Re: : Long-term bronchitis, walking neumonia and/or asthma case-A

[Guest guest]

Dear Brad,

I would be more than happy to see your friend. I am

fixed with Dr. Thom at 1st Ave on Wednesday from

12-4pm until I graduate in June. My next opening

should be in two weeks. However, if I am booked up or

she needs to get in sooner - I have shift on Thursday

evenings also at 1st ave (Dr. Owen -I will be doing

undas/drainage on this shift). So if she needs to get

in quickly we can start on Thursday and then start

seeing her in Feb from then on out with Dr. Thom.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Leah Hollon, MPH, ND5

National College of Natural Medicine

Portland, OR

--- bradwestnd wrote:

> Hi folks,

> I have a good friend in Portland who needs some help

> and not sure

> where to send her besides Dr Thom's shift at NCNM.

> She actually

> lives right across the street from the clinic and

> has no car, pretty

> low income too.

>

> My plight is this, she is such a sweet person, 39 yo

> caucasian F,

> always doing for others, but gets severe bronchitis

> and what appears

> to be colds, flu and asthma like ssx all winter.

> Its hard to try and

> treat/help her from out state and being a close

> friend and all.

>

> Very basically, she has had " weak lungs " her whole

> life and was born

> with pneumonia, been dx with asthma which are worse

> with inhalers and

> suffers tremendously with severe cough and mucus

> about 4 months of

> the year, every year. She also has some sort of

> genetic bone or

> structure disorder that presents similar to

> Marie-Toothe syndrome but

> has never been dx. (She has very long bones and

> facial structure with

> week arches and ankles). Slightly resmebles

> Marfan's to me. She has

> seen Dr DeLapp and Ambrose and others at NCNM

> clinics and Western

> States for basic triage but has not received long

> term relief. I

> would love to refer her to someone in the area,

> perhaps a student on

> DTs shift that can work on her likley miasmatic

> cause and from a

> drainage perspective. She is very compliant,

> hopeful yet wary and

> just does not have much extra income at present.

> Thanks for any

> ideas everyone.

>

> Brad West, ND

> Los Gatos, Ca

>

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