Rather Be Healthy

When I was initially diagnosed with MS in Feb 04, the neurologist told me that I had an incurable disease, he didn’t say it was curable with treatment, no its just incurable. I obviously asked a lot of questions but he was adamant that from then on things would go downhill. He told me of the 30 or 40 different symptoms that were common amongst MS patients and tried to prepare me for the worst and what he said was inevitable. Because I flat out refused to take the prescribed drugs he told me I was an idiot and that I’d be in a wheelchair permanently within 6 months if I didn’t take the drugs. I didn’t, nor have ever taken any drugs for MS, he also spent a lot of time explaining that it wasn’t just his view, or every other neurologist in Denver or Colorado or the USA, no it wasn’t just thier opinion it was the opinion of every doctor, neurologist, scientist  in the world, so me saying I would beat the disease was laughed at.
I researched and took various supplements (with no side effects) and continued working full time for eight years until I returned to the UK in November 2012.
I remember the comment when I came back and yes at that time I was in a wheelchair.  The defeatist remark was “Put him in a hospice”…. that made me so sad and disgusted me to think a family member could give up on me so easily.

If you go to Google and enter the name of any over the counter (OTC) or prescription drug you’ll go to the makers website who by law have to list all known side effects. These side effects Did Happen to the original 100 testers. They won’t necessarily happen to every user and the severity will vary but it is possible that you might experience any of the 20 or 30 or 40 symptoms that could be worse that the symptom you are taking the drug for..
It amazes me that probably 99% of people will simply take it because the drug pusher, sorry, doctor prescribed it, talk about gullible, its absolutely ridiculous.

Anyway I’ve continued to search for a genuine way of beating MS, I think I’ve tried more than 50 different therapies, treatments, operations and supplements including a full dental revision and CCSVI and bee sting therapy.
What I’ve been doing since September 2018 is the Ann Boroch Protocol, she actually healed herself in just over 4 years.
The only real MS symptoms I have now are muscle weakness and spasms. I’m in bed because I seriously buggered my knees in a fall in March last year.
I am beating what the worlds medical experts all say is impossible… is it because I was very physically active before? NO
Is it because I did 834 skydives ? NO
Is it because I did a lot of road running or went to the gym every week?…NO
Am I a superhero…NO
But it is because I refused to put the life sucking drugs in my body and because I REFUSE TO ACCEPT DEFEAT…
My attitude, my mindset and my determination is why I will win…

Update:

I’m sure I’ve mentioned on numerous occasions that the heat and humidity are pigs for me, it makes me feel as though every ounce of strength has been sucked out of me, I haven’t been effected for a couple of weeks but Sunday afternoon and evening had me struggling.
But in the main I’m definitely feeling good in what I’m doing, so very optimistic.
Multiple Sclerosis is a hideous disease, slowly but surely making it harder and harder to live, affecting various organs, senses, sight and muscles from doing what they were designed to do, being a believer, like me or not isn’t a factor according to the disease, it doesn’t give a dam of your gender, race, creed, colour or religion, it just grips whoever it wants.
But there are a select few in comparison to the worldwide total who have made the decision to say “No” to the evil, hideous ruiner of lives by taking control of what happens. This is achievable by following a tried, tested and successfully proven method, the Ann Boroch Protocol has provided the method to kick ass… it doesn’t do it or anything, it requires You to do what’s necessary, to not give the hideous s##tbag the foods it thrives on, dairy  gluten and sugar have to become “No no’s” in your daily diet.
All things considered I’m stronger  better coordinated and free of the majority of MS symptoms. The disease is unrelenting in its constant efforts to ruin my life but like thousands before me I’m beating MS, how?
Because I am better than it…

