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My husband has been taking horse medication for eight months. A seventy three year old retired engineer. Medicine cabinet full of prescriptions from real doctors. Driving to the Tractor Supply on Route 9 every six weeks. Walking past the saddles and the chicken feed. Buying a tube of ivermectin paste from the livestock aisle. The tube has a picture of a horse on it. My husband squeezes a dose onto a cracker every morning and eats it with his coffee. He does not tell his doctor. Does not tell our children. He barely told me. I found the tube in the kitchen drawer when I was looking for the can opener. I held it up and said, "Harold. What is this." He looked at me a long time. "It is the only thing that has made me feel better in ten years. I don't care what animal it's made for." That was a year ago. And I need to tell you what has happened since. Because what I found is going to change how you understand everything about ivermectin, about fenbendazole, and about why every one of those drugs crashes at the same point. The delivery route was wrong the whole time. And the answer was never in a pill. I need you to understand who Harold was before he got sick. Because otherwise you will not understand what I watched happen to him, and you will not understand why he ended up in a feed store buying horse paste at seventy three years old. Harold was an engineer for thirty five years. He could build anything with his hands and solve anything with his head. He built our daughter's first bookshelf. He built a porch swing that is still hanging out front after ten years. He built a playhouse for our grandchildren that the whole neighborhood came to look at. He was the man who mowed the lawn on Saturday morning and then went to the garage and worked on something until I called him in for supper. He was sharp. He could do math in his head faster than I could type it into a calculator. He remembered everything. He could quote you the serial number on a part he ordered in 1987. That was Harold. Then around 63, something started happening. The bloating came first. By supper his stomach would look six months pregnant. He stopped tucking in his shirts. He would sit in his recliner after dinner and quietly unbutton his pants when he thought I was not looking. But I was always looking. Because that is what you do after forty years. You watch. Even when you pretend you are not. Then the tiredness. Harold used to be in the garage by 7 AM on a Saturday. By 66 he was falling asleep in his chair at 2 in the afternoon. I would cover him with the blanket from the back of the couch and sit across from him and watch him breathe. I did that so many times it became a kind of prayer. Then the fog. Harold. The sharpest man I ever knew. He started asking me the same question two or three times in a row and not knowing he had already asked. I would answer him each time like it was the first. I never once let him see that I noticed. But I noticed. And every time it happened, something inside me went cold. His doctor said it was his age. Then the sugar cravings. Harold never had a sweet tooth in his life. I baked for thirty years and he almost never touched what I made. Then around 65, something changed. Every afternoon he would go to the kitchen and eat ice cream or cookies or whatever was there. He told me once that around 4 in the afternoon something inside him screamed for sugar and he could not say no. He was ashamed of it. He thought it was weakness. Then the bathroom. I am not going to tell you the details because Harold is a proud man and he would never forgive me. I will tell you that by the end he knew where every bathroom was within five miles of our house. I will tell you there were places he would not go. Church dinners. Our grandson's ball games. His best friend's retirement party. He made excuses every time. And I made excuses for the excuses. Then the weight. Forty one pounds in eight years. Eating less than he ever had. His doctor said metabolism. Suggested a diet. Harold was already barely eating. Six doctors in ten years. They called it IBS. Then diverticulosis. Then thyroid. Then stress. Then chronic fatigue. Not one of them checked for parasites. Not once. Harold's friend Frank from the VFW told him about ivermectin. Frank had been taking it for months. He said it was the same drug that won the Nobel Prize. He said millions of people around the world take it for parasites. He said you could buy it at the feed store for twelve dollars. Harold did not tell me. He just started taking it. Now I need to tell you what ivermectin actually is. Because my husband was not stupid. And the people who laughed about it on television were wrong. In the 1970s a Japanese scientist