Final Diagnosis: Not Crazy After All - E-book - ePub

Based on a true story, Final Diagnosis: Not Crazy After All is the story of a veterinarian, Dr. Sam Swiss, and her quest to discover the root of her progressively debilitating neurologic dysfunction and physical illness. With mainstream medicine unable to help, and haunted by fears of insanity, the suicides of thirteen colleagues, and Death, Sam's journey begins on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain, and continues afterward when she takes on the role of veterinary-detective in the autism field.
Why the detour from small animal medicine to studying special needs children?Since Sam shares many similar physical and neurological issues with autistic kids, she suspects that if she studies autism - a mysterious, systemic, medical illness with no known cause - she may find answers to help herself. As Sam's health deteriorates, she grudgingly heeds the advice of her three Guardian Angels, who urge her to dig deep into the spiritual roots of her health problems.
Over time, Sam uncovers astonishing truths about the No-Man's Land of Zoonoses or Zoonotic Diseases (diseases transmissible from animals to people) as she navigates the harsh realities of diagnosing and treating pathogens like Lyme/Borrelia and Bartonella - the vector-borne bacteria that are destroying the lives of many people around the globe. Final Diagnosisis a story about how a lack of education and murderous politics prevent most medical doctors from knowing the significance of many zoonoses in the general population, especially when it comes to psychiatric, behavioral, and cognitive problems.
So much is unknown in No-Man's Land, including the significance of Bartonella, Lyme/Borrelia, Babesia, Mycoplasma, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia, and other associated diseases, as co-factors or as primary etiologic agents in a range of neurological and physical conditions in children and adults, including immune-mediated diseases. Final Diagnosisencourages you to learn more about the integrative medical approach to treating Bartonella, Lyme and its co-infections, and autism.
In the end, Final Diagnosisis a story of healing and hope.