Miss Helfinger
Meet Donna. Unyquity is helping her shrink an enormous tumor preventing her from eating or drinking. This blows my mind.
This is a true Salon conversation. Donna IS a rock star.
http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1416055
This was powerful for me to read today. I've been sick for a couple of days - headache, dizzy, nauseous, on the deck. I've been remembering when this first happen, five years ago and I was like that every day, all day, for several months. I was miserable. I've come a long way since that and I'm about to do the incurables program (very similar to what Donna is doing) once I'm done moving.
Sitting on the bathroom floor today, I said to the man, "I'm so grateful because I remember when I felt like this everyday - and yet, there's been so much time gone by now that I've felt better that I can't remember the last time I felt this poorly." Bingo - that's what my friend Kathy calls, noticing the 'gone-ness' of something'.
When you first become chronically ill, when it goes to that next level of the video game, you experience it on a whole body/mind level. You truly cannot function. The best way to describe it to someone that's not experienced it - is to think about how they remember feeling about 2 days into having a bad flu. Your body/mind function is incredibly low, you feel tingly - like you're not in your body and certainly wouldn't drive. You can't focus and you're sure that this train is going downhill quickly. People with maladies like CFS, Lupus, Fibro and many others - feel this way allllll the time, myself included. It's like being trapped in a nightmare, quite honestly. You remember that there was a time when you didn't feel this way - but you have no idea how to really get back there because you cannot get ahold of your brain to figure it out. Seriously.
So the next level of that video game - is when it becomes the 3-5 days of flu. Incredible imbalance and pain - including the knee-jerk both ends of your body have toward expelling whatever ails it. Hence - eating or hydrating become an issue. Feeling like that all day long - everyday - now that's a whole nuther level.
This is an awe-inspiring illustration of what that looks like and how this woman is changing it. Being as I'm about to do a very similar program to what she's doing - I'm thrilled to read this. Perhaps a few of you will be kind enough to take a minute and let her know what a rock star she is!