<div><strong>As of May 30, 2026. </strong>I changed my lead in picture to show a little more daring! I am in my 6th year of healing and my surgically repaired right side still needs twice daily applications of a pricey cream. I am able to do that because of your generosity. Thank you again and Godspeed.
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<div><strong>As of August 23, 2025</strong>, my healing journey continues. As I stated previously, my remedies are getting more expensive BUT all along people have been generous in helping me. And my classmates have been the BEST at generosity!
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<div>Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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<div>I appreciate your kind thoughts and donations! I am hanging in there! You do the same!
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<div>Godspeed!!
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<div><strong>As of April 21, 2025, </strong>my healing journey continues. I exercise as much as I can. The scar tissue on my side is a limiting factor.
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<div>I appreciate your kind thoughts and help! I am hanging in there! You do the same!
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<div>Godspeed!!
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<div><strong>As of January 11, 2025, </strong>I changed the leading picture to my left hand using my exercise ball to work on my fingers of that hand.
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<div>As of today because I use that device every day, I am 95% able to close my hand as normal. That is a big deal! I can again hold coins in my left hand without those coins slipping out.
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<div>I still have that extra 5% to go but I am confident that I will get there!
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<div>Thanks for your continued support!
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<div>Bill and Rachel
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<div><strong>As of December 31, 2024</strong>, I changed the leading picture for those of you who love New Years Fireworks!
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<div>Have a great 2025!
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<div>Bill and Rachel
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<div><strong>As of December 4, 2024</strong>, below is a brief write up of my left arm's healing progress.
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<div>As the above picture shows, I am able to change the AC filter. However, <strong>I have a limited reach with my left arm</strong>. I have to reposition the ladder so that I can close the AC closure on both sides with my right arm. I cannot close it using my left arm at least not yet.
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<div>Still working on it and I will not give up. It is what it is!
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<div><strong>Thanks again for all of your support!</strong>
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<div><strong>As of September 25, 2024</strong>, below is a quick lead-in to my present healing journey:
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<div>Above is a rather <strong>interesting picture</strong> of me. <strong>I am installing an AC filter for the first time in many, many months</strong>!
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<div><strong>My spirits are still high</strong> even though the healing process is taking much longer than I/we anticipated. As I have written several times, I am working hard to regain the complete use of my left arm. You can see if you look closely that the left shoulder is in an unnaturally raised position because <strong>it healed incorrectly</strong>.
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<div>I am wearing the <strong>compression glove</strong> on my left hand to be able to grip things properly and firmly. You cannot see it but I am also wearing a <strong>compression back brace</strong> which helps with my posture and a feeling of a stronger core. The back brace definitely helps with my overall balance as well.
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<div>In summary, <strong>I am working hard to get my life back</strong> and taking this healing journey <strong>one day at a time</strong>.
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<div>Thank you again for your <strong>donations</strong> and your <strong>support</strong>.
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<div>Bill and Rachel
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<div><strong>As of 12/29/2023</strong>, here is the situation with my healing battle.
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<div>The x-rays of my <strong>broken left arm and shoulde</strong>r showed damage greater than initially determined AND then my <strong>dislocated shoulder</strong> healed incorrectly meaning a little below where it should have been positioned. As a result, my motion with my arm is limited as follows: the movement forward and upward is maybe 75%; the movement to the side and upward is maybe 45%; and the movement backwards is maybe 30%. The ability of my left arm to lift anything is limited to maybe 15 pounds but even that has to be very controlled with little side to side movement. My right arm is fine and I use it to hold heavy items and the left arm just kind of balances the weight. That allows me to do most daily tasks.
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<div>The PT guys gave me <strong>16 exercises</strong> to perform on a daily basis to increase the movement and strength of my left arm with guidance of what to do if I experience any pain while performing those exercises. So with those "rules or guidance" I am able to do most of the exercises 4 times a week.
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<div>Those exercises will help regain flexibility and strength in the arm as well as eliminating the pain that some simple everyday movement causes. As I have said before "It is what it is" and I will work though it.
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<div>As I wrote in my <strong>12/27/2023 update listed below</strong>, I am committed to working very hard to get my life back and to get as much movement back in my arm as I can. I am prepared to work though the year 2024 and beyond, as necessary, to accomplish that goal.
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<div>But I will still need <strong>financial assistance</strong> throughout the year to keep up the supply of health products needed to provide healing nutrients and LifeWave patches for pain relief as well as other health supplements necessary to keep up my energy level and my healing capability. Rest assured that your donations will be greatly appreciated by Rachel and me and well used in my healing journey.
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<div><strong><em>Thank you for your continued support and donations in the past and into 2024.</em></strong>
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<div><strong>Godspeed, </strong>
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<div><strong>Bill and Rachel</strong>
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<div>Rachel L. Neumann, Bill's wife of 29 years, wrote in 2020:
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<div>Bill has always been a vibrant, healthy and strong man, even at his current age of 77. He was very active, achieving a second degree black belt, skiing, biking, and generally just keeping himself very fit by lifting weights and using the Total Gym several times a week.
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<div>In August 2019, Bill entered into the darkest period of his life. After the death of our daughter following her metastatic breast cancer long battle, Bill became very anxious and eventually was unable to urinate. After several rushes to the Emergency Room late in October and early November, Bill was diagnosed on Nov. 14 with <a href="https://www.medicinenet.com/necrotizing_fasciitis/article.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Necrotizing Fasciitis (NF)</a>, a very serious and critical infective process that resulted when an abscess ruptured over his liver area and compromised the living tissues of his right side oblique muscle with flesh eating bacteria.
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<div>We are a strong couple, however, we find ourselves in the midst of the greatest challenge of our lives. Bill is being tested and stretched in every possible way physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and financially. Some people prepare their whole lives for a test like this one and Bill is certainly no exception. I am not sure anyone could have been prepared for the stress and intensity of losing a daughter and also a life-threatening illness at the same time.
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<div>We experienced many scary moments during the estimated 25 surgical procedures since mid-November. Bill confronted tachycardia, stress ulcers, his heart being shocked into rhythm twice, bleeding in an artery in the colon, skin grafting and being intubated with a breathing tube for over four weeks.
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<div>Read about <a href="https://rachellneumann.com/index_files/GFM-donation-site.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bill’s strong-willed battle to overcome NF here</a><a href="https://rachellneumann.com/test2016/index_files/GFM-donation-site.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">.</a>
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<div>Medicare and supplemental insurance cover wound care and surgical interventions and for that we are very grateful. There is, however, so much more needed in creating the building blocks necessary to fully support Bill’s healing journey. We have chosen to coordinate nutritional and metabolic healing in conjunction with the power of medical wound care and surgical intervention. Mounting health care costs are continuing to occur for home health, physical and occupational therapy, acupuncture, and the host of nutritional components necessary for physical restoration.
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<div>Hopefully, we will see amazing healing of both wound sites and we will be able to share our story of prayer, miracles, and the power of healing with minerals and <a href="https://1129235013.myasealive.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Redox Signaling Molecules</a> with the world through my <a href="https://rachellneumann.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Empowered Living blog</a> and my <a href="https://yourpathwaytoempowerment.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Your Pathway To Empowerment</a> coaching practice and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YourPathwayToEmpowerment/posts/1892324504127543" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mineral Sanity &amp; Health Facebook group.</a>
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<div>Bill and I will be grateful for whatever donation can be made to help us navigate this very challenging time as we support the restoration of Bill’s foundational health. Updates on Bill's healing journey will be posted so you can follow us on our journey. Please feel free to share our GoFundMe link with others who may be able to help us or who would be interested in hearing Bill's healing story.
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