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If I can be any assistance to you, please let me know.
Sincerely,
P.S.: Keep up the good work.
Mrs. M. D. KOLIHA.
ONTARIO, CANADA, April 8, 1980.
DEAR MR. PEPPER: Inclosed you'll find a copy of a letter that I sent to Mike
Wallace after viewing 60 Minutes March 23.
Bless you, you are like the light at the end of a dark tunnel. We people who have
lived with D.M.S.O. and reaped it's benefits seemed to be fighting a losing battle.
With Rep. D. Bonker's and your help, perhaps we can finally be heard. We have
never met a more dedicated person than Dr. S. Jacob.
Keep up your great work and if we can be of any help just let us know.
Thank you, thank you,
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. HAROLD SAVAGE.
MARCH 24, 1980.
DEAR MIKE WALLACE: Bravo on your story of Dr. Jacob and D.M.S.O. 60 Minutes,
what took you so long? About 5 years ago in Portland your film crew taped our
son's and other success stories of D.M.S.O. It was never shown.
Our son had been in a coma due to an auto accident. After 6 months in the
hospital we brought him home. His Drs. said that he would probably never regain
bladder control. In 1973 he became a patient of Dr. Jacob. Within months of using
D.M.S.O. he had full bladder control.
Our hometown of Ontario, Ca. can attest to the many great changes it has created
in Randy's life.
The F.D.A. says to test it more . . . . More? If Salk vaccine had been tested as
much, we still wouldn't have it.
The F.D.A. and big drug companies be damned . . . Their greed for money has
caused enough pain in our world.
Sincerely,
Mrs. H. L. SAVAGE.
ARTESIA, N.MEX., April 9, 1980.
I am writing to you concerning the Symms-Duncan Legislation. I want to con-
gratulate you on what you are trying to do for people like myself. I have Sclero-
derma and would like to tell you a little about myself; so you can see how much this
legislation means to me and to others who have this terrible disease.
I was 25 years old with a five year old daughter when I was told I have Schlero-
derma, and that there is no cure and very little help for it. About the first 13 years,
it wasn't too bad. I had ulcers on my fingertips. I only had pain while the ulcers
were healing, and being cold during the winter months.
But the last six years have been something else. In 1974, I had an amputation of
my first toe. And then in 1979, I lost two more. I am enclosing some pictures so you
can get an idea of what has happened to me.
The last five years, during the winter months, the only way to get by is to live on
pain pills and then it doesn't do the job just takes the edge off. You lose weight and
walk the floor at night, because you can't sleep for the pain. The pain is with you
day after day til you don't think you can take it any more.
Then the first part of 1979, I started having chest pains and trouble with my
lungs. I couldn't even clean up one room without sitting down and resting. I've
always been able to take care of myself. And it's very hard for me to have to accept
help from others. Another thing about this disease is you can't get health insurance
or if they will, it's so high you can't afford it.
That's the bad side of Scleroderma. Now for the good part, the only ray of hope
I've had in 19 years. I went to Portland, Oregon to see Dr. Jacob last July. He
started me on a treatment with DMSO. After the first week, I felt better than I had
in 19 years. I could button my own clothes, reach behind my head. The pain was
almost nothing. Four months later I no longer had chest pains.
I have just come through one more winter and it's the best winter I've had in six
years. I had a few bad points where the pain was pretty rough, but they didn't last
long. Now when I get ulcers I use DMSO and it clears them up. Also, I didn't have
anymore amputations. I feel that I owe my life to DMSO and to the work that Dr.
Jacob has done. I feel that now I might have a chance to see my children grown and
to be able to enjoy my grandchildren.