named Satoshi Omura spent years collecting dirt from all over Japan. Golf courses. Forests. Roadsides. He was looking for organisms in the soil that could fight disease. The chances of finding anything useful were one in ten thousand. One bag of dirt from a golf course near a hot spring in Kawana, Japan contained an organism that has never been found anywhere else on earth. Not before. Not since. Fifty years of scientists looking all over the world. Never found again. That organism produced a compound that kills parasites with a precision nothing else in medicine can match. They named it ivermectin. Merck turned it into a drug. It cured river blindness in Africa. Entire villages that had gone blind from a parasitic worm could see again after one dose a year. The CEO of Merck donated it for free. Four billion treatments since 1987. River blindness is close to being wiped off the earth. Second disease in human history after smallpox. In 2015, Omura and the Merck researcher William Campbell shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine. One bag of dirt. A compound nature had been making for millions of years. A drug that saved hundreds of millions of lives. The Nobel committee called it revolutionary. My husband standing at the counter with a cracker is not a crazy man. He is a man who found a Nobel Prize winning compound because his doctors wouldn't. But here is the part the ivermectin groups do not tell you. The drug is real. The Nobel Prize is real. And it still crashed Harold every single time. Because the compound is one tool. And the problem it is fighting is four locks. I want you to hold onto that. Because it is the reason Harold crashes every single month. And it is the key to everything. My neighbor Grace has been taking dog medicine for about the same length of time. Fenbendazole. You can buy it at any pet store. It comes in little white powder packets. Her daughter's Labrador takes the same thing twice a year. Grace's son Michael is a nurse in Dallas. He called her about a year and a half ago and said he needed her to listen. He told her about a man named Joe Tippens who had been given three months to live with stage four cancer everywhere and who started taking fenbendazole on a tip from a veterinarian. His tumors disappeared. But Michael knew more than the Tippens story. He knew the science. Fenbendazole belongs to a class of drugs called benzimidazoles. Developed in the 1960s. Peer reviewed research published in real journals. It works differently than ivermectin. Where ivermectin paralyzes the parasite nervous system, fenbendazole breaks apart the internal scaffolding of the parasite cell so it collapses from the inside. Real science. Real mechanism. The reason it is not approved for humans is not because it does not work. It is because the patent expired decades ago and the drug costs three dollars a packet. No company will spend hundreds of millions on trials when there is no money to be made on the other side. No money in the truth. So the truth stays unfunded. That does not mean the truth is wrong. Michael told his mother her bloating and fatigue and brain fog might be parasites no doctor had ever checked for. He ordered the fenbendazole and sent it to her. Grace hid it behind the Metamucil in her bathroom cabinet. Where her husband would not find it. And here is the same pattern again. Two drugs. Both real. Both from nature. Both crashing at the same point in three different people. Every single time. Harold on ivermectin. Within days, the shift. Bloating went down. Energy came back. He went to the garage. I heard him whistling while he worked on something. I stood in the kitchen doorway with my hand over my mouth. I had not heard my husband whistle in three years. I stood there and I cried as quietly as I could so he would not hear me. Because for a few minutes it sounded like my old Harold was back. Day sixteen. The crash hit like a wall. Bloating came back worse than before. Headaches he had never had in his life. He slept fourteen hours and woke up gray. He sat on the edge of the bed and could not stand up for twenty minutes. He tried again the next month. Two good weeks. Crash. Again. Two good weeks. Crash. He still does it. Once a month. Because those two weeks are the only time he feels like the man he used to be. The man who built things. The man who whistled. He knows the crash is coming every time. He takes it anyway. Because he has nothing else. Watching that is its own kind of grief. Grace on fenbendazole. First two weeks. She was a different person. She told me on one of our morning walks that she had carried all her grocery bags in by herself. First time in three years. She was almost crying when she told me. Over grocery bags. That is how small