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 My
Story
by Sandra Strom
CEO, SONG OF HEALTH
Welcome everyone – I want to take this opportunity to thank you
for joining us at www.songofhealth.com.
My hope is that you will be surprised and satisfied
with all the information we offer, which will ultimately
help you in your daily life. We have concentrated on
spicing up normally dry information with beautiful
illustrations and pictures. Special thanks
and kudos go to Shawn Murphy, web master and illustrator,
at murphyillustrates.com.
All of the information found on our website has been
furnished and or validated by naturopathic physicians
Dr. Letitia Dick (Windrose Naturopathic Clinic and/or Dr. Jared Zeff (Salmon Creek Clinic), co-founders of The Carroll Institute of Natural Healing with backup support by Dr. Caryn Potenza, N.D. (Windrose Naturopathic Clinic) who have
dedicated themselves to continuing and improving the
work and practices of Dr. Otis G. Carroll and Dr. Harold
Dick. They have been instrumental in saving multitudes
of people with their methods of healing and concentrating
on patients’ food intolerances. Doctors Dick and Zeff also currently
instruct certification courses to teach other physicians
how to accurately perform the Carroll Food Intolerance Evaluation.
I WILL SHARE PERSONAL
HISTORY WITH YOU, about what
happened to me, how I discovered the Carroll Food
Intolerance method of living and how it changed my
life:
My first introduction to the Carroll Food Intolerance
Evaluation was with Dr. Harold Dick, somewhere around
1978.
My early childhood (during the 1950’s) was one of
great health, aside of brief morning sneezes. When I was 10 years old, at
the suggestion of our family doctor, my parents took
me to see an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist.
Because I was about to have braces applied to my bucked
teeth, the concern was that if I came down with tonsillitis,
surgery would not be an option with the braces on.
Mind you,
I NEVER HAD TONSILLITIS – not once in my
life!
My parents trusted the doctor's judgment and
accepted his recommendation, which was to remove both tonsils and adenoids. (Might as well rip
the adenoids out while in cutting mode.) So the specialist,
who stood to make a bundle on yet another unnecessary
surgery, subjected me to the knife and my tonsils,
adenoids and I were separated forever.
AFTER THAT, I BEGAN
TO SHOW MORE SEVERE ALLERGY SYMPTOMS and I became more susceptible to colds and flu bugs.
Symptoms lasted longer and would settle in my sinuses,
which proved to be a more painful headachy, stuffy,
miserable experience than before the operation.
MY MEDICAL PROBLEMS
WORSENED WHEN I WAS IN MY TWENTIES.
By age 26 I had contracted several episodes of pelvic
inflammatory disease (PID), an extremely painful, progressive
and dangerous condition. With each episode the symptoms
became progressively dramatic and eventually became
so severe that my doctor signed me in to a local, small-town
hospital for observation and treatment, where another
visiting doctor from Portland Oregon instructed the
nurses to prep me for an appendectomy! I was living
the feared medical debauchery nightmare. Defying that
doctor’s orders, I instructed my husband not to sign
any consenting papers for surgery.
LOOKING DEATH IN
THE FACE, I insisted on being referred
to a gynecologist and was then rushed to a well-known
and respected specialist in the city. He immediately
sent me to a newly built, state-of-the-art hospital
outside of Portland, Oregon where I was immediately
prepped for exploratory surgery. He informed me that
at the least they would run a scope through and determine
the problem, and at the worst I could lose all of my
reproductive organs. Due to massive infection and abscess,
I was given a 50/50 chance of survival. When I awoke
from surgery I was informed that a complete hysterectomy
(including ovaries) was performed. Sad and resentful,
I had to accept that the allopathic surgeon performed
the only method he knew, and did everything he could,
to save my life. I didn't know, in those days, that there was another method for healing from such a terrible
dis-ease and how powerful natural healing methods truly
are.
Many months, even several years after the surgery,
I still didn’t feel “good.” I was sluggish, my stomach
would swell quite often after I ate and I basically
didn’t have the stamina and energy that a person my
age should have…and it scared me. I should have been
filled with boundless energy and health. I thought
I was doing everything right – I ate all health foods,
baked my own bread, even ground my own flour, but I
still wasn’t feeling up to par and continued to experience
even more medical problems. To compound my discomfort,
a couple years after the surgery I decided to wean
myself from hormone replacement therapy after being
informed of potentially dangerous side effects, and
now I was also beginning to act like a crazy woman!
In 1976 we moved to eastern Washington, north of Spokane.
