The patient is a fifty-four-year old Cau- casian female who has suffered from nineteen different pathologies. The magnitude of her serious health problems seemed almost impossible to reverse, but she was not an ordinary person. She had developed a remarkable inner strength and utmost determination to obtain emotional and physical health, something that she had never felt before. Her childhood was scarred with abuse; emotional, physical, and sexual. At the age of nineteen. she started to suffer from depression and was " treated " with eight electroconvulsive therapies. Since then, she has been hospitalized eight times for psychiatric episodes. At age forty-four, she was diagnosed with a personality disorder. At the age of fifty-three she became homeless.

On our first visit in September, 1997, the chief medical concern was Diabetes Type 2, complicated by diseases that resulted from uncontrolled blood sugar levels. Diabanese, Metformin and Glyburide had been previously prescribed. However she had taken the medicine inconsistently for the last fifteen years, until May 1, 1997 when she completely refused all prescription drugs for diabetes. Five years after the initial diagnoses of diabetes twenty-five years ago, she developed the first signs of neuropathy with burning sensations running bilaterally in both hands and feet. A! the age of forty-five, glaucoma and cataract formations were diagnosed. In the summer of 1997, kidney damage was diagnosed with microalbumin leaking out in micturation.