Dear [zlyja]:
I am uncomfortable asking you for your help...AGAIN; but JoAnne is still suffering and we have been blocked from any official assistance. We are, after all, “unacceptable” to our own government. SO I am again at your door. On the 11th, I had to eliminate my only chance to pay for JoAnne's medical procedures (complete details below). So I started this direct request campaign to ask for help. I am asking that you support us again with a donation; any amount to aitrust @ gmail.com [deactivated email link] via PayPal. Every dollar counts!
It is still diffocut to accept the terrible financial position we are in; plus the fact that we have been isolated from everyone we know and love; then harassed, threatened and ruined by our own government because we are telling you the truth. JoAnne and I have no resources and can look only to good people like you for help and support.
Today is the 28th. I have contacted about half of people who supported us in the past, but have generated only $980.00. I know times are very difficult for everybody. I will not get the $5000 needed; so I have been on the phone with the clinic here and the doctors in Australia. We now have another option. I must get the scan and MRI done locally and send to the clinic and a local doctor (our brother-in-law; so no law suite ever) is a retired orthopaedic surgeon and agreed to act as the administer for JoAnne's treatments). About $2500 is our new target, which should become a reality with your help. Her ordeal is told below.
JoAnne is suffering and I can do nothing. Every donation will be used exclusively for her medical needs. JoAnne's serious/chronic medical problem and her chance to be healed, must to be addressed as soon as possible because the nerve damage is linked to so many other causes of her suffering. She is spiralling downward. Your donation and those of others will mean JoAnne can have her quality of life restored.
In 2008, during our 6th trip to Libya, we both became ill with what appeared to be a typical “Montezuma's revenge” infestation from the local intestinal flora and fauna. After several days of suffering we returned to the USA. I recovered after 4 days, using kaopectate and amplicillin. JoAnne has such a sensitive system that she cannot take any antibiotic; so she suffered for another 2 months. Her symptoms looked like a terrible and enduring case of the flu. She could not sleep, even though she was worn out, tired and exhausted. A doctor prescribed a very mild dose of a benzodiazepine (1 mg) to help her sleep. That did not help, so he increased the dose to 2 mg. Worse symptoms so again he increased the dosage to 3 mg. Her symptoms were so much worse, so she stopped the medications after 40 days. JoAnne immediately went into a full blown drug withdrawal, as if she had been an addict for 30 years. She had to start ingesting the “benzo” again, in very, very small doses tapering-off for 6 months. It was pure hell. JoAnne doesn't take aspirin, because her body is so sensitive to all medications. So for her to be suffering like this is a travesty. She is a worst case “scale” of terrible effects from this drug. Which by the way in the most prescribe drugs in the USA …. and the most addictive! as we discovered too late. JoAnne became an unwilling victim of “big pharma” and has suffered ever since!
In late 2009, on another trip to Libya she suffered another bout, so we cut that trip short. We immediately began to secure medical help from specialists. The forth specialists prescribed a stomach scan. Without telling us she gave JoAnne an injection of Benzodiazepine before the procedure. By that night JoAnne was in full blown withdrawal again!!! This time it was more intense. She could barely get out of bed. We did not know why. I had to travel to Libya several times that year, by myself, while she stayed home and convalesced, (only home nurse visits daily to help her). A dozen doctors could not determine what was the cause of her terrible distress. In early February 2011, I finished our business activities, in Tripoli, so I stopped at a large Pharmacy in the next block from our rented apartment in the Ben Asher area of Tripoli, to purchase some acid blockers for myself. Modern, well equipped and staffed with 2 PhD Pharmacists. The older woman asked why she had not seen JoAnne for months. I described the myriad of problems and challenges JoAnne was experiences. She said that all those symptoms were caused by a parasite called “Giardia”. It was not detected because Giardia does not lay eggs, but rather spores at irregular/infrequent times. Those spores can live outside the body for up to 10 days. They live a week on toilet seats; door handles and remain on vegetables even if washed with chlorine-water. These parasites attack the GABA receptors in the gut and brain causing nerve damage which takes a long time to heal. The good news was a medication (4 tablets) taken at one time kills the little bastards. I called JoAnne with the name, but after several hours discovered that that medication is not available in the US. I bought 10 boxes (10 doses) and caught the next flight to the US which left on the 8th of February.
JoAnne took the medication 5 minutes after I got home and by the next day the symptoms had reduced and a week later she was on the road to recovery. By May 2011 JoAnne was healthy enough to go to Libya as a co-leader of the NGO Fact Finding Commission. As you know we were trapped in Tripoli for 100 days.
We discovered that the benzodiazepines also attack the GABA A & C receptors. This meant that JoAnne was never a good candidate for that medication because the parasites had already damaged her GABA receptors. The “benzo” exacerbated the terrible reaction and made her symptoms looked like a “drug addiction withdrawal”! It was in fact damage to her GABA receptors in both her gut and her brain; causing all her distress. US doctors refuse to admit that anyone here have parasites...but worse, prescribe benzodiazepines like candy. There is no negative press about "benzo" anywhere in the US. They are dangerous drugs!
In late May of this year JoAnne again started suffering these same painful withdrawal symptoms, without any inducement from parasites or medications. The GABA A&B receptor "experts" determined that these were memories stored in her GABA receptors and hopefully? In time would eventually heal. We contacted many of these experts from all over the world; Dr. Heather Ashton of England ; Dr. O'Neil and Dr. Hulse of Australia. All agreed that JoAnne was a special case and needed extensive testing to determine the damage to her GABA receptors and then, under strict supervision, be given the antagonist medications to try to eliminate the symptoms and then finally/hopefully heal the receptors. There are clinics in Australia with 10 years conducting these exact activities. BUT we cannot afford those travel costs. Our only option is a clinic in North Carolina cooperating with Emery University “sleep disorder research” and Dr. O'Neil.
We sent JoAnne's records and tests, done during the past 7 years to the clinic and the doctors. The clinic agreed to take her as a patient but require an MRI and Scan of her “gut” and brain. Based on these findings Dr. O'Neil will work with them to design and administer these specially designed antagonists low-dose injections. Thereafter self treatments, with skin patches, could be approved since we are so far away. Their total charges would be $13,000 to $16,000 including the testing; medications and in-clinic stay. Since there will be no insurance applications; payment delays etc. I negotiated a cash payment for everything of $5300, paid at admittance. This is the money we need you to help us accumulate.
JoAnne and I were asked to speak at a symposium in England for 7500 international media representatives, for a “speakers fee” of $7500 US Dollars, plus all our travel costs and expenses prepaid. With that I could have paid the clinic. In fact, that was really the basis for my “good faith” negotiations with them. We would return from London directly to North Carolina. HOWEVER, JoAnne is not progressing or improving at all. 90 days of suffering! I simply cannot fulfil our speakers contract if JoAnne is unable to endure an 18 hour trip to London (2 stops required from deep SE Texas) and back! I had no option but to cancel our paid speakers contract last week. So now I have no money and no opportunity to pay these costs and expenses.
I am humbly requesting that you find it in your heart to again support us with a donation, which will help pay these medical costs. There have been more than 2000 DVDs purchased by people like you, from all over the world! I pray that enough of you have heard our story and understand the genuine struggles we must endure because we told the truth! Your help is the only way I can pay the medical costs for Joanne. JoAnne deserves to enjoy the meagre life we are living, not constant suffering. If you cannot make a donation, then please offer up some special prayers for JoAnne's future.
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Sincerely,
Jimmy Moriarty