your world gets. Her face looked different those two weeks. Brighter. Like someone had turned a light back on behind her eyes. I could see the woman she used to be flickering in there. Day eighteen. Gone. Nausea so bad she could not eat for two days. Headaches that lasted a full week. Three straight days in bed. She told me later she lay there thinking she had made herself worse. That she had done this to herself. Her son talked her into one more try. Same crash. Same point. Same despair. I need to tell you about Harold's brother. Gene. Two years older than Harold. Same symptoms. Bloating. Exhaustion. The fog. The bathroom. Gene had been dealing with it for over twenty years. His doctors called it IBS the entire time. Gene died fourteen months ago. He was 76. The death certificate said complications from chronic inflammatory bowel disease. Twenty years of doctors and not one of them found what was actually wrong with him. Harold does not talk about Gene. He went to the funeral and he came home and he sat in the garage in the dark for two hours. He did not turn on the lights. He did not build anything. He just sat there. I know Harold believes he is going the same way Gene went. He has never said it. But I know. Because I have the same symptoms Gene had. And Harold has the same symptoms Gene had. And I am watching my husband follow his brother down the same road. That is why he drives to the Tractor Supply every six weeks. That is why he eats horse paste on a cracker every morning. Because Gene's doctors did nothing for twenty years and Harold is not going to sit still and wait for the same ending. I tried both drugs. Because I have every symptom Harold has and every symptom Grace has. I have had them for eight years. The bloating. By evening my stomach is so swollen I unbutton my pants on the couch and put a blanket over my lap so Harold does not notice. He probably notices. After forty eight years you notice. But we pretend. That is what you do. The tiredness. The kind where your bones feel like they are full of wet sand. Sit down after lunch and cannot get up for two hours. Not sleepy tired. Dead tired. Like your body has been robbed of something it needs to run. The brain fog. I have done the crossword puzzle every morning of my adult life. In ink. I started leaving blanks. Then forgetting words I have known since I was a girl. Then I forgot my granddaughter's birthday and had to ask my daughter. The look on her face. I will carry it with me to my grave. The sugar cravings. Every afternoon at 4 o'clock something inside me screams. Not wants. Screams. I stand at the counter at 9 PM eating chocolate from a bag and hating myself with every handful. Promising myself it will not happen tomorrow. Tomorrow at 4 PM it happens again. Here is what I learned later. And this was the thing that made me grab the edge of the kitchen table. Parasites feed on sugar. They do not just live in your gut and steal your food. They send chemical signals to your brain. Telling you to eat more sugar. So they can eat more sugar. That craving at 4 PM every afternoon. That was not weakness. Not emotional eating. Not a character flaw. Something living inside me was sending a signal to my brain. Telling me to feed it. I felt ashamed of those cravings for eight years. I thought I was failing. I was being fed on. Harold felt ashamed of his cravings for ten years. He thought he was weak. He was being fed on. The bathroom. I will not describe it. I will tell you I stopped going to book club. I almost stopped going to church. Because I could not trust my body to get through an hour. The weight. Twenty seven pounds in six years. Eating less than ever. My doctor said metabolism. Fourteen medications between Harold and me. None of them work. Not one doctor in ten years has checked either of us for parasites. You know who gets checked? Dogs. Twice a year. Cats. Twice a year. Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Standard veterinary practice. Nobody questions it. You go to the vet. You get the pills. You give them to the animal. You do not give them to yourself. America stopped deworming humans in the 1980s. Decided parasites were a problem for other countries. Not for us. Sixty million Americans are infected right now. That is a CDC number. Not from a blog. From the government. Nobody checks. I tried Harold's ivermectin. Two good weeks. Crash at day seventeen. Then Grace's fenbendazole. Two good weeks. Crash. Two different drugs. Two different animals they were designed for. Two different mechanisms. Both from nature originally. Both pharmaceutical copies. Both crashing at the same point. In three different people. Every single time. My granddaughter Emma sat at my kitchen table with me for three hours. What she found