> 2007; Klempner <i>et al</i> 2001; Krupp 2003.)<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> <b><i>Unfortunately, no trial has demonstrated a sustained improvement in benefit; moreover, potentially serious adverse event have occurred (Marques 2008.)"<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 1 . . .</span> "The most recent study which employed of 10 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone in the treatment arm, also showed no sustained improvement in cognitive improvement,"<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 2</span></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">1,2,3 Quotes from KK Jain <b>HBO Therapy in Chronic Lyme Disease</b> -- William P. fife and caroline Fife --Texas A&M 6 year study commencing 1990</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After more than 70 Lyme disease patients where most claimed "cure" at the end of a series of HBO Tx. (between 26 and 40), I had formed the opinion that the Centers that participated had over a 90% (or better) success rate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> However, note from the chart above, of 91 patients in the "Fife" study, 12% said that they had "Zero improvement." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Since patients travel from all over the World, even the low prices at the HCI centers (a twitch under $200.00 per Tx session), the overall costs can be significant. I worried for those that traveled, spent and felt that it had failed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Allow me to introduce a young man from England. We will call him "Sean" He called the Healing Chambers "San Diego Hyperbarics Gateway Medical Center."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Just a voice on the telephone with a posh British accent . . . from London.<i> "I have been sick for three years. How much are your sessions? I will be there next week."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> On arrival, Sean explained that, since a trip to India with a troupe of dancers, he had been so ill and consulted so many Harley Street Medical Specialists.<i><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"> "They all denied that there was such a thing as Lyme disease. In fact, last week, when I told a top British infectious disease specialists he actually threatened me with a lock down and told me that he was going to recommend psychiatric treatment and hypnotherapy."</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b> I may look strong right at the moment. But I have lost almost thirty pounds and have zero strength . . . you try spending a day at rehearsal, lifting a 130 lb female over your head and, especially if she misses her leaping cue. I can no longer dance."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> So great to hear from ya. Glad to hear you raising hell from Hawaii and also taking it sort of easy and enjoying life must be a beautiful place to live. I agree you have to make changes in this world but boy there is so much stuff set in sludge, wading through to even get anywhere is so hard and time consuming, people are asleep, sleep walking through life and out for nothing but money greed and personal gain - we have a lot to battle against daily with our senseless systems we created – I’ve learnt so the last few years so much dose not work! lol! I guess you have to forgive it all and try to except everything has limitations - but we can still forge forward to create better systems for ourselves.<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> You will find it interesting that the most determined not to see any complimentary medical alternatives are the Brits and the Aussie medical fraternity. We get a lot of Australians coming to our centers. The HBO Medical "Powers-that-Be" Down-Under have a firm grip on HBO. And they all sing the same song that you have heard constantly --'THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LYME DISEASE IN AUSTRALIA." I am beginning to believe that there is a world-wide conspiracy to hide something that is modified by crazy scientists and in so doing, shift the blame from themselves.</span></span><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> My journey has been long and tough since I saw you but there is no denying you helped me really so much with the great treatment and life lessons and positive attitude. I’m so glad I came to San Diego met you and had hyperberic, it has profoundly changed me as a person and the way see life now in so many ways.</span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;">"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Albert Einstein.</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I was recently asked why I became an American and did not stay in Australia. My answer was about the same as Albert's thought. This is why you want so to return to San Diego. In essence, I was too good, too creative in Australia and its cronyism – many in Government have a total acceptance of mediocrity and a deep suspicion of excellence. That's you in Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Since then I have pushed every day to get my health back - the chambers really only kicked in about a year after for me but it did, along with a whole 12 months of antibiotics here in the U.K. It took me up a big level for sure. I have bout 75- 80-90 % of life back and some days it feels like I’m me again totally - amazing really 6 years nearly since I fell ill so its been a long battle. I weight train 3-4 times a week now - lol!. I remember you made me use that long wooden stick at the chambers - I was so ill I could hardly get on that shaker machine! Now I'm lifting iron - still have a fatigue and swelling in places pain most days in located areas but that’s lyme for ya but I’m on top of it now.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> Interesting about your experience. You are not the first. Remember your mate (I forget his name for the moment) who would make the journey over to Mexico with you? Same thing with him. He called in at the clinic a couple of months ago, TOTALLY well. Took about a year for him also. He is healthy - and like you - pumping iron.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> Yes, it was fun to bully you with Freddie's Polynesian Gymnasium. But it did stop a lot of the pity-party stuff. <i><b>One of the things with Lyme is the negative changes in mood and mentation. When you go on their pages, all of these poor folk are so sad. As a supporter of these patients, need to bully, kiss-up and cajole them . . . kindly </b></i> -- they are often at the point of sticking a musket in their mouth and then their families calling in the decorators.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Anyway Bob I can’t thank you enough for your work. You know what you do is so much more than offer a treatment for many illnesses - you offer Hope. That is priceless. You gave me hope I could get back. From my tiny flat in the miserable rain trodden Britain I searched for something to get me better and I found your centre, your web site (www.hboinfo.com) - and it was the only offer of hope I was given in the years of darkness. thank you mate.</span></div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #222222;">After the Bb bacteria is killed by the bactericidal action of HBO, the Lyme patient requires a period of rehabilitation -- with some needing a year or more of hard work to wean off pain-killers and recover from other bPHARMA insults to their immune system of many years. (</span><b><span style="color: red;"><i>"70% continued to improve at six year follow up"</i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">see Fife chart above</span>)</span></span></span></li>
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Lyme spirochete is an "Equal Opportunity" bacteria.</h3>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">After about 20 HBOT treatments, Vickie came into my office and said<i> "Sandsie, the brain fog is gone . . . my languages are back."</i> And she immediately translated "For God so loved the World . . ." into Hebrew, Greek and French.</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At the outset, you will think that I am biased for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. You are correct. High density oxygen is a powerful </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bactericide. I have personally witnessed more than 85% of Lyme patients regain their lives using HBOT</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The eradication and the rehabilitation of a Lyme illness requires a multi</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disciplinary approach and HBOT should be under the purview of a Lyme Literate Doctor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To quote Dr. Caroline Fife from the Texas A&M pilot study on Lyme:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This posting of three such patients (two of which had many years of IV antibiotic therapy with no gains) shows that. five years later, these patients are taking their lives back and their life-style activities show that they have actually eradicated (killed) the Bb bug along with its little shirt-tail riding co-infections. I have already talked about Megan Guthrie's happy recovery in a previous post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So, let's just have a pictorial look at a young woman who, like Vicky, did not have the strength to walk properly. Her story at a later date. The pictures show her NOW</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Why do Cowgirls and other horse riders get Lyme?<br />The ticks fall down their collars going through the brush,<br />land at the top of your jeans and settle right in."</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Caz says some nice things about me and the San Diego Center. Thanks heaps Caz. Remember, I am retired, One thing that we found is that Lymies are so emotionally fragile and arrive feeling hopeless, we have to give them lots of TLC and make sure that they get their emotional support in a friendly environment at no extra cost. Why? By the time Lymies finally find out what works, they usually do not have enough dollar resources to feed their pets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Plenty of testimonials out there attesting to what help Lymies to recover, along with the photographs. In the instance of those of this post, you might notice that Caz has sailed around the World, speared fish, and had wonderful pain-free adventures. And, five years later, no signs of relapsing into Lyme.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The ONLY inflatable chamber in the entire world that is </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the British HyperLite SOS chamber. It has </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">code approval and provides 100% Oxygen and appropriate pressures that can eradicate bacteria and fungi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If an inflatable chamber is operated to (or any chamber for that mater)Is operated to its manufacturers instruction all should be Okay. This means you cannot take you inflatable and mess with it by increasing its MAWP, or add oxygen, Federal Laws and codes prevent this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apart from the fact that ALL inflatable chambers sold in the United States have had rupture and deflation events (ear an lung damage, usually transitional events in the patient's life), the most lethal potential is the fact that the el-cheapo compressors that inflate the chamber have inadequate filters to keep out all of the mold spores and contaminants that they pump and compress room air into that chamber. All claim that they have "in line filters that capture contaminants down to .003 of a micron." Even worse, most home owners purchase an oxygen generator and, apart from the sponge on the air intake -- no filter at all but are pronounced as "safe." Bunkum. Most suppliers or users do not know what a micron is. Most users are never instructed on how often to change filters of any sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When room air is compressed into a chamber -- say at 4 psig then you have made it thicker by around a third. If the air is contaminated with crud that went through your filter and then "grew" (yes mold spores grow in the right environment!), you now have at least three times the mold spores in the chamber than outside in the room where you operate the chamber. Mucous membranes transport it into the patient's body. Lungs are a major target for mold. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Radys Children's Hospital San Diego is fastidious about infection control -- as are most pediatric hospitals. Still, Mucor mold sneaks past their super efficient HEPA filters and little kids die.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the really scary possibility of a cheap-chamber. Look carefully at the weeny red micron dot and you might think <i>"the inline filter IS .003 of a micron in my compressor is actually so tiny when compared with a human hair. All will be well."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For comparison, substitute the 1,500 feet tall Empire State Building instead of the diameter of a human hair. Hold your thumb up.That is about the comparison of an atom. if you held your thumb on the side of that building, three thumb lengths is about the same as a carbon monoxide molecule (2 plus 1). So tiny, it wouldn't even notice the filter in your home chamber. Enough of them (or any number of household cleansing agents) can usurp red-blood cells ability to carry oxygen to tissue. Good news is you can change these harmful agents simply. Tell you how in the next Sandsie Blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the potential of lethal mold. In Hawaii oxygen is expensive. A purchaser sold her inflatable and spent on the more expensive <i>Baby Blue </i>"hard" chamber. T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he factory sent its</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "technical expert"</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to install it. Two oxygen generators were part of the package as well as the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"safe"</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> air compressor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A year after installation, I was asked to run my eye over it since I had been designing and fabricating chambers for thirty years. I found that even with two oxygen generators, running, simultaneously, the entire system would not deliver 100% oxygen at 2 ATA. So the patient stopped using the oxygen generators and purchased 100% oxygen from the local gas supplier. When I checked it all I was surprised to find that after just one year, the entire gas supply was contaminated with yukkie, poisonous mold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The technician operating the chamber breathed oxygen from the generator because the patient was breathing 100% gaseous oxygen,</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember that you will melt more molecular oxygen into your body just breathing 100% oxygen ON THE SURFACE than you can get in an inflatable chamber. </span></li>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Aspergillus niger </i>("An"), </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">usually found under </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">damp carpets, </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mold and fungi hate high oxygen concentrations. The common sense approach in assisting those affected is to add Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ("HBOT") as an adjunct to the fungicides usually given as a medical response, since "soft tissue infection" (e.g. fungal) is an "Approved Indications" of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Association's (UHMS). Insurance will pay for its treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their are many fungi that give off the poison <i>aflotoxin</i>, -- usually fatal -- to immunocompromised children undergoing chemotherapy for any blood cancer (e.g., leukemia). We present a terrifying diagnosis and harrowing prognosis that has a happy ending. Carson C':</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carson's Mom, Kathlyn is a physician: his Dad is a physical fitness expert. Spend five minutes to look at the YouTube presentation prepared by Carson's Mom. It deals with <i>mucor mycosis</i> -- what my friend Dr. Fred Cramer calls the "man-eating plant." Humans usually do not live through <i>mucor</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Carson had undergone surgery to remove one kidney, his spleen, </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> m</b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ost of </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his colon a large portion </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> his diaphragm since the onset of the <i>mucor</i> was at high speeed, infiltrating his 95lb body.</b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Oncologists were predicting <i>"5 days left to live"</i> if</b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the mucor was either in his lung or his stomach . . . surgery was </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scheduled to remove both.</b></div>
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<i><b>And when I did my research and, you know, put it out on
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<i><b>And the data that they had was in the “40s and the “50s
and patients in Africa. There’s nothing recent. You couldn’t find a case that
was within 20 years that had survived. Kind of unheard of. So...I’m thinking,
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<b><i>"At the time when Carson starts (hyperbaric therapy), he’s spiked fevers again and I have a bad feeling. Everybody behind my back (at the hospital is saying, “Jesus, this kid’s not going to make it.”</i></b><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>At one point Roger sits in the unit with Bradley, one of the head infectious disease gurus, who says, <span style="background-color: #f6b26b;">“Nobody lives from this. At some point you and Kath need to figure this out.”</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i>So I have a conversation with Dr. Jen’ (Rady Children’s Hospital Professor of Oncology): “Are we just putzing around here? Because Bradley is laying crepe and Roger’s ready to take Carson home.” </i></b><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>She says, “Absolutely not. I am not done fighting and neither should you be. We are in this, we’re going for it, and Carson’s going to make it.” Dr. Jen' is the only one (at Children’s) who doesn’t believe Carson’s going to die. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Every day Carson’s going with a nurse in the ambulance from the hospital to Bob’s (Sands) center. They have to fashion a way of getting him in and out of the chamber because he’s so weak he can’t move. I mean, he can’t even sit up. He can’t stand. He can’t walk. He is so skinny. </i></b><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i>So to get him into the hyperbaric chamber, we slide Carson onto this board that Roger has his guys at his factory make. (Bob still has that board.) We put the board against the chamber and then we use a blanket to pull him in. Either Roger or I dive in with him. It’s a whole big thing."</i></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>September 2006. <br />Dying 6 yo Carson gets his first HBOT Tx.<br />Clinical details</b></span><a href="http://www.hboinfo.com/Toxic%20Mold,%20Fungus.htm">http://www.hboinfo.com/Toxic%20Mold,%20Fungus.htm</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HBOT Tx. 7. the journey back to life has begun for Carson, confounding the medical pundits.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sandsie with Carson - five years and 450 HBOT Tx later, </b></span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> one of the bravest young men I have met.</b></td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #403838; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: inherit;">Unlike invasive aspergillosis, the prognosis and outcome of hematologic malignancy patients who develop invasive mucormycosis have not significantly improved over the past decade as </b><b style="background-color: #f1c232; color: #403838; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5; text-align: inherit;">a majority of patients who develop the infection still die 12 weeks after diagnosis.</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">why the title of this </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Now some science and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Blog: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Carson's death was anticipated by most of the staff at Childrens' despite the fact that this was a team effort all of the way through, from his family through to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">specialists at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">the National Institute of Health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>Mucor</i> infestations are common in hospitals, particularly in pediatric units. One day I walked down the wide corridor at RCHSD to visit Carson. On the way out, I saw that the corridor at been blocked off with white plastic, ceiling to floor. Having worked in bio' over the years I knew what was occurring behind the screen. Using my best Crocodile Dundeee accent (<i>it comes easy for me, since I was born Down Under</i>) I pushed my way through the plastic and said to the men working in the hall<i> "Gudday . . . are you blokes gonna paint the walls?"</i> As I was hustled out by a worker in a biohazard suit, he answered<i> "You cannot be in here, we are doing out best to rid this area of MRSA and a fungus."</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal;">I was told later that RCHSD is now constantly alert and have the problem <i>"under control"</i> (their words not Sandsie's).</span><br />
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Sandsie's Comment: <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Why HBOT is effective in killing mold.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mold hates oxygen. That is why archaeologists are not allowed into freshly discovered Egyptian tombs if the have any cuts or open sores such as an insect bite. Recent studies of newly opened ancient tombs that have not been exposed to modern contaminants found pathogenic bacteria of the </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Staphylococcus</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and the molds </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Aspergillus niger</i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and </span><i style="font-weight: normal;">Aspergillus flavus.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mold thrives on a damp, reduced oxygen percentage environment. However some mold thrive with a marginal increase of oxygen, e.g., commercial edible mushroom farming or in a low pressure (mild) inflatable hyperbaric chamber.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now the primary "why" 100% HBOT (at the correct treatment pressure) is such an effective fungicide for mammals (people) with none of the caustic side effects of the most common IV </span><i>b</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">PHARMA responses: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"E</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">very time we hear <i>‘ampho B’</i> we always call
it <i>‘amphoterrible’.</i> Because <i>‘amphotericin’</i> and<i> ‘amphoterrible’</i> —everybody dies.
