Any parent who has a child with severe asthma knows the feelings of helplessness and frustration while watching their child struggle to breathe. If you are one such parent, my testimony should give you a realization that there is hope for your child to lead a better life, free from inhalers and drugs.
Prior to the start of third grade our family made the decision to home-school our daughter. This decision turned out to be a wise move on our part considering the health events that followed. It was a time I won’t forget as the autumn season initiated six weeks fraught with uncertainty as my husband and I administered breathing treatments to our daughter every two hours, around the clock. We alternated visits to the pediatrician and allergist’s offices, along with a middle of the night trip to the ER. Because I am a registered nurse, with years of critical care experience, we were able to keep her out of the hospital and do monitoring and treatments at home. With each trip to the doctor the medication list grew longer and the steroid usage escalated to a dangerous point that had negative effects on her overall health. In less that two weeks she had gain twenty-three pounds, puffing up like a balloon with stretch marks all over her body! I knew her adrenal glands could not sustain that kind of steroid use. X-rays confirmed that air which was trapped in her lungs was seeping into the tissues causing crepitus in her neck and shoulders. It seemed that our standard interventions were not working and her lung capacity just kept diminishing.
When we all were reaching our point of exhaustion she seemed to make some positive changes and gradually she started to regain her strength, but her body and lungs were definitely weakened by the ordeal. We spent the next few months on edge, keeping her relatively stable with multiple inhalers, breathing treatments, and allergy medications. All tests to identify what possible allergens could be contributing to her asthma left the allergist befuddled, as she was not demonstrating any “significant allergic responses”. As time went on, we learned to live day to day, never going anywhere without our asthma gear in tow.
One day a very enthusiastic friend insisted, “You have to take her to Dr. David and get NAET!” Because I knew this friend to be a competent nurse, I questioned her at length on the subject of NAET and quite frankly none of it made a bit of sense to me! But, she continued to insist that NAET had cured her son’s dairy intolerance and she felt strongly that it could help our daughter. Knowing that her husband is a medical physician with a thriving medical practice, I asked for his opinion. He admitted his skepticism but agreed, “Our son is no longer sensitive to dairy and enjoys ice cream and pizza with the rest of us. It certainly won’t hurt her to try. What have you got to lose?”
I thought about the advice for sometime before calling to make the appointment. After meeting with Dr. David and hearing his explanation of NAET, I still was still doubtful and was on the verge of walking out of the office. My comment to Dr. David was, “I am so western medicine trained that I don’t buy in to any of this!” But, bouncing around in my head was the vision of my daughter as she had suffered the year before and the words of my friend — “What do you have to lose?” Hummm? What did I have to lose? A little time, a little money. What do we have to gain? The possibility of an asthma free life and good health for my daughter!
The outcome of this story should be obvious to you. Why would I be writing a testimony if we had not stayed and experienced successful NAET treatments! I am happy to say that she has been asthma free (asthma drug free) for 5 years since NAET treatments with Dr. David. It has been a joy to watch her emerge from a wheezy fourth grader to a carefree, asthma free teenager who enjoys running on her track team, hiking in the mountains, biking on the trails… Her quality of life has obviously been drastically changed.
After working as an RN for years in the current health care system, that in reality is a disease management system, I have shifted gears. I believe that the traditional paradigm from which we have approached medicine can and must change if we want to truly enjoy good health. We must stop trying to manage diseases with treatments that are ineffective and/or create more health issues. I do believe that the physicians with whom I have worked strive for excellence in their practice and truly want to provide better health for the patients. Yet, I have also come to believe that our traditional western medicine approaches do not provide all the tools needed to accomplish this. Their intervention, be it pharmaceutical or surgical, may relieve a symptom or complaint but the root cause of the problem goes untreated only to lead to more ill health in time.
You probably have found this website and are reading this testimony because you or someone you know suffers from some health issue that has not been helped by traditional approaches. I would encourage you to call Dr. David and discuss your concerns. What do you have to lose?
Betsy O’Neal, RN
