Story-Time Tuesday - If Good Health Was Easy...

I'm making myself write this story. Partly because my Naturopathic Doctor just published a very interesting book and I want to share it with you. Partly because I'm pushing myself to write more. And partly because I think this story might be YOUR story. And sometimes reading makes pain hurt a tiny bit less. This story will be pretty candid...I'm not attempting 'the glass half full' philosophy here. I know it could be worse.

I'm using the Story-Time Tuesday format for this and each week I will be doing a giveaway for "A Different Kind of Medical Care" but Dr. Tina Marcantel.

You can read about this book by clicking here.

I will have Mr. Jenny select a random number from all the comments on this post. Feel free to enter any time before Monday.

Winner will be announced next Tuesday along with the continuing story. Autographed book will be mailed out on Wednesday or as soon as I get your address!

The winner of last weeks book is this comment:

"Alone again.... naturally!"said...

I fired my old dr and in the process of looking for one like you have! I am so tired of feeling like I am being ignored and disregarded. I have gone to him for the same thing a few times and every time I come out of there with something different and no further ahead on a diagnosis and he is constantly contradicting himself....NO MORE!

November 27, 2012 1:02 PM

Congratulations!   If you could e-mail your snail mail address (jennymatlock at cox dot net with the words BOOK GIVEAWAY) and I'll get the book out to you before Friday!

PART SIX - IF GOOD HEALTH WAS EASY, EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE IT!

(Sorry this is super-short!   I somehow missed the fact that Christmas is in three weeks!  ha!   Good news for you, though, is there's extra book giveaways!)

 

While Mr. Jenny was out shopping for all the specific foods I needed, I re-read  the saliva testing instructions.

To be frank, I’d never even heard of saliva testing. Sure, I’d had a ton of other things done but never that.

There were a few big tubes and a lot of little tubes and I read and re-read it trying to make sense of it.

When Mr. Jenny finally returned with several bulging bags filled with sugar-free, gluten-free, yeast-free, preservative-free organic yumminess, he deciphered the instructions and told me he would help me the next day.

I recall taking a handful of supplements that night. I don’t know if there was that many but it felt like I was swallowing forever: magnesium, potassium, vitamin C, candida cleanse, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium and I don’t even remember.

I cut my pain-pill in half that night which turned out to be a mistake in the wee hours of the morning, but the next day awoke with a tiny bit of hope in my heart.

The saliva testing proved to be a bit hard to figure out at first. No bubbles, no this, no that and that first tube seemed to take forever to fill.  I think it was just me, though.   I had a hard time making sense of anything in those pain-filled months!

Doing the blood tests a bit later in the morning was a lot easier.

By the time I was done spitting and fasting, I was cranky and starving.

I ate organic turkey and black olives and sugar-free hummus and celery. No dairy, yeast, sugar, gluten or preservatives of any kind seemed pretty difficult.

The rest of the day was a continuation of filling tubes with saliva, swallowing handfuls of supplements, crying, and feeling generally hostile to the world in the general.

It wasn’t until Mr. Jenny got fearfully into bed with me (apparently I was snarling even more than I realized that day!) that I recognized my heart arrhythmia felt less severe.

“Probably just wishful thinking,” I pondered as I fell into a drug induced sleep.

TO BE CONTINUED NEXT TUESDAY

Part one - linked here.

Part two - linked here.
Part three - linked here.
Part four - linked here.
Part five - linked here.

PLEASE READ BOOK GIVEAWAY INFORMATION AT THE TOP OF THIS POST.