When they have to be on <i>amphotericin</i>, they basically all die because they’ve got
a fungal infection and the <i>amphotericin</i> will kill them too. Either the fungal infection
kills them or the drug kills them. But it’s never good." Dr. Kath', Carson's Mom.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #403838; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Picture this. . . your yard (body) is full of long grass and weeds. Ha, you have a ride-on lawnmower, but little gasoline to keep it running. Filling the tank is not quite enough to make your yard lovely. </span><span style="color: #403838; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">WHEN YOUR </span><span style="color: #403838; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">MOWER IS PUT INTO GEAR, </span><span style="color: #403838; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"> THE complex machine bursts into action and does the hard work, valves, pistons, cogs and gears. </span><br />
<span style="color: #403838; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">So too with the human body. Top it up with addditional with oxygen and the complicated mechanisms of your body go to work: the big "pac-man" cells throughout your body, and particularly those in your lungs. These <i>macrophage"</i>-- are more than match for the invading mold spores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Contaminated, diluted counterfeit pharmaceutics that look genuine." </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why the calibrations on the side of the syringes? <br />Your health practitioner wants EXACT dosage.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A pain specialist could make an assumption: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SEVENTY DEATHS (morbidity rates still climbing.)</b></span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inflatable chambers </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">often </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">appear to be </span></b></b><b style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the same as </span></b></b><br />
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<b>Sandsie's Comment on inflatable chambers -- <span style="background-color: red; color: blue;">DANGEROUS.</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The assumption that one hyperbaric chamber is the same as another or can deliver a dose (concentration of Oxygen) as prescribed (by registered physician (not a chiropractor) is absurd. All chambers that operate over 2 pounds per square inch ("psig") are subject to the same enforcement codes as a hospital grade chamber that can be pressurized to 100 psig (or more). When fully inflated to maximum allowable working pressure ("MAWP"), a soft walled chamber will feel as hard as steel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The contaminated bottles of steroids looked the same as "safe" pharmaceutics. Likewise your home-use inflatable could also be contaminated with mold spores. Or, you are not getting the correct amount of oxygen to help you heal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Note the tiny pressure gauge that Sandsie is pointing to. In contrast, hospital and military grade chambers, delivering 100% oxygen, have a minimum of two pressure gauges, each calibrated in psig, feet of seawater ("fsw,) and atmospheres absolute ("ATA"). These gauges are accurate over 90% of their reading scale, have their own certificate and are regularly tested by dead-weight third-party testing laboratories. Replacement cost is around $1,000.00 USD. The little 3 inch gauge that Sandsie is pointing to probably cost less than $25.00.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand, here is Sandsie with a chamber he </b></div>
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<b>Sandsie's Comment on inflatable chambers -- <span style="background-color: red; color: blue;">DANGEROUS.</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If an inflatable chamber is operated to (or any chamber for that mater)Is operated to its manufacturers instruction all should be Okay. This means you cannot take you inflatable and mess with it by increasing its MAWP, or add oxygen, Federal Laws and codes prevent this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apart from the fact that ALL inflatable chambers sold in the United States have had rupture and deflation events (ear an lung damage, usually transitional events in the patient's life), the most lethal potential is the fact that the el-cheapo compressors that inflate the chamber have inadequate filters to keep out all of the mold spores and contaminants that they pump and compress room air into that chamber. All claim that they have "in line filters that capture contaminants down to .003 of a micron." Even worse, most home owners purchase an oxygen generator and, apart from the sponge on the air intake -- no filter at all but are pronounced as "safe." Bunkum. Most suppliers or users do not know what a micron is. Most users are never instructed on how often to change filters of any sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When room air is compressed into a chamber -- say at 4 psig then you have made it thicker by around a third. If the air is contaminated with crud that went through your filter and then "grew" (yes mold spores grow in the right environment!), you now have at least three times the mold spores in the chamber than outside in the room where you operate the chamber. Mucous membranes transport it into the patient's body. Lungs are a major target for mold. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Radys Children's Hospital San Diego is fastidious about infection control -- as are most pediatric hospitals. Still, Mucor mold sneaks past their super efficient HEPA filters and little kids die. <span style="background-color: #f1c232;">HAD CARSON CLOYD BEEN TREATED IN A BAG </span><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">CHAMBER (INFLATABLE) , HE WOULD HAVE LIKELY LOST HIS BATTLE FOR LIFE.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the really scary possibility of a cheap-chamber. Look carefully at the weeny red micron dot and you might think <i>"the inline filter IS .003 of a micron in my compressor is actually so tiny when compared with a human hair. All will be well."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For comparison, substitute the 1,500 feet tall Empire State Building instead of the diameter of a human hair. Hold your thumb up.That is about the comparison of an atom. if you held your thumb on the side of that building, three thumb lengths is about the same as a carbon monoxide molecule (2 plus 1). So tiny, it wouldn't even notice the filter in your home chamber. Enough of them (or any number of household cleansing agents) can usurp red-blood cells ability to carry oxygen to tissue. Good news is you can change these harmful agents simply. Tell you how in the next Sandsie Blog.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">First thing Sandsie noticed was the use of the lowest quality <br />(cost) components that any hardware store would have on its <br />shelves. Further inspection found that the pressurization <br />(from the compressor - yellow line- stank, as did the exhaust <br />lines which should have remained crystal clear. The green oxygen<br /> line was also badly contaminated from the generators.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to the potential of lethal mold. In Hawaii oxygen is expensive. A purchaser sold her inflatable and spent on the more expensive Blue "hard" chamber. T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he factory sent its</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "technical expert"</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to install it. Two oxygen generators were part of the package as well as the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"safe"</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> air compressor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A year after installation, since I was asked to run my eye over it since I had been designing chambers for thirty years. I found that even with two oxygen generators, running, simultaneously, the entire system would not deliver 100% oxygen at 2 ATA. So the patient stopped using the oxygen generators and purchased 100% oxygen from the local gas supplier. When I checked it all I was surprised to find that after just one year, the entire gas supply was contaminated with yukkie, poisonous mold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dangerous? You bet. The technician operating the chamber became extremely ill and the resulting lung problems took 9 moths to correct. That technician almost lost his life to the mold <i>coccidioidommycosis</i> ("valley Fever") . -- Patients's X-ray in the next blog.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use it EXACTLY according to manufacture's directions. If the manufacturer says not to ADD oxygen -- do not do that. Just run it on room air.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember that you will melt more molecular oxygen into your body just breathing 100% oxygen ON THE SURFACE than you can get in an inflatable chamber. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask your supplier for the correct filters -- carbon and HEPA</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make sure that the location that you operate your chamber is a "clean room" with appropriate HEPA filters. Vacuum the room daily with a high quality HEPA) vacuum cleaner. Keep exterior windows closed.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #2f3843; line-height: 30px;"><b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #2f3843; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 30px;"><b>Medicine Net</b>. <span style="font-size: x-small;">May 14, 22013 </span></span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/valley_fever/article.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 30px;">http://www.medicinenet.com/valley_fever/article.htm</a></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The patient underwent surgery, three days after his accident. Another email, ten days later where the neurosurgeon said that they do not use scans (PET, SPECT, fMRI) to make a prognosis but the time between the accident and intervention. The prognosis - this 21 year old had <i><b>"less than a 5% chance of ever walking again."</b></i></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> It has taken thirty years working with hyperbaric oxygen therapy
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> At that time, I was in the <b>"R"</b> period of Research and Development.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In 1984 Sydney only had two hyperbaric chambers, one at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">School of Underwater Medicine (HMAS Penguin) and another at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ("RPAH"). Both were large chambers that could take many casualties at one time. The Prince Alfred Chamber was working with spinal injuries. The medicine and research from both centers was fascinating but not the chambers that I had in mind.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the time I met John Yeo M.D., I already had the transport envelope of the system worked out . . . small enough to fit a U.H. Series Bell Chopper, light enough to retrieve a casualty on a 2,000 mile flight in a Beechcraft Queen Air "B." Now for the needs of the patients . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1984 Sydney only had two hyperbaric chambers, one at School of Underwater Medicine (HMAS Penguin) and another at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ("RPAH"). Both were large chambers that could take many casualties at one time. The Prince Alfred Chamber was working with spinal injuries. The medicine and research from both centers was fascinating but not the chambers that I had in mind. Then I found out that Dr. John Yeo had a little British Vickers chamber at the Royal North Shore Hospital ("RNSH"). He readily agreed that I should come visit. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While spending time with this gracious man, <i>"Happenstance"</i> threaded the first bead for me. friendly man, so ready to share his knowledge with the World.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While at RNSH with Dr. John, a young man, less than eight hours from a Rugby football accident, was carried in -- crushed C4 but with an intact spinal cord and in full quadriplegia -- , strapped down to a litter. Dr. John and his team gently slid him into the little chamber and, 90 minutes later, hauled the casualty out. WOW! The young man could wriggle his toes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four 90 minutes sessions in the chamber at 2.5 ATA over a two day period, the "spinal shock" had evaporated. Two weeks later, the young radiologists was back at work on light duties.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I was so excited . . . "are you going to tell the world about this?" I asked. Dr. Yeo replied, <i>"probably not yet." </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In the next six months I understood his reluctance. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> </i>I mentioned the two other Sydney chambers. School of Underwater Medicine where I lectured visiting physicians on dynamic lung function. RPAH -- breaking the backs of sheep with spinal research by Dr. Ian Unsworth -- well, even as a business partner, (Mercator Pty. Ltd.) we did not get on well at all. I told Unsworth of Dr. John Yeo's miracle two day rehab' of the spinal patient. There was a pause and Unsworth muttered<i> "there is a lot of luck in hyperbarics."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month later I was in Honolulu. Professor Ed' Beckam, M.D., Robert Overlock (shortly after my visit, Bobby became an M.D.) Frank farm, legendary Hawaiian deep-diver and others. Dr. Ed was as gracious as Dr. Yeo back at RNSH in wanting to share knowledge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At the time, the Hawiian crew were working with short-hair Fox Hound (the dogs loved them) on spinal accidents. All were so excited about the rapid recovery of the Sydney footballer. This was the first time that I had heard the term <i>"Golden Window" </i>(time from trauma to treatment and success probability) from Dr. Ed'. At the time, a Los Alamos atomic physicist was also visiting -- Tom Kunkle, Ph.D. He agreed with the concept of rapid response with HBOT to reduce edema and bruising and the additional oxygen that would keep paralysis contained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Three weeks later I was at Duke University. Buoyed along by the open-minds of Dr. John Yeo and Dr. Ed Beckman and the spontaneous change in Sydney casualty, I was beaten back down to reality, when the Director of the Center, Peter Bennett Ph.D. made the same comment as Unsworth at RPAH in Australia . . .<i> "there is a lot of luck in hyperbarics."</i> Pete simply did not want to hear about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In January of this year, a young man -- the son of a friend of mine -- fractured his C4 while surfing near my home in Maui. I called Dr. John Yeo (who remembered me and the incident of thirty years earlier) told me <i>"The problem is ischemia. The sooner that you treat a spinal patient in a chamber, the better his chances. After you left Australia, I did a small research paper with fifty-six patients of recovery. I had great Golden Window success with five of them but the other fifty were not matched in age or duration. Consequently the local specialist derided the results and we abandoned the use of HBOT with spinal injury."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1993 </b>-- A gentle voice on the telephone to my home in California introduced himself as Richard Neubauer and asked <i>"can you design a chamber for me that will treat stroke and other neuro' patients?" "Yes,"</i> says I. Then I asked him <i>"Does it work with these?"</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"Come see for yourself."</i> His work and discoveries made at his center were jaw-dropping. No wonder that even today Dr, Neubauer is known as the <b><i>Father of Hyperbaric Medicine in the U.S.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More beads to thread "Uncle Dick" Neubauer, '"Gus" Miale and "Shelly" Gottleib -- all high-end health scientists and physicians. One of them (I forget which one) told me twenty years ago <i>"Sandsie, because of PET and SPECT scans, we know know about the ischemic Penumbra. This is no longer 'anecdotal.' Life for stroke, spinal and head injured patients is about to change. " </i><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;">Sadly, it did not.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Current neurologic assessments consider idling neurons and ischemic penumbras to be metabolically lethargic and electrically nonfunctional or nonviable. Diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics of central nervous system dysfunctions require differentiation between viable and nonviable neurons. It is necessary to develop and document efficacious and safe techniques for reactivating idling neurons. The authors present a case study of a near drowning 12 years earlier. Areas of cortical hypometabolism were identified by using SPECT imaging in conjunction with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Delayed imaging after HBOT (1 hour, 1.5 atm abs) suggested viable but metabolically lethargic neurons. After HBOT (80 1-hour treatments, monoplace chamber, 1.5 atm abs), marked improvements in cognitive and motor functioning were demonstrated. The data support the hypothesis that idling neurons and ischemic penumbras, when given sufficient oxygen, are capable of reactivation. Thus, changes in tracer distribution after a single exposure to HBOT may be a good prognostic indicator of viable neurons. </span><span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HBOT may be valuable not only in recovery from anoxic encephalopathy but also from other traumatic and nontraumatic dysfunctions of the central nervous system, including stroke. HBOT in conjunction with physical and rehabilitative therapy may help reactivated idling neurons to remain permanently active.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Since the little transportable recompression chamber system that I designed for the Australian Government and now in fleetwide use by the United State Navy was unsuitable for spinal patients, I designed a chamber that was/is perfect for spinal patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thanks Dr. Neubauer, Dr. Yeo, Professor Beckman (M.D.) -- none of this would have happened without your input. In the last sixteen years, my centers have aroused numerous coma patients and treated many quad' and para' spinal patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> During those three decades I had the privilege of owning my own HBOT centers, charging affordable prices, and being able to skirt the constraints of vested interest groups such as the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS). Their "approved" guidelines are in reality "approval for payment by the U.S. Government MEDICARE program (keeps the prices at around $2,000.00 per 90 minute session in a HBOT chamber). </span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The UHMS justification is that <i>"there are no double-blinded studies for such trauma as a broken spine."</i> With objective scanning, there is no need.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> What a load of self-serving rubbish. Below is just one of the latest studies on brain damage less than ten days after the accident.</b> . . . and the same grey and white matter are included in a spine. Mind you, at $2,000.00 per HBOT Tx. in an expensive hospital environment, and with the patient possibly needing 200 sessions, the costs of rehab' of a single spinal injury would "break the bank."</span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The solution is simple -- do not warehouse spinal casualties or make them into statistics, condemning them to reduced quality of life. <b>Move the chambers out of hospitals and DROP THE PRICES per Tx. to less than $200.00 per session -- one tenth of hospital charges. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In actual fact, such adjunct use of hyperbaric oxygen reduces the overall lifetime costs of the casualty -- usually carried by medical insurance or by State and Federal programs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grady and I became friends in 2003. He was fond of saying "no back operation is successful if you can still feel pain a year later . . . there are often other ways of mending bones. An extremely smart man. I remember one time he said that to a group of orthopedic and neurosurgeeons at a conference in San Diego, and the moderator spoke up in a loud voice <i>"Thank you Dr. Anderson, we have heard enough."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Grady stopped speaking and climbed from behind the microphone. I was enraged on his behalf. <i>"No need to be Sandsie,"</i> Grady said. <i>"You have to understand that if you are a surgeon of any sort, if you don't cut, you do not go to the bank."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's to you, Grady Anderson, M.D., Don Quixote of Orthopedics with the courage of tilting at the largest of windmills.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Background: R</b>ecovery after stroke correlates with non-active (stunned) brain regions, which may persist for years. The current study aimed to evaluate whether increasing the level of dissolved oxygen by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) could activate neuroplasticity in patients with chronic neurologic deficiencies due to stroke.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thus, the findings have important implications that can </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">be of general relevance and interest in neurobiology. <b><i style="background-color: #e69138;">Although this </i></b></span><b><i style="background-color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">study focused on stroke patients, the findings bear the promise that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HBOT may serve as a valuable therapeutic practice in other </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">neurological disorders exhibiting discrepancy between the anatomical and functional evaluation of the brain.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the contemplation of the 1750 observation of <i>spinal shock</i> and loss of sensation and paralysis below the injury prognoses about many spinal injuries could possibly be changed if specialist physicians kept up with the latest science. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"Mike Schwass was a friend of mine."</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mike was an historical figure and the first quadriplegic who showed that steely grit and determination could push past the spinal shock. It is worth spending a moment on his YouTube story <i>"Don't Blame the Game,"</i> a full quad' at the age of sixteen. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;">"Mike Schwass spent most of his life paralyzed but he never gave up on his dream – every day he envisioned himself walking, free from the confinement of his wheelchair and the aides constantly at his side. </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;">At 16-years-old,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.triblocal.com/Des_Plaines/detail/202894.html" style="border: 0px; color: #b85b5a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.47em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Schwass became a quadriplegic</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.47em; text-align: left;">after an opposing hockey player checked him into the boards during a game.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Schwass also traveled the country as a motivational speaker. He co-wrote the book “Don’t Blame the Game,” an autobiography of his life, his injury and courage to beat the odds. As a counselor, many of his clients were also quadriplegics – he didn’t charge them because he knew from personal experience how costly their bills were, family said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Nearly everyone that met him walked away inspired. But as he grew older, his body became weaker, bills stacked up and things were harder for Schwass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">His family put together a fundraiser called “Mike-a-palooza” in August to raise money to buy a new van for Schwass and pay some of his medical expenses."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy ("HBO") is essentially an application of a "drug" of high density or pressurized 100% oxygen administered in a hard -hulled chamber at the appropriate pressure. The drug classification is only in the United States and by the FDA which means that you must have a prescription from a Medical Doctor - M.D., or a Doctor of Osteopathy - D.O. Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.) or Doctors of Chiropractics CANNOT lawfully write a prescription for HBO.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In essence, any hospital-quality HBO center is a dispensary, not a "treatment center." Just as you local drug store dispenses M.D. Rx. HBOT is a valid and lawful "off-label" Rx. for the treatment of Lyme disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After more than 70 Lyme disease patients where most claimed "cure" at the end of a series of HBO Tx. (between 26 and 40), I had formed the opinion that the Centers that participated had over a 90% (or better) success rate.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> However, note from the chart above, of 91 patients in the "Fife" study, 12% said that they had "Zero improvement." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Since patients travel from all over the World, even the low prices at the HCI centers (a twitch under $200.00 per Tx session), the overall costs can be significant. I worried for those that traveled, spent and felt that it had failed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Allow me to introduce a young man from England. We will call him "Sean" He called the Healing Chambers "San Diego Hyperbarics Gateway Medical Center."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Just a voice on the telephone with a posh British accent . . . from London.<i> "I have been sick for three years. How much are your sessions? I will be there next week."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> On arrival, Sean explained that, since a trip to India with a troupe of dancers, he had been so ill and consulted so many Harley Street Medical Specialists.<i><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"> "They all denied that there was such a thing as Lyme disease. In fact, last week, when I told a top British infectious disease specialists he actually threatened me with a lock down and told me that he was going to recommend psychiatric treatment and hypnotherapy."</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b> I may look strong right at the moment. But I have lost almost thirty pounds and have zero strength . . . you try spending a day at rehearsal, lifting a 130 lb female over your head and, especially if she misses her leaping cue. I can no longer dance."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sean spent a month in San Diego. He was taken regularly over the Mexican boarder into Tijuana by another well-meaning patient who held the conviction that some of the American "Doctors" who lived in the U.S. but had offices in that city (to avoid the FDA) could assist with Sean coping with his Herx' reactions. Because of heavy traffic, not all of Sean's HBO Tx. were on consecutive days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sean went back to London, somewhat disappointed. I came to believe that he was one that we "missed" and part of the 12% "zero results." I was sorry for his wasted efforts. Then, about a week ago, Sean managed to get a message through. His comments are high-lighted in yellow:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> So great to hear from ya. Glad to hear you raising hell from Hawaii and also
taking it sort of easy and enjoying life must be a beautiful place to live. I
agree you have to make changes in this world but boy there is so much stuff set
in sludge, wading through to even get anywhere is so hard and time consuming,
people are asleep, sleep walking through life and out for nothing but money
greed and personal gain - we have a lot to battle against daily with our
senseless systems we created – I’ve learnt so the last few years so much dose
not work! lol! I guess you have to forgive it all and try to except everything
has limitations - but we can still forge forward to create better systems for
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Interesting to me that there is a change taking
place in Medicine - at least in the U.S. The Economist talks about
<i>"Medicine and its Rivals"</i></span></span><b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b></div>
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will find it interesting that the most determined not to see any
complimentary medical alternatives are the Brits and the Aussie medical
fraternity. We get a lot of Australians coming to our centers. The HBO Medical "Powers-that-Be" Down-Under have a firm grip on HBO. And they all sing the same song that you have heard constantly --'THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LYME DISEASE IN AUSTRALIA." I am beginning to believe that there is a world-wide conspiracy to hide something that is modified by crazy scientists and in so doing, shift the blame from themselves.</span></span><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></div>
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needs to have an interdisciplinary approach -- there just is no such thing as a
"magic bullet" Rx. So, while HBOT is a solid adjunct, there are heaps
of other things needed (including iron grit) and the loss of friends and
relatives who say "Get a life -- you do not look sick."</i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> My journey has been long and tough since I saw you but there is no
denying you helped me really so much with the great treatment and life lessons
and positive attitude. I’m so glad I came to San Diego met you and had
hyperberic, it has profoundly changed me as a person and the way see life now
in so many ways.</span></span></div>
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always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand
it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> Albert Einstein.</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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did not stay in Australia. My answer was about the same as Albert's thought.
