Journal Post

I've always wanted to keep things real on this blog and not just post about the good things. I do not want this blog to be just a brag blog. I'd like to write about some exciting things we've learned about our health lately.

Jared has been to doctors and in and out of the ER with chest pain and near fainting spells and racing blood pressure for a couple of years now. These symptoms sound really scary and doctors weren't able to do much, but prescribe meds to help with the symptoms. The only diagnosis he ever received was GERD. After giving up on doctors and trying to self medicate he just decided that this was something he was just going to have to deal with for the rest of his life. Then we heard about Vickie Sorensen. She is a holistic Master Herbalist, which was right up our ally. She uses kinesiology to check the energies of your body. She discovered that Jared had a heart murmur that we already knew about, but his heart had a valve that sometimes beat backwards and caused momentary light-headedness. Stress made this worse. She found a brain injury that hadn't completely healed yet. And his GERD wasn't really GERD, it was candida yeast in his stomach that got out of control from using an antibiotic. She suggested some herbs to use and he is feeling really great now. His grim outlook on his health has turned out to be no big deal.

I also went to see Vickie because my health was deteriorating. I've been getting sick about every two weeks for several years now. I've struggled with a serious lack of energy and vertigo for as long as I can remember. Recently, I've had severe joint pain and fevers that last a week and a mysterious splotchy rash. It was to the point that I was having more bad days than good and it was effecting the well being of my family and not just me any more. With other symptoms that are too many to list Jared and I had done some research and discovered that I had all the symptoms of lupus. I had been to doctor's enough to know that they weren't going to do anything but prescribe pain meds. I don't have health insurance so I wasn't going to waste my time and money. Thank heavens for Vickie! She told me that my health actually wasn't that bad and that I just had a serious infection of Epstein Barr Virus. The same virus that causes mono in teenagers. Most people have this virus and it is just dormant in their bodies. For some people this virus will flare up constantly. It has spread to my brain and spinal cord and is causing me to not be able to absorb much of what I eat. I think this solves the mystery of my pregnancies. She put me on some herbs and sprouts to kill the virus, but we're trying to do it slowly over four months. I seriously went from thinking I was dying to thinking hey, this is no big deal. I still have bad days, but I can tell that the pains I feel now are healing pains. Vickie calls them healing crisis'.

We also took Kendi in. She was having severe tummy aches and sometimes vomiting. I should have seen this as an allergic reaction, but she's always been fine about food so it didn't even cross my mind. Turns out she is allergic to cow's milk. She also has some yeast and once we get her body back in balance, the food intolerances may go away.

We haven't taken Aydri in yet, but we plan to. If you have a mystery illness or are tired of taking meds with side effects, go see Vickie. You won't regret it.