Moving forward or improving in your health and lessening the debilitating symptoms of any disease and specifically multiple sclerosis is, according to the worlds experts an impossible thing to do. So, those of us doing what “they” say is impossible is a monumental olympian achievement. As “we” know, and I’m referring to those blessed with the opportunity to follow the Ann Boroch Protocol, the challenge or challenges we face can be exacerbated when loved ones or friends think we are being ridiculous and voice thier disapproval of our efforts especially when times are tough. Those particular problems have never applied to me, firstly I don’t have a spouse and secondly and more importantly my immediate family, my beautiful mum and sister Suzie have always been very supportive and never doubted or questioned my decision. The “lifestyle” changes are hard enough without people doubting or questioning the protocol, it’s been genuinely proven thousands of times that it works, it’s bloody hard at times requiring your own discipline and determination to do it properly.
When someone starts on the ABP the changes in dietary choices can be seen as huge but the more you know and understand by reading and re-reading Ann’s books and experiencing the improvents that will happen, the more convinced and focused you’ll become.
Two years after starting the protocol I had an accident seriously damaging my knees which has restricted me somewhat in exercising. But I’ve persevered and apart from muscle weakness and a “hummingbird bladder” the MS symptoms have mostly disappeared which as I’m sure you can understand makes me very happy.
At 5.15 this morning, after 5 hours sleep which is great for me I was able to do an exercise for longer and have better results than at anytime before.  How did I do it?
Because I believe in what I’m doing…

Now to start with I’m going to state categorically I am now and will forever be grateful that my friend in Wisconsin that told me about a book she’d heard of called “Healing Multiple Sclerosis” by the late (sadly) Ann Boroch, and to the amazing Janet Orchard who has done an incredible, unpaid job! of helping, guiding, motivating and organising this ever expanding group of people on the wonderful path to healing.
The journey I’ve had so far, and am continuing with, since September 2017 has been tough, as it is for everyone, I’m sure I’d be so much closer to healing if I hadn’t had that horrible fall last year which did some serious damage to my knees. That being said the majority of my MS symptoms have gone, my strength and stamina are only a shadow of my former self. The main issue I’ve struggled with since March last year has basically been my knees and my progressively weakened legs but in the main I’m so much better.
Now, getting to the point of this post, as most readers will know I’ve adhered to the ABP 100% until I made an adjustment on May 18th when against my own personal knowledge I started taking 500ml of organic Beetroot juice daily. Again just to clarify, I knew it was against the protocol to be drinking it primarily because of its natural sugar content, but I’d been told of its genuine healing effects by a man, Goff Augustt who said it had completely removed MS from his body. Yes of course I was skeptical but I felt it was worth trying.
The ABP is incredible in healing the body of MS, but to genuinely build my strength knowing I’ve been stuck in bed for seventeen months, just wasn’t happening so in my mind I had nothing to lose by trying the Brj.
At 4.50 this morning I had been awake for 15 or 20 minutes so decided to do my standing up exercise using the Rotunda, this time there was no pulling or heaving involved to stand, today I obviously used the machine for balance but standing up, with a straight back and being like that for a count of 65 seconds and doing it three times felt amazing. Moving back along my bed without assisting my legs to move, then to actually swing each leg back onto bed felt bloody amazing.
I know the brj is supposed to be harmful to my MS body, I’ve been told on numerous occasions that it will cause problems but as I said it’s been more than 77 days now… I was once told to not let my desires, my ego rule my healing process, to listen to my body because it knows best, I’m genuinely feeling great, mentally and physically even though I was informed it wouldn’t happen, so what do I do now, do I tell it its wrong, its not feeling great…
I don’t think so!!!

Having a debilitating disease like multiple sclerosis is bad enough but the fall I had seriously damaging my knees in March 2020 and being confined to bed since has as I’m sure you can appreciate been a tad frustrating and potentially depressing. Following the ABP has obviously helped massively and given me genuine hope… but the knee damage and the enforced confinement has seriously restricted any genuine improvement.
But, and this is where it gets very confusing, nothing new was happening and the natural downward physical slide had inevitably taken hold, until I made an adjustment against advice.
Doing what I intended would supposedly create major problems so I was genuinely confused and torn, “Should I.. or shouldn’t,I…?”
Well it’s day 76 of drinking the beetroot juice and anyone reading my posts will.know I’ve not had any negative side effects but seriously good ones especially when it comes to my legs and my improved physicality.
I’m not a great lover of the taste so I substituted the 500ml of fresh juice with a 70 ml concentrate, giving the same benefits in a much smaller dose.
Having the concentrated juice has given me so much more and I’m very happy, so looking back 76 days and the confusion and indecision going through my mind about the choice I’d made..hmmm.
I think.I was Right…

