Helpful Hints

When I was a kid growing up on the farm, some of my Mothers' words of wisdom were...."if you don't have your health, you don't have anything...." I was a very active kid with boundless energy. I'd ride my pony around the pastures for hours at a time, climb apple trees in the orchard and play endless games of Cowboys and Indians with my sister and other farm kids on the edge of the corn fields,... so..., those words didn't exactly connect with me at the time.

Little did I know that in later years as an adult, her words would ring true, and come back to haunt me. I'd come to find out that she was right....but how in the world back then could I have ever known where my journey on the road of life would take me.

I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. As the disease progressed and gradually got worse, I began slipping into the secondary progressive stage somewhere around 1996.

By '97, MS had taken control of my life. I couldn't walk without a cane or other assistance, couldn't safely drive my car anymore, and I looked like a skeleton. I was fast loosing motor control over my entire body , and just plain ordinary muscle movements were sometimes very difficult. My speech was affected, and my vision was getting worse all the time. I was constantly in a lot of pain..... and I was very scared.

In 1998 I was formally diagnosed as being in the secondary progressive stage of Multiple Sclerosis.

My doctor prescribed a garden variety of powerful medications to combat the disease...a pharmaceutical cocktail of six or more highly potent drugs.

My doctor also told me not to expect to live to be an old lady, and he increased my medication. I had no logical reason to believe in the possibility that I wasn't doing the right thing to help myself.

By 1999 I was bedridden half the time. I could barely walk, so I gave away my shoes. I sold my car. I left my house only for doctors' office visits. By this time, we talked about wheelchairs and home nursing care, and again, my doctor increased my medication.

Then I started having seizures....bad ones....and I got to take rides in the ambulance to the hospital. For all intents and purposes, my life was over.

Back then, I knew nothing about natural healing or alternative medicine....not really. I believed everything my doctor told me. But by this time I knew it was 'now or never'......if I was going to try something different, I'd better do it now. I refused to just give up and die. I wanted to live , and now I had nothing else left to lose.

If you've read my book you know what happened next, but in case you haven't read it yet, let me tell you that the process of taking back my health was actually pretty simple....yes, it was a very basic process.....but, don't be fooled or lulled into complacency, because there was nothing easy about it. Far from it.

It took a lot of time, patience, and a strong iron-willed determination to 'stick with it' along with the indomitable desire to get rid of this monster disease and take my life back. But make no mistake about it....it was a long, arduous and very difficult day in and day out struggle. In short, at the time it seemed a lot like I was trying to single-handedly turn the Titanic around in rough high seas facing a gale force wind....no easy feat.

That's the bad news. The good news is that the progression of my MS could be slowed down and eventually stopped........ and I did it!

Throughout this process I learned some very interesting facts. For one thing, I didn't know that what today we call 'alternative healing' has actually been practiced for thousands of years.......except back then, they didn't call it 'alternative'. There was nothing alternative about it in those days. Fact is, that was all there was.....just plain ol' natural things straight from Mother Nature herself, and there were no other 'alternative' choices to healing and curing disease.

But that was long before the pharmaceutical industry was born, and its' drugs hadn't been invented yet, so people used the only things that were available to them....natural plants and herbs that have cured illnesses, made people whole again, and have been growing right here on planet earth since the beginning of recorded time, and who knows..... maybe even before that.

It dawned on me that maybe these plants and herbs might just have been put on this earth for a greater reason....to serve humanity. I mean..... there are countless historical references to their powerful healing properties that sometimes even produced miraculous results.....there are even stories along these lines in the Holy Bible.

And to me, that makes perfect sense. I believe we weren't put on this earth to try and survive by a random throw of the dice, or good luck versus bad luck. Sure, things like basic herd instinct..... survival of the fittest come into play as part of the human condition .....and there's plenty of that going around ...., but tucked away neatly within the bigger picture of life all around us, there's a greater support system built in that's as natural and beautiful as our very own lives and the magnificent planet we live on.

And it's all around us.....it's there for the asking...and .it's there for the taking. And I was fortunate enough to find it and apply it. I'm convinced because of that I'm alive and well today....because, there is FINALLY no more MS.

And when I stop and reflect in quiet moments, every now and then I can hear the echo of my Mothers' voice reminding me that..."If you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Today I can connect with those words of wisdom, and truly understand their meaning.

Thanks Mom. It's been a long, hard journey, and I hope I've learned this lesson well.

Until next time,

As Always,

Sue Ellen

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