Rather Be Healthy

A major part of any potential healing is understanding the effects of foods, nutrition and supplements and how ones body reacts to those components.

It seems that I’d picked up a bug that made my whole body ache, all major muscle groups felt as if they were reacting to a days strenuous exercise. On Monday and Tuesday just getting myself to the loo was extremely painful and exhausted me so doing it 20 times during the day was as I’m sure you can understand not very nice…

No going back to the comments about foods and their effects, I indulged in gluten free fish and mushy peas yesterday. I know, I know I’ve said a million times that fish isn’t good for me. But there are very few pleasures in my life so risking the yummy fish was a risk I was willing to take.

Big mistake!!!!!!

I suffered big time yesterday, thankfully I didn’t have any residual negative effects today and feel positive about the painful lesson I learned and yes I recieved a slap on the back of my head from Agent Gibbs…

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I was thinking about my situation today, at first the thoughts were not necessarily sad thoughts but they weren’t happy thoughts. I have what the doctors have told me is an incurable disease, it apparently is at stage 4, the point of no return meaning that there is no drug or medication to improve or significantly reduce the symptoms.

If I was the type of person that paid any attention to them then yes it would be a tad depressing. But I’m not one of those people/patients that believes them, if I was then I’d have to accept that my good days which are terrible are the best my life will be. That I’ll never be able to go outside and run again or I’ll never go hiking or driving a fast car or be intimate with a woman.

So if I look at my life so far and think that the last 17 years with MS hasn’t been good then should I be sad or upset or depressed ? Well no I don’t, I think how freaking lucky I am. I still have a fantastic mother, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces (one very special one, Debbie).

I worked for an incredible man, Dr Hal Huggins in Colorado, I helped thousands of patients which I am so proud and fulfilled to have done.

I’ve been to 21 countries, I’ve travelled extensively though North America. I was in the Guinness book of records between 1989 and 1997. Skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, rock climbing and flying are  just some of the things I’ve been very fortunate to do.

So the previous 17 years of my life have limited or restricted me, but I have so much to be grateful for and there is and will be so much more to do. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings and that my friends is not going to happen for a long time…

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It’s strange how a bad thing or doing something stupid can actually be a good thing. That might sound like an oxymoron but in this instance it’s true. Ok to explain my weird thinking; today I felt great early on but everything changed in the afternoon and became quite bad as the day wore on.

It was only when I came to bed and thought about my day that I realised how the bad things happened and how it was my own stupidity that created the problem.

My lunch today consisted of gluten free pork sausages, now I’ve written in the past why all pork products are not good for anyone and specifically bad for me. So knowing this why would I eat them? Well the fact is that they taste so good and I just allowed myself to indulge.

Ok they tasted great but the fact is, they are absolutely no good for me, period.

So to explain the stupid bit and it being good…..

Today I was actually quite frightened thinking that all the things I’ve been doing that I believe are helping to heal me. Then being so weak and I was frighteningly weak this evening made me feel so sad, but then I realized it wasn’t me just getting sicker, no it was my stupidity eating pork freaking sausages..

So tomorrow I’ll feel good and optimistic again.

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I am so proud of myself, ok not the best way of promoting myself but the fact is that I am.

The title of this post, Against all odds is exactly why I feel so proud. If you do some simple research you’ll see that the medical world, yes the medical world, be it doctors, health professionals such as nurses and care givers and researchers will all tell the same story. And that is Multiple sclerosis is an incurable and life threatening disease. Meaning that when a person gets it then their life as they know it is over.

In my case I was officially diagnosed in February 04, although I’d been experiencing symptoms since 1997. So that’s 19 years of crap, getting weaker daily, stumbling and a constantly worsening  coordination. This being the case it was easy to succumb to the professionals and non professionals telling me to ” just accept it and stop living in a dream world”.

But that’s not me, I’ve constantly been researching and looking and trying to overcome this hideous disease.

No…..I haven’t totally beaten it yet…..but what I’m doing now is giving me more hope and optimism than at anytime in the past, none of the “nay sayers” or neurologist’s as they are known have ever given me an ounce of hope. But I honestly believe I’m on the right path now.

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