EP34 - From Wealth to Wrecked - Gaslighting, Psych Wards & Metal Allergies - Barry’s Story

Our guest today, Barry Walsh, has an incredible story about allergies to an IV filter, as well as spinal fusion hardware implanted after a 40 foot fall at a construction site. Prior to surgery Barry was a wealthy & successful construction contractor in New York City to many big name celebrities and organizations. After his fall he became homeless, gaslit, dismissed by medical professionals, locked up in psych wards repeatedly and lived in his car until a hero surgeon believed him and started removing his metal.
In this episode you will learn:
What an IV filter is an how it can be dangerous to your health.
How metal allergies can be mistaken for mental illness.
Just how much health can be restored when metal is removed.
How to better advocate for yourself with metal allergies.
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Denis Walsh
Patient
I am a 57 year old father of 4..2 boys...2 girls
I came to USA in 1989 as a 21 year old with $600 in my pocket,started work in construction business as I had worked in that business most of my life prior to coming to USA and progressed up the ladder to owning my own construction company and starting developing.
Through the years I worked throughout the USA doing projects all ove,to the pint by 2007 I had acquired properties where I had intended to develop at cost f close to $20 million upon completion when I had a construction accident on one of properties I was developing resulting in my being airlifted to nearest trauma center and placed in induced coma for 5 days and then operated on to rehab multiple bone fractures throughout my body including fractured vertebrae in spine.
after surgery I felt great and was back up and about on my construction sites within 3 wees,not bad after falling over 40 ft but by 4th wee I was struggling to breathe and upon presenting at ER of trauma center it was found that spinal hardware inserted in spine had loosened and I needed to have revision surgery where upon awakening after this revision surgery,I was never so sic in my life.
Now,this is coming from a man that while fit as a fiddle as young man,that was a national champion at trac events,represented my country and had received scholarship offers to USA as a 17 year old but even by then had been through the wars ,as by 14 I had experienced my first near death accident by being crushed under tractor in agricultural accident,then at 16 flatlined after adverse reaction to a…
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