This is why you want so to return to San Diego. In essence, I was too good, too
creative in Australia and its cronyism – many in Government have a total
acceptance of mediocrity and a deep suspicion of excellence. That's you in
Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> Since then I have
pushed every day to get my health back - the chambers really only kicked in about
a year after for me but it did, along with a whole 12 months of antibiotics
here in the U.K. It took me up a big level for sure. I have bout 75- 80-90 % of
life back and some days it feels like I’m me again totally - amazing really 6
years nearly since I fell ill so its been a long battle. I weight train 3-4
times a week now - lol!. I remember you made me use that long wooden
stick at the chambers - I was so ill I could hardly get on that shaker machine!
Now I'm lifting iron - still have a fatigue and swelling in places pain most
days in located areas but that’s lyme for ya but I’m on top of it now.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> Interesting about your experience. You are not the
first. Remember your mate (I forget his name for the moment) who would make the
journey over to Mexico with you? Same thing with him. He called in at the clinic a couple of
months ago, TOTALLY well. Took about a year for him also. He is healthy - and like you - pumping iron.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Polynesian Gymnasium. But it did stop a lot of the pity-party stuff. <i><b>One of the
things with Lyme is the negative changes in mood and mentation. When you go
on their pages, all of these poor folk are so sad. As a supporter of these patients, need to bully, kiss-up and
cajole them . . . kindly </b></i> -- they are often at the point of sticking a musket in
their mouth and then their families calling in the decorators.</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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have my hat off to them. It takes determination and courage.</b></i> Unfortunately not
all of them have that relentless drive you do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; line-height: 115%;"> Anyway Bob I can’t thank you enough for your work. You know what you do
is so much more than offer a treatment for many illnesses - you offer Hope.
That is priceless. You gave me hope I could get back. From my tiny flat in the
miserable rain trodden Britain I searched for something to get me better and I
found your centre, your web site (www.hboinfo.com) - and it was the only offer of hope I was
given in the years of darkness. thank you mate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; line-height: 115%;"> Keep going and spread that message. thank you for time, effort, care in my
personal journey to getting better and your support when I was alone in the
States. I still can’t believe I got on a plane and came all the way to you guys
alone sick as a dog.</span></span></div>
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Bloody chucking it down here today here lol!</span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #222222;">After the Bb bacteria is killed by the bactericidal action of HBO, the Lyme patient requires a period of rehabilitation -- with some needing a year or more of hard work to wean off pain-killers and recover from other bPHARMA insults to their immune system of many years. (</span><b><span style="color: red;"><i>"70% continued to improve at six year follow up"</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">see Fife chart above</span>)</span></span></span></li>
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</div>Sandsiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883988081689637057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486187308507531039.post-53377955801226350742012-07-21T19:19:00.000-07:002012-07-22T15:00:03.546-07:00<h3>
Lyme spirochete is an "Equal Opportunity" bacteria.</h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>When this patient staggered into the Clinic, she was just out of a wheel chair.<br />In AussieSpeak,<i> she did not have the strength to pull the skin<br />off a rice pudding </i>-- let alone pull a 40lb bow.</b></span></td></tr>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">After about 20 HBOT treatments, Vickie came into my office and said<i> "Sandsie, the brain fog is gone . . . my languages are back."</i> And she immediately translated "For God so loved the World . . ." into Hebrew, Greek and French.</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At the outset, you will think that I am biased for hyperbaric oxygen therapy. You are correct. High density oxygen is a powerful </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bactericide. I have personally witnessed more than 85% of Lyme patients regain their lives using HBOT</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The eradication and the rehabilitation of a Lyme illness requires a multi</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">disciplinary approach and HBOT should be under the purview of a Lyme Literate Doctor. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To quote Dr. Caroline Fife from the Texas A&M pilot study on Lyme:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This posting of three such patients (two of which had many years of IV antibiotic therapy with no gains) shows that. five years later, these patients are taking their lives back and their life-style activities show that they have actually eradicated (killed) the Bb bug along with its little shirt-tail riding co-infections. I have already talked about Megan Guthrie's happy recovery in a previous post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So, let's just have a pictorial look at a young woman who, like Vicky, did not have the strength to walk properly. Her story at a later date. The pictures show her NOW</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>"Why do Cowgirls and other horse riders get Lyme? <br />The ticks fall down their collars going through the brush, <br />land at the top of your jeans and settle right in."</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Caz says some nice things about me and the San Diego Center. Thanks heaps Caz. Remember, I am retired, One thing that we found is that Lymies are so emotionally fragile and arrive feeling hopeless, we have to give them lots of TLC and make sure that they get their emotional support in a friendly environment at no extra cost. Why? By the time Lymies finally find out what works, they usually do not have enough dollar resources to feed their pets.</span></div>
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immediately struck by the atmosphere of the place. Rather than being rushed in
and out for my appointments, I was encouraged to stay at the clinic, relaxing and
sharing knowledge and support with other patients. Every single staff member
wanted to hear my story, know about my lifestyle, ask what I had tried before.
It became clear after a few days that the San Diego HBOT center wasn’t just a
clinic treating patients with Hyperbaric Medicine, it was a social hub for
patients and caregivers dedicated to improving the quality of life of its
patients by whatever means possible, supplementing Hyparbarics with healthy
helpings of moral support, real-time assistance, and advice on alternative
treatments. I was consistently struck by just how comprehensively dedicated
everyone at the clinic was- more times than I could count I witnessed staff and
patients (including the technicians and even the front desk attendant) having
long discussions on how they were going to make it possible for a severely ill
patient to attend the clinic, developing a ride schedule in which they would
personally pick up/drop off the patient, make sure they were fed and had all
the proper meds, etc. All of this was done for free, with never a single
comment as to whether or not it was necessary, or a complaint as to who would
pay for gas. It was just accepted that these things were too important not to
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effectiveness of the treatment itself. After 3 weeks of combined hyperbaric and
IV rocephin treatment at the San Diego center, I was shocked to find myself
PLAYING SPORTS again with no lasting pain, breaking through that plateau of
health that had limited me to every day basic activities. After 20 treatments I
had joined an intramural soccer team, and was regularly attending the gym. My
body felt stronger, my mind felt clearer, and I found myself enjoying better health
than I had experienced since first becoming ill in 2003. By the time I left the
clinic (after 40 treatments total) I was confident enough in my health to
register for classes the following term, and subsequently returned to my
academic career. In fact, I was so impacted by my treatment at the San Diego
HBOT Gateway Center that I changed my scholastic goals, and after a year of schooling I
am now a registered EMT and a Hyperbaric Medical Technician Intern at a San
Francisco area Hyperbaric clinic. I am happy, healthy, and dedicated to paying
forward the spirit of proactive healing I learned from Bob Sands and all of the
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Plenty of testimonials out there attesting to what help Lymies to recover, along with the photographs. In the instance of those of this post, you might notice that Caz has sailed around the World, speared fish, and had wonderful pain-free adventures. And, five years later, no signs of relapsing into Lyme.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The ONLY inflatable chamber in the entire world that is </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the British HyperLite SOS chamber. It has </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #003572; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">code approval and provides 100% Oxygen and appropriate pressures that can eradicate bacteria and fungi. </span><br />
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of the nasties. The woman claimed that hyperbaric oxygen therapy does not work
in curing Lyme. She ranted at me accusing me of having zero experience in medicine. Then she made the
comment that only a person with Lyme could understand and cure a Lyme patient. In truth, she was not doing such a good job on
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the truth. This demonstrates that many,
who claim to know about and dispense HBOT, are profoundly ignorant of
the mechanisms of gas effects on mammalian physiology. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Janine in 2012 . . . No longer in Lyme Green. <br />What are those patches on her lab' Jacket?</span></b></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In 2003 .. I started developing extreme
fatigue, neuralgia, muscle spasm, acute joint pain in multiple locations. Depression followed, along with chemical
sensitivity, extreme cognitive and memory problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally in the beginning of 2005 I was
tested for Lyme Disease. I was POSITIVE. Three of the four members of my family
also tested POSITIVE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all started treatment as recommended
by the doctors which included many drugs: Doxycycline, Flail, Amoxicillin,
Zithromax, Mepron, Ketec, etc, . . . The
list goes on an on . . . We did months
of IV treatment. Our livers swelled, we had extreme headaches, sweats and
fevers, lost vision, had tremors, lost muscle control. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After
dispensing HBOT to more than seventy Lymies in San Diego prior to my retirement
it seems to me that patients that have had extensive antibiotic treatment prior to commencement of HBOT (with the same
comments as Janine) have a longer
rehabilitation period after the HBOT has eradicated the Lyme spirochete. “It is
crazy to poison and compromise the immune system with antibiotics” (from Dr. JW
-- HCI Science Advisory Board)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
any of you wish to have a list of antibiotic side-effects sent to you electronically,
you can email me at info.hboinfo.com.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband was so sick my fifteen year
old son would drive him to work (we are self employed) and then do the work for
him while he laid in his work truck. My daughter and I were both so sick we had
to drop out of a nursing Program at the local College, after attending four and
a half years. This, after a year and a half of conventional antibiotics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, in 2005, a friend told me about
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (“HBOT”.) I
was skeptical but started my research. Around that time a childhood friend tried
HBOT and got his life back. It was an amazing transformation. I decided to try myself. It took a little
while but I raised the funds and credit to have my daughter and I to travel to
San Diego for HBOT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At San Diego Hyperbarics, the staff was
excellent and the treatments were comfortable. In the beginning it seemed like
NOTHING was happening except I felt toxic, as usual. I was very fatigued and
emotional the first half of my treatments. By the 15<sup>th</sup> treatment my
husband noticed that I had more energy and was more positive (I did not realize
it at the time, but he did!) <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then by the 21<sup>st</sup> HBOT
treatment I noticed that I started to remember phone numbers. I had my ups and
downs with Herxing, and I still had some
neurological symptoms with spasms of
weeping in frustration at my slow progress. Little by little the pain
disappeared in my joints and then finally the muscle spasms were gone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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when I came out of HBOT, I felt good and had more energy than when I went in.
At the end of the week, my sister visited
– after a day of working – for dinner and a movie at night. It was the
first time in years I could function and night and we had a great time. And I haven’t
stopped since.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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followed a typical recovery path with Lyme and co-infections. Depending on how
entrenched the bacterial load is, the more HBOT Tx. it takes. Lyme differs from
chronic fatigue (“CFIDS”) and its neurological pains. In the instance of CFIDS,
the patient gradually curves upwards, with less pain and more vigor to the
point on a chart in which the patient claimed “cure”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the other hand, since Bb is a
gramm-negative bacteria, it gives off endotoxins in death. Thus the patient has
a bad Jarische Herxheime’rs reaction during treatments and then up to three
days before the proverbial “make-up attack” (with females) the patient still
feels that all the money and time has been wasted. Typically, the <i>elevator rid</i>e of “I still have Lyme” to “It’s over, I am well again” is about three
days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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memory, Janine was distraught two days before her last treatment over “not all
that much has happened,” when she bounced in and said <i>“Sandsie, I went to the movies with my sister last night – first time
in years, and this morning I just feel great.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am so thankful. Although everyone’s
response can be different to HBOT, some patients may need more treatments then
others, why wouldn’t you want to stop suffering and be the BEST you can be. Do
it now! I only wish I done Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy sooner!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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Oz recently made the observation that
once a patient survives a serious or life threatening illness, they are
never the same. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So too with Janine. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>She
opened her own hyperbaric oxygen therapy center in Marin County!</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One
of the classiest and the highest award-winning
free-standing hospital-quality oxygen centers in the State of California. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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retired as you all know. I do not need to beat the drum for any particular HBOT
Center. In this instance I am. Especially in view of my comments at the start
of this post. Janine really has first-hand knowledge of the misery of Lyme and
has a high end scientific understanding of the disease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One thing worse than being put into second place . . .<br />Getting a good pinching in front of 250 people.<br />The look in Janine's eyes? You tell me. No longer a Lymie in 2008.</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I just love the
YouTube presentation</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">from one of Janine’s
physicians</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">since, while you watch it,
you will see the chambers I designed and then, in the background while </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Ekolm explains the science, there is a
large screen and you will see me being featured in the Discovery Channel’s <b><i>“The
Healing Chambers”</i></b> special of</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2002. Ego. It squares away for the public pinching (actually I deserved it.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About chambers: You CANNOT get
the same results an inflatable chamber. They do not work, and I
hold the very strong opinion that they are a sham and a waste of time for any
chronically ill patients. If you do your due diligence on me, you will see that
the very first chamber that I applied for a patent on was an inflatable in 1983 for the Australian Government. Science could not prove them as useful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> <b style="color: #003572; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Regarding inflatable air-bag chambers: Recent media attention to the so called “mild HBOT” inflatable air-bag chambers is misleading. I believe these devices cannot be adequately pressurized and are a waste of time and money to their users in treating infections. They ARE NOT hyperbaric oxygen chambers. They CAN NOT provide the healing effects of hyperbaric chambers where the patient breathes 100% oxygen.</i></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Sandsie with a bag chamber . . .</span></b></div>
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<b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>treating </i></span></b></b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i> Lyme and other infections.</i></span></b></b></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>compressed air </i></span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"></span></b></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirty
years ago, I worked briefly with a medical scientist who made said to me: <i>“You can keep a patient alive sometimes with
procedures that will deprive them permanently of one of the three basic human
appetites -- sleep, food and sex. If you do, the patient will almost always
self-destruct – suicide. These are basic hungers that must be satisfied”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your
physical journey from health through the misery of chronic ill health and back to health again
will leave you changed forever. Emotionally and mentally. I have relied on some
really bright men and women of different ages, from health professionals to lay
persons, from the healthy to those in constant pain and distress, to offer
constructive criticism in the preparation of this post. I do claim to know a
lot about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and more than a little about
navigation, mentally, emotionally and actual. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My <b>generalized</b> observations is these: <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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</span><i><span style="color: windowtext;">Parents,
siblings and once-close friends distance themselves,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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</span><i><span style="color: windowtext;">female
care-givers tend to stand by their ill men-folk for the duration of the illness,
<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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</span><i><span style="color: windowtext;">male
care-givers have a much shorter time-line. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All
too often chronic illness shatters relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YOU
WILL GET BETTER BUT YOU WILL NOT BE THE PERSON YOU USED TO BE.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b><i>Having raised a family and having worked with chronically ill
and challenged children for over twenty years, some “human economic” subjects
are a bit heavy for young </i></b><b>people<i> under eighteen years of age. This is most
likely one of those subjects.</i></b></span><i><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is 2012 – a “new age. ” Navigating our emotional environment when
chronically ill, we must add science to intuition and observation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: windowtext;">“You
must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss” </span></i><span style="color: windowtext;">from the 1942 movie
“Casablanca.” An old song, written by Herman Hupfield in 1931, leaving an
indelible mark. As you read this, no matter what your age, you mind has already
got the melody in your brain and the next line of words . . . <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></b><span style="color: windowtext;">A
classic example is the emotional ups and downs of “finding” love, Usually we
blunder along on intuition until we find the one we think is right for us.
