we didn t know how to put it all together, so we were all puzzled. tony thought debbie s gallbladder should have been surgically removed, but her doctors disagreed. i was so weak and my condition was so grave that i probably would have died on the table, i was told. but she got better. and when she got better we relaxed and thought, well, this isn t going to happen again. but debbie s symptoms returned again and again. the pain was getting worse. even more disturbing, her daughter started to experience the same symptoms but not nearly as severe. throughout that summer, debbie s condition deteriorated. she had severe memory loss and was relegated to a wheelchair because she was no longer able to walk. once again, she was admitted to the hospital. this time, dr. snyderman analyzed a sample of debbie s
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their situation would have been far worse. anthony pignataro came from a good family. his father was a well-respected and excellent surgeon in buffalo. his mother was a fine person. after the pignataros reconciliation, debbie started to feel ill. i had thought i had the flu for months, just maybe a little case of the flu, because i would get nauseous and vomit and just not be myself. initially, neither her husband nor her doctors knew what to make of it. i was having trouble walking where i couldn t lift my legs. there was numbness in my legs and hands. i diagnosed myodisplastic state, and the neurologist diagnosed other things, the gastroenterologist diagnosed pancreatitis.
prison. and investigators discovered tony was having an affair with another woman after he was released from prison. friends say tony feared his mother s reaction. his mother was against divorce, and if he had divorced debbie, he would have been cut out of any will with his family. but money wasn t the only motive. in the pignataros home, detectives found a manuscript tony had written entitled md: mass destruction. it was about tony losing his medical license and what was described as the conspiracy against him. it was a story about how he was wronged by the medical community and by the judicial system and, you know, by everyone on earth, the great wrong that they did to anthony pignataro. investigators believe this
further testing indicated debbie had an arsenic level of 29,580 micrograms per liter, one of the highest ever recorded in a living person. almost sounded like a mistake in the lab reading, but it wasn t. the amount i had, i shouldn t be here. she was immediately put under 24-hour security protection. but the question remained, how was she poisoned, and who wanted her dead?