| By Faye Landrum Pam Mitchell was faced with a terrible decision:
have her foot amputated or die. At least, that's what the
doctors told her. But Pam had heard about another option
for her condition: a treatment using sterilized blowfly
larva. Or, in other words, maggots. Read the story of a
woman who was brave enough to stand up to an entire
medical community for an unconventional treatment she
believed would save her life. Pam's story and eventual
recovery will have you cheering and crying. Daunting
medical problems challenged Pam's entire life: diabetes
at age ten; laser eye surgery at age twenty-five; a
kidney transplant at twenty-eight. Her final challenge,
however, was to try to save her own life by using a
highly unconventional treatment involving blowfly larva,
or maggots. Not only was Pam victorious in her battle,
but she fully recovered from her condition. Today, Pam is
involved full-time with encouraging, educating, and
praying for others with similar conditions.
* * * Faye Landrum is a retired
registered nurse and has been a freelance writer since
1969. Her work has been published in over 300 periodicals
and she is the author/co-author of five books. Her Web
site is www.fayeland.org.
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