However, we could add some science to
our intuition. Here is an illustration of intuitive observation: About fifteen
years ago I had a Clinic patient earned
his living as a pimp. One day, he blurted out <i>“I forbid any of my girls to
kiss clients. ” </i>I asked why? <i>“They fall in love with them. When they
give passionate kisses, that is the end of their working life – they fall in
love and they’re gone . . . ” </i>An intuitive observation from a 1990’s
version of navigator <i>Álvaro de Mendaña</i> (more about this unfortunate navigator
shortly).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fifty
years later, Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote an intuitively lovely song “Passionate
Kisses” <i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #ffe599;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Shouldn’t I have this? Passionate
kisses from you. ” <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>Am I going overboard to want that
touch</i><i><br />
I shout it out to the night<br />
"Give me what I deserve, 'cause it's my
right"<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i>“Give me what I deserve, passionate
kisses . . . from you.”</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/SEX.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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right now and listen . . . and watch the lovely images. Just three
minutes of you time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=_rvt5kPlUyY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=_rvt5kPlUyY</a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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navigation and sailing uncharted waters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1566 the Spanish navigator <i>Álvaro de
Mendaña</i> was searching for the fabled <i>Terra
Australis,</i> sailing across thousands of miles of trackless Pacific Ocean
from Peru. His two-year voyage was grueling and perilous. By chance, in 1568, he
became the first European to land on the Solomon Islands, a bedraggled cluster -- Guadalcanal and others. Hoping to lessen
the King of Spain’s anger at the cost of the expedition without financial gain,
he named them <i>Islas Salomón</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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before his King<i>, Mendaña</i> claimed to
have found the legendary King Solomon’s Mines. <i>“Go back” </i>instructed the
King . . . unfortunate <i>Mendaña.</i> He tried
but could not find the Islands again despite a larger two-year expedition that
lost three ships and over one hundred of his crew. <i>Mendaña</i> was actually sailing on his own “sea
of heartbreak and finally lost his own life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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search for true love. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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” Adding Science to Intuition, to navigating the World.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Captain
James Cook rediscovered the Solomon Islands about two hundred years later. Mendaña
relied on his intuitive observations” whereas Cook used his uncanny abilities
of observation as well intuition. . . then added the latest science of his day.
Cook had the newest navigation equipment, -- a chronometer (invented by
Harrison in 1761) a sextant (1767) a nautical almanac (first edition – 1767). Adding
scientific equipment of that time to a
keen eye enabled future navigators to arrive on the Islands from that day
forward. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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navigation – Global Positioning Satellites or “GPS” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you into uncharted waters, a “New
Emotional Environment.” Brain scans can
be the GPS of <i>emotional navigation</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
a newborn arrives, it is a tiny lump of protoplasm and its little head is
filled with neurons. Trouble is none of them – well very few of them – are
wired together. Humans have a DNA structure that is extremely sparse when
compared with the fruit fly or a wild duck. You can hold the baby upside down
and the little bubs does not know it. All it can feel in those first hours are
its lips, instantly ready for suckling. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Humans enrich themselves with life’s experience, both good and bad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When
navigating the brain we have known from long time that we have two very precise
connections crossing both hemispheres. Picture a plastic half-headband, the sort that women
keep their hair back with – stretching from temple to temple. Right on the
surface of the brain that first one is known as the <i>sensory cortex</i> and the one just behind is the <i>motor cortex</i>. Of interest is that in both, over 45% of <i>sensory</i> and <i>motor</i> input and output is devoted to our lips. This never changes in
our entire lifetime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists
from Rutgers University, New Jersey, used scans to monitor women’s brains
during orgasm and found that different brain parts are activated when various
parts of her body are aroused. <i>“Lips are
packed with nerve endings — 100 times more than the fingertips. As a result,
kissing kick-starts multiple mechanisms in the brain, releasing chemicals that
lower stress and boost mood”,</i> says Chief researcher, Dr Ghosh. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary
Chapin Carpenter knew something. Male or female, feeling stressed? Go look
for some passionate kisses – and your stress will melt. Not the Hollywood peck-on-the-cheek,
with the empty <i>“remember, I love you”</i>
tag. Not the usual screen-kiss where the two actors
finally kiss, both missing each other’s
lips, either the top or the bottom. I am talking about a really passionate
kiss, smack on the lips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whoa, there! We all remember
high school and at seventeen, the sweetness . . . and where a passionate kiss
might lead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Rutger’s research indicates that leading up to orgasm women receive a huge
surge of a hormone called <i>oxytocin.</i>
Orgasm and childbirth. This neuromodulator<i>, oxytocin</i>, causes women to be
more trusting, more relaxed and it creates a bond. Produced by so much pleasure,<i>Oxytocin</i> is known as the <i>cuddle</i>
or bonding hormone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According
to Professor Deb Laino, of Philadelphia University and Willmington University
who has meticulously analyzed positron emission tomography (PET) scans: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In females something even
more interesting has been found. Female brains go what might be called silent
during orgasm. Specifically, the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex and the
dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, areas seem to deactivate<b>. Surprisingly these
areas are involved in things like self-control and social judgment. ” <o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: windowtext;"> </span></b><span style="color: windowtext;">Yes,
men get some of this too during smooching and eventual horizontal pleasure.
However the male brain gets a much larger dose – in fact huge release of <i>dopamine
</i>-- and this is not a bonding hormone but a simple “pleasure” hormone. Thus
the female is more vulnerable and more devastated when even a short-term
intimate relationship ends (resulting in PTSD?),
whereas the male just goes off looking for the next Carnival Ride with the
nearest susceptible female. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfair? You bet! <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Knowing your new emotional location is vital! <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr.
Anne Moire, the founder of “Brain-Sex Matters” made a perceptive comment after
her seminal 1992 book and television show “Brain Sex.” She clearly identified that men’s brains are
not the same as women’s. Intuitively she hit the target. However, despite the
differences, like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, men and women can fit snugly together. The “human givens”
that she mentions can be distilled down to the basic appetites of food, sex and
sleep. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>The starting point to understanding these ramifications is a profound
truth: that every living thing has to take nutriment from the environment to
develop and sustain itself - something inanimate matter doesn't do. We can
easily identify each nutriment because Nature makes us feel a need for it - <b>we
are all born with essential physical and emotional needs. </b>These needs have
evolved over millions of years and, to help us fulfill them, <b>Nature has also
given us innate resources, or guidance systems. </b><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: windowtext;">These needs and resources are our common
biological inheritance, whatever our race or cultural background. Thus, they
are called 'human givens' - they are the givens of human nature and common to
every human being. <b>Whenever our emotional needs are not met, or when our
resources are being used incorrectly, we suffer considerable distress. And so
do those around us.</b></span></i><b><span style="color: windowtext;">” <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point, do not go
rushing off to the nearest medical laboratory for a brain scan . . . do some research.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Global
Positioning Satellites that help us find our way from one side of town to
another were put into the sky at unimaginable expense. Primarily, GPS systems
were put there for military use. Imagine you are the Commander of a nuclear
submarine and your orders were to lob a missile at a hardened target – say, 2,000
miles away. Your accuracy must be within three feet to be effective or you might
hit a school or a hospital. <i>Thinking </i>that you have your own location
spot-on is not good enough. You must <i>know </i>exactly. If your launch site
happens to be half a mile from where you think you are, your missile will land
half a mile wide of the target. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With
the latest understanding of how our brains work and the need to have our
emotional needs satisfied, some self examination is needed. Time to put aside
the “<i>I am a bird with a broken wing” </i>syndrome. Examine the way you brain
works, decide where you are and what you need emotionally. Then fire that
rocket and hit your target. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before
we get to launching rockets in any direction, a little bit of honesty is
required. And to prove this up, we will fix our bearings on the pornography
industry and its effects on both men and women. In the year 2006 statistics
showed that a new pornographic video was produced in the United States every 39
minutes. No, not just in the U. S., pornography is all over the world. Hold on
to your hats. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1996, the pornography industry was larger than
the revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google,
Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix and EarthLink:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: windowtext;">South Koreans were the
big spenders at $526. 00 per capita annually, <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: windowtext;">Australians (blush –
the author was born in Australia) come next with $156. 00 each person each
year, </span><span style="color: windowtext;"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: windowtext;">Americans are way down
the list with $44.00 spent each year per person with what amounts to
one-dimensional pleasure, <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: windowtext;">The Dutch, are the
lowest on the scale with $12.00 each per year (the liberated and famously
uninhibited - horny Dutch men and women appear to prefer 3-dimensional sex . .
. <i>the real thing</i>.) <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now,
let allow the careful statistics as
compiled by Family Safe Media, a U. S. based research organization to knock
your sox off: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WOMEN
WATCH THE SAME AMOUNT OF PORN’ AS MEN!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feeling
guilty if you do? No need at all. Pornography thrives because of what Dr. Anne
More observed were the unmet emotional needs of people. Is it harmful? Probably
not. Lonely? Certainly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However,
Porn’ creates some level of timidity with both men and women, once the screen
is turned off. The women performers had flawless skin, no cellulite, tight
buns. <i>Is this what men expect of me? <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The males were all
“flatbellies” with pumped muscles and six-pack stomachs. <i>Will women find m</i>e
<i>acceptable? <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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song about passionate kisses again and remember the fire it lit when you were
an awkward, self-conscious teenager. Nothing has changed since those days for
you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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best advice the author can give is to find out where you are in the so-called
emotional geography of your life, and then target where you really wish to be.
Otherwise, you will wander the emotional oceans of life, and perish,
unfulfilled, as did the Spanish navigator of the 16th century. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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. . The Tyranny of Geography, Distance, and Chronic Ill-Health<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another
of my patients - a vibrant young woman in her early thirties, a<i> </i>diminutive bubbly Sprite
with the figure of a Cirque du Soleil acrobat – recently asked me <i>“Sandsie,
tell me about men. Why is it that my man cannot accept that all of my sexual
experiences prior to meeting him – the man of my dreams – made me the person
that he fell in love with?” </i>The result of course is a little bit of <i>f</i>PTSD
and <i>m</i>PTSD – both sides were hurting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My
response was <i>“well, if this fellow does not value what he has in you, then
you are teamed up with the wrong man in your life. Go find another with some
degree of maturity. ” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easier
said than done? Not really. You have to know where you are emotionally and if
your “village” is not an actual location – say a church-group, family clan, or
an unhappy relationship . . . you can always shift, either physically or
mentally. Pioneering women advocate this. Helen Gurley Brown is one of them.
Born in 1922 and growing up in a prudish time, she eventually took control of
the Magazine “Cosmopolitan.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Commenting
on her magazine, Ms Brown said <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“the message was: So you’re
single. You can still have sex. You can still have a great life. And if you marry,
don’t just sponge off a man or be the gold-medal-winning mother. <b>Don’t use men
to get what you want in life - - get if for yourself. ” </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown's famous quotes fill volumes of feminine minds and enraged American men . . . (or
so they claimed):<b> <i>“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No,
God, (“The Universe” or “Great-Spirit-in-the-Sky”) did not turn Helen into a
pillar of salt. The elfin-like woman turned 90, in 2012. Just before her
birthday Ms. Helen G. Brown and her beloved husband donated thirty million
dollars to the Columbia and Standford Schools of Journalism . Why? To assist
women to be equal to men. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
an interview with the British Guardian newspaper (February 19, 2012) the
current editor of Cosmo’. Ms. Louise Court fixed her piercing blue eyes at
reporter Emine Saner, and reflected on 40 years of trying to establish feminine
self-confidence there is still much that hasn’t changed . . <i>. “ There are
still sexual inequalities. There are still pockets of society that judge
women’s love lives in a way they would dream never of judging a man’s” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easier said than done when
chronic illness chains you . . . How to change you physical or mental location.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things
are changing in this world – The authors mentioned in this blog positing are all splendid reading.
Western attitudes are slowly changing to be more akin to other cultures where
the concept of <i>Yin</i> and <i>Yang</i> never judges you. If you live on
the East Coast of the United States, move to California or go in the other
direction if you can and avoid those that are constantly judging you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>However,
most chronically ill folks have exhausted their funds and even their ability to
borrow from institutions, relatives and friends. So giving advice about packing
up and leaving a location is not all that helpful. <i>“Sympathy without relief is like mustard without beef,” </i>so observed
the Scottish poet, Robbie Burns.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If
you cannot change your actual geographic location, you can at least change
yourself or <i>Heal Yourself </i>as Louise Hay pointed out in 1976 in her
pamphlet which later became the 1984 blockbuster “<i>You Can Heal Your Life</i>”.
Her work was originally ridiculed by religion and Western medicine -- who would
take notice of a tall, elegant and beautiful blonde woman that had been a Bill
Blass model? While the pundits rejected the concepts she espoused, her work
resonated with women all over the world. Over 40 million copies were sold. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
essence, of Hay’s philosophy was “<i>go join a different tribe -- even if it is
inside your head. </i>” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louise
is a friend of mine. Highly intuitive, she reminds me of the Polynesian
navigators of the 16th Century. While <i>Álvaro
de Mendaña</i> was blundering around the vast Pacific Ocean, those Islanders,
using observation and intuition alone, could repeatedly sail two thousand miles
and arrive on the same island time and again. A decade ago I asked LuLu the
secret of her health and success. She responded <i>“Sandsie, it is all in your
mind and the people you choose to be your friends. I chose wise partners in
both business and personal relationships.” </i>Today’s science proves up LuLu’s
observations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Doctor
Mark Hyman, M.D. recently commented on a study published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association in a piece he wrote for Huffington Post (February
19, 2012) -- if you hang about with fat friends, you are likely to also be a
fatty. However, when you join a “community” that promotes a healthy lifestyle,
with group support you too will shed those excess pounds. He goes on to link
health and longevity to shedding relationships and quotes his colleague Dr.
Christine Northrop in the newly revised edition of her book <i>The Wisdom of
Menopause</i>: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>What
is rarely acknowledged or understood is that as these hormone-driven changes
affect the brain, they give a woman a sharper eye for inequity and injustice,
and a voice that insists on speaking up about them. In other words, they
uncover hidden wisdom -- and the courage to voice it. As the vision-obscuring
veil created by the hormones of reproduction begins to lift, a woman's youthful
fire and spirit are often rekindled, together with long-sublimated desires and
creative drives -- if it does not find an outlet -- if the woman remains silent
for the sake of keeping the peace at home or work, or if she holds herself back
from pursuing her creative urges and desires -- the result is equivalent to
plugging the vent on a pressure cooker: Something has to give.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<b>Very
often what gives is the woman's health, and the result will be one or more of
the "big three" diseases of postmenopausal women: heart disease,
depression, and breast cancer. On the other hand, for those of us who choose to
honor the body's wisdom and to express what lies within us, it's a good idea to
get ready for some boat rocking, which may put long-established relationships
in upheaval. Marriage is not immune to this effect. " <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr.
Hyman commented on his friend’s science . . . . </span></span><i style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">“And neither are your
relationships with other family members. Relationships change as we evolve.
Sometimes changes you are trying to make cause the people around you to feel
uncomfortable. This is especially true when you are working on profound dietary
and lifestyle changes -- changes that are often needed to heal your mind, body,
and spirit. Your friends and family may wonder how your newly adopted lifestyle
will affect them. They may ask: ‘Are her dietary choices a subtle judgment on
me? What if I don't want to eat the same foods she does? (This one especially
comes up in families.) What will we do together now that she has chosen to
spend her time doing new activities?’ Sometimes even changing your hairstyle is
enough to stir the pot!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: windowtext;">With all of this 2012 New-Age
Science . . . Ready to sail uncharted waters and heal your PTSD? </span></b><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is
all that oxytocin generated by your last love like a tattoo . . . a permanent
reminder of a temporary sensation? The answer to that is a resounding NO.
However, science indicates that the fastest way to get over man (or woman) is
under the next one that we take a fancy to, since oxytocin is equally an
enabler to uncouple the bonding process in our mind.<i> </i>It is important to
remember that life is just a carnival ride and that all appetites can be
indulged in, sensibly, without shame or guilt. In truth, they must be sated. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
am not advocating a promiscuous lifestyle, philandering or cheating. It is all
about science and science also teaches us that <b><i>chronic illness or age can reduce
or evaporate our libido. That is OK too. You just might need a hand to hold for
the moment<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
rear-view mirror on the negatives of our lives – particularly during the
terrible years of chronic ill-health -- really stops us from adding quality of
life for ourselves in the future.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However,
a sure sign that a female patient recovering from a lingering chronic illness
is seeing her wear her jewelry, or her “main squeeze” walking around in the
Clinic with a bemused happy smile, or having the patient comment <i>“I slept like I was shot last night.</i>” The
health scientist that I met thirty years ago was correct.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mind
you, something must be said about romance, flowers that arrive when you least
expect them (yes even men appreciate a bunch of flowers), candlelight dinners
etc. <i>Viva the difference between sexes. </i>Women are not to be idolized,
men are not to be attributed as a woman's sole source of support or pleasure --
we should accept the difference between each of us and respect and forgive each
other abundantly. Different jig-saw puzzle pieces that fit so neatly together,
emotionally and physically. If that concept won’t work for you at this moment,
time to find another tribe or another tribal-mate. Time to change what is going
on inside your head. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">So how can you manage these situations? Here are some ideas from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553386727/ref=nosim/drnorthrupcom" target="_hplink"><b><i><span style="background-color: #ffe599; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">The
Wisdom of </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Menopause</span></i></b></a><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> that
men and women can also apply in their journey back to good health<b>:</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10.45pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span>See life for the Petri
dish it is. Experiment and expect resistance!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span>Remind yourself that it's
okay not to be the good girl (or boy!) who sees to everyone's needs except her
(or his) own. This goes for any pattern you're trying to break.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i></b>As
you end or update some relationships, you may feel a little sad. That's okay.