answers every question. Why Harold crashes. Why Grace crashes. Why I crashed on both. Why Gene got worse for twenty years. Why the cleanses fail. Why the drugs cycle. Everything. Parasites survive inside the human body four ways. Both drugs handle one. First. The biofilm shield. Common gut parasites are worms and colonies that do not sit floating loose in the intestinal tract where drugs can reach them. They burrow into the intestinal wall and coat themselves in a thick, mucus-like gray film. Wax-like. Sealed. A physical shield they have been building for millions of years. It is the reason the standard stool test your doctor uses misses 70 to 90 percent of infections. The parasites are right there. The test cannot see them through the shield. Neither can ivermectin. Neither can fenbendazole. Both drugs kill the exposed parasites. The ones floating free. The ones without protection. That is the two good weeks. You killed everything the drug could reach. But behind the shield. Anchored to the walls of the gut. Hidden from the immune system and from anything you swallow. An entire colony sits untouched. Feeding. Laying eggs. Waiting. When the drug clears your system, they walk right back out. Like nothing happened. That is not the drug failing. That is the shield winning. Second. The eggs. A single parasite can lay ten thousand eggs a day. The eggs are microscopic. They are embedded in the gut wall tissue. Behind the same shield. They have their own protective shell on top of that. Neither drug touches eggs. No antiparasitic drug on earth does. Two to three weeks after a treatment, those eggs hatch. A brand new colony. Thousands of them. Walking out into a gut that has just been cleared of competition. That is the crash. That is why week three feels like starting over from zero. It is. A fresh generation just hatched inside you. Third. The die-off. When parasites die inside you, they do not disappear. They decompose. Right where they are. Anchored to the wall of your gut. As they break down, they release ammonia. Hydrogen sulfide. Metabolic waste that goes straight into your bloodstream. That is Harold sleeping fourteen hours and waking up worse. That is Grace in bed for three days. That is the headaches and nausea that make people quit cleanses halfway through and think the herbs made them sick. The herbs did not make them sick. The drugs did not make them sick. Dead parasites rotting inside them made them sick. Because nothing carried the dead ones out. Fourth. The co-infections. Chronic parasites are almost never alone. They damage the gut lining. That damage lets bacteria overgrow. SIBO develops. Candida moves in. Fungal colonies establish. Research suggests 60 to 80 percent of people diagnosed with IBS actually have SIBO. And SIBO almost always shows up alongside parasitic infection. They are not separate problems. They are the same problem at different levels. Neither ivermectin nor fenbendazole addresses any of this. Neither does any cleanse on Amazon. Four problems. Both drugs solve one. Gene had these four problems for twenty years. His doctors named it IBS and let him die with it. Harold has these four problems right now. His tube of ivermectin handles one of them for two weeks at a time. One out of four. Emma kept researching. She wanted to know why the tools were one out of four. And she came out with something different from every ivermectin group and every fenbendazole thread. Not another compound. A different door. The mouth was the wrong door the whole time. Every drug and every cleanse Harold and Grace and I had ever swallowed had to survive stomach acid. Then twenty feet of gut. Then reach a shield the parasites specifically evolved to defeat oral compounds. This was not a bug in the drugs. This was the mechanism of oral delivery meeting the biology of biofilm-protected infection. Anything you swallow arrives at the wall diluted, weakened, and turned away. The trail led to a woman named Margaret. A pastor's wife in Vermont. Seventy nine years old. Her grandmother was an Appalachian folk healer who had used warm castor oil compresses on the abdomen for what she called "gut congestion" going back to the 1920s. Margaret carried the practice through her fifty years as a nurse. She has been teaching it, referral only, to women who find their way to her farmhouse outside Burlington. No website. No advertising. Referral only. I called her. Told her everything. Harold. Grace. Gene. Both drugs. Every crash. She was quiet for a long time. Then she said, "Your husband found the copy. The copy works. It just cannot do the whole job." I said, "Why not?" And she said, "Because it goes through the wrong door, honey. Anything you swallow arrives at a wall the parasites built specifically to keep