Update on Sandra Petry, Bonnie’s Daughter

This is a “Boo-Yeah” story by Bonnie O’Sullivan, President of The Road To Health, Inc.

Wayback Story: From 2001 to 2009 I wrote newsletters that told the story of my daughter, Sandy, and her fight to overcome osteomyelitis of the jawbone.

2009 Back Story: Sandy had oral surgery September 18, 2009 to remove abnormal nerve endings that grew from a bone graft that was placed in her jawbone (to give her enough bone to support her dentures).

“Boo” (September 2009 to May 2010) Story: The surgery was successful in as much as it put an end to her constant “Internal Shingles” pain, but it did not end her whole-body swelling or her depression. Sandy lives with us and her severe depression and the effect it has on me may be the reason I have not written a newsletter since September 2009. However, Sandy never stopped trying to find a way to reduce her whole-body swelling, which was the most severe in her breasts, and her depression. Some things helped for a week or so, but then stopped working.

“Yeah” (May 13, 2010 to Present) Story: On May 9th one of our customers called to place an order and asked for a call back to confirm his order. When Dale called him back and asked how he was doing he said he was feeling better than ever thanks to a new supplement he is taking. He said he is 73 and had just been out chopping wood, which he hadn’t been able to do for at least 10 years! He told Dale that now he can chop wood every day and still have energy to spare. They talked for awhile and Dale wrote the name of the supplement in his computer and went on to his next call.
Later, when we had a chance to talk, Dale told me the story about our customer who is 73 (my age) and how much energy and strength he is feeling by taking this new supplement. I immediately wanted to try the supplement and researched it and ordered it. It arrived in a few days and Sandy, Dale and I tried it.

Sandy announced right away (after drinking her first teaspoon of Essential Seven Dutch Chocolate powder mixed with ice water) that she didn’t feel as depressed. Every day she marvels over the difference in how she feels and never goes without mixing herself Her “Chocolate Drink.”

Sandy’s favorite comment now is: “I must be missing something in my diet that’s in this powder, because I never want to be without it!”

Her favorite comment before was: “I don’t want to be in this body anymore.”

It took about six weeks of drinking the drink every day (and increasing the amount gradually to ½ a scoop) for the day to arrive when she started exclaiming how much less her body was swollen and how much longer she could wear a bra. And soon after that she began going out with me everyday to do errands, which she would do only on rare occasions before.

Several other people in our family are reporting good results in how they feel emotionally and physically also. Dale and I love the taste and, because of Sandy’s results, we are both thrilled that it has helped to lift the cloud of depression that we have been living with at our house for so many years (nine).

If you would also like to try the Essential Seven Dutch Chocolate powder please go to http://sandrastory.com/blog/e7 and click on “Enter Site” which will take you to the area where you may click on “Products” and place your order. The E7-Dutch Chocolate Flavor is the item we recommend.

If you have any questions please call me: (800) 651-7080.

Love,

Bonnie

Today is Thanksgiving and the thing I’m most thankful for is that Sandy didn’t need surgery last week after all.
We drove to San Ysidro on the Mexico border on Monday, November 16th, and took the shuttle into Tijuana to see Dr. Villafana on Tuesday, but he thought all she needed was her dentures adjusted (he showed us how completely out of alinement her dentures were after he examined her bite and marked the places where her dentures were not meeting as they should).
He also spent over an hour with us explaining Sandy’s MRI that was taken in September and, on a light box, carefully pointed out all the pictures where her jawbone looks healthy and solid — even at the area where Sandy thought there must be more infection because it was so painful and “soft” to the touch.
Then he spent another hour working on her dentures and made them fit perfectly. He sent us home warning us that it would take at least three days before Sandy’s headaches and body aches would diminish because it takes time for the adjustment to correct the alinement of all the bones connected to the jawbone. (We understood because Sandy had cranial adjustments — back in 2002 when she didn’t have teeth or dentures for nine months because of the amount of surgeries she was having at the time.
It took more than three days (about a week), but now she is feeling much better and feeling very positive about her future.