Grieve and let go. <b><i>By doing so, you'll be protecting your health for years to come.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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</span>Laugh. Bringing humor into
a situation as it almost always eases tension.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Distance yourself -- even
if it means skipping the traditional family get-together -- so you don't become
emotional or stressed by others' behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Voyage?</span></b><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooo
. . . You go and look in a mirror. Don’t measure up the physical perfection
that you once had or that of folks that
have not endured chronic ill health? Or, perhaps the ravages of age have left
some wrinkles and sickness as left surgical scars? Or, back from the war – male
or female – you may be missing bits and piecess? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Relax.
Mr. Right is out there for you. Or a Mr. Right-Now. For the PTSD sufferer, a
Ms. Right or a Ms Right-Now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out there, just somewhere, a set
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Philadelphia University and Wilmington University where she teaches courses
ranging from Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Communication, Abnormal Psychology,
Lifespan Development, Human Sexuality, Human Sexuality Counseling, Theories of
Personality, and a host of other regularly taught courses every semester. </span><a href="http://delawaresexdoc.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">http://delawaresexdoc.com</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rapidly developing science of neuropsychology. She is an award-winning
documentary producer/director/writer and is the author of three international
best selling books.</span> </span><a href="http://www.brainsexmatters.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;">http://www.brainsexmatters.com</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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founder of The UltraWellness Center, a four-time</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;">New
York Times<span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">bestselling author, and an
international leader in the field of Functional Medicine. You can follow him </span></em></span><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">on</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://twitter.com/markhymanmd" target="_hplink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">Twitter</span></i></a><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">, connect with him on</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/drhyman" target="_hplink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">LinkedIn</span></i></a><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">, watch his videos on</span></em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/ultrawellness" target="_hplink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">YouTube</span></i></a><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">, become a fan on</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/?upload&oid=135473923150032#!/pages/Mark-Hyman-MD/135473923150032" target="_hplink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">Facebook</span></i></a><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">, and subscribe to his</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><a href="http://drhyman.com/newsletter-sign-up-2/" target="_hplink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">newsletter</span></i></a><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; padding: 0in;">.</span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://drhyman.com/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;">http://drhyman.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323;">Dr,. Northrop was a practicing physician in obstetrics and
gynecology for over 25 years, Dr. Northrup has dedicated her life to inspiring
women to flourish. She encourages women to create health on all levels by tuning
into their inner wisdom. </span></span><a href="http://www.drnorthrup.com/about/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">http://www.drnorthrup.com/about/</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Learn more about navigating your own "change" in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553386727/ref=nosim/drnorthrupcom" target="_hplink"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">The Wisdom of Menopause</span></i></b></a><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">.</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> Dr. Northrop’s books are published by Loise
Hay’s <i>Hay House Publishing.</i> </span><a href="http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=3647"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">http://www.hayhouse.com/details.php?id=3647</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Lyme and Fibromialgia show pain and fear in their eyes.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Megan and her Mom arrived at my San Diego Center, having travelled all the way from Florida. Megan looked like a little angelic 16 year-old doll, barely able to walk. On that first day I said <i>"Let's go upstairs to my office"</i> and Megan asked<i> "where is the elevator?"</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I wanted to see how strong she was<i> "No,we are taking the stairs."</i> Megan made it up the first three steps. That was it. I grabbed the back-belt of her jeans and helped her up the remaining15 steps.. </span></div>
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was on the verge of insanity to passing out at work from a grand</span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-decoration: none;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-decoration: none;">mal seizure. The main symptoms that
bothered me the most were severe nerve and muscle pain in both of my legs,
severe migraines, anxiety, depression, and chronic fatigue just to name a few.
Pretty much every symptom that is listed under lyme disease I've had. So, to
make a long story short, I went through at least 12 doctors before I finally
found one that would treat me. For about 2 1/2 years I was on oral antibiotics
(along with several other medications) and they never seemed to help. It
finally got to the point to where my stomach couldn't handle the antibiotics
anymore. I was so upset, and I had had it with waking up every day, laying in
bed most of the day, taking some pain medicine to try and get up, and then
never getting any relief. I felt like a prisoner in my own home, and the pain
was just unbearable at times."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"> "Finally, one day I was just so
frustrated with having so much pain everyday, even with all of the pain
medicine that I was on. I was determined to find a treatment that would work. I
went to the computer and typed in "lyme disease treatment centers".
The search results came back with "hyperbaric oxygen treatment
centers". I didn't know much about this, but I did research, called a
bunch of the clinics that I had found online, and finally found a great
hyperbaric oxygen clinic in San Diego, CA called Healing Chambers International. I found them on www.hboinfo.com, </span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">At this specific clinic they are very
aggressive with lyme disease. They go down further than any other clinic I
could find---2.8 atmospheres. This is very important for lyme disease. The lyme
bacteria cannot survive in 100% oxygen. So, when you go down that far, it is
pressurized so that you are breathing in 100% oxygen, and it kills the
bacteria. Crazy, huh? Yet it's so simple. I don't know how to explain
everything to the exact detail, but I do know that when I made the decision to
find a way to go to San Diego and get these treatments, I was making a life
changing decision and at the time was not even aware just how much this was
going to change my life. This summer I went and got 39 hyperbaric oxygen
treatments and I think it's safe to say that I am now a new person. I still am
amazed at the difference between the way I felt 2 months ago compared to right
now, present day.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Remember that I am retired and not plugging for any particular hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT") center. Only to use HBOT as a valid adjunct Rx. for the treatment of Lyme and also fibromyalgia.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;"> "<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/index.htm">For the past few years I was bed
ridden, in so much horrific pain. If I ever did get out of the house to do
anything, it was only for a brief amount of time. I felt crippled when I
walked, especially when I went up and down stairs--those were the worst. As far
as medication goes, I was supposed to be taking 46 pills a day! Now, my pain is
almost gone, down to a bare minimum. I walk and prance around everywhere like
there is nothing wrong, because that's the way I feel. I have NO problem with
stairs, and as far as medication goes, I'm down to only four different kinds, and
I'm sure that before long I will be off of all of them!</a>"</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #003572; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Twelve years of chronic illness means that when the bugs are finally dead, rehabilitation of the body is needed. Megan abandoned her addiction to soda drinks (like drinking sugar flavored battery acid), exercised. Even so, it took thirteen months of careful weaning off pain medication, under the supervision of Pain Specialist Dr, Brenton Wynne, for Megan to become medication free.</span></div>
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just cannot believe that this whole time I was suffering, there was something
all along that actually works so well, and it's all natural. Now that I'm doing
so much better I want to tell everyone about it so that they can get help. My
family was so impressed with the way that it worked, that they decided to open
up a hyperbaric clinic themselves, so we cannot wait to start helping others
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Guthrie Family, already in healthcare did just that. April 2011 the opened their own hyperbaric oxygen therapy center in the Florida town of Bonifay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b><i>This time I am plugging a Center. </i></b>The Guthrie Family's first-hand knowledge about all aspects of Lyme allows them to treat patients with constant kindness, knowing just what the patients are going through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Megan wrote her story in 2009. We will give her the last word her. But before we finish with Megan, the question at the start of this post was</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">I hope that maybe my story somehow might help
someone out there. Please, if you are suffering from lyme disease, I've been
where you are. I've felt that pain. Find a way to go to Healing Chambers International. www.hboinfo.com. My family had to have a fundraiser for me to raise money to go, and
without a doubt it was worth it. The people that work there really do care
about your health and about getting you better. They're wonderful people! So,
get on it and go get better! They're waiting on you!!! Good luck to everyone
and I hope you get to feeling better! Peace!!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> A tribute to "Jilly", a woman with courage who endured too much pain for too long.</span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> It is with great sadness that I let you know Jilly died early this morning. I was with her, along with a couple of dear long time friends as she was finally released from the pain that has tortured her these last many months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> Our family is grateful for your caring support of our Jilly and her beloved dog Sienna. We thank all of you and know you are as grief stricken as we are at our great loss. Please take a moment to hug your loved ones close and appreciate how precious each moment is that you share.</span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">- Jilly's Family</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Last November, Jilly wrote this to me . . .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I am writing because this week concludes the 40 treatments that were promised to me in return for my cooperation and agreement to be interviewed and appear as a chapter in your book. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> I approach these last few treatments with apprehension and trepidation, as I still have a ways to go before I feel entirely whole. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Most recently, your oxygen chambers have helped me with the pain under my arm, where my cancer doctors removed my entire fat pad, and then went back in during a second surgery and scraped whatever was left to make sure I had no lymph nodes remaining that could be cancerous. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> However, what I am wondering is, if I got a prescription to continue treatments for wound healing, would your facility take my insurance, which is Medicare with a supplement of Mutual of Omaha. I ask this not only because I am afraid to stop treatment before I feel even remotely ready, but because after my reconstruction surgery in January, my surgeon intends to send me for more HBOT, and if possible, I would like my treatments to take place at your facility, which I know could use the business (paid for, of course!).</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Also, I wanted to thank you wholeheartedly for your kindness in giving me the 40 treatments that I will have had at the end of this week. Even though I know I could use more, I have made tremendous progress due to your generosity</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neither Mutual of Omaha nor Medicare would pay for hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments. WHY NOT? It would have saved them thousands of dollars.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We did not stop those treatments - in all, Jilly had 66 HBOT Tx under our Healing Chambers International scholarship program -- no cost to Jilly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jilly was 38 w</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hen she succumbed to her cancer and what essentially A DELINQUENT AND UNCARING treatment at the hands of her oncologists (<b><i>her words not mine . . </i></b>.) As you will hear her recorded words from what we hope is the happiest place for her, Jilly will tell you a story of medical torture; the sadness of being sent into menopause by massive doses of the most expensive chemo' drugs; six weeks of massive radiation contraindicated because of her lupus; and being continually kept in the dark by her oncologists with her questions avoided or ignored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>HOWEVER, SINCE SHE WAS MAKING PROGRESS, WE HAVE TO ASK, DOES THE CANCER INDUSTRY EXERCISE "DUE CARE" OR IS IT ALL ABOUT THE DOLLARS?</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>ARE THE JILLYs OF AMERICA JUST STATISTICS AND THEIR CONSTANT AND UNRELENTING PAIN OF NO CONSEQUENCE TO PHYSICIANS, HOSPTIALS AND INVESTORS?</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who or what is the Cancer Industry?</span></h2>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oncologists,</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </i></span></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hospitals</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Charity Groups that raise money for cancer research.</b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">big</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PHARMA corporations, </span></span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, we will start with the oncologists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Do not get me wrong, many of them do care for their patients. One of these, a<b> Professor</b> <b>of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at University of California, San Diego once told me <i>"Sandsie, I lost 14 kids last year. My grief was as bad as if each child was my own,"</i></b> Professor Jen is the mother of two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Back to Jilly's own words from Elysium, where she is doubtlessly putting her formidable intellect to work, arguing law, writing verse and back to athletic competition, She was quite a woman. Her words are hi-lighted <span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b>thus.</b></span> Remember, this is a transcript from tapes and spelling is "as is"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I
don't feel normal. I'm depressed and going through menopause, you know?' and I just turned 38. i wasn't prepared for that. they don't prepare you for
anything. what they do is they give you no information. They give you little
tidbits at a time because they don't want you to know very much because if you did,
then you probably wouldn't go through with it. Honestly. and so...they dole
out...you're, like, '<i>Oh, my god. I'm so depressed. why is this happening?' </i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> They're, like,<i> 'well, the chemo, because you're so young and because your
cancer was at this stage four, we gave you the most heavy and the most
increased heavy dose of chemotheraphy that we have which generally does trigger
menopause in even the youngest women. </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> And I'm, like,<i> 'oh! thanks for the
information!'</i> so that's how it's been my entire cancer. experiences, I have to,
as I come up on the experience, then they're like,<i> 'yes. this is what happens.' </i></b></span></span><b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> They don't tell you in advance because if you knew in advance you </span><span style="line-height: 15px;">probably</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> like run the other way</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b> And even with this radiation where it's contraindicated...people
in my family that are in the medical community were like,<i> 'it's
contraindicated. if you get radiation, it can trigger all these things.'</i> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b> My
oncologist was, like<i>, 'you have to get radiation. it doesn't matter. we've
treated women with lupus. you have to get it.</i>' and I've been left with this
incredible amount of pain. </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b> When I call them, I can't get a hold of them.
there's nobody...they're basically backed out on me. they're...like they just
basically...they have nothing to say about it. they're just, like, <i>'well, this
is just the way that it is.'</i> you know?<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Sandsie's Comment:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> I cannot help but wonder . . . </span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">was this avoiding information and response to her questions because Jilly was a high profile litigation attorney? </span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">W</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">as it the cynicism of older oncologists ho appear have the conviction that they cannot save their patients but, nonetheless, go through the dollar making processes of turning a wonderful being like Jilly into a statistic? </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> An interesting comment was made to me last year by another of our Cancer survivors. We were walking through a stunning Sharpe-Steely hospital (<b>IMPORTANT SANDSIE NOTE -- I am not sure that this is where Jilly was treated ),</b> and that patient made the comment <i>"This place is perfect -- but it gives me the creeps. It is the place where I used to come . . . it is as though the </i></span><i><span style="line-height: 17px;">magnificence of the place is to hide the fact that they turn people into sausages . . . that no one wants to eat."</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Because my other (oncology) doctors have just abandoned me. They're,
like,<i> 'we did our job. sorry.' </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> I went through so much pain. Now they go on to treat their
newer patients and I'm just shit up a creek. I don't know if they really even have
treated other women with lupus or if they just say that. You don't know. I have
never come across another breast cancer patient with lupus.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> I've been trying. My radiation oncologist left the place
where I got radiation shortly after
and they won't tell me where she went. I can't get a hold of her. I, like,<i>
'well, can I talk to one of the other doctors?</i>' I've not been put through. I've said,<i> 'can you
have one of the other doctors call me back.</i>' Nobody's ever called me back. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> But
in the last week, when I've been going crazy with the pain, insane because my
rheumatologist had prescribed a lytocane cream and I ran out. So I've just been
insane. i just filled the prescription so i'll be able to get it in a day or
two. I'll be ok. so, it's just, you know, it's like ...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> it's, <i>i think it's just
the way that they do western medicine. that's why i've told my family, 'if it
ever comes back, i won't go through western medicine channels. i'm going to use
eastern medicine to treat it.'</i> cause, it felt so violent and the chemotherapy
didn't work like I said. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> I was riddled with cancer after almost six months of
chemotherapy. which did all these horrible things to my body and i'm still
probably dumping all the toxins out of my body. so...I don't know. yeah. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"> I feel I was so vibrant and doing so well before (the chemo and radiation.) It was,
like, I had a tumor, a lump in my breast . . . but nothing more. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Sandsie's Comment:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are walking in Jilly's shoes . . .</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>ASK QUESTIONS OF YOUR ONCOLOGIST.</b> They are paid a lot of money each year and collecting off the Government or health insurance company BECAUSE OF YOU. Make them earn their money.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember, Specialist Physicians are part of your Symphony of Survival. If they will not obey your baton swing, THEN FIRE THEM just as any conductor would in a real orchestra.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always get a second and third opinion. Conquering cancer is a marathon, not a race. Do not be panicked into "accepting" opinions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best to not represent yourself with an oncologist. You need a "pit-bull" patient's advocate. Remember that you are fearful and you may give the wrong impression to the person in the lab' jacket at the other side of the desk. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Ask about hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct. It works. Took away Jilly's pain. Since it can do no harm, who would not add this to the interdisciplinary survival approach. It costs just pennies nc comparison to radiation and chemo drugs (notice that Jilly's oncology surgeon recommended this.)</b></i></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Now for <i>big</i>PHARMA and CORPORATE GREED. It is all about the dollars . . .</b> <b>NOT THE JILLYs OF THE WORLD.</b></span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a single recent example, I choose one the newest treatment of end-stage melanoma since
it has a terrible metastatic potential.
