6) If you could have told yourself something when you remember these symptoms arising what would you have said?
I didn’t read through all the questions before I started this challenge. I wanted my answers to be raw and honest. This is the first question that I have set my iPad down and thought “hmmmm I don’t know.” I had to really think and decide what was most important for each illness. I never planned to be chronically ill. I planned to be an all American rock star wife & Mother. I planned to be someone completely different.
Fibromyalgia ~ Your entire life is going to change but in the long haul you will find your true self and you will love her. So hang on to nothing. Let go and just learn to accept the change. There is a warrior inside you that you have not even dreamed of yet. You wish for strength now and she is a million times stronger then you are wishing for. You are going to kick ass. This disease will change you and it is with you for the rest of your life but soon you will be almost grateful. We’re it not for the pain…..
PTSD ~ If you can’t tell your therapist the truth about your thoughts, feelings and behaviors keep meeting new therapists until you find one you can be 100% raw honest with and don’t feel judged. And then ask for the tools, do the hard work and kick its fucking ass. Part of me thinks what I went through in my twenties as a result of the PTSD was unavoidable until I matured. Like young twenty something female plus PTSD just always equals train wreck. I got really intense therapy when I was young. It took me maturing as an adult to really do the work and not just be the drama. But my honest gut answer is still go to therapy and do the hard work. When a trigger gets hit, I simply have the tools to handle it.
MRSA ~ Never ever pop a pimple again. Wash with Hibicleanse at least monthly and always when you see a body pimple. Eat raw greens a lot please. The first battle was nothing and I moved on with life like it was nothing. I took an antibiotic and it went away within a couple days. It wasn’t until the second battle that I learned what this disease is capable of doing to me. I have surgical scars now. Twice in the last few years I have spent 30 plus days going to the doctor daily to be cut open and have rotten flesh removed from me under local antithestic only. There is a low fever the entire time and I can barely eat. Like having the flue with minor surgery daily. I truly believe my diet and lifestyle could have prevented the reoccurrence. Damn I need to eat more greens. The Wickedly Effective MRSA Diet changed the way I look at greens and I am certain got the last of the infection the last time.
I like this challenge today. It gave me something to occupy my mind with when I woke up in pain. I really fucking hate this pain and what it can reduce me to.