On the passing of Ken Locklear.

January 12, 2011

I received an email about two hours ago from Roque Wicker's HBOTech blog that

Ken Locklear died yesterday, January 11, 2011.

Ken was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer just over 3 years ago. The docs told

him to go home and get his affairs in order because he only had a few brief

weeks to live. Instead, he looked for somebody to give him chemo. Next, he

rolled a hyperbaric chamber into his living room. A few months later he was

pronounced cancer-free, and the oncologists went back to see if their diagnosis

was correct.

I found out about all of this afterwards. Ken didn't want to tell anybody what

he was going through and kept it to himself. He was like that.

A few years before that he founded the International Hyperbaric Medical

Association (IHMA) with Harch and together they went before CMS and got

diabetic foot wounds added as the first new indication in a couple of decades.

Sometime later he turned over the reins of the IHMA after he lost about $75,000,

something he just didn't want to tell anybody about.

In the years since, a lot of the IHMA are still blamed on Ken Locklear.

During that same period, he also lost money publishing *Hyperbaric Medicine

Today* (HMT) magazine, but that magazine documented the momentous change

bulldozing its way through Hyperbaric Medicine, driven by parents of

brain-injured children and caregivers of brain-injured loved ones.

Ken occasionally became embroiled in many of the same arguments that repeatedly

pop up on the Internet groups. Finally, he stepped away from them and often

encouraged me to do the same. Ken stepped back into a time and place where the

spotlight was no longer on him and he could get some more work done.

He started publishing another magazine about a year or so ago: " Wound Care &

Hyperbaric Medicine Magazine. " See http://hyperbaricmagazine.com. He also

started the Oxygen Research Foundation (http://oxygenresearchfoundation.org/)

with a special emphasis on HBOT for cancer patients. Most recently, Ken

purchased Best Publishing, which publishes the most texts in Hyperbaric

Medicine.

Ken took a lot of chances. He stepped out. He was courageous. And he was

incredibly loyal and forever honest.

I first met Ken on the old hbo-list almost 12 years ago. Then one day he called

and told me he was going to publish a magazine on Hyperbaric Medicine and asked

if I'd contribute. I was flattered. Then he asked me if I had any story ideas.

It's funny, but it would be another six months to a year before I'd actually

meet him in person, but I'd read enough of his listserv posts to know where his

heart was. And that's when I told him about a telephone conversation I'd had a

week or two before with a former UHMS president who admitted the benefits of

HBOT for stroke, admitted that people could make full recoveries and went on to

say that he'd personally created the Medicare list of banned uses of HBOT.

Ken literally dropped the phone. He knew who I was talking with and later spoke

to him and he told Ken the same thing he told me. About three or four years

later the story was finally published, and it contributed to the call for

hearings before the US Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine for brain-injuries. See

http://www.oxyhealth.com/images/noncovered.pdf

An obituary for Ken prepared by Roque Wicker can be found at

http://hbotechblog.com/2011/01/12/in-loving-memory-of-kenneth-locklear/

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January 12, 2011

Oh My I have known him for years, I had no idea this was even going on.

Re: [ ] On the passing of Ken Locklear.

>

> Thanks for letting us know!

> He will be missed!

> My thoughts, prayers and most sincere condolences go out to his family!

> Marguerite...

>

> In a message dated 1/13/2011 1:11:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

> davidfreels09@... writes:

>

> I received an email about two hours ago from Roque Wicker's HBOTech blog

> that Ken Locklear died yesterday, January 11, 2011.

>

> Ken was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer just over 3 years ago. The

> docs told him to go home and get his affairs in order because he only had

> a

> few brief weeks to live. Instead, he looked for somebody to give him

> chemo.

> Next, he rolled a hyperbaric chamber into his living room. A few months

> later he was pronounced cancer-free, and the oncologists went back to see

> if

> their diagnosis was correct.

>

> I found out about all of this afterwards. Ken didn't want to tell anybody

> what he was going through and kept it to himself. He was like that.

>

> A few years before that he founded the International Hyperbaric Medical

> Association (IHMA) with Harch and together they went before CMS and

> got

> diabetic foot wounds added as the first new indication in a couple of

> decades. Sometime later he turned over the reins of the IHMA after he

> lost about

> $75,000, something he just didn't want to tell anybody about.

>

> In the years since, a lot of the IHMA are still blamed on Ken Locklear.

>

> During that same period, he also lost money publishing *Hyperbaric

> Medicine Today* (HMT) magazine, but that magazine documented the

> momentous change

> bulldozing its way through Hyperbaric Medicine, driven by parents of

> brain-injured children and caregivers of brain-injured loved ones.

>

> Ken occasionally became embroiled in many of the same arguments that

> repeatedly pop up on the Internet groups. Finally, he stepped away from

> them and

> often encouraged me to do the same. Ken stepped back into a time and

> place

> where the spotlight was no longer on him and he could get some more work

> done.

>

> He started publishing another magazine about a year or so ago: " Wound

> Care

> & Hyperbaric Medicine Magazine. " See _http://hyperbaricmagazine.com._

> (http://hyperbaricmagazine.com./) He also started the Oxygen Research

> Foundation (_http://oxygenresearchfoundation.org/_

> (http://oxygenresearchfoundation.org/) ) with a special emphasis on HBOT

> for cancer patients. Most recently,

> Ken purchased Best Publishing, which publishes the most texts in

> Hyperbaric Medicine.

>

> Ken took a lot of chances. He stepped out. He was courageous. And he was

> incredibly loyal and forever honest.

>

> I first met Ken on the old hbo-list almost 12 years ago. Then one day he

> called and told me he was going to publish a magazine on Hyperbaric

> Medicine and asked if I'd contribute. I was flattered. Then he asked me

> if I had

> any story ideas. It's funny, but it would be another six months to a year

> before I'd actually meet him in person, but I'd read enough of his

> listserv

> posts to know where his heart was. And that's when I told him about a

> telephone conversation I'd had a week or two before with a former UHMS

> president

> who admitted the benefits of HBOT for stroke, admitted that people could

> make full recoveries and went on to say that he'd personally created the

> Medicare list of banned uses of HBOT.

>

> Ken literally dropped the phone. He knew who I was talking with and later

> spoke to him and he told Ken the same thing he told me. About three or

> four

> years later the story was finally published, and it contributed to the

> call for hearings before the US Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine for

> brain-injuries. See _http://www.oxyhealth.com/images/noncovered.pdf_

> (http://www.oxyhealth.com/images/noncovered.pdf)

>

> An obituary for Ken prepared by Roque Wicker can be found at

> _http://hbotechblog.com/2011/01/12/in-loving-memory-of-kenneth-locklear/_

> (http://hbotechblog.com/2011/01/12/in-loving-memory-of-kenneth-locklear/)

>

> Freels

> 2948 Windfield Circle

> Tucker, GA 30084-6714

>

> _david@..._ (mailto:david@...)

> _http://www.davidfreels.com_ (http://www.davidfreels.com/)

> facebook.com/davidfreels2

> @davidfreels

>

> 770-491-6776 (phone)

> 404-725-4520 (cell)

> 815-366-7962 (fax)

>

January 13, 2011

My sincere condolences. How are you and your family doing in the 2011 snow

storm? Sue

From: Freels <davidfreels09@...>

Subject: [ ] On the passing of Ken Locklear.

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