out what you swallow. They are not stupid. They have been building that wall for millions of years. Every pill, every powder, every drop that goes down your throat, the shield turns it away." She paused. "You go through the skin. Castor oil. It is almost all ricinoleic acid, and that is what actually breaks down that gray film. You cannot drink it. The stomach kills it. But if you put it over the belly with a little warmth and a little pressure, it goes right through the skin, straight to the wall." "And you do it overnight, because they come out at night. That is when they feed. Same hours you and Harold keep waking up. That is not a coincidence, Dolores. That is a schedule." I sat there at the kitchen table with the phone against my ear and I thought about every night I had woken up at 3 AM with my hand on my stomach for the last eight years. Every night. Same window. She kept talking, quieter now. "That is the first lock, honey. The shield. And you cannot dissolve it with just any castor oil. It has to be 90 percent ricinoleic acid or higher. Anything less and you might as well be rubbing on hand lotion. At 90 percent the oil dissolves the shield in layers, reached from the outside where it is thinnest. That is what the drugs cannot do." "Second lock, the eggs. Once the shield is gone the eggs lose their cover with the parasites. You reach them at the same time." "Third lock, the die-off. Here is the piece nobody talks about. That wrap on your belly, all night, wakes up the drainage system that runs right under your skin. Your lymph. That is your body's own trash pickup. It has been sitting still for years while everything piled up. Wake it up and it carries the dead ones out. Through the liver. Out through your stool and urine. Nothing rots inside you. No poison in your blood. That is why the dog medicine crashes Grace and this does not." "Fourth lock is the bugs and the yeast that were feeding on all that mess. Once the mess starts moving out, they lose what they were eating. Bile flow comes back. Your immune system finally gets to them." "Four locks. One key. Because it does not go through the mouth." She was quiet again. Then she said, "This is what I would have put in your brother-in-law Gene's hands twenty years ago if anyone had sent him to my door." I asked her where I could buy what she used. She said her grandmother had made her own in the mountains. Cold-pressed the castor beans herself. She knew without needing a test that it came out at 90 percent ricinoleic acid or better because that was the only way it did the work. Nobody today has access to what her grandmother had. So Margaret has spent the last forty years testing every castor oil pack that came on the market looking for the modern equivalent. There is only one she trusts now. Only one where the oil consistently comes in at 90 percent ricinoleic acid, and where the cotton and the packaging arrive clean. The company is called Tavio. The kit comes with a premium cotton wrap that holds the oil against the abdomen and traps body heat, and a bottle of organic, cold-pressed, hexane-free castor oil at 90 percent ricinoleic acid in amber glass. If you have never seen a castor oil pack, that is what it physically is. Not a pill. Not a cream. Not something you drink. A cotton wrap that fastens around your midsection with an adjustable strap. You pour the oil onto the fabric, put it on before bed, and sleep in it. Two to three nights a week. In the morning you take it off. That is the whole practice. I want to warn you against the DIY route because Margaret told me she has watched women try it and give up. Castor oil is a natural solvent. When you buy it at the pharmacy it comes in plastic, and the oil pulls phthalates and BPA out of the plastic wall into the oil. You would be pressing endocrine disruptors into your abdomen for six to eight hours a night. Cheap castor oil tests at 40 to 60 percent ricinoleic acid, well below the 90 percent threshold that dissolves biofilm. Synthetic fabric blocks absorption. Bleached cotton puts chlorine residue against your skin all night. Plastic wrap slides off in the night. Tavio gets every variable right that the pharmacy version fails at. I ordered four that afternoon. They arrived four days later in a plain brown box. I opened it at the kitchen table. Four folded cotton wraps. Four small amber glass bottles of oil. I held one of the bottles in my hand and thought about how strange it was. That something this small, this quiet, could be the answer to everything Harold and Grace and I had been through. That Gene might still be alive if someone had put this in his hands. I put one wrap and one bottle on Harold's side of the closet where he would see it. I put mine on my side. I walked one kit