September 2007
I
now have my own blog at www.drkondrot.com I
hope to answer all your questions using this new forum. The August
18th Bozeman Seminar was very successful. Special thanks to Dave
and Ann Sward for helping my staff feel at home in Montana. Dr Charlene
Werner made her début with a great talk on light therapy.
Dr. Robert Rowen and I successfully climbed Mt. Whitney! I have
also included some interesting topics related to your eye health.
To your good health and clear vision,
Dr. Edward Kondrot
Please visit my Blog at www.drkondrot.com. The purpose of this blog is to have an open forum on various topics related to alternative care and eye disease. I welcome your questions, comments and experiences related to your eye care. I hope we all can learn from each other
Twice Conquered or Return to the Top
Every year Dr. Robert Rowen and I do an out door adventure. We became good
friends after I treated his father for macular degeneration. He was kind
enough to publish the results of his father’s treatment in the Second
Opinion Newsletter.
http://www.healingtheeye.com/images/PDF/MCS2nd.pdf
Many of the subscribers of the Second Opinion are more interested in our next
adventure than the medical content in the newsletter! I hear comments
from patients, “What a trip! What are you and Dr. Rowen doing next year?” Last
year we spent 5 days backpacking in Yosemite National park. Some of hiking
was done over ice fields at altitudes over 10,000 feet. It was hard for me
to adjust to ice and snow in July living in Phoenix!
http://www.healingtheeye.com/PDF/yosemite.pdf
I would also encourage you to subscribe to Dr. Rowen’s Newsletter. It
is the single most valuable source of information to help you keep your health.
https://secure.secondopinionnewsletter.com/orderform.php
This year we decided to tackle Mt Whitney the highest peak in the lower
48 states. Mt Whitney is located in central California at the southern end of
the John Muir Trail or JMT as the locals call it. It was a very tough undertaking
for me. Please read
about our adventure
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The Montana seminar was a success. It was great to
finally meet in person many of my patients who I have been consulting
with over the telephone. It is nice to finally meet the person behind
the telephone voice! I want to thank Dave and Ann Sward for there
works in organizing this seminar. I look forward to my return trip
to Montana in March 2008. When of the highlights of the seminar was Dr. Werner’s discussion of light therapy in the treatment of eye disease. View Dr. Werner's talk on light therapy! .Click Here  |
CDs and DVD’s of the Pittsburgh seminar are now available .Click Here
We welcome Dr. Charlene Werner to our practice
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Kondrot and his staff for making me so welcome to Phoenix. I never imagined that I would leave Texas ...the land of big blue skies, country music and warm southern hospitality. But gosh, Arizona has blue skies to match with beautiful sunrises and sunsets with warm friendly people. I feel right at home! Dr. Charlene Werner |
| Dr. Werner will be adding the following services to
help you attain your best visual “health and eyesight”. • Prescriptions that provide the most comfortable enhancing vision • Therapeutic prisms and tints that promote health and well being. • Vision training techniques that can improve memory, learning, and balance. The above services can make a significant improvement for those diagnosed with the following conditions: • ADD/ADHD/DYSLEXIA • DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS • OTHER RELATED LEARNING DISABILITIES • ALZHEIMERS • STROKE VICTIMS • AUTISM • MIGRAINE HEADACHES • INSOMNIA • STRABISMUS (EYE TURNS) AND AMBLYOPIA We will feature future articles how enhancing the visual system will improve these conditions and how you may receive a benefit from them. |
Welcome Lynn Maloney! Our New 3 day patient coordinator!
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I am the new 3 Day patient coordinator which Dr. Kondrot has established at the “Healing the Eye and Wellness Center” I believe the importance of quality attention to every detail before you arrive and while you are at the center as well as your care is part of my duties. Scheduling your appointments to air and hotel reservations, I can assist you to eliminate the fear of the unknown so your main concentration will be on healing. Knowing that you have a liaison within the practice to triage your questions and trouble shoot any of your concerns so you will feel comfortable and not alone on your new path of health and vision after you leave our hands on care. I look forward to meeting and assisting you. |
Twice Conquered or Return to the Top
By Dr. Robert Rowen.
Each summer now my friend Ed Kondrot and I get lots of inquiries of our latest
yearly adventure. This year, I suggested a trek through the highest of the
high country in the continental USA – the high Sierra. I was there once
before. In 1974, exactly 33 years younger, while a medical student, I made
a solo ascent of Mt. Whitney, 14,496 feet with a fully loaded backpack from
its incredibly steep east side. That was a most difficult trek. I am one of
the few to have actually slept at the top. Indeed, I got altitude sickness
that night and was forced to descend the next day to lakes at 12,000 feet on
its west side. There I developed tendonitis in my right knee. That aborted
my plan to backpack a few more days on the famous John Muir trail. I slowly
hobbled in pain back up the crest and down 5000 feet and 8.5 miles back to
the trailhead. I hurt even more from the missed opportunity to trek the trail.
Ed quickly jumped at the idea of a challenge. I got the necessary wilderness permits. Both of us vigorously prepared. I did much mountain biking and hiking, but did not have the luxury of preparatory trekking at high altitude where I live. We rendezvoused on July 30 with a car at each end, and slept at the Kearsarge pass trailhead (9200 ft) the first night.