Once this cancer starts to “dandelion” its seeds throughout the body,
death usually follows within two years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
March, 2011, Bristol-Myers Squib’s cancer drug, Ipilumab (“Yervoy”) was
approved by the American Food and drug Administration. Here is a quick peek at
the “sizzle” that goes along with the approval of any new drug in order to encourage
the investors:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/real%20book/Intro%20V%202..docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #f4f4f4; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; line-height: 115%;">Larry Smith – “Seeking Alpha- Learn, Decide and
Invest” March 28, 2011. </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #959595;">. . . </span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #959595; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">. The
addressable U.S. market for Yervoy at this new price point is about $1 billion.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">We do not think that the high price point will be a major deterrent to
Yervoy use and think that it can reach 70% of the U.S. addressable market in
five years. This results in a U.S. sales estimate in 2016 of $700
million.” </span><span style="color: #959595; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"> . . <b><i>.</i></b></span><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><b><i> “</i></b></span></span><b><i><span style="background-color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
foreign addressable market is estimated to be two times the size of the U.S so
that the worldwide addressable market for Yervoy is $3 billion. . . Based on
this reasoning we are raising our 2016 worldwide sales estimates from $1.2
billion to $1.8 billion” Bristol-Myers Squib’s shares promptly bounced from
$25.00 per share to $35.00 per share.</span> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> I</span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">nvestment
analyst, Larry Smith continued</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <i><b>“The price
is higher than expected” . . .</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">“<i>The recommended dosage of ipilimumab
(Yervoy) is 3 mg/kg given as an IV infusion for 90 minutes. The label calls for
four doses to be given at three week intervals.<b> BMY is pricing each dose at
$30,000 per dose so that the total cost for a full course of therapy is
$120,000 . . . I thought that BMY would price the drug at $50,000 to $60,000
for a course of therapy. I was wrong. BMY seems to feel that because of the
strong efficacy results and the fact that there are no other drugs that can
provide a survival benefit in metastatic melanoma, the price could be
justified.”</b></i></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Bristol-Myer Squib doubled their price. </b></span></span></h3>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 14pt;"><b>The real questions
for the patient that are told that they are dying of cancer are<i> “Are there and side effects?</i> and<i> “Does it work?”</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space">In what is now
referred to as the “Yervoy Catastrophe”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/real%20book/Intro%20V%202..docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “There
were 14 deaths related to the study drugs and 7 of these were associated with
immune-related adverse events. In contrast, the complete response rate was only
0.2%, in one patient out of 403 who received ipilimumab (Yervoy) plus a peptide
vaccine. Promoters of ipilimumab (Yervoy) appear to be unmindful of the
clinical trial catastrophe in London.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;">”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Despite the Yervoy
Catastrophe Bristol-Myer Squib continues to promote this drug in the USA. And
it does so, notwithstanding appalling side effects on patients.</span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Desktop/real%20book/Intro%20V%202..docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
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review of the investors is revealing. In their questions of CEO Bancroft, Not one of the primary investors asked about the safety or effectiveness of the drug only about the profit potential of the drug since the </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">FDA withdrew its approval of Yervoy.</span></span></div>
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Capital, Research Division, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division,
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A final word from Jilly,on February 1 of this year, 2012, A courageous </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lovely woman who should-be and could be-living a pain-free life and contributing so much for us all:</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I wanted to give you an update on where things stand with my health now that I have had some time to let my diagnosis sink in and look at my options.</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I met with the new doctor at UCSD’s Moore’s Cancer Center (even though I will be meeting with and for all intents and purposes be being treated by one oncologist at Moore’s, there is actually a team of four oncologists who have similar practice styles and share patients and even present all new patients at their “Tumor Board” for consensus opinion, so I’ll actually be getting four doctors for the price of one!), and was told a lot of things I already knew and some things I did not know. I am going to try to fill you in as best as I can.</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As I already knew, I have a very aggressive form of cancer that has not gone away, despite all of the aggressive treatment that we have thrown at it. Last year, I had the most aggressive form of chemotherapy commonly used to treat my form of cancer. Following chemo, I had radiation against the better judgment of my Lupus doctors (radiation is contraindicated for people with Lupus) and it was horrifyingly painful. I still have terrible pain in the areas I was radiated. In just under a year, I have had seven surgeries and spent significant time in the hospital at least ten times. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have been doing Hyperberic Oxygen Therapy for nearly five months, which has, without question, been the very best treatment I have had and am still having. It has brought me back to life when only months ago I was still reeling from my previous treatments and truly felt like I was dying. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The oxygen therapy treatments have alleviated a great deal of my physical and emotional pain, and I believe it is the only reason why I am still alive and kicking today (just my opinion). I have done a great deal of other non-conventional types of treatments, all in the hopes of curing my cancer. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Despite all of the above, curing my cancer does not look like a real possibility; however, living harmoniously with the cancer may be a possibility, and is something I am working on. Regardless, my cancer is back (or never left), and the prognosis is not good. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next week I am having another surgery, and once I am healed, I intend to start chemotherapy at Moore’s Cancer Center.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span> I also will be getting my affairs in order, and as anyone who knows me even a little knows, my biggest concern is my dog, </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. She is a rescue, was abandoned by her first owners, and I promised her that she would never be abandoned again. It is killing me that I will eventually have to break that promise. As a result, I have secured </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an amazing home with a friend. Still, I would like to leave my friend not only </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, but also money to care for her. This being the case, I had an idea. Lately, a lot of people have been asking me if they can send me something. I have started an account for </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s care once I’m gone. If people want to give me a gift, the biggest gift they could give me is a contribution (no matter how small) to </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s fund. I’m still figuring things out as I go, so I have to figure out the best way to do this, too (any advice would be greatly appreciated). I don’t know when I’ll die, but when I do, I want to go knowing that I left </span><span class="il" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sienna</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in the best possible care (which I know she’ll be in), without her being a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> hardship to</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: cyan;"> the person I am leaving her with.</span> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So, I know this has been a heavy email, but I also want people to know that no matter what happens, this moment is all there is for any of us. I have been so blessed that so many of you have chosen to spend so many of your moments with me. What a miracle! Thank you all for the comfort, support and love you have given me throughout the last year and a half of my cancer struggle. I realize that I probably would not have come even this far had it not been for all of you holding me up, even when I could not hold myself up.</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I truly wish I no longer had to write these posts – I certainly would understand if you got sick of reading them!!! Whatever you do, though, please don’t give up on me, because I’m not ready to give up yet. I love you all so much!</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I was so upset to hear about Chuck's passing. He looked so healthy"</i> (long pause) <i>"He told me of his depression -- I think that is because I was a fellow Limey"</i> (a longer pause) . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a long conversation, Jennifer and I both came to the same conclusion: Physicians rely on signs, symptoms and lab' test results. If you look healthy, are not gaunt and have equivocal lab' tests, the medical algebra is "get over it -- I think you need some counseling."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Chuck's case . . . yes he had Lyme. Consistently tested positive (the engorged tick fell out of his ear canal one night while in bed.) So he hurt and ached constantly. The masking effect of a major traffic trauma, surgery, and loads of pain-killers hid the fact that Chuck had to self diagnose his true illness . . .</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Even though I have retired and no longer have access to patients and chambers, I still get regular telephone calls that think of as "cross-hair" calls. I suspect that these are from representatives of the <i>Infectious Disease Society of America</i> (ISDA) hoping that I will either give medical advice (I am not a physician and that is District Attorney materail) or make claims that would breach Federal and State codes - to my harm.. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The calls usually start this way <i>"In your web-site, you claim that HBOT cures Lyme . Is this true?"</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My standard answer is<i> "No, it is a testimonial web-site and this is what the patients themselves say. Free standing hospital quality centers are dispensaries of the drug called oxygen and where physican's prescriptions must be lawfully filled." </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Jennifer and Chuck were eventually tested for male and female hormone levels. Both were dramatically below the "normal" thresh-hold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a moment, review the SniperChuck post. For Lyme patients, I suspect there are some revelations here and some paths to pursue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In researching the material for her book, Jennifer has traveled the World. This year she was tested for heavy metals at one of the leading institutes in Europe and the Specialist Physician was somber . . . <i>"I have only ever seen the same high levels of uranium and other radioactive isotopes in survivors of Chernobyl."</i> Jennifer is unaware of ever being exposed to such substances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of significance, in her travels around the World, Jennifer has met Lyme patients from countries such as England and Australia -- countries where the medical specialists (as in America) deny the existence of this bacteria.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What about Sniper-Chuck? Having seen combat duty and being exposed to depleted uranium from Warthog tank-buster ordnance, it would not be surprising if he too had high levels of radioactive substances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What about other Veterans out there? What if they also have Lyme or another <i>"stealth disabler" </i>from service or, like Sniper-Chuck, just from a tick-bite from clearing his property? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jennifer is a high I.Q. woman and a determined scientific sleuth. I can hardly wait to get a copy of her book, since she has insights and a number of angles that had never occurred to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One thing certain, Lymie's hurt constantly. Masking the pain with opiates is not the answer and the side effects are likely add further harm and dismay to these patients. And the Veterans. Remember, their PTSD, physical pain means that many will divorce, many will be jailed and every 80 minutes, one them cannot take life on this Planet any longer and leaves us at his/her own hand. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> The primary purpose of this post on Lyme is to prompt any patient that appears to have had a successful resolution of symptoms for some years, or a Lyme patient that used hyperbaric therapy at the correct <i>Fife -- Texas A&M</i> pressures (100% oxygen at 2.6 ATA), they should be looking at extensive medical testing (heavy metal etc.,) for other problems such as organ damage from long exposures to pharmaceutics and toxic substances.</b></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PS A final snippet of info' from Jennifer . . . "Did you notice that the media has highlighted J.P. Morgan-Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon's excuse as to why his corporation lost $2 billion (and counting) . . . Lyme disease! Does this mean that Lyme is finally recognized?"</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>JP Morgan Chase's $2B Bug: How Lyme Disease Sickened The Banking Industry Titan</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 26px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">By</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="article_writtenby" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/archives/articles/reporters/joseph-orovic/" style="border: 0px none; color: #003366; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-transform: uppercase;">JOSEPH OROVIC</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">: Subscribe to Joseph's</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><a class="social_rss" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/rss/articles/reporters/joseph-orovic.rss" style="border: 0px none; color: #ee7b15; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;">RSS feed</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 26px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">May 20, 2012 8:34 PM EDT</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343165/20120520/jpmorgan-chase-lyme-disease-jpm-jamie-dimon.htm">http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/343165/20120520/jpmorgan-chase-lyme-disease-jpm-jamie-dimon.htm</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">My telephone rang this morning, first day of Memorial Weekend. It was about my good </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">friend</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">USMC gunny-</span><span style="line-height: 17px;">Sergeant</span><span style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">SniperChuck. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chuck was a cool Bloke (Dude). He and became good friends, constant banter. A bright man. A tough man. A man who loved his kids and his woman without reservation. A gifted musician. In his Forties. A lot to live for. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A complicated man in constant physical pain. A Veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He never complained much. He even made jokes about serious events in his life. For example, why his left foot pointed in the direction that he was walking and why his right foot was at a 90 degree tweak:</span></span></span></div>
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my Harley. Out of the darkness came an old Cadillac with an illegal in it.
No lights, no insurance. The impact almost tore me in half . . . at the Balboa
Hospital, the surgeon told me that I would be better with a prosthetic than a
crushed leg . . . <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">"I don’t think I ever
had Lyme disease, but </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">opioid induced endocrynopathy.</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> I determined after reading
my HTPA numbers especially my testosterone went from 850 to 250. But the insurance co.'s tell the doctors what
is normal. I looked up what is a normal test level is for my age and it was
between 500-800, 250 is normal for a 90 plus yr old. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">With the way the VA
was administering the opiates started the ball rolling. Since they are happy to
get you addicted to them but they suck at managing them. </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">So I would take them
on an empty stomach to get the most out of them working and ease the pain. Then
I would eat breakfast usually a spinach & broccoli omelets and I would do
the same thing at lunch, starve myself
then take the medication and once I felt it kick in I would eat whatever
for lunch & dinner. Unbeknownst to me I was burning holes in my
digestive tract making it sensitive to everything I ate. </span></b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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revelation I have discovered that chicken breast gluten free corn grits &
mild provolone cheese are the only things I can eat., everything else
caused a painful reaction gut & brain. As long as I stay on this diet I’m
ok. If I cheat even a tiny bit I’m f’d for a week. </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">So, I have shed more than a tear for my Pendleton USMC friend today. About an hour ago I drove up to the Marine Memorial on the side of the Volcano </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">Haleakala which was collecting Pacific Clouds from California, so rain fell - sort of like the tears of the Ancients. As I stood in front of the three flags, a beam of sunlight lit them up. Chuck and the others in </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">Elysium. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chuck was an alert and intelligent man who participated in his own survival. Read his self-diagnosis again and then read the notes below. There was no way out for Sniper Chuck. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">In 2003, the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense recommended the use of long-acting opioid medications to manage chronic pain</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">.<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; top: -0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.jaoa.org/content/109/1/20.long#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-3" style="border: 0px; color: #581858; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></sup> This recommendation was based on data that suggested short-acting opioids (eg, oxycodone, acetaminophen) pose an increased risk of addiction or opioid-induced hyperalgesia and on the assumption that chronic pain requires continuous analgesia.<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; top: -0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.jaoa.org/content/109/1/20.long#ref-1" id="xref-ref-1-4" style="border: 0px; color: #581858; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1</a></sup> Healthcare providers seemed to agree. As suggested by pharmaceutical sales, opioid therapy is far more common today than it was 10 years ago. One review<sup style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; top: -0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.jaoa.org/content/109/1/20.long#ref-3" id="xref-ref-3-2" style="border: 0px; color: #581858; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3</a></sup> analyzed sales data and determined that opioid sales increased 127% from 1997 to 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">However, as opioid use increased, so did the incidence of associated adverse effects. In the present review, we discuss the various symptoms associated with opioid-induced endocrinopathy and outline screening tools physicians can use to diagnose this condition. Treatment options are also described.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Opioids are increasingly used to treat chronic nonmalignant pain. However, long-term opioid treatment can cause endocrinopathy. Therefore, physicians must be aware of the various challenges associated with opioids.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Before initiating daily opioid treatment, physicians should inform patients in writing of all the risks and benefits associated with treatment—as specified in the </span><em style="background-color: #d9ead3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain</em><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">.</span><sup style="background-color: #d9ead3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; top: -0.6em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="xref-bibr" href="http://www.jaoa.org/content/109/1/20.long#ref-65" id="xref-ref-65-1" style="border: 0px; color: #581858; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">65</a></sup><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Based on the prevalence of opioid-induced endocrinopathy, physicians should include specific mention of depression, fatigue, hormone deficiency, osteoporosis, sexual dysfunction, vasomotor instability, weight gain, and, in women, menstrual cycle irregularities as possible adverse effects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">After opioid treatment is initiated, patients should be routinely evaluated for signs and symptoms of endocrinopathy. Testosterone supplementation is the primary treatment option for men, while DHEA supplementation may be preferred in women. Because some opioids may result in less endocrine dysfunction than others, rotation to a different opioid may also be an appropriate treatment option, particularly for women.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><i> Writing this post for my friend I was struck buy the obvious:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><b><i>The "System" (VA, etc) let Chuck down in more than one way.</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><b><i>That when we consider the amount of Veterans that we are losing each day, for whatever reason . . . when you close your eyes and can see a face . . . they are not to be regarded as statistics. May that never be so.</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They are only dead when you forget them" Nope, I will not forget my cheeky mate SniperChuck. And his folks will grieve and miss him so badly. My (our) condolences to his wonderful son and daughter and his Sweetheart of 17 years. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As noted in an earlier post, the most economical way to treat Veterans in pain and with PTSD for the Government, the most convenient way for their physicians is to just zombify them with large amounts of medication.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">This is why . . . so many of the Veteran's charities are nothing more than "cash-traps" using the Vet's for bait with less than 1o cents in each dollar going to a Veteran. The rest? Parties, cars, big salaries,etc.</span><br />
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the “OLD” science.</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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PROSTHESIS WITH COMBINED TREATMENT OF SPLINT, ANTIBIOTIC AND HYPERBARIC
OXYGENATION.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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M;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Reis,
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">“As a last resort
the patient was referred for HBO treatment. The patient had 55 sessions of 100%
oxygen in 2.4 ATA in a multiplace chamber. RESULTS: Under combined treatment of
splinting, antibiotics and HBO the infection resolved and the fistula were
closed.</span><b><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><b><i style="background-color: #fff2cc;">CONCLUSIONS: A combined treatment that includes HBO should be advised
for patients with infected prosthesis before removal.”</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Patient #1 – Happy Outcome: </span></b><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rear Admiral (USN retired) (female, 52 y.o.,
extremely fit – tennis player – lean body weight). Vivacious, lively, and attractive -- but limping along with one leg that did not work. Patient underwent knee
replacement surgery at Balboa Naval Hospital. Surgical wounding became infected
and I.V. antibiotics were ordered. L</span><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">oosening of the prosthesis, and flexion contractures plagued
this normally active patient. Surgeons recommended more surgery. <b><i>“Hyperbarics
are not indicated”</i></b> was there expert medical opinion to the patient (Balboa and most
other USN Hospitals do not have hyperbaric medicine departments for use of
non-diving trauma and illness.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Nonetheless, the Admiral decided to seek HBOT at a hospital-quality free-standing center, San
Diego Gateway Medical Center Hyperbarics (“SDH”.) On presentation, the knee was
“hot and angry” and grossly deformed with pitting edema. Twenty-five
consecutive daily HBOT Tx at 2.4 ATA later, the patient considered herself
<i>“cured”</i> with her knee no longer swollen, zero infection and zero pain.
The Center’s Medical Director, Brenton Wynne, M.D. Muscoskeletal Specialist concurred. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Justin Lyne-Sands, chamber designer and manufacturer, with transportable recompression chamber system (TRCS) bound for Malaysian Rescue & Fire Department.</span></td></tr>
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transportable recompression chambers (about 70 systems), some of them in San
Diego! Why aren’t the being used at Balboa?</b></i><br />
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-- Happy outcome:</span></b><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></div>
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part of the HCI Scientific Advisory Board (male, 64 y.o., extremely fit from
professional dancing, 3% body fat).
