"It's Great to Be Able to Walk on My Own Again!"

"On January 6, 2000, I went in for an angiogram because I more or less failed a treadmill test. I just could not do it at all. I was huffing and puffing, and they had to stop it. They decided to do an angiogram and while I was watching it on the screen, he knocked off a piece of plaque that caused a stroke. It was not what I would call a normal stroke caused by your own body.

"They put me in intensive care for several days, and then put me down in another room. I had to be helped to go to the bathroom, because I just couldn't walk. My legs were mush. They were like wet noodles.

"I had double vision, really double vision. While looking at the TV, I saw two superimposed on each other. I was laying there for 2 or 3 days and I said "Why don't you send me up to therapy?" But no, they could not do that.

"So my kids came and said, "Do you want to go out of here and have hyperbaric oxygen therapy at Whitaker Wellness?" I said, "I want to go!" It was like, rescue me! I had a subscription to your newsletter, so I knew all about you. Well, the doctor came in, and tried to tell me that there was nothing proven about hyperbaric. But my family signed me out against the hospital's wishes.

"At your clinic, I had hyperbaric, chelation, and EECP. From literally having to be helped to walk, I graduated to a walker, and I could do that on my own, but it was tedious.

"And then, after a few sessions of hyperbaric, I was carrying the walker because it was a nuisance. It just went from there to better all the way. I still have a little bit of double vision in my left eye, but generally I'm really much, much, much better.

"Thank you, Dr. Whitaker! It's great to be able to walk on my own again!"

— Jacqueline Monaco, Yorba Linda, California

"I Can Drive Again"

"My husband had been taking the newsletter for several years. He talked me into going to your clinic because I had a stroke. I couldn't even get out of bed when I had the stroke, and I was in rehab for a couple of weeks after my hospitalization. It was a lot of work learning to walk again.

"Your clinic got me off of the prescription drugs for thyroid, hormones, and blood pressure. Now I take natural hormone and natural thyroid therapy and that's the only medications. Everything else is vitamins and supplements.

"When I went to your clinic, I wasn't driving yet. Now I can drive. I don't go long distances but I can run little errands, just in the neighborhood. I have more confidence being able to do that I'm also able to get out and work in the garden and do some light housework that I hadn't been doing. I can do more things all the time.

"Your staff said I was headed for diabetes because my sugar insulin thing was so high. After just a week at your clinic, from Monday to Friday, it had improved to where it was a normal reading.

"Now my health is much better. My cholesterol and insulin, all my blood work is better. And my gout improved, too. Before, I would have an episode probably every other week. Sometimes I got so bad I couldn't get my shoes on. Now I've only had a couple of problems since March.

"I've lost 20 pounds. So far, and I would like to lose more. When I came home, I threw away all the bad stuff and then went shopping at the health food store. That will make a difference. It may be slow, but we will stick to it.

"I'm sorry I didn't start at your clinic 20 years ago. Oh, it's wonderful! I would recommend it to anyone."

— Virginia S., Colorado

"Your Program Changed My Life"

"My husband and I spent a week at your clinic after I had a stroke and have now been to your clinic four times. I have been taking Forward Plus and other specific nutraceuticals prescribed at your clinic, and I exercise regularly.

"I have been in good health for the last seven years, and have gotten off most medications. Your program has changed my life for the better. I am 80 years old, and God willing, I will continue to enjoy my senior years. Thank you all so much."

— Jean Detels, Bainbridge Island, Washington

“Nothing Short of Miraculous”

Vic, a 71-year-old who had two strokes in the summer of 1999, left the hospital in a wheelchair with severe speech, vision, and hearing deficits. After one month in a rehabilitation center, he was sent home. His wife was advised that there was no hope of improvement and it was suggested that she put him in a nursing home.

Refusing to accept this, his wife called the Whitaker Wellness Institute for help. She brought her husband to the clinic for hyperbaric oxygen therapy some six months after his initial stroke and he returned for a second course of treatment a few months later. Three weeks ago when Dr. Donald Jolly, the director of our hyperbaric center, arrived at work, he noticed Vic and his wife walking around the parking lot. They had come to express their gratitude and show us how miraculously far Vic had come. Although he continues to have a little trouble with his balance, Vic walks at least a mile a day and is back to his former activities. His improvements, according to both Vic and his wife, are “nothing short of miraculous.”

— from Health & Healing by Julian Whitaker, MD