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Karen

Turning the Corner


Hi Everyone,

Last June I started a thread called "Doing a Very Cautious Happy Dance."

That was because I was suddenly so much better. I'd had a horrible herx at the end of April / beginning of June that had made me almost feel like life wasn't worth living...it was one of those that pushed me right to the end of my rope.

That's when I learned what happens after a big herx...the improvement afterward is equal to the suffering during. That's when I started doing a very cautious happy dance. Not in the 90% club yet at that time...but sort of edging into the 80%...though...as we all know...we get better and then this thing kind of cycles back some until we push through another barrier.

Well...amazingly...I've recently broken through a new barrier.

Here's what's happened:

1. More energy! Unfortunately, I've discovered this doesn't mean I'm back to my old self where I can drink coffee late at night...only sleep for a couple of hours and then run like the Gingerbread Man all day the next day. Feeling like myself again went straight to my head and I overdid it and paid the price the next day. That scared me because in the past if I'd have messed up like that I'd have paid for it for weeks. However...I got some rest the next night and I was back to feeling good again! Now I'm going to be VERY careful and not overdo it any more. No need to tempt fate.

2. The skin issues in the small area on my chin that drives me crazy is noticeably better...purging has diminished to very little and I'm crossing my fingers this trend continues. The skin in that area is starting to feel like my skin again...and not feel like some kind of alien created synthetic fabric.

It's so interesting with this skin thing though. It's hardly visible...a little place right under the ridge of my chin...and no one notices it but me. But it's something I notice constantly...I'm always aware of it like a monkey on my back. How it looks and how it feels are two things that do NOT match. I'm very thankful that I've never had skin lesions...and that my skin issues have been mostly confined to some fairly small areas...but the purging on my face and a little on my back have been creepy and disturbing enough to almost send me over the edge at times.

Interestingly I noticed a big improvement in the area on my chin just this week when I started swishing a few times a day with WPS. Mel had told me to gargle with it because I now have a cold and a sore throat (YEA!!!! That means my immune system is kicking in again). I did gargle, but decided I might as well swish too since I'd made a whole glass of it...so I did so several times with each glass. It wasn't bad because I didn't activate it with the citric acid...so it didn't taste like anything.

Well...my skin on my chin started making an improvement after all the swishing...maybe it was the proximity of the WPS when swishing to my chin when I swished in my lower teeth. I don't know but I'm going to continue this because it seems like it's a lot of bang for the buck.

3. Here's a REALLY great part. I really think my immune system is starting to work again. It's been a LONG time coming, so anyone who's reading this...please don't give up...it'll eventually happen. My doctor told me the immune system (as measured by the CD57 blood test) will move very slowly for a long time...and then it will suddenly take a big jump when you're close to getting well.

I know my immune system is improving because the last time I got a CD 57 blood test, my number was down to a SEVEN...which is awful. That was a year ago this month. I didn't get it tested again until this last September...and it had jumped to a 56! It's supposed to be at least at a 100...and 125 is better. Two hundred is ideal...but...my doctor said once it gets to 75 it'll start moving up pretty fast. That's great...because my number had lingered in the twenties and below for over a year.

Ok...that test was in September...but I KNOW my number must be even higher now. I'm going to wait until the new year to get it tested again, but I imagine I'll see a great improvement because...of my finger nails!

Up until about a month ago, my finger nails were brittle and would break off. When I was at my worst, I couldn't even turn a page or pick up a coin. But...suddenly...just in the last month or so, my nails are BACK! They are long and even stronger than BEFORE I got sick. I've been taking Colostrum again for about a month, and that's supposed to help with the immune system. I take it intermittently every few months, but this time...what a difference!

I think it's the combination of everything though...and the Colostrum is the cherry on the cake.

So...I'm looking so forward to getting well now. I've always believed it was possible...but there have definitely been times when I've been very discouraged...but...now I can actually SEE it coming. I'm so inspired and so excited! I just have to be careful and not let the combination of this happiness and the proximity of fun holiday food collide. I need encouragement to not fall off the diet wagon from just the sheer joy of feeling quasi "normal" again.

Ok...yet another looooooong post...but this is a happy one. I hope anyone reading this who has been discouraged can now see that it can actually happen. We hear it takes a long time...and boy does it ever. I actually ordered my first protocol in the spring of 2016, but I didn't get good at taking it until last December of 2016.

That's when I "met" Mel...I'd been stalking the site for a year and finally made contact with him when he started one on one coaching. The rest is history. I love him to the moon and back...and not just because he shined the light on the trail to wellness. He's a great cook too! Lol...ok Mel...more reasons than that...but please don't ever stop cooking for me.

I'm emailing Mel a pic of my newly healthy, long and strong finger nails...and I hope he has a chance to put that pic in this post.

Love,

Karen