Patient underwent knee replacement surgery. Complications set in
immediately with an MRSA infection. Again (from a different hospital) the
orthopedic surgeon ventured the opinion that<i><b> “hyperbaric oxygen therapy not
indicated."</b></i> The infection created an open fistula and the patient was in
extreme pain. Amputation was being considered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">However, the
patient was consulting with the SDH Medical Director – Dr. Wynne has multiple
specialties, including Pain Management --
and was prescribed HBOT at 2.4 ata. In a three week period, the patient
went from wheel chair to walker, then walker to crutches, then to driving
himself and walking unassisted to the Center. The M.D. patient continues HBOT
therapy to close drain from fistula.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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leg. </span></b></span></span></div>
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– (76 y.o) Important note here – the
information relayed herein is second hand and Sandsie can only pass it on as relayed to him by one
of the SDH </span></span><span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">physicians</span></span><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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underwent knee replacement at Balboa Naval Hospital. Complications (as described above) were
immediate – infection, prosthetic loosening. I.V. antibiotics prescribed. When
the patient asked for HBOT sessions (his next door neighbors – both Specialist
M.D.’s had recommended this), the orthopedic surgeon again commented
<i><b>“Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is not
indicated,” </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">After some months of misery, the patient changed to another orthopedic
specialist who immediately referred him to the UCSD Hyperbaric Medicine Department. After ten sessions in the chamber, the attending wound care
physician made the observation that<i> “no progress in the wound is evident’”</i> and
the patient’s leg was amputated! The patient now will spend his last years in a
wheel chair!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While not being present to listen to the
decision making milestone of the UCSD medical team and the patient’s response –
it is difficult to either condemn nor condone this decision to amputate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">However, in
many instances the reimbursement levels for the hospital, insurance providers and personal requirements of the surgical team are a factor in such a surgical
decision. Non-the-less, there are many peer-review papers (such as the one above)</span><i style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> "approved"</i><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"> and published by the Undersea, Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) that clearly demonstrate that</span><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> more than ten HBOT treatments are needed for limb-salvage.</b><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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up the terrible plight of the two women with necrotizing fasciitis and the
decision to cut and cut and cut.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hyperbaric oxygen
therapy for necrotizing fasciitis reduces mortality and the need for
debridements.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Riseman+JA%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Riseman JA</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">, <a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Zamboni+WA%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Zamboni WA</span></a>, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Curtis+A%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Curtis A</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Graham+DR%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Graham DR</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">, <a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Konrad+HR%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Konrad HR</span></a>, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=AUTH:%22Ross+DS%22+SORT_DATE:y"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Ross DS</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #555555; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Memorial Medical
Center, Southern Illinois University, Springfield.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/;jsessionid=swbQ0fkOUnLleBMmSRx6.16?page=1&query=ISSN:%220039-6060%22"><span style="color: #884488; text-decoration: none;">Surgery</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> [1990, 108(5):847-50]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">'The addition of HBO
therapy to the surgical and antimicrobial treatment of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/2237764/?whatizit_url=http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/?page=1&query=%22necrotizing%20fasciitis%22" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">necrotizing fasciitis</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;">significantly reduced mortality and wound
morbidity (number of debridements) in this study, especially among
nonclostridial<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/2237764/?whatizit_url=http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/?page=1&query=%22infections%22" style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">infections</span></a><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><b><i>We conclude that HBO should be used routinely in the treatment of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b><a href="http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/2237764/?whatizit_url=http://ukpmc.ac.uk/search/?page=1&query=%22necrotizing%20fasciitis%22" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><b><i>necrotizing fasciitis</i></b></span></a><b><i>.'</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-size: large;">with a special reference to the effects on tissue gas
tensions.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Korhonen%20K%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=11199291"><span style="color: #660066;">Korhonen K</span></a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span><b><span style="color: #724128; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Source: </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt;">Department of Surgery, University of Turku,
Turku, Finland.</span></span></div>
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January 1971 and April 1997, 53 patients with Clostridial gas gangrene were
treated in the Department of Surgery, University of Turku. The patients
underwent surgical debridement, broad spectrum antibiotic therapy and a series
of hyperbaric oxygen treatments at 2.5 atmospheres absolute pressure (ATA).
Twelve patients died (22.6%). </span><b><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;">Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in gas gangrene seems
to be life-, limb- and tissue saving.</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-size: 10pt;"> Early diagnosis remains essential.
Patient survival can be improved if the disease is recognized early and
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">World renowned surgeon, Dr. Fredrick Cramer in his book "Hyperbaric Surgery: Perioperative Care" (Best Publishing) is adamant that Gangrene cases go first to a hyperbaric chamber and then surgical debridement, whereas Necrotzing Fasciitis goes to surgery first and then into a hyperbaric chamber.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both hospitals have large hyperbaric medicine departments with chambers that can cope with critical-care, intubated patients. However the media has reported that the Georgia student was finally "approved" for ten HBOT Tx. after 20 days, but only received four of these since there was a concern for "sepsis" by her surgeons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been no confirmation that the Mom with twins has received any HBOT at all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, not being privy to medical considerations, to venture an opinion is like trying to give a haircut over the telephone. Again, there is a lot of old science that agrees with Dr. Cramer (who has not commented publicly on these two instances.) However, here is another "for-instance."</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copyright WebMD.<br />
<a href="http://www.webmd.com/brain/ss/slideshow-concussions-brain-injuries">http://www.webmd.com/brain/ss/slideshow-concussions-brain-injuries</a><br />
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days ago, on May 4</span><sup style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight; text-align: justify;">th</sup><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight; text-align: justify;">, I posted a tribute to Junior Seau and linked
his suicide with </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight; text-align: justify;">post-concussion syndrome</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight; text-align: justify;">
(“PCS”) as being the same as that of our veterans returning from the Iraq and
Afghan Wars experience. This leads to what is known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (“CTE”) which is evidenced with post traumatic stress disorder ("PTSD").</span><br />
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May 4<sup>th</sup>, it is estimated that another 216 more of our veterans have killed themselves.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> Since 2001, 2.3
million troops have served in those two theatres. The military estimate that
about one quarter million of these have traumatic brain injury. Many experts
believe that this number is deliberately conservative and much higher – even double.
There is no way of estimating how many of the combat veterans will develop
significant and permanent symptoms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the New York Times “justifies the obvious” presented in that May 4</span><sup style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;">th</sup><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;">
</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;">posting. Worth scrolling </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;">back to read it.</span></div>
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from the well written and precise presentation of journalist James Dao. The ‘Times
is always worth the subscription price.<span style="color: #0b5394;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<nyt_headline type=" " version="1.0"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">“Our paper points out in a profound and definitive way that there is an organic, structural problem in the brain associated with blast exposure,” said Dr. Lee E. Goldstein of Boston University’s School of Medicine and a lead author of the paper, which was published online Wednesday by the peer-reviewed journal </span><a href="http://stm.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.3003716" style="background-color: white; color: #666699; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Science Translational Medicine</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">.</span>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> A careful read of
the ‘Times article already shows a wrangle between the leading “experts” No
doubt some of these “experts” will come out and testify for the professional
football owners that are being sued by their players for their accumulated
injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> Other “experts”
will try to either deny veterans proper compensation for their own injuries.
Or, working for <i>big</i>PHARMA will seek research dollars for a pharmaceutical response.
Already suggested are massive, zombiefieing doses of the beta blocker drug
<i>propranolol</i> by using it as a <i>memory dampener.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">There has to be a
better way. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Throwing money at research groups will likely help but not soon
enough. Giving to charitable groups that actually work hands-on with the
veterans is a better way.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> And then of
course, there is my 30 years of experience with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Promising trials are under way and . . . the good news is that America has lots
of hospital grade chambers out there waiting and ready to treat sport’s
injuries and PTSD veterans at a cost less than a tenth of that charged in
hospitals.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Sandsie with a hospital-quality "Sands S-200" chamber. Large enough to hold a 460lb patient.</b></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;"> All you have to
do to find such a center is Google <i>“Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (plus the city or
location in the US)""</i>and up will pop a bundle of Centers. All you then need is a
physician's prescription. All high quality non-hospital centers have an M.D.
medical director for consult.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Lyme Disease and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><i>Is the oxidative stress "bad" for the Lyme patient?</i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Worth 4 minutes of your time to view this YouTube of Julie. </b></span></td></tr>
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<i style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Are Free-Radicals Good or Bad?</i></h2>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received this email earlier this week:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Becky is consulting
with a new Lyme doctor who seems to really be on the ball in most ways. The one
thing she said that didn't ring true is that hyperbarics are bad for you
because they cause oxidative stress. I recall you addressing this at some point
and wondered if there were any research papers or scholarly articles that would
rebut that point of view. I'd like to educate her.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sandsie's Comment:</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: HelvLight;">"To answer your question regarding free radicals. In a
nutshell, the stress caused during a HBOT treatment is
actually therapeutic and kills bugs. HBOT is unique in that it produces a
stack of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a lot of reactive nitrogen
species (RNS) However, after the HBOT session, the body 'buffers' the excess
there is a rapid scavenging when the body puts out super-oxide dismutase (SOD)"</span><span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: HelvLight;"><b>WHEN YOU HAVE AN EXCESS OF FREE-RADICALS WHEN YOU NEED THEM. . .<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>THAT IS GOOD!</i></b></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: HelvLight;">As needed by Lyme patients for aerobic killing of Bb and to be
sustained through endotoxic shock.</span></i><span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelvLight;"><b><span style="color: #073763;">WHEN YOU HAVE TOO MANY FREE RADICALS WHEN YOU DO NOT NEED THEM .
. .<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>THAT IS BAD</i></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>!</i></span></b></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: HelvLight;">Anyway, this is
not what I say, it is what the scientist say</span><span style="font-family: HelvLight; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Stephen
Thom, M.D, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Chief of Environmental Medicine, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">University</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> of Pennsylvania</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;"> i</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; text-align: justify;">s a leader in
this field of science and courageously educates physicians (who should know
their science) with the facts.</span></span></div>
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Oxidative stress is fundamental to hyperbaric oxygen therapy</h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> "In review, oxidative stress responses triggered by HBO</span><sub style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> improve outcome from a wide variety of postischemic/inflammatory insults. HBO</span><sub style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> also improves ischemic tolerance when used in a prophylactic manner. The basis for these effects is only partially understood. Augmented synthesis of reactive species temporarily inhibits endothelial sequestration of neutrophils by inhibiting β</span><sub style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;">-integrin function and in many tissues HBO</span><sub style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;"> will induce antioxidant enzymes and anti-inflammatory proteins.</span><br />
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This review has highlighted some of the beneficial actions of HBO<sub style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit;">2</sub> and the data that indicate oxidative stress brought about by hyperoxia can have therapeutic effects. <a class="xref-fig" href="http://jap.physiology.org/content/106/3/988.full#F1" id="xref-fig-1-4" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0c5eae; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Figure 1</a> provides a summary of mechanisms, all of which appear to stem from elevations in reactive species. Although there has been substantial advancement of the field in recent years, more work is required to establish the breadth of HBO<sub style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit;">2</sub> utilization in 21st century medicine. Investigations of fundamental mechanisms are still needed, and on the clinical front, patient selection criteria must be clarified to truly make HBO<sub style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit;">2</sub> a cost-effective treatment modality."</div>
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These staggering figures underscore the need for the VA to develop more mental-health programs and an accurate system for recording the number of veterans and service members who take their lives.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"America is losing its battle against suicide by veterans and service members," authors Dr. Margaret C. Harrell and Nancy Berglass concluded.</span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> "And as more troops return from deployment, the risk will only grow."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My sister-in-law is a Colonel in the United States Air Force -- and a skilled trauma surgeon ,living for many years in Germany. When a serviceman was wounded in either Iraq or Afghanistan, within eight hours he/she arrived (via C-17 Globemaster) at the huge <span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">US Military Hospital at Landstuhl. Dramatically traumatized patients delivered to her surgical teams underwent life-saving surgery.</span></span><br />
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Brain Injury Medicine: Principles And Practice</h1>
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"The features of cellular injury, dysfunction, and death have
been described in detail in this section. It is important to appreciate the
cell death is closely related to injury severity. Mild traumatic brain injuries,
especially injuries on the mild end of the spectrum, are typically
characterized by cellular dysfunction that is reversible. There is a continuum
of injury, at the cellular level, ranging from completely and rapidly
reversible cellular dysfunction, to slow but complete recovery, to slow and
incomplete recovery, to cell death. Very mild concussions likely produce
virtually no permanent damage to cells resulting in long-term symptoms or
problems, whereas severe traumatic brain injuries, especially those involving
considerable forces, often produced widespread cellular death and dysfunction
with clear functional consequences; complicated MTBIs and moderate TBI's likely
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Imagine you are standing at the edge of a lovely pond -- full of reeds and water-lilies. Perfection. Undisturbed. You have a bag full of golf-ball sized rocks and the temptation is too much. Instead of throwing into the middle of the pond and watching the generated wave energy dissipate in circles, you slam your first rock into the water, almost at the edge. Weeds, reeds, water-lilies sway backwards and forwards as the crescent shaped energy crosses the pond surface. You repeat the slamming again and again. Then you graduate to larger base-ball sized rocks, heaved into the same disrupted edge. The greater your effort the more immense the energetic pandemonium in the pond.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When you stop, the energy dissipates and the surface looks undisturbed. Most of the pond now looks almost the way it was before you started. But not so. A lot of the vegetation below the surface, has suffered, badly torn, stretched and uprooted. Some of that vegetation that you can see will not survive, wasting away from lack of nutrients.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So too with the brain. Repeating concussive forces tears and stretch axons (the little wires that connect our neurons) and, slowly these axons, as illustrated by the reeds in the pond, degenerate by thickening and even shearing. The brain, a ravenous consumer of oxygen and nutrients -- adenisone triphosphate (ATP) -- starts to "starve" in certain damaged areas. As with the pond, while the damage can be greatest at the edges of the skull, that destructive energy can journey through the entire brain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Even low intensity mechanical injury produces changes to axonal integrity. Repetitious (as in football) "mild" head concussions over the years is the same as coming back </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on a regular basis</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to that same spot beside the pond and slamming more rocks, large and small, into the already damaged area at the edge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So too with our Wounded War Heroes. Many have been exposed to numerous blasts from roadside IED bombs. Their Humvee is blown on its side and and any unmarked soldier that can stand up and say his name and rank goes back into the firing line. Just like Junior did on the playing field - time after time - accumulating additional concussive damage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 6 years ago, I was briefly introduced to the Owner of the Chargers. My staff and I had joined numerous other health services at an outdoor poster session. The owner and his executives strode by and paused a bare moment to glance at our posters. I heard him say </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"we have a hyperbaric chamber and it does not work."</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And he moved on. I chased him.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">65,540</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">20,210</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Acute lymphocytic leukemia</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">5,330</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">1,420</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Chronic lymphocytic leukemia</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">14,990</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">4,390</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Acute myeloid leukemia</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">12,330</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">8,950</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Chronic myeloid leukemia</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; height: 22px; vertical-align: top; width: 173px;">4,870</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">440</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">Other leukemia</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">5,530</td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;">6,640</td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Total leukemias</span></strong></td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">43,050</span></strong></td><td style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: top;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">21,840</span></strong></td></tr>
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<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An estimated 1,340 cancer deaths are expected to occur among children aged 0-14 in 2010—<strong>about one-third of them from leukemia.</strong></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leukemia is the leading cause of death by disease in children and young adults between the ages of 0 and 20</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The 5-year survival rate for childhood leukemia is more than 90%. for the most common form.</b></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leukemia is diagnosed 10 times more often in adults than in children.</span></li>
<li style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Due to advances in treatment, there has been a dramatic improvement in survival for people with acute lymphocytic leukemia, from a 5-year relative survival rate of 42% in 1975 to 1977 to 66% in 1999 to 2005. Survival rates for children with acute lymphocytic leukemia have increased from 58% to 89% over the same time period.</b></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since the early 1970s, incidence rates for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have nearly doubled.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The 1-year relative survival rates for Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma are 92% and 80% respectively; the 5-year rates are markedly lower at 85% and 67%; 10-year survival is 81% and 56% respectively.</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blood cancer does not discriminate; it can effect any age, any race, any gender, any time.Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is the 5<sup>th</sup> most common cancer in the US.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">An estimated 10,000 - 15,000 new cases of MDS will be diagnosed this year. Most patients with MDS are older than 60 years of age. The number of new cases seems to be going up, perhaps because our population is getting older and</span><b style="background-color: #cc0000; color: #333333;"> </b><b><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #333333;">there are more cancer survivors who have had chemotherapy,</span><span style="background-color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"> <span style="color: cyan;">an important </span></span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cc0000;">risk factor</span></span><span style="background-color: #e06666; color: #333333;"> for MDS.</span></b></span></li>
<li style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Every day 118 are diagnosed with leukemia and 60 lose the fight</b></span></li>
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<li style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Every day 203 Americans are diagnosed with lymphoma and 59 lose the fight.</b></span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leukemia strikes males and females of all ages and all races. <strong>It does not discriminate.</strong></span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">TREATING ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer, and 5-year survival rates in the United States have exceeded 70% for over two decades.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Adult survivors of childhood leukemia have increased risks of secondary cancers, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic illnesses, largely secondary to therapies for childhood cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clinicians caring for adult survivors of childhood leukemia should</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">• Request a treatment summary from the treating oncologist, a pediatric oncology program, or a local “survivor clinic.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">• Be aware that adults who received cranial radiotherapy as a component of treatment have increased risks of secondary tumors, stroke, growth hormone deficiency, and neurocognitive deficits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">• Check BMI, blood pressure, and lipids, since survivors of ALL have increased risks of obesity and associated metabolic derangements.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">• Consider bone-density testing, since peak bone density is often reduced after childhood exposure to high-dose glucocorticoids and other therapies.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">• Screen for left ventricular dysfunction in survivors who received anthracycline therapy, particularly if there was a high cumulative dose or treatment was before the age of 5 years.</span></div>
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<li class="contributor" id="contrib-3" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="name" itemprop="name" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="name-search" href="http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/search?author1=E.+Renate+Panzer-Gr%C3%BCmayer&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: 0px; white-space: nowrap;">E. Renate Panzer-Grümayer</a></span>,</li>
<li class="contributor" id="contrib-4" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="name" itemprop="name" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="name-search" href="http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/search?author1=Margit+Koenig&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: 0px; white-space: nowrap;">Margit Koenig</a></span>, </li>
<li class="contributor" id="contrib-5" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="name" itemprop="name" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="name-search" href="http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/search?author1=Oskar+A.+Haas&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-style: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: 0px; white-space: nowrap;">Oskar A. Haas</a></span>, and </li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #403838;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;">Given the few patients we have studied, our conclusions are necessarily speculative. Nevertheless, they provide a plausible explanation for puzzling clinical observations in childhood ALL and should </span><b><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">encourage further molecular scrutiny of patients who are in sustained complete remission after the cessation of therapy or who relapse.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">The “premalignant” interpretation we favor for at least some cases of relapse in ALL may be applicable to some other cancers, such as ovarian and testicular cancer.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="background-color: lime;"> Some of these patients have good prognosis characteristics but unexpectedly relapse many years after initial diagnosis. They are then very responsive clinically, and have good eventual prognosis."</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any initial diagnosis of a malignancy is a grim diagnosis. The news is both good and bad in many instances.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Key to "longevity" as used by Austin (yes! a big word for a young man) is again:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This may include continued scans, bone density scans and bone marrow analysis. Siblings (brothers and sisters) should also be included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">“I wore [the locket Bob lent me] in the hospital. It meant a
lot to me is all I can say, and I wasn’t willing to give it back until I felt
myself again. That was what Bob told me to do. I had it for, probably, a month.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: grey; font-family: 'ArialMT,Bold', sans-serif;"> "</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-indent: 0.5in;">I did five
‘dives’ in the oxygen chamber before and after each surgery. I was out of the
hospital from that first surgery in three days. So I was all excited, realizing
what it does for surgery. <span style="background-color: #d5a6bd;">I don’t know what it does for cancer but I know what
it does for surgery.</span> You would think these doctors would see that. 'You should
refer all of your patients for hyperbarics'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">My
oncologist looked at me like I was from outer space. 'You should save your
money. Go get a massage. It does about the same for you.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size: large;">She didn’t
even want to know. That’s what’s so disheartening to me. I don’t even tell her
anymore. She sees people like me every day. That’s her job. You’d think she
would want to know."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First the Talisman. Twenty years ago my Wise-Old-Aussie-Bush-Mum said to me <i>"Time is your Golden Coin - do not <b>squander</b> it nor let others <b>pilfer</b> it."</i> She then asked me to define those to words.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-indent: 0.5in;">Since Mum made that observation to me I always I carry the golden coin as a daily reminder. I was happy to loan it to the patient. She only returned it and said <i>"Thanks. I now know I am going to live."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">1. </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">April 23 (HealthDay News) -- New research
suggests that scientists are close to developing a simple way to </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">measure oxygen levels in tumors, giving doctors a heads-up about what
kind of treatment is best for individual </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">patients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The findings fit into an emerging trend of individualized treatment
for patients with cancer instead of treating people </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">the same way, said Dr. Mark Dewhirst, a professor of radiation
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"If successful, [the
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who co-wrote a commentary </span></span></i><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">accompanying the new
study, published April 22 in the </span></i><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">Journal
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">Scientists began realizing the important role of oxygen
in tumors about 50 years ago,</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"> said study
co-author James </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">Mitchell, branch chief of radiation biology at the U.S. National
Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research. The </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">scientists discovered that tumors with higher concentrations of oxygen
were more susceptible to radiation, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Radiation damages cells by causing damage to DNA, and one
particular type of damage renders the DNA molecule </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">non-reparable," Mitchell said. </span><b style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">But less oxygen in
the tumor allows tumor cells to survive more easily by making the DNA
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drugs, which also don't work as well when tumors have </span></span></b><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;">less oxygen.</span></b></div>
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"One would think at first that lack of oxygen would make </span></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">tumors unhealthy and easy to kill," he said.