Sandy is much better than she was when she came to live with us eight and a half years ago. Even one year ago. But it seems like the closer she is to getting her jawbone free of infection and dead bone, the little bit that’s left is able to let her know it’s there loud and clear.
She has been having pain in her jawbone at tooth sockets 21 through 23 (bottom left of her jawbone near the front) and it radiates up the side of her head across the top of her head and down the back of her head into her neck and down into her torso and breasts. The headaches this causes makes her nauseous (coffee enemas, eating soft foods three times a day, and taking two aspirins a day are all helping her cope).
The sharp, stabbing pains have gone from her breasts since her last oral surgery on September 18th, which was to remove abnormal nerve endings growing out of a bone graft at tooth socket number nine (for which she had to be put to sleep).
However, her breasts are still swollen and they hurt and her back hurts — and the pain is excruciating whenever she does anything that causes her to move her arms like cook. She loves to cook and it infuriates her when she can only bear to stand in the kitchen for a half hour at a time.
So she is going to have another oral surgery on Tuesday, November 18, 2009.
Her doctor who diagnosed her as having osteomyelitis of the jaw (infection of the jawbone) and osteonecrosis of the jaw (death of a section of the jawbone) in 2001 has told her many times that this condition is chronic, hard to treat, difficult to have, and is rarely cured.
But, judging by how healthy her jawbone looks everywhere Dr. Villafana has removed infected and dead bone in the past five years, and that he has not removed any from tooth sockets 21 through 23, we think after this surgery Sandy has a better than good chance to recover completely.

This morning I received the following email and wanted to share it (and my answer) with you.

If you have any information to share with my daughter and me about how to get rid of pain and swelling in the breasts please send me an email.

Dear Bonnie,

God only knows if Rose Beauty Cream does all it claims to do.  But I have dealt with parasites a lot. They are real and getting rid of them helps. Lots of garlic boiled in milk and drunk for a few days will get rid of most. Amoebas, very serious, are lots harder to get rid of.  Also celiac disease, the autoimmune disease that reacts to gluten in wheat, rye, barley and probably oats, causes blisters on the fingers and is worse during stress. I have it as do my daughter and grandchildren. It’s genetic, common, and debilitating. I have certainly had pain and swelling all my life. It’s much better now that I am diagnosed, at 58, and don’t eat ANY gluten.

I know you love your girl, so I’m just trying to help.

Yours, Barbara K

Dear Barbara,

Thank you for your much appreciated email.

Sandy gave up eating gluten for several months a few years ago with no improvement in her swollen and painful breasts. We thought that might be the problem, too.

Right now we are thinking it is due to Shingles. If it is due to amoebas we realize it will take a lot of trial and error to get rid of. We will keep the garlic boiled in milk in mind. (Sandy likes garlic but I hope I never have to eat it to kill parasites as it makes me sick to my stomach just to smell it.)

Barbara Frank’s products Include: Rose Beauty Cream, Natural Herb Lotion (which she says massively kills trillions of viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungus), LymphaCleanse, and ParaCleanse (a milder and a strong). So far she recommends just the Rose Beauty Cream because Sandy is so toxic right now.

Yesterday Sandy felt better than she has in eight years. She said she felt like she was getting better when she woke up and again when we were going to bed.

That was a first! She hasn’t gotten up today, yet — she has been sleeping a lot since the surgery.

When she took the stitches out on Friday it helped, because the stitches Dr. Villafana uses don’t agree with her and she usually takes them out in three or four days, but she kept them in for a week this time because the surgery to the roof of her mouth was so extensive.

She is using the Rose Beauty Cream all over her body every day. We started out slowly and by Friday Sandy was using it all over undiluted. It definitely has helped with the swelling and pain of her breasts.

Without the last surgery Sandy believes even the Rose Beauty Cream wouldn’t have been able to help, but now, with all the foreign (pieces of graft) and abnormal (nerve endings) stuff removed from her jawbone she is thankful to have the help of the Rose Beauty Cream.

You are so right when you say I love my girl. I can’t thank you enough for giving me your ideas. I need your input.

I hope you can join us on the webinar with Barbara on Tuesday morning at 9:30 (Pacific Time). Here’s the link to register:

http://bit.ly/tw48J

Thank you again for your email. I appreciated hearing from you very much.

Love,

Bonnie

Update on Sandra Petry, Bonnie’s Daughter

Note: Sandy had all of her teeth removed in 2001 because of osteomyelitis (infected and dead bone) of the jawbone. Since 2001 she has had several dentists in the U.S. and Mexico remove infected and dead bone, a tip of a retained tooth root, dead and infected bovine bone grafts, and abnormal nerve endings, from her jawbone.

Sandy’s surgery this time was one of the most traumatic she has experienced, because this area, where tooth #9 was located (upper, left front tooth), is the area where no dentist, even with sleeping gas, has been able to get her numb.

By the way, this was the tenth oral surgery to repair Sandy’s jawbone performed by Dr. Villafana in Tijuana, Mexico since November 2004. Dr. Villafana is the only dentist who has been able to make an improvement in Sandy’s overall health (her body, especially her breasts, has been swollen and painful due to the infection in her jawbone). With each surgery by Dr. Villafana Sandy has felt a little better.

