tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-261240 2012-05-23T17:49:12-07:00 Pat Sullivan, founder of Jigsaw Health, ACT! and SalesLogix, recovering from Chronic Fatigue, Brain Trauma, Mold Illness, Mercury Toxicity, talks about medical and other issues. TypePad http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20168ebbc7dc9970c 2012-05-23T17:49:12-07:00 2012-05-23T17:49:12-07:00

Well, I know I haven't posted in like, FOREVER. Fortunately for me I have felt really healthy for a long time and have moved on to other passions. Like doing my 3rd CRM startup. ACT! and SalesLogix were great but I think Contatta is going to be the best and biggest thing I have ever done. And for those of you interested, my supplement company Jigsaw Health is rocking!! I was amazed when I just checked back into the blog here. I still get several hundred readers per day with over 350,000 readers since I started years ago. Pretty amazing to me. I hope you all continue to find pieces to your health puzzle here. I thought I would post an email from and my reply to someone who wrote to me. Perhaps some of you would find it useful. Here it is: Dear Pat, I apologize in advance that this is so long, I tried to summarize but it is so hard to make this brief. I have been wanting to write you for a while now for advice, since you and I have so much in common, with the exception that you have solved your health problems. I am suffering poor health related to one, more or all of the following factors: mold exposure, candida, and amalgam fillings. I am also a frustrated Shoemaker patient and have the dreaded multisusceptible genetic type. I have never felt comfortable about ruling out lyme as a possible factor either as I live in an area where tick bytes are common. The next four paragraphs are background information and then I want to ask you for some specific advice. I have been suffering with increasing symptoms since Feb 2010, when we had water damage in our home I have all-over joint and...

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2012/05/reply-to-a-shoemaker-patient.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20154330f82ad970c 2011-06-17T17:52:05-07:00 2011-06-30T13:48:30-07:00

It has been way too long since I added to my blog here. I am sorry I haven't but my interests are elsewhere AND for the most part I feel great! So I don't research as much. I still get lots of hits on the blog and am glad people find the info useful in their recovery from chronic illness. I recently received an email that asked great questions and my answer to it seemed blog worthy. The two emails are long so you have to wade through them. I have changed some things in the email to me just to hide the identity. Hope you learn something useful! I am sorry that Typepad for some reason simply will not take my paragraph breaks in my reply. Hi Pat, I was reading your blog last night but couldn't not find any recent entries (past 09'). Are there any? I'm also a patient a Shoemakers (started in ) and have been on the CSM for 2 1/2 weeks. I would totally agree with your remarks on his bedside manner (which doesn't exist). It is most certainly his way or the highway. I have the dreaded genotype 11/3/52B and low msh-6 (I sleep OK, but it's a very non-restorative sleep), low vip-7, and ADH and Osmo are out of sync causing the constant dehydration. My TGF-B1 is slightly elevated @ 3320 but my C4a and C3a are good-as are VEGF and MMP-9. Shoemaker mentioned patients buying MSH and taking it. Are you aware of this or have you had any experience with it? The CSM was starting to work pretty well but then I went back to drinking a couple cups of coffee per day and today feel most of my symptoms back. Of course I will stop the coffee pronto but...

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2011/06/what-i-do-to-get-and-stay-well-from-mold-damage.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e2013487afe2f8970c 2010-09-24T12:58:24-07:00 2010-09-24T12:58:13-07:00

I am not one to cry easily. But I just read this letter. This is why I started Jigsaw Health. Her son was autistic. Dear Mr. Sullivan, Many years ago, in the middle of the night, I e-mailed you regarding my son’s autism. You responded by telling me that although you couldn’t help my son, you might very well be able to help me. And good to your word, you did. Jigsaw Health Foundation covered the expense of restoring my teeth, removing nearly a dozen amalgam fillings. The first thing I noticed was the ‘metal’ taste was gone. Headaches….gone. Depression…gone. My overall health has improved significantly since that time. And so has something else… I found a doctor who was willing to help my son. Long story short, a Urinary porphyrin profile along with blood work proved he was heavy metal toxic and glutathione deficient. Over the next 10 months, he received 300 mg. of DMSA, 3 times a day, 3 days on, the 4 days off. The sheer amount of metal in his body was astounding. About 2 months into treatment the director of Lab Corp in Louisville called to ask me if he had ‘an ongoing occupational exposure to arsenic’ I answered ‘well, he’s in the second grade, does that count’??? There was a measured silence on the line before he was able to stammer….’you’re kidding, right’?? ‘Ah, nope, second grader, look at his age’…. The poor man was so uncomfortable that it could be palpated from 200 miles away. Cadmium, arsenic, nickel, mercury, tons of lead, though we never lived in a house with lead paint…so I have no idea there…. the arsenic was from chicken, shell fish, and I suspect our deck which was pressure treated lumber. His transformation was nothing short of phenomenal. He went...

