Five years ago I was told that I would never walk again and would be paralyzed for the rest of my life.
Al Meilus and his colleague Mike Ryan were responsible for giving me my life back. In the last video, the screen will go blank during the commercial breaks then come back on again.
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health/your_health&id=7162451
http://meilus.com/Videos/VideoPlayer/TabId/403/VideoId/234/TV-Special-With-Sheli-Sanders.aspx
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/Dr_Jo_Accupressure
Have included what happened to me below. I hope it will maybe give inspiration to any of you who have been told there is no hope:
I had the best luck in the world during the last 25 years; my mate stood on a landmine in front of me in the Falklands [ just after the war ] and it didn’t go off. I stood on one in Tajikistan and it didn’t go off. Everyone in Yemen I was with caught a very bad strain of hepatitis except me. Survived an aircraft decompression at 30,000 feet, three attempted kidnappings, and was on two planes on two separate occasions in Nigeria that went down two or three days after I’d been on them with loss of all on board.
I knew it wouldn’t last forever.
Five years ago,things went very bad for me. I got two doses of malaria back to back in Nigeria. The second time, they gave me “false drugs”[ drugs made of chalk, salt etc, but packaged in perfect manufacturer’s boxes”. You can’t tell the difference in capsule from. I nearly died. Very ill. Came back to the States to recover and got a herniated disk a week later. It was 12mm long and had blocked off half my spinal chord.
Whilst being treated for the herniation, a chiropractor used too much force and slipped and twisted me as he pushed down. He had put foam wedges from my neck to my feet on one side. He twisted my spine in three places and pulled my pelvis out of the socket [ the sacro-iliac joint ] at the base of my spine. My whole body collapsed to one side and I went into a seizure. My right leg was stuck out at 45 degrees. I lost all feeling down the right side of my body, and the pain on my inside leg and groin was unbelievable.
We went to see the best spinal specialists in the States. They told me that I would be in a wheelchair in six months and paralyzed from the waist down in two years. I told them I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I was not going to let that happen to me. I was determined not to let that happen. Two of them actually laughed at me and said “If you fight this, you won’t be able to cope with it when you do end up in the wheelchair”.
I spent six months in a darkened room, curled up in a ball for eighteen hours a day. I had to crawl on all fours to get to the bathroom. My wife had to look after me. The pain was bad, I was only sleeping 15 minutes at a time. I bought every medical book I could find, and studied just about everything I could about the spine. Being an engineer , I looked at the body from an enegineering point of view…muscles, bones, levers and fulcrums..I diagnosed my own condition, but none of the doctors would believe me. By October of 2006, I decided to travel to India to get my right leg amputated, as the lack of sleep and pain had destroyed my health completely. I cried for seven hours non-stop one time, the pain was so bad. By a miracle, one of the American surgeons whom I was talking to put me in touch indirectly with a chap called Al Meilus [ a senior robotics engineer for GE who had cured his own medical problems ]. I was only three weeks away from getting my leg removed, when I called Al. Without even seeing Al, he diagnosed my condition, and agreed with me. I was elated. I devised a series of tests using x-rays and a good chiropractor saw the problem. They spent two months undoing the three twists in my spine [ which had trapped nerves all the way down my back ]. They couldn’t get my leg back in place. Finally, they had me put my leg on his chest, and someone held him around the waist [ the chiro ]. There was a “massive crunch”and it went back in. I had to learn how to walk all over again. The problem now was that every muscle in my body had contracted from barely moving in six months. My hands were like claws. Using the incredible robot that Al invented, and a wonderful PT called Mike Ryan, I was walking again after three months. Four years of physical therapy later, I am now about 90% pain free. None of the lawyers would take our case, as I already had a herniated disk, and they said his lawyers would blame it on that. I lost my life savings and my mum had to sell her house to pay my medical bills. That broke my heart. I’ve spent the last few years trying to get the US Military to use the robot and other treatments I’ve had to help the wounded coming back from overseas. Finally soldiers are being treated with great results.
We couldn’t find a lawyer to take our case, as I already had a herniated disk. I lost all my life savings and most of the value of our house, but I am determined to start my life over again.
Dave Hutchieson