Tooth #9 had a long, thin root and when it was extracted in 2001 by Dr. Andrew Landerman in Santa Rosa, CA, the tip of the root broke off and remained in Sandy’s jawbone for almost three years (the tip was extracted in 2004 by Dr. Clark’s dentist, Dr. Benjamin Arichega, in Tijuana, Mexico).

Tooth #9 is one of the two upper front teeth. Sandy remembers as a child she learned to never drink out of a “glass” glass because if the glass bumped against her front teeth it caused terrible pain. (She never told me about this — she thought everyone had the same reaction when a glass touched their front teeth!)

This time the anesthesiologist was successful in getting the area of tooth #9 numb, but Sandy did not go to sleep or forget what she was told was happening while Dr. Villafana worked on her (before the surgery the lady anesthesiologist told her she would go right to sleep and not remember anything when she woke up).

It takes an awful lot of anesthesia to put Sandy under. Her dad was like that as well as her brother and sister.

After studying her facial MRI for 20 minutes, Dr. Villafana worked on Sandy for an hour and a half. Then he immediately came out to the waiting room and talked to me and told me everything he found and did. He is a real sweetheart and wants Sandy to recover from this disease as badly as we do.

He opened her gum on the inside (back along the roof of her mouth) and looked at the palate bone (the roof of her mouth). He said there is a hole in the bone where another dentist, Dr. Swann of Milpitas, CA, removed a “torus,” and it has healed normally.

Then he opened her gum on the outside (up to the area under her nose) and removed (by cutting, not cauterization, like he said he would three weeks ago) all the abnormal nerve endings in the area from tooth #9 back to tooth #13.

Note: Since 2001 Sandy has lost so much bone due to oral surgeries to remove infected and dead bone from her jawbone she had to have bovine bone grafts placed in her jaw so she could wear dentures.

Dr. Villafana explained that abnormal nerves growing where they do not belong is a common complication of bone graft procedures.

Dr. Villafana cut and trimmed (so the nerve ending is now deep in the bone) one large nerve ending growing out of her jawbone at tooth #9 that was attached to her gum tissue that he said would give Sandy a lot of relief as, until now, every time she bit into anything or chewed anything, that nerve was being pulled on, which was irritating both the bone and the gum tissue.

Then he drilled into the bone at tooth #9 and found a small piece of a bone graft that had not integrated into Sandy’s bone. It was inside the bone that is now part graft and part Sandy’s bone. That particular bone graft was placed in her jawbone by Dr. Swann in 2003. Dr. Villafana said the small piece he removed didn’t look infected, but it certainly didn’t belong inside her jawbone.

I thought it was funny Dr. Villafana would say “it didn’t look infected” as everything we have read about foreign objects (retained pieces of tooth roots after extractions, ligaments that normally surround a tooth root but should be removed when a tooth is extracted, non-integrated bone grafts, even the roots of root-canal-filled-teeth) left in the jawbone harbor bacteria and the toxic waste the bacteria produce.

When we left Dr. Villafana’s office, at one in the afternoon, Sandy was feeling okay, but Dr. Villafana told us that Sandy would be in serious pain when the anesthetic wore off because of how extensive the surgery was. He doesn’t believe in pain medication and recommended she have acupuncture, but we had not scheduled anything like that.

When we got back to the motel we got in the car and started for home right away. It was around 3 pm. (We only stayed at the motel one night because we drove nine hours on Thursday and packed the car Friday morning before we went to Tijuana.)

By the way, Dr. Villafana’s office is five minutes from the border and our motel is five minutes from the border as well. We go in and out of Mexico — from the motel to the dental office — in a shuttle bus and it took us more than an hour and a half to get back into the U.S. this time when it usually only takes 20 minutes to cross the border coming back, and that’s because we have to get out of the shuttle at the door to customs and walk past a U.S. customs officer and show our IDs and go out another door and walk a block to get back in the shuttle on the U.S. side (going into Mexico the Mexican customs officers just look in the shuttle and wave us on).

In the car Sandy fell asleep and I drove. Traffic was moving until we got to the area of Highway 5 near Disneyland. Then, for 20 miles or so, traffic stopped and started (only going between 5 and 10 miles an hour) and there were five lanes of traffic going our way stretched out in front of us for as far as the eye could see. It looked like a giant parking lot and I suddenly felt really, really exhausted.

