| Dr. Dean Howell: "Our next
sequence features Katherine McMillan. Katherine came to
see me originally during one of my training courses
because she suffers from multiple chemical sensitivities
and Fibromyalgia. You wouldn’t think that a person with
these kinds of complaints would want to come to someone
who does structural work, but you know, that is the
third leg in how to find health.
Dr. Dean Howell: "One is to
work with your lifestyle. Two is to detoxify to get rid of the
chemicals that have been stored up in your past. And,
three you need to optimize structure so that your
nervous system can work its best, because with your nervous
system working properly, you get the proper signals to
your immune system, your digestive system, as well as
your muscles, in order to work your best."
Dr. Dean Howell: "So the
chemical sensitivities, neurosthenias, Fibromyalgia,
all of these kinds of people need to be doing the other
biochemical work and working with detoxification and
lifestyle, but they also need the structural work of
NeuroCranial Restructuring.
Katherine McMillin: "I want to say, first of all, that this has
changed my life. This has changed my life already. This
is my second series. I’m in the middle of my second
series. And it’s changed my life. I have been looking
since 1991 for something that would make a difference in
my life."
Katherine McMillin: "And, I finally found Dr. Howell. I knew six
years ago that I wanted to go to him when I first heard
about him. And it wasn’t until, and I couldn’t work it
out. First of all, he was always out of town. I was too
ill to come here. I couldn’t afford it."
Katherine McMillin: "It finally worked
out and it’s amazing. It’s a miracle. It’s the
thing that I always hoped existed in the world, but I
hadn’t quite found it."
Katherine McMillin: "In 1991, I was visiting with some
friends on Mercer Island and we were sitting outside and
all of a sudden, I became ill. I lost part of my
eyesight, I couldn’t breathe, I lost part of my hearing
just instantly.
Katherine McMillin: "I was just sitting there. It’s unseasonably
warm, it’s April 1, 1991. She, my hostess, suggested we
go outside. We’re sitting outside and I became ill."
Katherine McMillin: "She
knew this doctor in Kent who’s a holistic/MD/alternative
medicine doctor. She drove me there. She became ill on
the way. They have this very sophisticated computer
system down there."
Katherine McMillin: "They put me on the computer system.
They hook you up with these electrodes, and they said,
"You have been exposed to a carcinogen." They went
further on into the computer system and they found that
it was a substance called Zylene."
Katherine McMillin: "Well it took us. I
almost died from it. She was very, very ill. One of her
dogs is still ill to this day. She was told to never
ever have children, like my girlfriend, because of the
damage to her because of this chemical, which turned out
to be Zylene.
Katherine McMillin: "And it was from the road
crew. The DOT was spray-painting the retaining walls on that I90
project on the southernmost side. And, the north wind was
coming and it blew it all up into our neighborhood. And
a lot of us were poisoned. We weren’t the only ones."
Katherine McMillin: "Well, I almost died from that. I ended up weighing about
82 pounds and my hair broke off to about ½ inch, and it wacked out my immune system. I became, I was allergic to
everything. I was allergic to my own body. I became
autoimmune."
Katherine McMillin: "When I went to the doctor, he did a series
of blood and urine chemistry and he found out I also had
toxic amounts of lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium.
And, we think it’s
because I was born and raised by the Tacoma smelter."
Katherine McMillin: "So
it was, I had never felt well for a lot of years and I
thought it was just because of stress and you know,
life. And when I had the chemical poisoning, it was so
much of an overload, my body couldn’t handle it."
Katherine McMillin: "So I
have spent the last nine years trying, looking for something.
I tried traditional allopathic medicine, which did
nothing but make me worse and almost killed me. It set
me back time and time again."
Katherine McMillin: I went to acupuncturists. I
have been to, I don’t even know how many chiropractors
and osteopaths I’ve been to. And of course, everybody I
went to thought they had the answer. They thought they
were the one."
Katherine McMillin: "And, I tried everything. I delved even into
the area of 'snake oils," not literally, but things that
were non-traditional...very, very cutting edge and very
progressive, very alternative, looking for something,
looking for something, anything."
Katherine McMillin: "And, I knew my structure
was off because of the way I walked, because I had one
shoulder lower than the other because my body is off and
because I have constant pain in my body. And it became
worse after having chemical poisoning."
Katherine McMillin: "Another thing,
the most important thing to me, through all of the work
with Dr. Howell, is that along with this, my body being ill,
I was depressed. It’s what they call an endogenous
depression where the whole organism becomes depressed,
because the nervous system is so out of balance and/or
nonfunctioning."
Katherine McMillin: "So, the depression, when I was
younger, I never thought of myself as a really gorgeous
person. But I always attracted people. People were
always attracted to me...men, women and children and
animals. I have always had that. And I haven’t had that
since I’ve been sick."
Katherine McMillin: "I felt that I was, I always said
to my friends, I felt invisible. And the first treatment
I ever had with Dr. Howell, that instantly, miraculously
went away. And I don’t have the words to say. I don’t
know how to say it except that, 'I came out again.'"
Katherine McMillin: "And I
felt that I, he unleashed something here, he unlatched
something or he opened something, and life came pouring
into me. And I would just feel alive. And I have no
depression. And my pain is gone. And I sleep at night.
And I am happy to be alive. All that I’ve been through,
I am happy to be alive and I know there is an answer. "
Katherine McMillin: "I’ve been in a couple of automobile accidents. My bite
is also off. I have had some really horrendous head
injuries. And I didn’t think there was any hope."
Katherine McMillin: "All the
cranial work I’ve had, the restructuring, didn’t work.
But this is the first thing that’s made an immediate and
miraculous difference, I don’t know what else to say. It’s just
fabulous. I want, and he is so, he takes such a complete
comprehensive view. I still have a ways to go. I’ve
only had six treatments. But for a lifetime of damage, I
think I’m doing pretty well." |
