Wilkie Wages War: June 27, 2006

Environmental Health Network leader Barbara Wilkie discovered in July 2005 that her chemical injury/multiple chemical sensitivities had suddenly manifested as stage 4 (later stage 5) kidney disease (kidney failure). Despite dire warnings of death within a year, she eschewed dialysis and Western Medicine drugs and took a route of alternative medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and strict dietary changes. She lived well for six years, far beyond the doctors’ predictions.  Barb died at home, surrounded by friends and family, on May 31, 2011.

During this time, Barb documented her journey. From diagnosis through June 2008, she created one huge website page packed with details, plus some side documents on diet and other topics.  We have divided these works into smaller pieces, by date or topic, to make it easier to read and find things.  For dates after June 2008, we have letters, online posts, and other documents.

Barb intended her work to be read and used. We hope this presentation will help you do just that.

Wilkie Wages War on Kidney Disease
(aka Renal Disease or Failure)

OR, AS I SEE IT: Life with yet another facet of living with MCS.
I want to live life while dying.

June 27, 2006 . . . saw yet another nephrologist. Again, I was looking for a
nephrologist and found a man playing second fiddle. Seems that what the first doctor
wrote is taken for granted by subsequent doctors. All feel the need to inform me that I
have a perfectly good diagnosis and I have terrible kidneys. The blood tests tell them so.
And I too can see what the blood tests state, but IF I want to prolong my life without
drugs, I seem to be on my own. Thank goodness I have an excellent internist.