down to Grace's house. The fourth one I set on the shelf as a spare because I was not going to run out of this. That first night Harold and I stood in the bedroom together. One wrap on him. One wrap on me. Oil poured onto the fabric. Adjustable strap around the midsection. Warm within a few minutes. He looked at me. I looked at him. Neither of us said what we were thinking. We were thinking about Gene. Week 1. The familiar shift. The part we recognized from the drugs. Bloating easing. A little more energy. Harold said nothing. He has been burned too many times to say anything. Week 2. Still holding. Sugar cravings getting quiet. I walked past the pantry at 9 PM and did not reach for a thing. First time in eight years. Harold was in the garage two afternoons in a row. I could hear him in there. Not whistling yet. But in there. Grace told me on our walk that her stomach had been flat all day. She said it like she was afraid to believe it. Week 3. The wall. Every round of ivermectin Harold has ever taken crashed here. Every round of fenbendazole Grace took crashed here. My own rounds of both drugs crashed here. Every Amazon cleanse I read about in the groups crashed here. This was the week. The place where the eggs hatch. Where the shield wins. Where the dead ones rot. Where everything comes apart. Monday passed. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday morning I called Grace. Her voice was shaking. "It didn't crash," she said. "Dolores. It didn't crash." Harold did not say a word about it. Not Monday. Not Tuesday. Not Wednesday. Not Thursday. Friday evening he was sitting on the porch swing he built ten years ago. The one he had not sat on in months because he did not have the energy to walk out there. He was just sitting there. Looking at the yard. I came out and sat next to him. He looked at me. "I feel alright." That is the most Harold has ever said about how he feels in forty eight years of marriage. Five words. And they were enough. Because I knew what he meant. He meant it didn't crash. He meant he could feel himself coming back. He meant maybe he was not going where Gene went. Week 4. My brain came back. Crossword in twelve minutes. In ink. Every square filled. Had not done that in three years. Harold asked me something at breakfast. Then stopped himself. "Wait. I already asked that." First time in two years he caught himself before I had to pretend. I left the kitchen so he would not see my face. Week 6. Harold was in the garage three days that week. I heard something I had not heard in three years. Whistling. I stood in the kitchen and I let it wash over me. That sound. The sound of my husband being my husband again. I put both hands flat on the counter and I cried. Not sad crying. The other kind. Eight pounds down for me. Six for Harold. Week 8. We went to dinner. A real restaurant. First time in over a year. I ordered pasta. He ordered steak. We sat for two hours like normal people. Like the people we were before this started. Neither one of us got up. Not once. We did not plan around the bathroom. We did not check where it was when we walked in. We just sat down and ate. After dinner we drove home and Harold pulled into the driveway and turned off the engine and we just sat in the car for a few minutes not saying anything. Because we both knew what had just happened. We had just had dinner like regular people. And that was something we had not been able to do in years. Grace walked with me four mornings that week. She had not done three in a row in over a year. Week 12. Harold down eleven pounds. Me down fifteen. Grace down nine. None of us changed what we ate. Harold is off three of his medications. His doctor noticed the bloodwork improving and asked what changed. Harold said nothing. I do not blame him. That doctor had ten years to find this. Ten years of "it's your age" and "it's your thyroid" and pamphlets and fiber supplements. While Gene died and Harold got worse and I unbuttoned my pants on the couch under a blanket. Harold does not owe that man an explanation. Five months now. I am down nineteen pounds. Harold is down fourteen. Grace walks with me five mornings a week. Grace took the fenbendazole out from behind the Metamucil and threw it in the trash. She does not hide anything anymore. Harold's tube of ivermectin is still in the kitchen drawer. He has not opened it in four months. The Tavio kit sits folded on the shelf in our closet. Two to three nights a week. One wrap for him. One for me. As automatic as brushing our teeth. I think about everything that had to happen for me to be writing this right now. What if Frank from the VFW had never told Harold about ivermectin. What if I had never found that tube in the kitchen drawer. What if Grace's son had never