After Delaney had been sick for about six months, we found our way to a local chiropracor who did muscle testing on her. He compared our bodies to an onion....he said to heal the body you have to peel back one layer at a time, just like peeling an onion. He went on to explain the body will reveal what needs attention first, then as you address it, other needs will come to the surface. Eventually, although this could take a long time, you will get thru all of the layers and the body will be healed. This chiropractor began with giving Delaney lots of B vitamins. He said her body was saying it really wanted B vitamins. I thought he was crazy. She was sick. She needed more than B vitamins. He kept assuring me, in time her body will tell us what else it needs. "In the meantime" he said, "give her B vitamins every hour!"
"What? Seriously? Every hour?" I said. "Yes, every hour," he said.
So, we did. And, we saw some improvement. She began to have a little more energy. This was over three years ago....and throughout the years we continued giving her B vitamins, just not every hour! Interesting thing is, recently her MD found out she has the MTHFR gene, which means your body can't fully metabolize B vitamins and without taking methyl B vitamins you are at a risk for strokes, blood clots and miscarriages! Wow....that is an affirmation in muscle testing! There have been many other affirmations since this first experience. I wont go into them now. However, all that to say, I am a muscle tester believer! I think it is highly effective for everyone....not just Lyme patients.
So, here we are at Hansa, experiencing a whole new level of muscle testing. It is actually energy testing. It is called Bio Resonance Testing (BRT). It does not just listen to the muscle, it captures the energy field of the pathology, locks it in and finds the remedy that matches that frequency!!! WOW... Who knew the frequencies in our body could be so communicative? If you would like to read more about it you can go to: http://hansacenter.com/brs.php. So , today Delaney's body peeled back another layer. It revealed parasites. Delaney has taken many things for parasites over the years and has not tolerated them well. Furthermore, they have not helped her much, if any. Dr. Jowdy explained that with regular muscle testing many supplements could read to be helpful. However, with BRT the exact frequency of what is needed is revealed. It is giving her body a remedy that is frequency matched for the frequency of the parasites in her body, rather than something to kill parasites. This means it will allow her body to kill the parasites, rather than kill them for her. Which, is supposed to be much more gentle on the body and more effective.
I love to cook with onions....they add so much flavor to food. However, peeling it is never fun. It burns and stings my eyes and makes me cry. In the end though, the flavor is worth it! Peeling the layers with Delaney is not fun, but will be well worth it! I look forward to the day when Dr. Jowdy will read only a healthy frequency from Delaney....with no more layers to peel.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Uniquely Created, Uniquely Treated
We have just finished day four at . Each day is full of therapies....lots of focus on detox! Saunas, foot baths, lymph treatment, massage, adjustments of a whole new kind, lasers, and more. It is all based on energy and I don't even know how to put it all into words....it really has been a little overwhelming. I wish I could describe what they do, but I think the best I can do is say that they believe everything has a specific energy frequency. They test your body for certain frequencies and then match the treatment to that frequency. Most everyone does these same therapies, but Dr. Jowdy's treatments are very specific to the individual. I think this is what I have come away with so far at . They look at the unique individual and tailor the treatment to them. Dr. Jowdy is constantly assessing Delaney's body to see what she is responding to or needing. He says it is important to ask the body the right questions so you know where to go with treatment. This is all tied up in the frequencies! It truly is a unique experience to watch what he does.
This individual treatment makes a lot of sense to me. It seems like it is probably the missing key to much of what we do in life and especially Lyme treatment. If apples even give off a specific frequency, different from that of an orange....then how much different must the frequencies be from different people! Lyme affects every ones bodies so differently. One reason is Lyme tends to go to the weakest links in the body. Therefore, people will present differently and need different treatment. God did create us each as unique individuals as He "knitted us together in our mother's womb". We really learn that we are unique at an early age, but from then on we usually are so busy trying to cover it up rather than embrace it.
So, in Lyme treatment, as well as life....I believe we need to truly accept our uniqueness and individuality. I think this may be one reason lyme treatments so often fail. It cannot be a one size fits all. As I watch and experience what happens here at , and in muscle testing in general, it really seems to key in on that uniqueness. It picks up on what is happening in the body in a way that other test or treatments miss. We continue to pray that this unique treatment will uniquely touch Delaney's body like nothing else has. We pray God would use this treatment to bring her into a healthy state of living.
This individual treatment makes a lot of sense to me. It seems like it is probably the missing key to much of what we do in life and especially Lyme treatment. If apples even give off a specific frequency, different from that of an orange....then how much different must the frequencies be from different people! Lyme affects every ones bodies so differently. One reason is Lyme tends to go to the weakest links in the body. Therefore, people will present differently and need different treatment. God did create us each as unique individuals as He "knitted us together in our mother's womb". We really learn that we are unique at an early age, but from then on we usually are so busy trying to cover it up rather than embrace it.
