Help Transform a Life

Hi everyone,

Edit on 8/1/25: This plan has been edited by Dr Gerold at medical wellness associates in Jeanette, PA. My edited financial goal was once again lowered to reflect his first course of action that will take 9-12 months to execute and includes follow-up visits, IV therapy, and monthly acupuncture treatments. After reviewing extensive lab records he doesn’t believe it’s wise to START with metals chelation of either kind—ETPA or DTPA. I’ve already received an initial IV treatment after my first appointment yesterday, 7/31, and can feel a surprising difference. I took a photo of the handouts he gave me explaining the therapies and testing he wants to begin and circled all costs at top of forms. I will upload this image below or will send it to anyone who requests if. For more information about this clinic visit medicalwellnessassociates.com

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As some of you know I became chronically ill about 7 years ago. It began with just about every symptom under the sun crashing down on me, with no answers from 3 different rheumatologists, an infectious disease doctor, endocrinologist, primary physician, any of the handful of emergency room doctors, and eventually two different neurologists.

When I realized I wasn’t getting the help I needed, I immediately began making lifestyle changes and dedicated most of my days to self education in effort to heal myself. Within a few years I had eliminated all processed foods/seed oils, gluten, added sugars, and I quit smoking cigarettes. I did countless detoxes, herbs, and almost any other healing protocol I could find.

My efforts seemed to gradually pay off when I felt myself reaching something close enough to ‘normal’ about 3 years in. At this one point I could say I had eliminated around 95% of the debilitating symptoms that I started with. I wish this peak had lasted longer than 3-5 months, but it didn’t…

Unfortunately a new and different set of problems began to overlap the old, in no time at all. Over the next 3 years I experienced slow but steadily increasing dizziness, bizarre changing pains throughout my head, sudden leg weakness, trouble breathing just from speaking, nausea, severe disorientation, and hearing problems… just to name the worst of them.

Beneath these new neurological issues, I’m still coping with underlying autoimmunity or original symptoms I couldn’t manage to fix in 7 years—including mysterious kidney pains, constant sense of total dehydration that causes me to chug huge quantities of mineralized water all day; keeping me in an exhausting perpetual loop of frequent bathroom trips anywhere from 3-6 times a night. I never *feel* well or hydrated. Often times I can’t quickly fall back asleep after these interruptions, so I haven’t gotten truly sufficient sleep in many years despite trying countless herbs and natural hormone replacements.

Things really became unbearable this past winter. The holidays were a blur. I managed to make it over family’s, but I wasn’t there at all. I bought myself and nephew roller blades and skates to start skating once a week. I made it twice before I could no longer pull it off.

When these symptoms are at their worst I can no longer describe everything I’m experiencing… but it’s unbearable, and no one can exist like that forever. I’ve been lightheaded and severely disoriented on a daily basis. If I try speaking too much I’ll begin to see splotches and feel like I’m about to faint. It’s also becoming more difficult for me to form sentences—almost as if there’s an invisible muscle in my mind that’s straining hard to seamlessly glue the words together.

The wide range of pains and frighteningly bizarre sensations around my brain would be enough by themselves to destroy every hour of the day.

The severe leg weakness that’s now become permanent through the day has officially spread to my arms.

I’m at my worst in 7 years, and haven’t left the house for anything in weeks except pushing myself to get a few minutes of sun outside the front door. I see and hear the world turning without me and it’s gut wrenching.

I want to be healthy, or at least something close to normal again so badly that it physically hurts my chest and heart through the day. I never in my life imagined it was possible to feel this desperate about anything.

My hope is that DTPA IV chelation Therapy can noticeably improve my quality of life, or possibly enable me to be healthy again. Bloodwork has shown I’m stuck with high levels of gadolinium in my brain so I’m hoping this will gradually filter it out along with any other unknown toxic contributor that’s been wreaking havoc in me for 7 years.

My first appointment is with The Cole Center for Healing in West Chester, Ohio on June 30th. This is one of the few medical clinics that actually offers this type of IV chelation therapy specifically to pull gadolinium.

My functional medicine doctor has tested me for everything under the sun to find nothing remarkable. She’s been trying to crack my complex case with the help of her colleagues, and never stops researching. So we are both hoping this procedure is somehow obtainable for me as she believes it will give me at least a good deal of relief, or possibly better. 

To anyone who supports my healing journey by either sharing this fundraiser with a friend or by donating, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.