Hopefully a quick story.

Yesterday, as I escorted my wife around to some med appts and other things, she kept getting all kinds of compliments on how good she looked. How bright she looked. That she looked beautiful.

In some small way it's taken 16 years to get to this point. There is MUCH work still to go. She received a very last minute life saving liver transplant, back then. The ensuing years have brought challenge after challenge, usually stacked 4 or 5 deep. Meds that transplant recipients no longer stay on ravaged her joints. She has had two total shoulder, two total hip, one total knee three months ago, ankle fusion, and several other surgeries, in the last 4 years. Literally back to back to back to back etc etc etc. She has lived in constant and often very high pain for a long, long time. Losing her hair. She has been about as ripped apart as a woman can be, but she almost always has a smile. This last is of course why she has endured. Her drive and sweetness.

I came to CZ and lurked for awhile. Landed here in the Iodine area, and studied. Engaged the protocol, went through almost all of the confusing detox symptoms that are not so confusing now. And, I slowly brought my sweetie along too. Gently into lugols, carefully into selenium, salt pushing, coconut oil, Vit C, and so on.

So yesterday, everywhere she went, people were just responding to her. Some knew her travails. Some didn't. Compliments everywhere. Certainly some were a before vs. present picture. But she did have a brightness about her, and people noted.

Now, we do a lot of things in our routine. We take NOTHING for granted. NOTHING. But a few mins ago as we do often, where we round on things, ideas, what's happening, weighing stuff... I brought up the Iodine protocol. She mused a moment and nodded. Could be. It is very difficult and also unwise to be absolute about things like this. She is a very complicated chess game as I say. But we both said, "It might be so". I put a little more into it, thinking that yes, I think there is something here.

Not surprisingly, I floated this to my sister, and 79 year old mother, thinking it would fly over their heads. Months later, came to find they both independently of each other, stayed with it. I had no idea, hence no influence. They both, independently, rage about changes they have felt, experienced. Almost all good. My mother who was feeling anxious and depressed about feeling the onset of Parkinsons like symptoms remarks that she feels 25. She bounces around, smiles, no longer competing with year of accumulation of "stuff".

So wanted to dip in an post this too long story to say thankx to the positive, thinking, weighing, empathetic people here because while I certainly have felt like Rip van Winkle, and waking up from just the stupid brain fog that has plagued me for years, but to walk through yesterday was something that does not happen very often, and it has been a very long time since genuine, unsolicited, honest responses came to her like this. She was perplexed, and thrilled too. I didn't promote a thing. It just happened. My response was "it is all you sweetie". Having endured a very difficult knee replacement that is yet another in a long line of surgeries and pain pain pain Pain PAIN, there she was.... and while we have had to solve soooo many things in the past, and will into the future, most recently there has been this Iodine protocol that just might be yielding results, in a very, very difficult subject. That is absolutely not lost on me...

So, tx everyone. I will be a fixture here, and continue to study and weigh.

And as always, I do not take a damn thing for granted. We've seen how things can become dire, and that has kept me, us, on our guard every day. But I am grateful to have the chance to make things better. Many are not so fortunate. I feel very much so...