08/03/2024
I feel this day has been the saddest day of my life. I come with the news of a big loss yesterday. The world lost one of the most caring, amazing, loving, kind souls we have ever had on the planet. My Father, Dr. Howard Elkin, Father of Marisa Elkin & Myself, Grandfather of Skye, Anomaly, Eden & Anu, has passed away yesterday.
I can’t tell you how many people all day long, today and yesterday, including patients, friends and family have called me to tell me that he was the most loving, kind and caring person they had ever know. Doctors friends of his called me and cried to me telling me that he was their mentor and how they learned so much from him.
We believe he would want everyone to know his story of how it happened. Because we want to share how mold can be harmful to one’s health.
Mold illness was the main cause of his death. Our Father Howard, was having horrible hiccups over the last 1-2 years yet especially bad over the last 3-4 days before his passing. He was telling friends and family the hi-cups were making it hard for him to breathe. He was trying to move out of the house which we found all the mold in.
And he was supposed to be moved out today into his new home on Aug 1st…which was only hours before he passed, from most likely a heart attack we suppose which was caused from a weak immune system from the mold in his home, on top of a bad root canal from an abcessed tooth the week prior.
For those of you who do not know these things, toxic Mold creates heart conditions leading to heart attacks as well as it suppresses your immune system which can cause teeth decay and on and on. Bottom line it was obviously his time to go…
Otherwise it would not have happened.
He was also sharing a painful feeling from his abdomen to his chest since the root canal. We believe the infection in the tooth may have been caused by the mold and the infection may have went down into his heart and given him a heart attack.
Hear me on this, I Share all this not out of pity, but out of advocacy because my Father was an absolute LEGEND👏👏👏✅. His purpose was to share with others how to “Become your OWN Best Medocal Advocate. One of the last things he said only days before passing was “when I get into my new house tomorrow I will start my new life and get better and when I heal from this mold, I will teach others and educate them on how serious this is and how they can get better too”.
So from now on I will share this message and be a voice with my family and my sister as we have all experienced mold illness over the last few years. So we sympathize with what he went through. Heart wise will continue within each one of us.
To give you all his best, if you knew my Father, then you know my Father had a lifelong dream of seeing a medical system that really took into account the whole person. One that would see complex health concerns like my fathers with toxic mold, and easily take them on. A health system that looked at all aspects of one’s life, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, Physically, and socially. His last post on his fb story was just about social health and asking for help from friends and family.
Sadly most Of western medicine doesn’t know how to treat these root causes YET… and if they do they are rare, and they have usually experienced it themselves. This is why my Fathers message will not end with his death it continue with the celebration of his life…through us all. I will continue his legacy and share his voice and our voice to help educate the complexities of these kinds of medical cases and help others find solutions too.
My Father was the man who saved my whole family from our illness of toxic mold we didn’t know about until he asked us to test based on our sons exzema and asthma. He was correct it was mold in fact, and since then we started a protocol which got us better. He didn’t just save us he saved many lives maybe in the thousands over his 38 year long career. Watch his YouTube videos and see what I mean.
My Father and I have been working with an amazing team in the UK called the Harley Wellness Club and we will be working hard to dedicate the Healing center that my Father and I both were working on together for many years, to our Father, Dr. Howard Elkin. And he will be right next to us along our side leading as usual.
As painful as this all is, let us remember his legacy, what he left us all here with. One of the many things he is know for amongst his community of friends, family and patients is how far he would go to love his patients. Not too many people know this about my Father but, he would work from 9am to 6pm, eat some food and usually be at the office till 10pm or even 11pm sometimes filling our charts.
When I asked him once why he at age 73 is filling out charts at his office for his patients when he should be at home sleeping; his response was “because I don’t write charts when I am talking with my patients!! I would never do that”. I said “well why not? That’s what all the other doctors do? No one else stays at the office as late as you do”. His response was “honey when I connect with my patients I want them to know how much I care and I want to look at them in the face and not write things down when they are sharing things with me. I want them to feel connected and know how much I care”.
I started to cry when he said this.
I thought about how much he loves with no expectation in return. True embodiment of unconditional love.
Our Father put the world “Health” and “Care” back into the health care industry.
Now you have been set free Father to your real HOME in HEAVEN…fly with the angels, with Tony, and Mom.
RIP to our dear Father
I pray to see more Doctors and people like you in the world.
Marisa and I both love you so much
Everyone of us love you so much,
-DeAnna