Getting what “I” want is something that on a certain level seemed impossible, yes of course I try to motivate myself everyday, even when I’m exhausted to the point of being physically and mentally drained but say to myself that “I can stop and do this again tomorrow”
at the time that seems to be the “logical” thing to do, but in reality it’s not… by stopping or just not pushing myself that little bit harder is only making it easier to justify giving in now and every other day.
Prior to this morning at 4.50 a.m. I’d come out with the “sensible option”, I’d say that I was in pain…. it was just too difficult… it wasn’t possible to straighten my back and my legs… so I wouldn’t try that little bit harder which meant my goal was just a little bit further away…
What happened mentally this morning was that I told myself that I could and I would do what previously seemed impossible. Obviously there’s a difference in demanding more from my mind and pushing myself physically or having weakened and torn ligament or tendon or meniscus that regardless of what I want cannot provide the necessary support.
But the motivation and inspirational videos I watch daily aren’t enough to get past that breaking point, yes they help but in order for me to actually reach and surpass a goal needs something else. I know I managed 100 stand ups two days ago but that wasn’t strengthening the whole of my leg….legs so today it wasn’t a case of doing the stand up exercise, today I focused on genuinely “standing up” and strengthening the anterior muscles around my knees, also helping my spine. It was so difficult, almost strange to actually be “standing up straight” but I did. My first effort lasted about 5 seconds until my legs just buckled. I’d made a point of making sure that the “Rotunda” was as close to my bed as possible so collapsing just meant sitting down on it. But my 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th were all 30 seconds or more. It was so different almost weird seeing the bedroom and into my living room from a totally different perspective, it was great actually, I really feel I’ve made a massive achievement. The title of this post is “Not just motivation” and what I mean by that is that listening or reading or watching is great but that’s only part of what’s necessary to reach “the goal” the hardest and most significant thing is my own personal…
Determination

About six months back I started an exercise for my legs, I was standing up from sitting on my bed using the back of a chair (commode) for balance. My first attempt was hard and I managed just 6, but taking my predicament into consideration I was happy. Over the coming months I gradually and painfully increased the daily total, I think managing 20 a few days later put a big smile on my face, but reaching 70 blew me away and the two carers sat on the arms to secure it didn’t tip over were pleased.
Anyway the fact that Social Services had brought a piece of equipment that enabled me to do this alone was appreciated.
It’s been more convenient and safer of that there’s no doubt, but the fact its a solid and very heavy device made it extremely difficult unless a carer moved it away from the wall closer to where I could actually use it has obviously limited its use to when a carer could help.
But… that hasn’t been the case recently, changes I’ve made…. have enabled me to manoeuvre the Rotunda to the edge of my bed alone, just the fact it weighs a ton, not literally of course, has needed a large portion of my strength before and after the specific exercise.
Doing 20.. has been my limit but as I’ve done that several times (5,or 6) everyday it’s been good from a muscle building standpoint.
I woke at 3.45 a.m. today after falling asleep shortly after the start of a movie on Netflix, anyway I decided to do my “stand up” exercise so slid my legs out of bed, shuffled down and reached over to get the “contraption” into position. Doing the exercise requires a lot of determination especially at the “butt crack of dawn” and the bloody sciatica is like a big spike piercing my butt cheek and going into the bone, it’s freaking excruciating… but I was determined to do it, after 20 times my legs were tired. I persevered over the following 30 mins and managed to get to my previous record of 76 at which point my shoulders, my legs and my ass were all crying out for me to stop and get back into bed. At this point the “Motiversity” YouTube video was screaming at me to “Never give up” !!!! so I didn’t… I kept going because I had to, it didn’t matter that I was exhausted, in pain and emotionally drained but that special number was in sight, not close but achievable so that’s what I did, for me it was a milestone and I’m so proud of myself knowing that I managed one hundred, I’m knackered, true but so proud of myself…

In life we all face challenges, they’re all different of course, thier importance or intensity to the person or family. In so many cases the problem is just “accepted”… its considered too difficult or its not feasibly possible, “I just don’t have the “It’s not possible attitude” or “there’s no point in wasting my time trying, I might as well not put myself through the pain”.