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/09/this-made-me-cry-.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20133f485e9e9970b 2010-09-23T17:26:03-07:00 2010-09-23T17:28:37-07:00

First let me apologize for not blogging more here about health. I have actually been planning an update on getting well from chronic conditions. My favorite topic. But I have had a LOT going on in my life. Some good. Some not so good. But my health is excellent I am happy to say. And I want to share some things I have learned and I will soon. Today though I wanted to say how honored I am to have been asked to serve on the newly formed Arizona Commerce Authority. Basically it is an effort for public and private sectors to join together to help Arizona foster job growth here in this state. It actually replaces the States Commerce Department. Not only that, I was asked to Chair the Entrepreneurship Sector Group. I was totally surprised 2 mornings ago when I got a call from Governor Jan Brewer and she personally asked me to do this. It was cool getting a call direct from the Governor and unlike me, I was at a loss for words. I couldn't decide whether to call her Governor or Madam Governor, so stupidly I called her Jan. Later though, I gathered my wits and called her Governor. It was also amazing that she called personally. I would have thought her assistant or someone else would call. But she said that this group is so important to her she wanted to call personally to recruit the people to head up the 4 key groups. I got to meet her today. Needless to say I was honored. The whole group is co-chaired by Jerry Colangelo. He is very serious about making this work. As for me, I feel a bit overwhelmed with having to figure out how I can make a difference and do something...

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/09/governor-jan-brewer-called-me.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e201310fb7fd30970c 2010-03-18T13:32:05-07:00 2010-03-18T13:32:05-07:00

The military has done a great job of recognizing that soldiers surviving concussive injuries are very prone to long term effects. A TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) often begins to show up in terms of symptoms within 6 - 8 weeks after an event. Symptoms most often observed early on are insomnia, anxiety, depression, ADD like symptoms (inattention, emotional outbursts like quick anger, boredom). This is true in the non-military as well. Falls and car accidents can also damage the brain. That proved true for me when after a severe whiplash car accident in college I began to experience symptoms about 6-8 weeks after the accident. Here is a good article talking about TBI's and how they are more prevalent than we ever thought.

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/03/brain-injury-more-prevalent.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20120a8ca282e970b 2010-02-23T14:32:40-07:00 2010-02-23T14:32:40-07:00

The Canadian Press: 'My heart, my choice,' Williams says, defending decision for U.S. heart surgery Posted using ShareThis

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/02/the-canadian-press-my-heart-my-choice-williams-says-defending-decision-for-us-heart-surgery.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20128776437b3970c 2010-02-04T13:44:36-07:00 2010-02-04T13:44:36-07:00

Here are links to 2 talks I have given the past 2 years. The first one is about things I have learned the hard way being an entrepreneur. Things you have not read in a book! The second is about raising money for a new venture where I reveal a few secrets I have learned along the way. I thought these might be useful in these days where people are either trying to find work or are trying to start a business so they can work. And perhaps create jobs. Hope you enjoy.Being an Entrepreneur. Raising money.

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/02/entrepreneur-being-one-and-raising-money.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20120a85475e4970b 2010-02-02T17:19:12-07:00 2010-02-02T17:19:12-07:00

FOXNews.com - Intelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away Now this is good to know but really makes you wish that the Underwear Bomber would NOT have been treated like an American Citizen and given Constitutional Miranda Rights! What a Jack Bauer type might have learned from him!! But no, so that Islam won't get MAD at us, we are going to grant them OUR civil rights! Way to go Bracko!! Your reaching out to Islam has really helped out soooo much!! Sooner or later this was bound to happen though. At least now maybe, MOST Americans will realize once again that they are indeed trying to kill all of us! And not because of something we have done, other than we have "infidel" practices that they want to kill us for!

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/02/foxnewscom---intelligence-officials-warn-attempted-al-qaeda-attack-months-away.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451ce5f69e20120a7fefb2f970b 2010-01-22T15:11:51-07:00 2010-01-22T15:11:51-07:00

Hard to imagine how much a Billion is? Check this out and then imagine a Trillion! Download What is a Billion

Pat Sullivan http://www.patsullivan.com/blog/2010/01/what-is-a-billion.html