# Advocate Audit: The Charles E. Holman Foundation

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Podcast: [More Morgellons](https://stenobird.com/podcast/more-morgellons-2136841)
Published: 2026-04-02T20:59:43+00:00
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## Resource

The episode opens with Crystal packing up her home (again), discovering a notebook of million-dollar business ideas — including a riding dog, self-moving furniture, and a whale saddle — before stumbling on her old box of Morgellons remedies: the creams, the ointments, the horse paste, the borax, the coal tar. Which raises the question that drives the rest of the episode: what if all the money we spent trying to treat this had gone toward actually figuring out what it is? Crystal introduces the CEHF — the Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation — a 501(c)(3) based in Lone Star, Texas, operating since 2007, and reads their mission statement back to them before conducting a two-part audit: clinical and financial. Part One: The Clinical Audit A deep read of “Cindy’s Diary,” published on the CEHF’s own website — a day-by-day chronicle written by Charles “Chas” Holman documenting his wife Cindy Casey-Holman’s medical odyssey from 2004-2005. Cindy, an ICU nurse at CPMC in San Francisco, was diagnosed with “delusions of parasitosis” and “self-mutilation” before the Morgellons Research Foundation referred them to nurse practitioner Ginger Saveley in Austin, Texas. The diary tracks the full treatment pipeline: IGeneX testing after five years of negative Lyme results ($180), Rocephin injections administered at home by Charles, Flagyl (misidentified as an antifungal), Mepron, Zithromax, and Gentamicin — culminating in a dangerous eosinophilic reaction (levels hitting 69, normal range 0-7) that forced an emergency stop of all treatment. Enter Dr. Raphael Stricker, Saveley’s mentor, at $500 for the initial consult, $250 follow-ups, no insurance accepted. The punchline, documented in Charles’s own words: Cindy improved after stopping everything. “Feeling much better these day…

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