We hadn’t been on the road three hours yet (I usually drive nine hours with a couple of gas and food stops after Sandy has her oral surgeries), but this time I made a command decision and found a motel for the night. It was only 6 pm, but we both went to bed and fell asleep immediately.

As it turned out it was a good thing we stopped, because at 10 pm Sandy woke up and was in terrible pain. She waited to tell me how bad she was feeling until I woke up to use the bathroom at one thirty in the morning. We decided to find a hospital and go to the emergency room to get something for her pain. The hospital was not too far away and they took very good care of Sandy. She was even given pain pills to last until she gets the stitches out. (We thank God Sandy has Medicare — which is due to her osteomyelitis doctor, Dr. Robert D. Tufft of Oakland, CA)

We went back to the motel and tried to go back to sleep, but I couldn’t, so we took our showers, got something to eat (Sandy had clear soup) and headed home early Saturday morning.

It only took us six hours to get home because there was light traffic and we only stopped for gas and to use the restroom once. Sandy slept the whole way home and, after more clear soup she slept the rest of the day and all night, too. Today, Sunday, her face is swollen and her eye is almost shut, but she is doing okay.

Thank you for your prayers. I know they helped. I told Dr. Villafana that at least a dozen people had sent email messages and had called to tell us they were praying for Sandy (he hugged us when we left and told us he’s sure he got everything out of her jawbone that was causing her distress).

Love,

Bonnie

Sandy had a facial MRI taken on September 8, 2009. She received the MRI report on Saturday, September 12th. It shows she has a problem in her jawbone at the upper left front tooth area. (Sandy wears dentures.) You can see the MRI doctor’s report PDF by clicking below:

http://bit.ly/sandramri

Sandy and I are driving to Mexico on Thursday, September 17, 2009. She will have surgery on Friday morning for the removal of infected and dead bone as well as abnormal nerve growth in the area of tooth number nine.

On The View the other day I watched as a young actress, Mischa Barton (she was promoting her new TV show, The Beautiful Life), told her story about a botched wisdom tooth operation in July when she had to have a second oral surgery because the first one was not successful. Then, in one of the wisdom teeth sockets, she developed an infection and a dry socket. She stated that the pain was so excruciating that it made her feel like she wanted to die. She was taking pain medication orally and also daily Novocaine shots to minimize the pain, but she still was out of her mind with pain. She was even locked up in the psychiatric ward of the hospital she went to on a Sunday (when no dentist or doctor was available) for 72 hours for saying, in the emergency room, “I feel like I want to die.”

To watch the segment on Youtube go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YxNdFKoFEk&hd=1

Mischa talked about the pain of her jawbone infection just like Sandy has during the last eight years as she has been battling the infection in her entire jawbone. On line we found pictures of Mischa in July just after her oral surgery ordeal and she looked puffy and bloated. (She was back to normal on The View, two months after her surgery.)

Sandy is looking forward to never having oral surgery again and getting her life back, too. She wants to get a physically demanding job and work hard at it and get back into shape.

To read Sandy’s Almond story, “Sandy and the Almonds,” please go to: http://sandrastory.com/blog/sandy-and-the-almonds and to read my “Almonds For A Healthy Heart” report please go to: http://bit.ly/healthyheartalmond

Please say a prayer for Sandy.

Love,

Bonnie

September 19, 2008: Cavitat Examination

After waiting over two years (Sandy’s last oral surgery for osteomyelitis of the jawbone was July 31, 2006) for her jawbone to heal and her lymph glands to no longer be swollen and painful with little or no improvement (her condition was getting worse, with on and off facial swelling and pain in her upper right cheekbone area), Sandy agreed to have another Cavitat examination.

On Friday, September 19, 2008, she had the examination. You can view the results here:

Sandy’s oral surgery for the removal of cavitations and infected and dead bone is scheduled for 9 am, Thursday, September 25, 2008 with Dr. Roberto Villafana in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Villafana can be reached at his office in Tijuana at his San Diego, California phone number: (619) 819-9217.

What is a Cavitat Device?

The Cavitat Device is an aid to medical professionals, when used adjunctive to a radiograph (panoramic X-ray), in diagnosing the debilitating effects of Bone Marrow Edema Syndrome, Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis (NICO), Osteomyelitis, and Periodontal Pockets of the Buccal Bone.

Sandy’s Cavitat Report, September 19th 2008

To learn how to keep your teeth, gums, and bones healthy please purchase a copy of “Healthy Teeth, Gums, and Bones” by Bonnie O’Sullivan and Dale Maxwell with this link

PS Sandy asks that you say a prayer for her that Dr. Villafona’s surgery on Thursday is a complete success.