Really Good News!
If you’ve been following this blog, you know I was probably reinfected at least with Babesia in June. You can read about my really good news on my Peaceful Acres blog.
Whatever It Takes
I recently heard a personal trainer say that there are three types of people that he works with. As I heard him list these I was struck that this is also true with healing. So what kind of person are you?
1. I’ll Try
2. I’ll Do My Best
3. I’ll Do Whatever It Takes
My entire life, I’ve been a #3 kind of a person. I’ll Do Whatever It Takes!!!!!!! On this journey with Lyme Disease you must decide for yourself. Decide how hard you will work. Decide whether you’ll stick to a strick diet. Decide whether you have the stuff that heroes are made of.
It won’t be easy. Nothing worth fighting for is. But you have to decide for yourself what plan of action to take. You have to embrace your plan. I have been around the block too many times to know that even if someone says they have a “cure” you will not embrace it. You will keep trying a million other things, especially if the “cure” has any level of difficulty to it.
I’m reading for the umpteeth time, Beyond Our Selves, by Catherine Marshall. This book has been my companion on this journey along with my Bible. Catherine suffered from TB. There was no cure in her day. She discovered a secret. It’s not really a secret, but she discovered how to follow the secret. The secret is in Mark 9:25. Jesus says, “I tell you, you have whatever you ask for, if you only believe first, you will have it.” (paraphrase mine)
FACT, FAITH, FEELINGS. It’s hard to believe when you don’t feel it. And in my opinion it’s especially hard with LD. Since the infection is so seriously in our brains. When the brain is severely inflamed it’s so hard to hold on to the truth. This is where my faith has come in. When I can’t believe, I lay it all before the Lord and allow Him to hold me. To lead me through the valley of the shadow of death. And all through that valley, I’m thanking Him for something I don’t yet have completely…..my healing! Everyday, I thank God for my healing. Because I believe that it will one day appear.
In the mean time, I’ll continue to do WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Won’t you join me? Come on lets do it together….WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Udate On My Health
I wanted to give you an update on my recent struggle with Hemolytic Anemia caused by Babesia. For those of you who haven’t read my blog, I had some invader killing my RBC at a rapid rate. My doc was pretty certain it was a reinfection of Babesia, since I’d had another deer tick in June 2008 and it was a few months after that, that I began to feel tired and worn out again. I thought it was because I’d worked so hard this summer.
Here are two photos to compare how I looked. For me this is amazing. I Knew in Photo #1 that I was feeling tired and drawn out, but I didn’t know how badly or why. Photo #2 was taken just last week after aggressively attacking the Hemolytic Anemia with food and supp’s. I am taking Milk Thistle-1200 mg, mega doses of Vit C for inflammation, increased Thyroid/Liver from Dr Ron’s, and adding back in Artemisiae from Hepapro, lots of Cod Liver Oil and a slew of other supp’s including Dr Zhang’s protocol.
I’ve been on the Artemisiae again for 1 month now and feel like night and day. Even though I haven’t had one positive test for Babesia other than a clinical diagnosis, it’s clear to me that when I take Artemisiae and feel this great then there’s no denying I am infected with it. (It’s either that or Malaria from my time in India?) I had one very, very bad attack while on vacation in NC a couple weeks ago. It was a doozy! One of the worst I’ve ever had. My good days out weigh my bad again. I’ve gone from the every other day syndrome to maybe one bad day every couple weeks. I’m working hard again and looking forward to our new addition to Peaceful Acres; a Jersey cow!!! I picked up our 3 laying hens on Friday and have been tending to them this weekend. I worked for a couple hours yesterday fixing the fence and tending my winter garden. I’m praying that this will last through the winter and on. I’ve yet to have one good winter for the past…..well, I don’t know how many years. A very long time.
Photo #1
September 2008
Photo #2
November 2008
I suppose I did look kinda jaundice. Ok a lot jaundice and soooo tired. I’ll be having another set of labs done this week and I’m sure that I’ve gotten my liver enzymes and bilirubin down. And that my RBC count is up to normal. It’s just my hunch.
