Wellness is the opposite of . . .
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: This is the back story telling why we decided to become brand partner with Lifewave - wellness phototherapy patch company.
Story about Tim and the hellacious winter of 2025
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: $5,000.00. That was the out-of-pocket max for 2025 on our great Federal retiree medical coverage. That didn’t matter to me. Neither did the 10’s of thousands we had spent a couple of years ago for PRP (stem cell not covered by the same insurance) injections for his back because I love him and seeing him in pain is the worst thing ever. Late last year Tim became increasingly unable to sleep. Then, it became apparent that he was having trouble breathing. 2 trips to different ER’s in the valley “ruled out” his heart, but they were WRONG. His sharp, young, primary doc decided to try a little Lasix and bingo. Tim was in congestive heart failure.
The angiogram showed a particular kind of narrowing of vessels (bifurcation) in his heart that the doctors at the world-renowned Heart Institute in Missoula concurred would be best treated with quadruple bypass which was scheduled earliest available: January 21, 2025. He had a complicated recovery in those first days in the hospital and we had expressed repeatedly our concern about infection over his history of sepsis.
Here's where I’ll shorten the story and just be assured in the weeks after he was discharged, infection became a major issue involving wound vacs, more surgery, IV antibiotics and home health care. It was so, so hard seeing him in pain, defeated and discouraged.
If you know me, you know I’m constantly in pursuit of alternative avenues for health so I had talked with our friend, Khaki about the patches she was seeing such incredible results with at length months before the heart failure was found. My decision at that point was to pass due to other such marketing attempts and not being able to quite get a grip on how these phototherapy patches worked. It was in a doctor’s of mid Summer of 2025 when we learned about clinical studies that had shown SIGNIFICANT heart function improvement in only 30 MINUTES with some of these patches – they are only approved for general wellness, but are constantly being tested in clinical settings. Now they had my attention.
As of this writing it’s been a little over 4 weeks that Tim and I have been patching. The first night we both slept better than we had in some time, and we’re seeing small gains that we’re trying to document. Better skin already on some troublesome areas. It takes a while for the peptides to activate the cells that need to be woken up so we’re here learning, experiencing and listening to the reports on the many double-blind placebo-controlled clinical studies (since clinical study READING is not as fun as it may sound). In the context of much medical testing on Tim, these studies have real meaning for us. The patches only enable our bodies to return to a state of wellness and I love that they work on light and frequency – like our bodies do. Most importantly, it seems like I have my Tim back. He’s so much more like himself and for now that means packing everything that’s not nailed down for our next house in the 55+ gated community.
P.S. When I contacted Khaki again about the patches a few weeks ago, she couldn't help wondering if this entire scenario might have been different. Wellness. It's not as boring as it sounds. Message me if you're interested. Here’s the link: