Rather Be Healthy

It really is..

When I started this six weeks ago I definitely thought that there would be a few changes, a few foods that I would eliminate, some additional supplements and that would be it.  Over the first five weeks there’s no doubt that I’d experienced some improvements as anyone reading my posts would clearly have seen. But the improvements seemed to be followed by at least one and sometimes two bad days. I know this was only to be expected and as far as I was concerned the good was certainly outnumbering the bad so not a problem. As I mentioned in my previous post I’d eliminated a Youngevity drink because of the fructose content, I needed a replacement so asked my carer to mix some hot chocolate powder into cold coconut milk. I had it Wednesday morning and it was delicious. But….. and a big but was that for some unbeknownst reason my brain didn’t take into consideration that there was around 7 grams of sugar in the chocolate powder and probably the same in the coconut milk…. Hello!!!!     An hour after drinking it I was very lucky to have made it to the loo before what was in me, left rather erratically, I spent a good 75 minutes sat on the single white porcelain seat. Needless to say all the little treats I’ve been lying to myself about are no more. Apart from three hours in the middle of the day I’ve felt great. Thusrday will be even better because nothing with a hint of sugar in it will enter my body, I know it’s bad and in the main I’ve restricted it to 5 or 6 grams daily but that sweet stuff is poison to my body, it really is, and I should have known better.

To us superheroes.

Looking at my life so far, and there’s lots more to come, it’s been quite an experience, going back to the beginning in a little two up two down with an outside loo, well in reality it was just three walls with a very basic door surrounding a toilet with a chain pull cistern fixed to the wall. Mum, dad and seven kids lived there, home comforts were something I saw other people had while I was watching a small black and white TV. I left school at 15 to go to the Army Apprentice College in Chepstow, south Wales. Jumping forward ten years and I started my skydiving experience, this was followed by hang gliding, I’d also been very into rock climbing as well. Several years and many fast motorbikes and mountain bikes later I moved to America to live in the Rocky Mountains, not a log cabin covered in snow but working in the I.T. industry in Denver and Colorado springs. Before moving to Colorado I’d learned to fly small planes and almost qualified as a helicopter pilot but ran out of the green stuff, that was in Florida where I‘d lived for two years. While in Colorado I was diagnosed with MS, that was in Feb 04, I refused to take the medication because I knew the ridiculous drugs did no more that treat symptoms and cause havoc in the body. So I treated myself with what I thought was the best nutrition and natural supplements. I continued to work full time as a director for the World leading authority in Biological dentistry and body chemistry re-balancing until April 2011. I struggled yes, but the arrogant I won’t be beaten me continued as best I could, eventually all my savings disappeared and with no unemployment or healthcare I gave up. If it wasn’t for two fantastic women, mum and Suzie bringing me back I’d be history. I cannot express my love and gratitude enough. Anyway it’s been five years next month since I returned and without a doubt I’m in a far better place physically and mentally but it’s not been easy. I’ve fallen at least 50 times, some have been horrendous, how I’ve not broken my leg numerous times amazes me, my head still has a lump from a fall a month or so ago, last year I nearly ripped my ear off, literally, the pain was excruciating. Oh yes up know why I haven’t, because I’m made of steel and can leap tall buildings, maybe not, I suppose it’s because I’m incredibly lucky. I’m sure my story isn’t unique and others have been through the same and worse. So to all of us superheroes, let’s be strong and know we’ll all get through this.

P.S. I was also in the Guinness book of records between 1989 and 97 for being on the 60 way skydive.

New lease..

Since starting on the Ann Boroch protocol at the beginning of September, things have changed in my day to day life, starting with the dominant factor, diet, although several aspects of the foods to eat and not eat were similar on the not eating side it’s the “eating” side that changed a little. Being lactose and gluten intolerant already there wasn’t many foods I had to eliminate, I had already limit my sugar intake to about 10 grams daily so again that wasn’t an issue, I suppose it’s the limiting of fructose, fruit sugars and honey that caused a slight problem to start but not anymore. Because of my background I have always seen the nutritional limitation of current day farming and processed foods, because of this I’ve ensured I get 90% of the essential nutrients from the Youngevity supplements. After chatting with Janet I’ve made some adjustments and as one group contained fructose it’s been eliminated and there’s a good chance my current afternoon weakness will subside.

Anyway getting back, there are two or three things I’ve added such as a herbal anti fungal, digestive enzymes and adrenal support to my thrice daily regimen.

I’ve noticed a few changes physically, small and subtle but nevertheless, changes, improvements. But the biggest and most dramatic is that before the start I knew I would get better, I just didn’t know how, now I know and it’s an incredible feeling, I see things differently, I actually feel that I have a completely new lease on life.

Sunday.

Sunday was the third consecutive good day which obviously pleased me, as suggested by Janet and Marianne, I’m not so much keeping a journal per se as simply writing the same line of text with the current date in order to gauge the difference in my hand writing as I progress on my healing journey. My blog is written, typed, probably six days per week, I do this as I’ve said before to inspire and motivate myself, if it can help others then that really pleases me. When I started working for Dr Huggins at Huggins Applied Healing in Colorado Springs, Colorado, I would talk to people enquiring about his therapy or his supplements but mostly to existing clients and patients. I have no delusions of grandeur or think of myself in the same way as Dr Huggins because although I was very knowledgeable of his treatment, in reality my knowledge was equal to what “Doc” had in his little finger. But over the years a lot of people and quite a few of the dentists that had been trained by Dr Huggins would ask me rather than bother doc. In reality this made me very happy to think they had faith in my knowledge and experience, but please understand I knew diddly squat in comparison to him. During my time with him I talked with more than 17,500 people, many of whom I helped a lot. I’ve said before that my work with Dr Huggins is the most fulfilling of my life.

I see what I’m doing now as in following the Ann Boroch protocol as an incredible journey which I maybe on for an indefinite period of time but succeeding in my mind is a guaranteed conclusion.

The knowledge and experience I gained between 2007 and 2011 is something that can never be taken away, there are some people I think about regularly like Caroline and Shari who I worked with, Dr,s Grube and Rothchild, clients that became friends like Ali and Dottie, yes I’m thousands of miles and a freaking huge ocean away but don’t forget me, cos as Arnie said….. “I’ll be back”.

Friday was a great day for me, I felt good in several ways, definitely stronger and more stable physically but I think what pleased me the most was my fine motor skills, my fingers were a lot more capable when handling my supplements which can be a little fiddly. Mentally I also seemed more competent and less overwhelmed. Some days I find myself frustrated when I know this is working but part of me, the “I want it now” part, forgets that there are thousands of things happening inside this massively complex body of mine every second, some of the good things are trying their best to fix what is wrong. At the same time there’s just as many parasites, pathogens, fungi and yeast trying just as had to stay where they are, messing up the correct functioning of my organs. So I have to give myself a good slapping, not literally of course, but sit in the quiet, meditate and believe that my body just wants me to help myself to help myself…. does that make sense?

I talk to myself a lot knowing that I can be an awkward stubborn scouse git sometimes, I know you find that hard to believe…. not.. I talk to myself because I know I’ll bloody question everything I think about… I don’t think I just can’t make my mind up, I just want to try and see things from every angle so I can do the right thing. I’ve read Ann’s book more than once and to be honest I just cannot see anything wrong, she did it right and that’s got to be respected and admired, you were amazing… R.I.P.

Should I be worried.

According to my reckoning, Tuesday being a “not good” day meant that Wednesday was hopefully the start of a multi day sequence of “good days”, well that was what was supposed to happen according to me. As I said the other day, the AB method works, of that there’s no doubt, but there’s no guarantee as far as timing is concerned. Anyway Thursday started well, I was expecting Louise who cuts my hair to come at  12.30 to 1.0 so I couldn’t go for my rest as I usually do. She arrived a little earlier which I was grateful for, but I became frighteningly weak and really struggled just getting in the chair. Anyway 20 minutes later my hair had been cut so I excused myself and suggested she clean up the cuttings and I’d go lay down. This is where it got embarrassing for me as even using the walker was impossible, I couldn’t move my legs. Louise very kindly let me sit on the walker and she dragged me to my bed. The weird thing is that the same thing, as in the weakness happens everyday at roughly the same time. A week or so ago I thought it was the “Eat Natural” protein bars, obviously not as I’ve not eaten one for a week or had a replacement, so what’s causing this, I just don’t know, should I be worried. Well  I suppose Thursday was a bad day, an unexpected one so that should mean Friday will be good.

Looking good.

As expected, Wednesday was a good day, I felt great mentally, physically and emotionally, the first two are definitely important to me in just getting around my flat, but in some ways it’s the third part, emotionally that helped me the most. I tell myself and others, as you’ll have noticed, I wear my heart on my sleeve, I write about how I’m feeling and what i firmly believe and am expecting. There’s no guarantee that this method, the one Ann Boroch perfected to cure herself and is being done by others but there’s no guarantee it will work for me. So I’m writing about what I believe will happen, based on what I’ve read and my own expectations.Tuesday was not a good day really, so based on the past cycle of events, Wednesday and the following X number of days will be good. For that to start as it did on Wednesday was emotionally a really good feeling and reaffirmed mentally what I’m doing.

I had a visitor on Wednesday morning from National Statistics to carry out a survey as they’ve done for the past couple of years. After the survey which took an hour or so I spent a few minutes, actually it was more than that explaining about this program and my beliefs of the end result. I felt very capable moving around, obviously I’m very limited because of the MS but he commented that all things taken into consideration that I was looking good.

Connect with source.

This is what I believe, connecting with source, whoever you are and whatever you believe, be it God, the Universe, or some other power. At the end of the day, believing in myself will take me on what I believe will be an incredible journey. Having an absolute confidence in the end result is the only way to achieve what you want, a couple of months ago I didn’t have any knowledge whatsoever of Ann Boroch or her achievements but I knew I would beat multiple sclerosis I just didn’t know how exactly. Having unbreakable confidence in the end result meant that the solution would find me, weird I know but it’s true, a friend of mine in Wisconsin told me about the mysterious death of a woman that had cured herself, I read one of her books, Healing Multiple sclerosis, and decided this was they way, I wrote about it on my blog and reposted in on social media, a few days later I was contacted by Janet Orchard and now I’m truly on the right path, thank you Mary and Janet. A sequence of events that on the face of it have no obvious connection but on the grand scale of things have joined forces and helped me to focus on what I truly want, to get healthy and help others do the same.

Starting the Ann Boroch method is a journey from A to B,  but unlike others you make the distance to your destination is undefined, you know it’s there but just unsure as to the time and distance involved. Mine started on September 1st and I had a good day followed by bad, then it was 3 good, 1 bad and that cycle continued for a while until my “terrible Tuesday” a week ago which was followed by 6 good days. Yesterday wasn’t a bad day per se, it just wasn’t a “good day” so now I’m honestly expecting a longer series of good days, I know this will happen, I believe in me and I have absolute and unbreakable confidence and faith.

Looks like I was right.

Monday, and even though it was the sixth day after the terrible Tuesday last week, hmm that could be a documented day “Terrible Tuesday”, maybe not,  today was actually a good day, I did rest but a little later than before and for less time. I sort of knew it would be a better day as soon as I got up and throughout the morning I felt more stable. Anyway it’s been about 55 hours since I had the “Eat Natural” protein bar which I’ve been having everyday for the last month. I’d originally looked at the ingredients and because it was touted as all natural healthy ingredients with no added sugar, “dipstick me” assumed it was okay and having 12 grams of protein had to be good. You know what they say about “to assume” well it’s true as in it made an”Ass out of U and Me”. So after careful investigation I saw that even though there was no added sugar the bar still had 16 grams in. So I had my last at 1 o’clock  in the afternoon on Saturday, I think it’ll take a few more days before the negative effects will stop causing a major problem but after such a long time of having them daily it’s going to be a long time to completely eliminate.

It’s really good to feel as I do and far better than the initial taste and long term problems created by eating them, small steps.

Obviously I know without a doubt that I’m doing the right things, how do I know? Simply because I’m feeling better, I had  four days of feeling great and even today, Sunday, my fifth is good, not brilliant but definitely not a bad day. The weak spells I’ve been having as I said before seem to start about midday so I go and lay on my bed for a few hours and then feel good again. I’ve been in serious thought as to what could possibly be making that happen, it doesn’t appear to be happening to others so it’s obviously something I’m doing. I think I know what it might be so I’ve made the appropriate adjustment, there’s a chance I’ll notice tomorrow afternoon if I’m right although it might take a couple of days. I’ll not say what I think it could be until I know for sure, if it is what I’m thinking, I’ll kick myself, not literally of course. Being alone as I am is not a problem 99% of the time but it just means everything I do, every decision I make about life and my health in general is made without discussion or getting a different opinion. It can be hard but it’ll be so rewarding when I’m actually living again. I know I’m mentally strong and have the patience and determination to succeed.