So, in Lyme treatment, as well as life....I believe we need to truly accept our uniqueness and individuality. I think this may be one reason lyme treatments so often fail. It cannot be a one size fits all. As I watch and experience what happens here at , and in muscle testing in general, it really seems to key in on that uniqueness. It picks up on what is happening in the body in a way that other test or treatments miss. We continue to pray that this unique treatment will uniquely touch Delaney's body like nothing else has. We pray God would use this treatment to bring her into a healthy state of living.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Beginning of Being MissUnderstood...A Condensed Version
It was a typical day in October of 2007. Delaney headed out the door to her fifth grade classroom with her friends. At this point in her life she was learning piano, playing soccer, reading every book she could get her hands on, being a beautiful ballerina, showing some real possibilities of being a competitive runner, really getting good at double dutch jump roping and just having fun with friends. She was a very well adjusted, happy and healthy kid. Until that afternoon, when she called me from school with a bad headache. She didn't make it back to school the rest of the year. This headache started us down a road of endless doctors. We started at her pediatrician, thinking she had a sinus infection.
Her pediatrician did an X-ray to check for a sinus infection. There wasn't any - it was normal. All looked fine. We didn't realize at the time that we would hear these same words from 40 different doctors and hundreds of more exams and tests....MRIs, blood test, EKGs, EEGs, heart monitors, ultrasounds, and spinal taps. All came back negative. She even had a Lyme test through Labcorp. Of course it was normal, too. And followed up with the explanation from an Infectious Disease Doctor that Lyme hardly exist in California, so of course it would be negative. Almost all of these doctors suggested she see a Psychiatrist or Psychologist. They couldn't come up with any answers so they turned to psychology. Most of the time after only a few minutes in their office.
From the headache things progressed quickly. By November we had our first run to the ER. I thought she was having an aneurysm because she was having such intense head pain. By Christmas she was so fatigued she was having a hard time doing anything. By January her fingers and toes started turning purple and her blood pressure dropped extremely low. By February she was having a difficult time walking, often looking like a Parkinson's patient as she shuffled and struggled to put one foot in front of the other. By March we were having to carry her to the bathroom and some days spoon feed her, and she ended up in the hospital for the first time. By April her whole body ached and hurt constantly and she was so nauseous that she became anorexic from not eating.
It was an entire year of progressively getting worse and no doctors to help. We felt like we were living out a very bad nightmare. Our trust in our great medical system was crushed. We kept searching. We Kept trying everything we could, including things such as biofeedback, physical therapy, relaxation therapy, hyperbarics, craniosacral therapy, chiropractic, many medications, and acupuncture. Nothing helped. Delaney just kept sinking further and further into sickness.
Finally, in October of 2008, someone directed me to the Igenex Lab and told me about the controversy surrounding Lyme Disease. I did research on it and we got Delaney tested. She was CDC positive and had 2 co-infections; ehrlichia and babesia. I was so angry. If only we would have known the controversy surrounding Lyme earlier. If only one of the 40 doctors we saw would have been aware of Lyme and recognized it in Delaney. Delaney's symptoms were classic for Lyme. And, yes, Lyme is very prevalent in California!
Once diagnosed we found an LLMD (Lyme literate medical doctor) and began treatment. Unfortunately, the longer you have undiagnosed Lyme the harder it is to treat. Delaney was started on a quarter dose of three medications. Her body responded quickly with such intense pain that she couldn't handle it. This is called a herx, it is a reaction to all of the toxins as the bacteria is killed off. We ended up in the hospital on an IV drip of intense pain medication that didn't even touch her pain. Despite very physical symptoms, such as the purple toes and fingers, the very low blood pressure, the lack of food digestion and absorption, the throwing up with nausea, the EXTREME pain....they still went to Psychological issues. They totally denied the positive Lyme test, stating that she had been on antibiotics for over a month and if it was Lyme she would have been well by then. This was the worst experience of my life. Delaney's, too, but thankfully, she doesn't really remember much of it.
I knew at that point that Delaney's body could not handle the antibiotics and that I wasn't going to get any help from the medical community. I began searching for some other form of treatment. I found Bodihealth. It is an electrical treatment. It is not just for Lyme. It actually does not even treat the Lyme. It treats your body so that the body can take care of the Lyme. Amazingly, Delaney began to respond to it fairly quickly. She started treatment in January, when she was at her sickest. By August she was back in school. She was far from well, but was active in life again. Unfortunately, bodihealth only took her body so far. We rode it out, hoping it would continue to help. However, after a total of 17 months we decided to turn to another LLMD.