"But actually, the opposite happens -- tumor cells that lack oxygen become
more aggressive and more difficult to kill."</span></span></b></div>
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through the body, he said.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doctors can check oxygen levels in patients by inserting a needle. But
doctors can't insert needles into some patients, and. in others, it's difficult
to insert the needle deep enough, Mitchell said. In the new study, the
researchers tested a scanning technique called pulsed electron paramagnetic
resonance imaging and used it in tandem with magnetic resonance imaging. The
study authors said they were able to successfully measure oxygen levels in
tumors in mice by using the non-invasive technology.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The imaging that is described in this study provides all of the
information necessary to evaluate oxygen levels in </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">tumors as well as to examine underlying causes for the lack of
oxygen," Dewhirst said. "The fact that all of the imaging is
completely non-invasive provides the ability to perform this measurement more
than once, (meaning) this </span><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; font-size: large;">could be used to monitor the effectiveness of cancer therapy."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> This is Sandsie's special Friend -- "Thread Bare." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was three years old when we became friends. Over the next 67 years, he came with me for a three months stay in an infectious disease hospital in Australia when I had diphtheria; he was there for me when I came home from a Sydney hospital at the age of 36 (five kids whatsmore) with a one year prognosis to live from carcinoma; again when I was 46 years old and diagnosed with mesothelioma (lung cancer) and two years to live; and then again, 14 years ago when I had major surgery for cancer and was told by my surgeon that the most I could live was <i>"three, maybe five years at the most."</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I lift my little Thread Bare down from his perch and feel comforted by the touch of a good friend. My adult children all want him for themselves at sometime in the future. I have cut a deal with them and each have him for one year and pass him on for another year of friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the picture of Thread Bare looking at a little leukemia patient through the window is to reassure her that being in the chamber would not cause pain. This young lady had her own talisman friend "Bee" as in B-for-Bear inside with her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, when children came to my hyperbaric centers they assumed that there would be more pain, more fear. I would bring Thread Bare and say "he will look through the window the entire time, and this will be the best treatment that you have ever had." Always cheered the little sufferers up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bee now sits alone in the bedroom of this lovely little girl -- her folks have made the room a shrine since she "gained angel wings and flew". This child was a gifted artist. Wonderful paintings, some complete, some almost. The parents later told me that they often come into her room and pat Bee on the head to say thanks for the comfort that she gave to their daughter. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I cannot show this lovely little girls face. Too much pain to go around. You need to scroll back a few postings to see that the oncologist "forbade" the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the child. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Would she have survived (look all the other leukemia kids that we have treated) if he had said <i>"well OK, it is worth a try"</i>? I cannot say, I am not a physician. I do know that, for the few times she came for HBOT treatments at SD Center, she did so well. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also know that the oncology staff at Rady San Diego Children's Hospital (who send leukemia kids in crisis) would have written the Rx. to add HBOT to the Los Angeles oncologist's regular response.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The moral for parents: Enrol your oncologist with the latest science. </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want peer review scientific papers, then send an email to info@hboinfo.com, and the good folks at the Healing Chambers International Centers will respond with an email of the latest science for you to present to your oncologists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Enough glum stories to tear at heartstrings . . . next two posts are on the reality of adding HBOT as an adjunct to conventional oncology and the success that it brings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother: <i> I do not know why I have to chose or which is which . . .</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother: <i>OK, I will make the choice after I have done some due diligence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #134f5c; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good and caring physician -- but his hands tied by the rules and regulations of Californian Civil Codes and the medical protocols as approved by that hospital. The upshot was the family took the child to Texas to another Oncology Center. Eight years later, the lass shows no sign of A.L.L. but the continuous use of steroids has resulted in Cushing's Disease -- the classic buffalo hump on her back and an extreme growth of hair (hirsute) -- not much fun in teenage years. But better than the extreme alternative</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Father: <i> In that case, I will take him to Texas. I hear that they do well there with this form of leukemia.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oncologist: <i>I forbid you removing this child from this hospital. Trust me, before you could get across the parking lot to your car, I would have a Judge's order making your son a ward of the State of California, and before you could unlock your car, the Sheriff would block you and Child Protective Services would bring your son back inside. In fact, your son would no longer be yours until he was 18 years of age.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #45818e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good and caring physician -- now a friend of mine. "S<i>andsie, I defied the largest egos in this hospital to send him to you for hyperbarics. My heart was in my mouth the whole time. Now I have evidence that HBOT assists these children, as a Professor of Oncology, I have the right to Rx. any child and I will use it."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #134f5c; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On another occasion my new oncologist friend told me </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> "I lost 14 of my little patients last year. Each time I failed them and their parents, I think that I grieved as much as if it was one of my own two children with the added component of guilt." </i>And,</span></div>
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throat lumps and bumps. </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“What's the matter with you”</span></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
asked?</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">– </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the purposes of the blog and patient
confidentiality we will give him a name “Bill”.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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told me </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I have just been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. I have a large
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painkilling drugs that would get me through the chemotherapy. I just do not
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something else before we go the conventional route. Let us try diet, hyperbaric
oxygen therapy. I am a believer in ‘New German
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“My dad will write it”</i> answered Bill.</span></div>
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Hawaii. The Tradewinds had turned up a
huge ocean, with 45 feet facers washing against the windward sides of the
islands. The beach that Sophie and I
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nonetheless, out of the blue ocean came huge wave and we
instantly went from ankle-deep to chest deep.
Sophie disappeared in the white foam up into the jungle. Then as the
huge wave receded, the tiny head popped up out of the water and she was being
rushed out to sea. As she came beneath my legs at a great rate, I scooped her
out of the water. An Australian Rules football
player could not have been more precise. A lot of the watching people are
applauded and yelled. Then I heard a voice call <i>“Sandsie, Sandsie”</i> and here was
Liz. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had not seen Liz for three years – she was a Hodgkin's Lymphoma
patient that had come from Detroit to our San Diego hyperbaric center. Her
physician had prescribed hyperbaric oxygen therapy prior to regular oncology
treatments. But she could not find the clinic that would treat her, even with her
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the Clinic she said<i> "Sandsie, the scans show I have a huge mass in my abdomen, but it does not hurt at all. I feel fine -- and as you know, I dance for a living."</i></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All told Liz had about thirty </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">treatments before she had to return back to her home state. </span></div>
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lost back of her for some years. Now he she was standing on a beach in Hawaii on her
honeymoon. </span><br />
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could not believe just how little I needed by way of chemotherapy. I did not need radiation at all -- something that they were insisting on before my hyperbarics. I am now
totally healthy and back dancing for a
living.” </i> </span><br />
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doubts in our mind that hyperbarics would only help him and not hurt him.<i> “My
father is so doubtful. He believes that the mass in my chest is so involved around my heart, I need immediate radiation to shrink it to survive. But I told him that if I was not seeing improvements with hyperbaric oxygen then I would do it his way. So he wrote the prescription.” </i></span></div>
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treatment, his scans show a twenty percent reduction in the size of the lymphoid mass.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. . . <span style="background-color: #bf9000;">all of this with zero regular oncology interventions</span> – just hyperbaric
oxygen, “German Medicine” and exercise. Six months later, Bill is back to being
his old self. None of the pain, the hair loss, the alteration of moods with
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BLOG </span></div>Sandsiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09883988081689637057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486187308507531039.post-42094452567357493662012-04-08T18:45:00.000-07:002012-07-01T19:55:09.744-07:00Side Effects of Chemo and Radiation reduced by HBOT<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">The problem with many cancers (such as RMS) is that they usually do not cause pain or symptoms until they are in an advanced stage (Stage III & IV) and present urgent and radical response for the patient.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This small patient (pictured with Children's Advocate Kelly LeBrock) had two stem-cell transplants. Unfortunately she developed a lethal response as described in the study below. Her Los Angeles M.D. oncology specialist<u><i> refused </i></u>to add hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an adjunct desspite the pleading of the parents. In most of the United States, if your child is under the age of 18, then the law allows a disagreeable M.D. to call Child Protective Services and you, as parent have no say. Would adding HBOT as an adjunct to the oncologists cocktail have saved her? A high possibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">"Secondary cancer</strong><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">: Perhaps the most devastating late complication of treatment for any type of cancer, not just RMS, is the development of a second form of cancer. The use of chemotherapy and radiation can cause second cancers to develop. Chemotherapy-associated secondary cancers are most commonly leukemias (typically Acute Myeloid Leukemia [AML]), and may be associated with the use of alkylating agents (cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide), and topoisomerase II inhibitors (etoposide and doxorubicin). The risk of secondary leukemia is, fortunately, quite low (generally between 1 and 2%). Radiation is also associated with the development of second cancers, most commonly other sarcomas (either in bone or soft tissue). At the doses of radiation that are currently used to treat children with RMS, the risk of secondary sarcomas is approximately 5% at 20 years (Ref. 82). Unlike the situation with secondary leukemias, which typically develop within four years of treatment, most cases of secondary sarcomas do not develop until 5+ years after the end of treatment (Ref. 82). The contribution of underlying "genetic risk factors" to the development of treatment-induced cancers is being actively investigated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Kuttesch JF Jr, Wexler LH, Marcus RB, et al. Second malignancies after Ewing’s sarcoma: radiation dose-dependency of secondary sarcomas. Journal of Clinical Oncology 1996; 14:2818-2825.</span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Novel therapies are desperately needed for this group of patients.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">. . . </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">simultaneously, pilot clinical trials are also ongoing to evaluate the ability of a "genetically matched" sibling’s immune system to control a patient’s alveolar RMS tumor following a "mini"- allogeneic stem cell transplant.'</span></span><br />
<a href="http://sarcomahelp.org/">http://sarcomahelp.org</a>
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<i>Bone Marrow Transplantation</i> (2003) <b>32,</b> 925–931. doi:10.1038/sj.bmt.1704252</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">"Hemorrhagic cystitis (HC) is a cause of morbidity and extended hospitalization after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Its incidence has been reported to range from 7 to 68%. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">HC is manifested in two forms: early-onset HC, which usually appears within 48–72 h following chemotherapy, and late-onset HC, which occurs during the first 2–3 months after HSCT.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now the really good news from the same study . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #073763; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>The main finding emerging from our data was the superiority of HBOT over the other measures used to treat HC, although it was used in the most severe cases and introduced late, when supportive measures and PGE2 had already failed to control the disease.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">HOT is extensively used where tissue damage is caused by hypoxic injury, for its capacity to stimulate angiogenesis and prompt healing.<sup><a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib57" style="color: #663399;">57</a></sup> Radiation-induced and chemical HC are characterized by much the same mucosal damage, for example, progressive obliterative endoarteritis of small vessels, telangiectasia, ischemia, ulceration, bleeding and eventually fibrosis. The efficacy of HBOT in HC induced by pelvic irradiation has already been reported by several authors,<sup><a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib22" style="color: #663399;">22</a>,<a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib23" style="color: #663399;">23</a>,<a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib24" style="color: #663399;">24</a>,<a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib25" style="color: #663399;">25</a></sup> but only anecdotal reports have analyzed the role of HBOT in HC after HSCT.<sup><a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib25" style="color: #663399;">25</a>,<a href="http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v32/n9/full/1704252a.html#bib58" style="color: #663399;">58</a></sup> The high cure rate (78.5%) obtained in our study, in patients refractory to other medical treatments, suggests that HBOT may play an important part in a conservative approach to HC in HSCT recipients too. Other potential advantages, such as a faster recovery from HC, the need for fewer transfusions and a shorter hospital stay should be addressed by future controlled trials.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;">Carson was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia and, while in the hospital, developed a severe opportunistic infection with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; text-align: justify;">dissementated mucormycosis </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;">during the induction phase of his chemotherapy. This usually fatal infection is not uncommon in the severely immunosuppressed patients such as Carson. The infection is so rapid and lethal, the conventional medical response is an urgent mixture of surgery (debride until bleeding tissue is found) and antifungal agents.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: maroon;">In a ten-day period, Carson surgeon's removed one kidney from Carson, his spleen and most of his colon. </span><u><span style="color: maroon;">Plans were made to remove the little boy's left lung and his stomach.</span></u> </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;">Staff at Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego did not believe that Carson would survive the surgery and at the urging of Carson’s mother, herself an M.D. they considered adding hypberbaric oxygen therapy (“HBOT”) for his survival. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;">They consulted local San Diego hospital-based HBOT centers and were turned away. No options to treat Carson . . . </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #003572; text-align: justify;">“Yes, this soft-tissue infection is covered by our guidelines. We would love to help but our wound care patients have us jammed for weeks . . .” </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>S</b>eptember 2007</u>. During grand-rounds review at Children's Hospital, Carson's progress was reviewed. It was noted that he was the only little patient that has none of the usual sequels to his maintenance chemotherapy. Unlike the other little patients, Carson's hair is growing thick and strong, he has no aches or pains and is full of bouncing vitality. In essence, a "normal" little boy. The question was raised <span style="color: red;"><i>"What is Carson doing that these other children are not doing?"</i></span> The answer was <i>"<span style="color: red;">three HBOT sessions each week!"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Carson's HBOT Rx was to prevent the return of the fungus, the fact that his progress was greater than other little patients begged an answer to the question <span style="color: red;"> </span><i><span style="color: red;">"should HBOT be a standard an adjunctive therapy for leukemia and lymphoma patients?" </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer could well lie in the fact that stem cells from bone marrow transplants are a common survival approach but hard to find<b> --</b></span><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"As many as 16,000 leukemia patients require a bone marrow transplant but have no matched relative or can't find a match in the national bone marrow registry -- </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;">Mary J Laughlin, M.D. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Comprehensive Cancer Center and University Hospital of Cleveland Ireland Cancer Center. November 30 -2004</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The miraculous recovery of Carson -- treated with HBOT for one primary insult but demonstrating that it works for another -- is a classic example of what Professor of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Stephen Thom, M.D. calls "mechanistic approach to hyperbaric oxygen therapy"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the four years since Carson was transported in to our Center for what was thought to be his last week on the face of the Planet, HCI Centers have treated many leukemia and lymphoma patients, children and adults, under the supervision of specialist oncologists, with great success.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carson has had over 500 HBOT sessions over a 4 year period under medical supervision.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CARSON THEN AND NOW <span style="font-size: x-small;">(note the size of Carson with the Clinic's "Welcome Dog" Socket.)</span></b></span></div>
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Carson's is a testimony to the determination of his physician Mom and his Dad, and a Rady Children's Hospital of San Diego oncologist ("Dr. Jen") who courageously stepped out of the "boundaries of conventional cancer treatment" and performed a miracle by adding HBOT. </div>
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