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"Today I got the results from my MRI...

These results are reassuring in a way because I know I can heal very well  and they prove that the program I followed last time worked great.  Thought you'd like to know this."
--name withheld

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A Client's Story

"In the late spring of 2003, when my daughter, Shannon, was three years old, we discovered that the reason she was not talking much was because her hearing  was more than 30% reduced from what it should have been, in both ears.

"Despite  going  regularly to well-baby and well-child visits to her pediatrician, and despite having had only one relatively minor ear infection in her life, it turned out that for at least 18 months she had been walking around with a build-up of  clear fluid in her inner ear.

"A well-respected ENT near us wanted to do surgery on Shannon ASAP to put tubes  in her ears, and he also wanted to take out her adenoids and clip her lengua frenulum (the short fiber that connects the lower side of the tongue to the floor of the mouth), because he believed those to be contributing to Shannon‚s  issues  of hearing loss and unclear speech.  I was shocked and concerned, and as I am  not  one to run into surgery, I decided to ring Mary Ann, who had treated me with great success for preterm labor issues stemming from urinary tract problems  that  had complicated my pregnancy with Shannon.

"I told Mary Ann when I called her, ‘Look, I have no idea if you deal with the inner ear, or if you even treat children at all, but I decided I wanted to at least call you before I let this ENT do all these things to treat Shannon!’  She  explained to me that at Evenstar they had had great success in the past in dealing with inner ear issues in children and adults, and so she encouraged me  to  tell her everything, so that she could decide whether or not this was a situation  that she could potentially help with.

"After listening and getting all the details from me, and after I got the ENT to  agree (reluctantly and skeptically) to our waiting until the end of that  summer to schedule a surgery date, Mary Ann put Shannon on a three-month program.   The program involved lifestyle changes, dietary changes, supplements, treatment by a local chiropractor, and of course herbal tonics.  The ENT who lives closest to us, who we asked to look into Shannon's ears regularly to track our progress (or lack of it), was astonished to see that the fluid disappeared in one ear  within  one month, and disappeared from the other soon after.  He told us not to get  too optimistic, since in summertime all ear issues are generally less severe and easier to manage, and that it was likely the fluid would return eventually. 

"With Mary Ann, we geared up for a maintenance program for Shannon, that would reach initially into the fall but also beyond, with aspects that would be options  for us to use to help Shannon at any time in the future should her inner ear begin  to have problems again.

"By the end of the summer, both of Shannon‚s ears were clear, and her hearing  had returned to 100%. Since her eardrums had been so stretched for so long from  the  presence of the fluid, she was not quite picking up all of the range of basal  tones, but the audiologist who saw her for the second and third hearing exams told us that as long as the fluid did not return, her eardrums would recover their elasticity and she would recover the ability to pick up those basal  tones.

"She did, because as of now, in 2006, the fluid has not returned.  She has had  one more ear infection since that summer of treating Shannon's inner ears,  which was a result of a cold, but even that infection did not lead to the accumulation of more fluid in her inner ear.

"Our whole family learned a lot through the experience of having Shannon's  inner  ear problem diagnosed and then treated by Mary Ann. So did the second ENT - the one who looked into her ears every couple of weeks during the summer of 2003.   I tell everyone I know who ends up with puzzling health issues, whether they are  minor or acute, that they should call Mary Ann before they consent to  medications or other, even more invasive medical treatments.  Thank you, Mary Ann!"
-- Beth McCleary, Mom, Rancher

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