The following day we trekked up the pass to 12,200 feet each carrying 45-50 pounds for an expected 5 night trip. We continued another 8 miles descending to 9200 ft. for a total of 10 miles for the first day. I handled the altitude quite well but my legs were wasted. Ed, who cured himself of asthma with homeopathy over 10 years ago, didn’t do so well with the low oxygen at high altitude. He needed frequent “comfort” breaks, but his legs were strong.
The following day we descended into Bidette Meadows experiencing a Shangri-La type experience in one of the most beautiful mountain valleys I’ve ever seen. My legs were still sore so we agreed to camp after just 4 miles where a gorgeous waterfall was cutting a small gorge. We showered in the spray.
With the rest, we agreed to now push real hard with long days to timely complete the trip early for both of us to return to our work. And did we push. On day 3, Ed had aroused me at 4:30am for an “early start”. I wasn’t pleased. I returned to my sleeping bag for another 30 minutes but we managed to begin moving at 6:30am. We sorely underestimated the distance to make Forrester pass (13,180ft). It was 6 miles away and a grueling 3600ft climb. Ed again suffered from the altitude and his going was slow. My legs were stronger after the rest. Again I took the altitude real well. Ascending this long and very large altitude gain was the hardest hike we had ever done. We continued another 6 miles descending to about 10,200 feet to a river camping area. We chose to camp just ½ mile further at a small stream. But that required us to reascend a paltry 200 feet and both of us barely made it. Our legs were like burnt toast.
Day 4 was less challenging but spectacular beyond our expectations. Our legs were recovering quickly now and we were able to travel about 12 miles up and down and up a few thousand feet. The vistas of the high Sierra can’t be described. We got views of the west side of Mt. Whitney that simply took our breath away even when we took a break. The glacier carved valleys of the high Sierra could not have done more to prove the work of the hands of God than any other spectacle I’ve seen. We ended the day at a lake at the foot of Mt. Whitney in such a valley at 11,900 feet. The total day’s distance - about 12 miles. Our legs were strengthening. Nearly vertical white magnificent granite peaks surrounded us. The temperature dropped below freezing. The night time sky was ablaze with the Milky Way. Ed wanted to get out a day early if possible. That required that we take the trail up to the pass (2 miles, 13,670ft.), drop our packs, and do 1.7 miles each way along the Sierra crest to Mt. Whitney, and then out another 8.5 miles to the trailhead dropping a dramatic 4,500 feet down steep switchbacks. While our legs sprung from the freedom of no packs, the low oxygen was ever present and short comfort breaks were still needed. Ed, admitting that he never thought he would make it up Forrester Pass did much better without the pack. He arrived on the summit 10 minutes after me. It was joyous for me to see where I had slept 33 years ago and again take in one of the most awesome views in North America. We celebrated our arrival with picture taking. I successfully connected a cell phone call to Terri from the summit to tell her we were alive and well, and successful.
We then quickly returned to our packs at trail crest and descended. We had only a few hours before sunset and knew it would be close to make the 8.5 miles in daylight. We took very few breaks, just enough to ease the pain on our shoulders from the packs. The valley was just gorgeous. We arrived at the trailhead just as darkness was descending, successfully exiting a full day early! Wasted is an understatement. Even with dropped packs, we hobbled to the car. We exited the wilderness for our first meal off the mountain.
Times have changed in the 33 years since I was last there. Permits are now required. So many people want the challenge that the Forest Service requires hikers to carry their own poop in the Whitney zone to preserve the water quality for those camping after. Bear canisters are required for food protection. But for me it was a double victory. I trekked five of the toughest days ever without a whimper from my knee, which took a beating in my “youth” after only three days on the mountain. The difference? I can only relate it to my diet. Back then I was eating lots of meat and even took hard salami with me up the mountain. This time, all of my food was vegan, and most raw. I thrived. The only beating I took was sore shoulders and sore leg muscles which recovered quickly.
Ed is nagging me to do another most challenging trip next year that I thought would be too hard on my knees. However, we both realized that this trip was likely twice as hard, considering the altitude and steep ascents and descents. My knees did so great that I am considering. Of course you’ll read about the next one next year.
I am always pleased to tell you about these journeys. Even at 57 each,
we were not the oldest up on the peak. We saw one man who had to be over
70. My underlying message is that life is far more beautiful with a healthy
body. I do walk my talk and the performance demonstrates the power of
a healthy lifestyle. My parents, still concerned about my vegan living
foods diet, have lost all of their worries by the demonstration of the
power and endurance it sustains. My heart rate maintained itself for
hours at a steady 140 or more up the Sierra’s most difficult slopes.
Few people in today’s world can do that. Even Ed only mustered
about 120, likely impaired by residual lung damage from his earlier asthma.
I encourage you to live life to your fullest. That doesn’t mean trekking
halfway to the ozone layer. It means eating right and exercising, preserving
your body so that you can do in your sunset years all that you dream, without
disability. I wasn’t planning to return to Mt. Whitney for a third run,
but now my daughter wants to experience the exhilaration of the feat together
with me. That could propel yet one more time. But even if it isn’t Mt.
Whitney, to be able to trek and see the wonder’s of God’s creation,
be at one with it, and escape the bondages of today’s modern world, even
if only for a few days, is something I want to retain until the very end of
my days. I hope that these adventures will stimulate you to heed my advice
in these pages, that you’ll make efforts to preserve your body and mind
as well for as long as you are here.
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