Throughout the next couple years several people, totally
unrelated to each other, would tell me about a doctor
in Spokane who had helped them by "testing" them for
food intolerances. By removing those foods from their
diet and then being treated with hydrotherapy and herbs
to reverse the process of their illness, they began
to heal. I figured, “What the heck, nothing else has
worked, last straw – let’s go see this offbeat doctor.”
I MADE AN APPOINTMENT
TO SEE DR. HAROLD DICK. His
bedside manner was very stoic and matter-of-fact. He
was very pointed in his opinions (rightfully so), he
wasn’t a sweet-talker and he got straight to the point.
I liked him! For the first time in my adult life I
found a doctor whose judgment I actually trusted.
Dr. Dick took a tiny sample of blood from my ear (the
least painful place in the body) for the purpose of
evaluating it with about 120 different foods and food
combinations. The results would determine what caused
toxic reactions in my body when ingested and consequently
mixed with my blood chemistry. Dr. Dick suggested that
I fast for three days and drink only water while I
waited for the evaluation results to be completed. This would
flush my body from the already existing toxins.
When I returned several days later (very
hungry), I pleaded with him, “PLEASE DON’T
TELL ME I’M INTOLERANT TO POTATOES". I love
potatoes. I eat them at least five times a week. I
may even be addicted to them!” Dr. Dick looked at me
and said, “potato.”
I was shocked. I thought I had been listening to my
body in a good way, which was telling me to ingest
what nutrients I needed by eating potatoes. He explained
that the body treats the toxic food much like a drug.
When the addiction isn’t fed continuously the body
goes into a state of withdrawal, or craving and tells
you it needs that substance. I was informed that I
was also intolerant to the combination of fruit with
refined sugar within six hours of each other.
I WAS IMMEDIATELY
TREATED TO HELP REVERSE THE PROCESS OF ILLNESS to that of healing, after so many years
of poisoning myself. I was given a terrible-tasting
“cocktail” of powdered wormwood and aloe mixed in water
and then instructed to lie down on a cot. Electro-stimulators
were placed on each side of my digestive area with
a hot, wet compress laid over my torso and a heavy
blanket over me to keep the heat in. After approximately
five minutes the warm towel was removed and a cold,
wet towel was applied for approximately ten more minutes.
This, I learned, was hydrotherapy treatment. The electro-stimulator
helps to get the herbal potion working faster while
the hydrotherapy treatment pulls the toxins from the
system. I received this treatment a couple times a
week for several weeks until Dr. Dick determined that
I was ready to go out in the world on my own.
THE PROGRESS I MADE
IN HEALING AND FEELING “GOOD” WAS REMARKABLE. I consider it a miracle that I found
my way to Dr. Dick, who literally saved my life. I
am thoroughly convinced that my condition would have
continually worsened had I not changed my eating habits
and eliminated foods from my diet that are toxic to
me. I am walking proof, as are many people that I referred
to the now late Dr. Dick and then to his daughter,
Dr. Letitia Dick-Watrous who continued her father’s practice,
and to Dr. Dick’s student, Dr. Jared Zeff, in Vancouver
Washington.
Throughout the years I have shared this method of
healing with many people, often being met with skeptical
eyes. Most of us have been raised to believe in the
power of the allopathic doctor and that doctors of
natural healing methods are “witch doctors.” (For the
record, I have been, and watched others, treated in
the ancient ways of Native American healing that were
highly successful.) In the field of allopathic medicine
great strides have been made in surgery, diagnostics
and pharmaceuticals, period. ALLOPATHIC
PHYSICIANS ARE NOT TRAINED, ADMITTEDLY SO, IN THE AREAS
OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND NUTRITION. Generally speaking, their preventive
methods include administering shots derived from killed
viruses. Their focus is to treat symptoms of dis-eases
already incurred, mostly by prescribing pharmaceutical
drugs, which quite often have side effects. Then the
patient is given another drug to counteract those symptoms.
Eventually, if the drugs are ineffectual and the patient
becomes weaker, the solution to eliminate distress
usually points to surgery.
I have concluded that every organ in the body is there
for a reason, and to surgically remove a body part
does not remove the cause. It seems logical, therefore,
to expect that if a surgical patient does not change
their lifestyle and eating habits, they will be stricken
with dis-ease again, most likely in the next weakest
area of their body. DO WE REALLY
WANT TO KEEP VOLUNTEERING BODY PARTS, ultimately affecting our quality of life
and survival?
My prayer for you is that, by reading my story, you
find encouragement to seek and maintain great health
for yourself. You deserve to feel good, to be healthy,
to EXPERIENCE THE MIRACLE. I believe that we have been
given Life for a higher purpose than to endure unnecessary
pain and sickness. May you find the path that is best
for you and trust in the Guidance that has led you
there.
Mitakuye Oyasin, (To all my relations)
Sandra Strom
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