Re: Family Opposition Rather Than Support

Mr BBQ,

Bless your heart! I have great empathy for you. May peace come to you and may you be granted wisdom to walk your individual path toward full and complete restoration of your health.
I am very sorry your family members are the way they are. It's not easy.
Through much experience I have come to realize that unless one has walked this arduous path along the valley of the shadow of death they cannot come close to fathoming what we are talking about and experiencing. Just take for example the sleep deprivation....that one symptom.....that in itself cannot even be fathomed by those who have never endured a body that doesn't sleep for 3 days and 3 nights and then maybe can sleep one hour and then the cycle repeats itself.
Share and vent all you need where you feel safe to do that, if you have that luxury, if not, then try just writing it down and getting it out. It's very difficult not to have an empathetic ear, to "fight with the medical establishment (talking allopathic and alternative practitioners alike)" atop of all going through for just basic needs and to understand, very difficult to wade through all the conflicting opinions on every aspect of how to care for oneself from what is the best diet, supplements, testing, compounded medications, ad infinitum, to just have strength to make a meal for yourself, etc, etc, etc ,etc

Today I heard a female journalist being interviewed and what she said I felt was so applicable to ones like us:

She said: "If I were to leave someone during their most difficult time, that has implications for WHO I AM."

We are not responsible for how others perceive us although we bear that atop of all the other things. I am sorry for your hurt, pain and anguish physically, emotionally and psychologically and the fact that you have to cope with feelings of being unsupported, mis-understood, questioned and abandoned by those you would think would be there for you no matter what.
May you be infused with hope and goodness and mercy come your way SOON.

If it were all in your head then wouldn't it make sense one could WILL themselves well.