This started us down the path of antibiotics again....and again, not having any success. We tried oral antibiotics, injections and IVs. Over all, Delaney was on antibiotics for a total of 19 months with absolutely no improvement. At this point, we decided we had to try something else....yet again. That something else took us to the Hansa Center in Wichita, Kansas. Here we are four and a half years after that initial headache. We have cried often, been angry, frustrated and overwhelmed. Delaney has been misunderstood through it all....not one doctor truly understanding her. However, I know through all of the misunderstandings, we are understanding great things we never understood before. It is because of this, I am blogging about my little Miss Understood. A place I can blog about the things I am learning and struggling with as I seek understanding. Hopefully, you will share on this journey with me.
Her pediatrician did an X-ray to check for a sinus infection. There wasn't any - it was normal. All looked fine. We didn't realize at the time that we would hear these same words from 40 different doctors and hundreds of more exams and tests....MRIs, blood test, EKGs, EEGs, heart monitors, ultrasounds, and spinal taps. All came back negative. She even had a Lyme test through Labcorp. Of course it was normal, too. And followed up with the explanation from an Infectious Disease Doctor that Lyme hardly exist in California, so of course it would be negative. Almost all of these doctors suggested she see a Psychiatrist or Psychologist. They couldn't come up with any answers so they turned to psychology. Most of the time after only a few minutes in their office.
From the headache things progressed quickly. By November we had our first run to the ER. I thought she was having an aneurysm because she was having such intense head pain. By Christmas she was so fatigued she was having a hard time doing anything. By January her fingers and toes started turning purple and her blood pressure dropped extremely low. By February she was having a difficult time walking, often looking like a Parkinson's patient as she shuffled and struggled to put one foot in front of the other. By March we were having to carry her to the bathroom and some days spoon feed her, and she ended up in the hospital for the first time. By April her whole body ached and hurt constantly and she was so nauseous that she became anorexic from not eating.
It was an entire year of progressively getting worse and no doctors to help. We felt like we were living out a very bad nightmare. Our trust in our great medical system was crushed. We kept searching. We Kept trying everything we could, including things such as biofeedback, physical therapy, relaxation therapy, hyperbarics, craniosacral therapy, chiropractic, many medications, and acupuncture. Nothing helped. Delaney just kept sinking further and further into sickness.
Finally, in October of 2008, someone directed me to the Igenex Lab and told me about the controversy surrounding Lyme Disease. I did research on it and we got Delaney tested. She was CDC positive and had 2 co-infections; ehrlichia and babesia. I was so angry. If only we would have known the controversy surrounding Lyme earlier. If only one of the 40 doctors we saw would have been aware of Lyme and recognized it in Delaney. Delaney's symptoms were classic for Lyme. And, yes, Lyme is very prevalent in California!
Once diagnosed we found an LLMD (Lyme literate medical doctor) and began treatment. Unfortunately, the longer you have undiagnosed Lyme the harder it is to treat. Delaney was started on a quarter dose of three medications. Her body responded quickly with such intense pain that she couldn't handle it. This is called a herx, it is a reaction to all of the toxins as the bacteria is killed off. We ended up in the hospital on an IV drip of intense pain medication that didn't even touch her pain. Despite very physical symptoms, such as the purple toes and fingers, the very low blood pressure, the lack of food digestion and absorption, the throwing up with nausea, the EXTREME pain....they still went to Psychological issues. They totally denied the positive Lyme test, stating that she had been on antibiotics for over a month and if it was Lyme she would have been well by then. This was the worst experience of my life. Delaney's, too, but thankfully, she doesn't really remember much of it.
I knew at that point that Delaney's body could not handle the antibiotics and that I wasn't going to get any help from the medical community. I began searching for some other form of treatment. I found Bodihealth. It is an electrical treatment. It is not just for Lyme. It actually does not even treat the Lyme. It treats your body so that the body can take care of the Lyme. Amazingly, Delaney began to respond to it fairly quickly. She started treatment in January, when she was at her sickest. By August she was back in school. She was far from well, but was active in life again. Unfortunately, bodihealth only took her body so far. We rode it out, hoping it would continue to help. However, after a total of 17 months we decided to turn to another LLMD.
This started us down the path of antibiotics again....and again, not having any success. We tried oral antibiotics, injections and IVs. Over all, Delaney was on antibiotics for a total of 19 months with absolutely no improvement. At this point, we decided we had to try something else....yet again. That something else took us to the Hansa Center in Wichita, Kansas. Here we are four and a half years after that initial headache. We have cried often, been angry, frustrated and overwhelmed. Delaney has been misunderstood through it all....not one doctor truly understanding her. However, I know through all of the misunderstandings, we are understanding great things we never understood before. It is because of this, I am blogging about my little Miss Understood. A place I can blog about the things I am learning and struggling with as I seek understanding. Hopefully, you will share on this journey with me.
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