So you may be wondering what is up with all this ‘wellness’ stuff. When did I get into all this, is it a new religion? lol. So I owe you the whole back story.
I see my whole life as one amazing journey with my Lord, the highs and even the lows all have lead me down a particular path. I love it when all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together and begin revealing a beautiful scene. It fills you with hope and desire to continue.
I guess I have to go pretty far back, I had my first experience with doctors and the medical industry when I was around 6 I think. I remember that’s when my sore throats started, and my parents were told that I needed to have my tonsils and adenoids removed…so off they came. I hope that parents today are a bit more educated and know the importance of keeping their child’s entire lymphatic system whole and not give in to the first suggestion of surgery…but we’ll get back to that later (maybe). They were also told that this might help in getting me to gain weight (I guess that kicked in around 30 years later…oh where’s the rolling eyes emoji when I need it.)
Anyway…I’m not sure how much that all helped, I continued to get awful strep throats and a myriad of other illnesses through my early years. Then along came the sinus infections in my adult hood. Antibiotics for the win, right? Ummm… again… we’ll leave that for later. Then there was the whole infertility fiasco…shocker of shockers…come on…I was so darn healthy all my life…how could this be? But no worries…the medical industry has a pill for that (injections actually)…and nope…no lifestyle changes needed…gosh…you don’t even have to find out why your beautifully created body isn’t doing the thing it was created to do…you know…self heal.
And then Panic Attacks…what? Where did that come from? No just kidding…that was never asked. But here honey…more pills for you. How long after that did my heart start going off kilter? Is there a correlation? Shhh. It’s SVT…here take these…that is if you don’t want to have surgery. Are you sure you don’t want to have surgery? We can burn that little extra pathway in your heart and it will be good as new? What…I have an extra pathway? Did you see it? How do we know? Shhhh…you’re not very compliant…we think you need to go see a psychiatrist. Ok…but wait, how am I not compliant…I’ve taken every single thing that you have given me….all the things you said would heal me. Oh right…you didn’t use the word ‘heal’ …so what were we trying to do? Shut me up? :'( Anyway…the diagnosis and the list of medications we’re growing exponentially, until I said enough. Thank You Lord for giving me the strength to say ENOUGH!!!
Finally found an MD who didn’t push meds, who was willing to do all the tests and work with me. We looked at diet and how it was causing inflammation. Then the Lord took over from there and continued to inspire me to keep learning. This desire to learn and to reach others with whatever I was learning was growing right along with my frustration with the medical and pharmaceutical industry. I remember when I was in middle school wanting to be a Pediatrician. Then in high school that changed and I now wanted to go to Nursing school. I can now see how that wasn’t the path the Lord had in mind for me as that would have gone right along with the status quo of conventional medicine… I was meant for something different…to live life outside the proverbial box.
This may sounds like I’m totally dissing conventional medicine and I’m really not. It has its place for sure. When my son swallowed a few magnets that perforated his intestines, it was a medical team at Children’s Hospital that saved his life. Our medical industry as it stands is great for critical care, but when it comes to chronic ailments it can be such a struggle. In that case we need to become self advocates, we need to learn about our own bodies and its needs and we have to have the strength to do all that is required.