After about a week, I was stable in my misery. I was holding on and steady in my treatments, but I was not getting better. By day eleven, I was desperate, totally sick of being sick. And then a friend offered to give me some chlorine dioxide, a substance I have known about and rejected for whatever stupid reason for over ten years. I started to remember that my friend Dr. George Georgiou had already published a paper showing chlorine dioxide could clear the body of antibiotic-resistant infections like MRSA. I became hopeful. It got to me late at night, so I decided to start in the morning. I was a little afraid to take that first sip because early versions of chlorine dioxide were not exactly pleasant.