I had so many health issues from childhood on, but this particular success story dwells on what happened when the cardiologist told my husband, the day I refused heart surgery, while walking out of the hospital cardiac floor, "She will die in the parking lot if you take her out of here without surgery!" That was in 1992 and I'm still here and healthier than I had been my whole life!

During the years of working with a really genius young doctor I developed shortness of breath, swollen legs and ankles, chest pains, leg pains when walking very far and more fatigue complicated by Meinere's vertigo that had started in my mid twenties. Genius doctor sent me to a neighboring cardiologist office who diagnosed a Mitral Valve Prolapse  problem.  He let me watch the scan and I could see the valve flapping back and forth and not completely stopping the blood flow as it should. I was assured that if I took antibiotics with any procedures I could live a long happy life with exercise and care! Well I was never really free of the chest pain and shortness of breath even with exercise and proper diet.

After leaving the brilliant Internist I fell into a whole exciting but gut wrenching profession of preparing and opening new medical offices for new doctors or trouble shooting some offices or doctor's that weren't working very well. Setting up new offices entailed finding the right people to work the office, instituting medical office procedures, office manuals, overseeing the installation of computer programs to fit each need with insurance billing training, scheduling, patient triage, etc.. Or with trouble shooting an office it meant going in and evaluating the office and employees and make changes that would make them profitable and effective. Sometimes it took hard decisions that wasn't liked a lot but in the end proved to be the right moves. Stress galore!

During these 17 years I also took on a teaching position at a paramedical school and taught Medical Office Management and Medical Assisting nights but within just a matter of weeks after starting the teaching position I was approached to set up and open a new medical clinic in San Bernardino California, which was in proximity to the Paramedical School making it feasible to do both. So I was working double shifts five days a week.

Being overworked set up a situation that created crises flare-ups with my fibromyalgia and another step in searching for alternative treatments that the average traditional medical profession could not offer, in order to alleviate the pains. Conventional/traditional medical profession was unable to control my pain without heavy sedative effects that wouldn't allow me to work if I took the pain meds.  This is to say I didn't know how to slow down. So for several years I lived with the chest pains, shortness of breath and discomfort of fibromyalgia pain and took huge doses of antidepressants that was prescribed. Didn't stop the pains and I wasn't depressed so nothing changed except I slept nights, which was difficult. All of those take a toll on the body and I should have recognized what was happening but I ignored it.

While managing a clinic in Palm Springs California with a very difficult and demanding doctor, I began to experience more extensive chest pains and leg pains, more frequent shortness of breath and problems walking very far without almost passing out... Pain in my legs told me I had PAD (peripheral arterial disease) After having a  stress test & thallium stress, I was told I had 75% to 80% blocked heart arteries along with my existing valve problem making it perilous, according to the cardiologist.  I was putting a lot of nitroglycerin under my tongue to try and control the chest pains. After one particularly harrowing day of almost passing out after lunch and about 7 steps up to the office and taking too many nitro, without results I called my primary physician. She had me go into the office 60 miles away and then she scheduled me to see a cardiologist and within minutes of seeing my latest stress results and how many nitro I was using he sent me across the street to the hospital. I was unknowingly scheduled for angioplasty with probable bypass without and needless to say I was not happy when I was informed of that. I have typical blonde veins and they pop without provocation and I knew that the outcome of a bypass would be bad even with the angiogram I was risking stroking or arresting on the table due to those very thin veins. I refused either the angiogram or possible bypass, that was before stenting was done, and left Loma Linda University hospital Cardiac ward AMA. Not without some pressure not to...  The cardiologist followed my husband and I down the hall telling my husband,  "She will die in the parking lot if you take her out of here without surgery!". 

I walked out anyway and went looking for a doctor who I had previously thought of as a quack, in Orange County California where I had done a consulting stint eight years before.  The Medical Head doctor had told me about Chelation IV therapy and I his IV therapy room but could not comprehend it could possibly be real. On this search after leaving Loma Linda I was unable to find the clinic, as they had since left and nobody seemed to know where they had moved to and apparently changed the name of the clinic as well. We then went to a health food store looking for books on chelation or to find a Chelationist. That was before google. I found Dr Julian Whitaker in Newport Beach and called his Wellness Clinic for an appointment the next day.

For anyone who has a heart problem, PAD, circulatory problems, autoimmune disease YOU WILL BE DOING YOURSELF A GREAT SERVICE TO HAVE CHELATION IV THERAPY! Go to the library or online and get the books "Forty Something Forever" by Harold Brecher and "Bypassing the Bypass" by Elmer Cranton, M.D., to see what thousands know and have experienced with Chelation IV therapy. There is  Oral Chelation but I have not had anyone tell me that they have had great reversals from the oral so I recommend IV.