What was..
As I’m coming to the end of my 9th month on the Ann Boroch Protocol (ABP) and I reflect on the improvements since embarking on it, I can feel immense gratitude, initially to my friend Mary that first told me about Ann Boroch and especially to Janet Orchard who has been my guide on this journey.
When I came back to England in November 2012 after 11 years in Colorado, the symptoms had just about got the better of me, I’d become very limited in my mobility, very short distances with a cane, anything more and I was wheelchair bound.
A far cry from the skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, mountain biking, rock climbing pilot that I was, yes to say I was a bit of an adrenalin junkie and speed freak was quite an apt description, my last motorbike, a Yamaha FZR 1000 capable of sub 3 second zero to 60 and 155 mph top speed were good friends of mine.
In 2017 my last year eating the wrong foods I would never openly admit it then, but I was really struggling mentally, the pain, exhaustion, frustration and anguish that had become a very large part of my daily life was very close to beating me… as I said, I would never have admitted it at the time but after 13 years since official diagnosis and several before of knowing prior to that, that something was seriously wrong, I was nearly beaten.
September 2017, everything changed, the first two or three months were tough, actually the first was damn hard but probably March, April and May of this year have been good, so I’m very optimistic. I’ve so far had some incredible experiences, then sickness and many years of pain, but ALL of that, the good and bad are what was, history!!!… there are many, many good years and experiences to come… cheers!!!