For twenty four years Dr. Lorre Laws was misdiagnosed. She had been living in a house fraught with toxic mold, and nobody could name what was wrong with her, including the top rheumatologist at UCLA. In this episode she becomes her own case story, told in the same SBAR format she uses in her nurse trauma healing programs. It ends with the brain scan that finally named it and changed the course of her work.

Key Points

Reliving a traumatic event is contraindicated in nurse trauma healing work. Situation and symptoms only, in SBAR format.

Nearly twenty years in a house fraught with toxic mold, at a time when the evidence base on mold illness was still in its infancy.

Twenty four years of misdiagnosis and medical gaslighting, all of it from competent and well-intended providers.

Eight medications, the opiate ladder all the way to methadone and morphine, and the loss of health insurance in the pre Affordable Care Act era.

Tapering off all eight medications using half-life tables from a public library. It took a year.

A NeuroQuant MRI measures the volume of brain structures and left to right symmetry. Hers found severe PTSD and limbic system impairment.

85.3 percent of the 2,000 plus nurses in the Nurse Trauma Indicator data set reported they are not sure how much longer they can do this.

Featured Stories

Dr. Lorre’s own trauma history and recovery. The TRIAGE workshop of September 8, when the internet failed three times mid-session, and the resources built in the hours afterward.

Resources Mentioned

The TRIAGE resource bundle. The workshop replay, the stoplight visual for your nervous system, and the nine triage practices. Email team@drlorrelaws.com with TRIAGE in the subject line.

The Nervous System Reset live event, October 2, 3, and 4.

The International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illnesses, for anyone struggling with mold or Lyme disease.