A day of reckoning...

[dogboy]

After 8 years, I finally figured out what really killed my dogs and almost killed me several times throughout my life.  Toxic mold. I finally connected the dots and confirmed everything with controlled (and corroborated) tests which snapped everything into perfect focus.  Every tiny thing that stummped me now is now easily explainable.

I just got done with a drive from PA to FL, and my mind has been on fire, and I'm dead on my feet, but I had to tell you because I feel like an enormous weight has been taken off my shoulders.

1.) I wasn't to blame for what happened to them.
2.) I finally figured out the primary cause of the syndrome, after everyone told me it was beyond anyone's capacity to solve.

...had I figured it out earlier, maybe I could have saved them. But now that I know I can save a lot of dogs the same fate. This is going to have to be laid out so that vets and doctors and scientists can follow it and fill in the details, but I have the big picture and a working understanding of how my sickness and theirs was tied together, but not the way we imagined. But this isn't just a guess, I now know how to test for it, and after doing 5 million tests that said nothing was wrong, I finally found the ones that flag the problem.

But as it turned out, the kennel was in fact contaminated, and so was my house, it was the right call afterall to evacuate and leave everything. My girlfriend (at the time) ended up in the hospital after she left (me) and almost died of an unknown illness. (Not my fault, either:)

Anyway, I don't know if I can reverse the damage it's done to me but the guys came in today to clean it up. But I think I got this thing now.  I can't tell you how hard I've thought about this. Hell, I spent $10k developing a vaccine w a vet from Cornell that didn't work because we were treating a secondary disease instead of the primary cause.

This this ruined my life. I can't tell you how good it feels to finally solve the puzzle.  I can explain all my health issues, going back to when I was 4 and developed asthma and at 7 when I got gallstones. The thing I never figured out was that when I bailed out of UT and went back to PA, the house there was affected too but not as bad. Essentially, the only paces I wasn't sick was when I lived in the SW and Alaska.

[littleman]

I am glad you figured it out DB.  This reminds me of what happened to my wife.  She has Grave's disease, but it went misdiagnosed for much of her life and some doctors chalked it up to chronic fatigue syndrome (which may or may not be a real disease). 

Anyway, Grave's is tied to extreme hyperthyroidism, she would have a resting heart rate of 150 and pass out.  One time I took her to the doctor with broken blood vessels in her eyes and her heart racing.  This was like 15 years ago, before we were married.  I had no clue what was going on with here, but there was the previous diagnosis of CFG.  I told the doc about it, and it was like a switch went off in her head and no matter what the symptoms were if she heard the words 'chronic fatigue syndrome' the patient must be a hypochondriac.

On the way out of that doctors office Jenn passed out, I carried her to my car and took her to the emergency room at a local hospital.  Someone there had the insight to have an endocrinologist test her thyroid.   As it turns out her numbers were sky-high.  She received treatment and got better.

I guess the point I am trying to make is that one bad diagnosis caused years of problems that could have easily been prevented.

[dogboy]

I'm glad to hear she got a handle on it.  I'm hoping I caught this in time to do something about it too, although after you see those blood images, you'll see, I'm getting close to the edge.

Although I have all sorts of other positive tests now, I attached images from my live blood scan movie, because it really shows the state of my health and that I was running out of time. If you don't know what healthy blood should look like, it makes some interpretation a little hard, but you can see all the blood cells that faded into the background (anemia) that should be bright white. Also the cells are starting to lose their round shape looking like lemons. I saw parasites and bacteria, swimming around. Lots of fungus (more than the tech had ever seen before) and the glow in the dark crystals that cause gallstones, etc. floating literally everywhere.

I also have a name of the latest thing, but this goes all the way back since I was born.  Honestly, what I discovered connected so many dots on so many problems I was working on, it's staggering.  The scope is so much bigger than I ever thought possible.  Too much to post here.  And there are all sorts of mushers, and other sick people that need to know what I learned, and how and when to test for this so that there is no question, no argument.  This isn't opinion and theory anymore.  I nailed it and I can finally prove it definitively and repeatedly and there are no more anomalies that can't be explained. Every piece in the jigsaw puzzel fits now.  In fact, once a few pieces fell into place I realized that multiple puzzles actually were all the same puzzel and they are all fitting together now into a massive, comprehensive image.

I spent 1h and a half on the phone with my old friend and competitor, who I used to race against.  He got his undergrad from Harvard and his medical degree from Yale. He is a hand surgeon now.  But more importantly, he followed my story all along, and ran into the same situation in his kennel, like all of us and we talked for hours back then, comparing notes, and exploring possibilities. He also saw me fall apart, my face break out into weeping lesions, etc.

And he agreed, I got it by the throat now, and I'm pretty much morally obligated to share this with at least the other mushers, if not the whole medical community and he said he'd help me with the biological processes involved to fill in the mechanical details.

[dogboy]

uploads of my blood didnt work (error says attachments folder is full?)

Here is a thermography image of my inflamed glands, throat, and top of my lungs

[grnidone]

>1.) I wasn't to blame for what happened to them.

DB, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you that a long time ago.  I'm so SO glad you've found the missing puzzle piece.  Your health will improve dramatically NOT just because you have found the issue, but because now you won't have so much stress from a needless weight you've been hauling around for years. 

And were you giving me sh*t when you told me you were wearing harpo glasses? 

Can you tell us what kind of mold it was?  A particular type of mold?  Or a combination?  I'm currently living in an old house (build in 1922) and when one of the kids with asthma comes over, he cant' even walk in without it causing an attack.  I've got old wall paper falling off the walls from a lot of old water leaks.  That there is mold here is no question, but for some reason it doesn't bother me.  (yet)

How does one test for this? 

[dogboy]

I'd just get out of that house asap. I'll explain later.

Some thoughts on testing yourself, if you don't show any symptoms yet thats good.  That means move and dextox, and then detox regularly after that.

If you were sick, and preliminary tests showed yeast/fungal were unbalanced, then you might want to do what I'm doing called a mytoxin(?) test.  It will take them 30 days to culture it, but if that name and the one they found in my closet are the same then we have a match, because that mold was not present in the outside control group at that time. 

I think the 'live blood scan' is also a great way to go.  You see the fungus. You see the state of your blood. You see bacteria swimming around, etc.  In my case you see those glow in the dark crystals that mean you are leeching calcium from your body because you are too acidic. Thats why I got gallstones at 7. Root cause, exposure to high levels of toxins, with an inability to get rid of them.