How Do you Spell R-E-L-I-E-F? For Me It has been YOUR Prayers and Well wishes
Dear Subscriber,
I have just returned from Texas. I planned this trip in November to again see my own outstanding physician, Aldon Williams, MD of Boerne Texas for a follow up treatment to my neck for some chronic degeneration and to see the solar eclipse. Turned out that it was overcast during the eclipse. But luckily, we went west of Boerne expecting better weather. Sure enough, in Boerne and San Antonio, heavy cloud cover obscured the eclipse but not the eerie darkness during the daytime event. When the sun was 99% eclipsed, a “miraculous” break in the clouds came over right where we were and we were able to see the astronomical phenomenon clearly for about 20% of the duration of the 4-minute event, well enough to squeal with joy, and hear yelps from the closest people about half mile away.
The next day was my day for treatment. To bring you up to speed I needed relief from the shingles at this time, more than my original plan – my neck. As you might recall, almost 7 weeks ago, I told you about a “demonic pain”. It was indescribably horrible. It felt like molten lava had been poured over about 15% of my body, and that a creature from hell was crawling through me, capturing my body, but not my soul. We did everything in our office that we do for all other shingles patients. And, they (to the best of my memory) all got well. I did not, despite the best ozone and supplement plan we could think of. In retrospect, I think my big mistake was not taking anti-virals as soon as the rash emerged. But, alas, I did not.
After about 4 weeks, we received a new device in the office to do hyperthermia therapy. It is actually a high-power dome sauna that can raise your core body temperature to 103+ in some 20 minutes. I made it to 103.1. Goal: immune system activation. This activates my NK (natural killer) cells, which is outstanding for almost any infection and also may help treat cancer, which is temperature sensitive. Cancer cells can easily hide themselves from NK cells, which if the NK cells could “see” the cancer, the NK cells would destroy them. So, I tried if for my shingles. And yes, my pain fell from a score of 15 on scale of 10 to below 5. Not out of the woods, nor comfortable, I at last had some degree of functionality. I continued special topical balms and supplements which likely helped to some degree, since my pain level eventually dropped to a stable 2 on a scale of 10 the worst. Low enough to be functional, but high enough to be quite uncomfortable. My skin remained hypersensitive, burning even with my cotton undershirt lightly brushing my skin on my back and chest. I would not have wanted to live the rest of my life with that, but at least it was not a 15.
In past posts I told you most everything I did, which was a lot. I think all that I did had a positive effect in lowering unbearable pain to “tolerable”. And, I continued to get scores of well wishes and notices of prayers from my Substack audience.
Then I flew to San Antonio so see Aldon, as planned. Aldon Williams, MD is a trained anesthesiologist and long-term pain specialist. He was introduced to ozone therapy about 7 years ago by my friend Howard Robins (Sierra Leone (Ebola)
blood brother). Dr. Robins suggested that Aldon come to see us for further training, and he did. I asked Aldon at our training workshop why a world class anesthesiologist would come to me, when he has all the imaging (fluoroscopy) equipment to do miracles we cannot do. He answered, “Because I know you don’t have the imaging, and that you get results by your anatomic locating techniques similar to me in non-complicated cases, and I wanted to see how you do it.” What an honor to us! He trained with us that weekend on hyperbaric 10 pass ozone which he was not doing at the time, and also on how we located our injection sites anatomically and with kinesiology. He quickly adopted 10 pass. He returned a few years later for training in EBOO/ozone dialysis, and quickly made that his primary blood ozone modality, finding it performed even better than 10 pass in his hands.
But, Aldon has imaging equipment. We do not. Yes, that makes treatments significantly more expensive, but when needed, it is more than worth it. For example, his equipment enables him to precisely treat areas, especially in the spine, where otherwise we would not even consider attempting. So, in those cases, we have referred out to him. This is what I needed for both my neck and now chronic shingles pain.
I am writing this on Wednesday April 10. Yesterday he did his treatment. I received an IV which I will discuss below, and local injection to my spine, which I will also discuss below. I could tell immediately upon arising that there was a change, but I was sedated and could not tell how much. Upon returning to his house, I estimated about 50% reduction in my residual pain. We all were happy and he predicted a good outcome. This morning on arising, I felt a miracle had happened. My pain was well below a 1, but I had to wait a few hours because my morning pain had always been better than after up and around for a few hours with my arm swinging and feeling like two open blisters were rubbing against each other in my axilla (arm pit). This morning, I actually had to think about the pain to feel the discomfort. My clothing no longer burned me simply by rubbing against the still present shingles rash. At the airport I could haul my luggage, load it into the overhead rack, and carry a daypack without even thinking about the discomfort, since it just was not present enough to be in my consciousness. I still bear a bit of irritation, so I cannot say I am at zero, but I rate my pain level now less than 0.5. If I had to live out my life with this, I would be forever grateful. (Update – on Thursday April 11, level is about 1 minus. Some irritated skin and light burning remains but little pain).
Before I get to the proprietary portion of this post, I want to comment on something unrelated. On my way to Texas, I met a 737 full captain. We made friends, discussed ozone therapy for himself, and had a short exchange about the recent events on United Boeing planes. He commented, affirming what I had posted months ago about this matter. He said that before the Boeing-Douglass merger, Boeing’s sole mission was airplane safety of unparalleled excellence. Douglass had a different philosophy, and sadly Douglass executives took over the merged airplane maker and sold safety short and emphasized political correctness, profits, and eventually DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). United also recently adopted DEI policies. He lamented that these recent moves to “political correctness” were very likely factors in the Boeing plane crashes, the United door blowout and other near misses. This is the ramification of the recent move in our culture to political correctness, DEI (better spelled DIE), rather than the old system of merit and excellence. He would not want to fly on a plane piloted by a captain who got his job through DEI, but rather through proven competence and capability.
Aldon Williams, MD is a minority. He and I also spoke about this. He considers himself proof that one does not need politically correct DEI to make it to the top of his field. What is needed is hard work, study, accomplishment and merit. Aldon told me his story, which is not relevant here, other than to say he made it to the top by his own amazing merit, hard work and ability (competence and capability), not by minority status. He likewise believes that the current “political correctness” is doing everyone a disservice. I consider him at the very top of his field.
Now for the details of his treatment of me.