I’m so glad I don’t see life that way, I see things very differently, as far as I’m concerned while there’s still a breath in my body I’m going to keep trying, keep believing… giving up on whatever is just not an option, the living in the “Now” option and the “Acceptance” of the crappy life attitude just doesn’t work for me.
It might not be obvious to you or others, it might not be staring you right in the face, but if you aren’t happy about where you are or what you’ve become then “You” have to do something about it… change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.. so many people try for a week or two then stop and convince themselves with their own justifiable reason, thats just an excuse to give up, they didn’t want it enough.
I got MS seventeen and a half.years ago, I don’t take drugs…I’m not beaten, the fall I had in March last year has kept me in bed, but the ABP and the addition I’m making have enabled me to keep going, keep exercising and getting stronger, I KNOW I’m beating this, I tell myself, yes TELL MYSELF everyday I watch motivational videos on YouTube that inspire me… a lot of realists (pessimists) will say “I have to see it to believe it”…thats just negative what I say is:.
You have have to believe it to see it…

P.S. look at “Motiversity” on YouTube

Sick and tired..

Getting accustomed to the ever worsening symptoms of this hideous disease is frustrating and potentially depressing, well it would be if it wasn’t for the ABP. As most readers of my “posts” will know I’m a strong believer in the incredible benefits the protocol has to offer.
If it wasn’t for the fact I had a nasty fall in March last year that inflicted some serious damage to my knees things would be very different. In all honesty my knees have alread suffered because of Rugby in school, college and the army and a lot of road running, plus 834 skydives, so it’s no surprise that what happened last year, I’ll not go into depth about it again but I will say that for 23.5 hrs every day I’ve been confined to bed, so no moaning from others about lockdown…mine has been my bed.

Anyway getting back to my point and the ever worsening symptoms… they aren’t!!! The protocol stopped the downward slide from an MS symptom point of view. The seventeen months in bed…. seventeen freaking months!!! have seriously wiped away the impressive thigh muscles I used to have, but in my opinion because of what I’m doing I’ve experienced significant, Significant improvement.
A month or so ago I couldn’t reach over and pick up a glass full of water with my left hand unless I wanted to share at least half of it with my bed or chest. Now not a problem, I couldn’t twist and lay on my right side and if I’d somehow managed it I definitely couldn’t have reversed the process. Getting my legs out of bed on my own was nigh on impossible and getting back in and getting comfortable without a carers help just couldn’t happen. That’s not the case now, far from it, it’s actually easy and I’m so proud of myself.
The true healing process takes a long time it’s true, but dedication, patience and commitment is of paramount importance.
Am I healed yet… no… but…
I’m a lot closer now than I was,
what drives me? what keeps me trying? I have dreams and desires, the protocol and my commitment, my belief and I’m sick and tired of…
Being sick and tired…

Strong…

Making the decision to either just accept you have a disease that the world of medicine consider incurable, or to follow a proven dietary protocol that eliminates the problematic components that are creating the disease in my opinion has to be made. Now, I’m not saying that the decision is an easy one to make, nor is it easy to adhere to, it’s only natural to have doubts especially knowing that every doctor, neurologist and all family and friends will be convinced its impossible. But the facts speak for themselves, it works, it does take four, or five or six years to eventually remove all the toxic effects and symptoms that certain foods have caused resulting in disese. Is following the protocol an easy thing to do? No it’s not but think about it, completely changing your lifestyle can be painful, it takes focus and determination, so do you have to be strong to go through pain? No but you do have to go through some pain to become strong once again…