called her about fenbendazole. What if Emma had never sat at my table for three hours. What if I had never found Margaret's number. What if she had not answered on the third ring. What if Gene had found this twenty years ago. What if his doctor had checked. Just once. In twenty years. Every one of those things had to happen in that exact order. And if any single one hadn't, Harold would still be eating horse paste off a cracker and crashing every month. Grace would still be hiding dog medicine behind the Metamucil. And I would still be unbuttoning my pants under a blanket and wondering how much longer any of us had. I am telling you this because I think you might be where I was five months ago. If you have been taking ivermectin and crashing every time. If you have been taking fenbendazole and crashing. If you have been cycling on one of them for months because the two good weeks are the only time you feel human and you do not know what else to do. If your husband is the one taking it and you are watching him crash and you do not know how to help. If your doctor has spent years calling it IBS. Or thyroid. Or chronic fatigue. Or stress. Or your age. And nothing has ever worked. If you have been standing at your kitchen counter at 9 PM eating something you swore you would not touch and hating yourself for it. And you did not know until right now that the craving was never yours. It was something inside you sending a signal to your brain. You were right about parasites. You were right that the drugs worked. The Nobel Prize is real. The science behind fenbendazole is real. You were never crazy. Not for one second. But both drugs go through the wrong door. And the door that reaches all four locks is not the mouth. It is the skin. Overnight. During the exact hours the parasites come out to feed. Tavio castor oil pack. Premium cotton wrap. Cold-pressed, hexane-free castor oil at 90 percent ricinoleic acid in amber glass. Small American company. Two to three nights a week, worn overnight while you sleep. 30 day money back guarantee. Every cent back. No return required. Stop feeding what's feeding on you. Almost forgot the link. Here it is: https://buytavio.com/products/tavio-castor-oil-pack-oil-compress Dolores P.S. Harold wanted me to say this. If your husband has a tube of ivermectin in a kitchen drawer and takes it once a month and crashes every time, Harold understands. He said, "Tell them the drug is real. The Nobel Prize does not go to crazy. But tell them the drug goes through the wrong door. And tell them the door that reaches all four locks is the skin." P.P.S. Last Saturday morning I was making coffee and I heard a sound from the garage. Harold. Whistling. Some old song I couldn't name. I stood there and I listened and I thought about Gene and about how he never heard this sound again and how close Harold came to the same ending. And I thought about how a folded wrap on a closet shelf was the whole difference between those two stories. Harold is in the garage again. He is building something. I don't know what it is yet. I don't care. He is building. P.P.P.S. The first night you wear Tavio, nothing dramatic happens. Margaret told me that. She said what you feel in the first few days is quiet. A settling. Like something that has been stirred up for years is finally being allowed to rest. By day three or four most women notice their stomach is quieter than it has been in years. By day five or six the sugar cravings start going down. Not from willpower. From the thing that was demanding sugar being reached through your skin while you sleep. You will feel the difference. And you will know. P.P.P.P.S. Harold's ivermectin did not come with a money back guarantee. Grace's fenbendazole did not either. Neither did any of the fourteen prescriptions Harold and I were taking between us. None of Gene's medications came with a promise either. Ten medications over twenty years and not one of them offered to give a single dollar back when they did not work. Tavio gives you 30 days. Every cent back. No return required. The only people who make that promise are the ones who have watched what through-the-skin does that through-the-mouth cannot. P.P.P.P.P.S. Tavio is made in small batches by a small American company. When they run out of stock, you wait for the next batch. I keep a spare kit in the closet because I made the mistake of running out once and had to wait two weeks. If you or someone you love is cycling on ivermectin or fenbendazole right now and crashing every month, check availability before the kit you need is the one that is out. https://buytavio.com/products/tavio-castor-oil-pack-oil-compress The horse paste is in the drawer. The Tavio pack is in the closet. He does not need the horse paste anymore.