Day 3 - Serious Health Concerns Averted

Hello Mighty Sun Tzu and all those that have written in support. Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I will reply to a few more posts directly, perhaps later on when I have done some of my tasks for the day (yay - back to normal functioning after a really scary episode this morning).

As you all know I've been having a difficult time with fasting and yesterday was no exception. The difference is this time I made it through into new and (for me) uncharted territory.

Last night was not so good. I had trouble getting tired enough to sleep and throughout the night I woke up feeling slightly dehydrated and nauseas, despite drinking sufficient water. I got up to drink some water around 4am, feeling that my blood pressure was low and my heart laboured. I nearly fainted. This was to be expected, but I didn't improve after the water. My hunger seems to have mostly disappeared, which is a relief, but something much more unnerving was awaiting me in the morning...

This morning I woke up feeling drugged and awful. My heart was pounding out very slow THUDDING beats around about 40-45 BPM. My pressure was so very low that I couldn't get up for about two hours, and when I did I blacked out for half a second. I was having hot and cold chills simultaneously and breaking out in cold sweats. I can stand the detoxification, but what scared me was my heart. My heart felt laboured and wrong. It reminded me of when I went into heart failure after my AMI, or that time I overdosed on largactil. It was pretty scary.

So I thought okay, drink some water and get some circulation happening and try to move around a bit. But when I did I felt weak and dizzy and had to sit/lay back down. I considered resting it off, but then I became so agitated and felt really toxic and gross. So after a bit of rest I managed to take a hot shower to help the circulation. This usually works for me, but I was still having the chills hot and cold, was not feeling very sick. When I brushed my teeth I gagged and I knew I had to get out of the shower before I passed out.

So out of the shower and back to the bed. I did not feel right. The nausea was building and when I burped I could taste bile. I'm convinced I have a severely toxic liver/gall bladder. Or else, the liver is breaking down some REALLY toxic fat. Or something. I began to feel so sick I knew I was just a matter of time before I began to dry retch and throw up bile. Having had this happen many times in the past (not during fasts, but from food poisoning or drugs), I knew that once I start vomiting I will never stop and the only thing that helps is a maxolon injection from the hospital. There was just no way in hell I was going to endure such torture one more time in this life.

In my wisdom I knew the only solution was coconuts. I had an epiphany about them the other day, and they are most amazing in every way. I rediscovered them last year and have been eating/drinking them frequently since then.

So I managed to get to my boyfriend's house (thank GOD he lives next door!!!) and interrupted him from deep meditation and said "Emergency: coconuts. NOW." He was startled and unhappy (as you would be if you were shocked out of a theta brain wave pattern), but could see from the look on my face it was serious, so he kept his mouth shut and obliged.

I heard him pull in the drive just as I was getting up to start puking my guts out. Thankfully he arrived in the nick of time. Thankfully, oh so gratefully, he had chosen good nuts (we can only import mature brown ones here this season). I cut open the soft eye and stuck a straw in. Instant relief. Truly; The Nectar Of The Gods. Absolutely without a doubt the best water in the world is the water of a coconut, be it green or brown.

I completely recovered in minutes. My heart stopped thudding, my blood pressure became normal (well, for me anyway) and my energy came back almost instantly. The physical weakness left over the course of about 20 minutes, while I slowly sipped on two coconuts in succession.

Coconuts may very well have saved my life.

This may seem dramatic to some, but I have been through several near death experiences, my worst being when I had pulmonary oedema and nearly drowned to death in my own bloody fluid from 12 hours of heart failure (I had 20 minutes to live by the time they resuscitated me on the CPAP). I know the limits of my body and what I can and cannot take. It's a miracle I survived two overdoses.

So water-only fasting is not for me, unless it's coconut water. I'm still continuing this fast, seeing as I'm on day three and have relatively no hunger. Even after ingesting the juice of three coconuts so far today, plus a moderate amount of my own home-made coconut milk (blending the minced flesh with water and straining it through my juice press) I haven't experienced hunger pangs like I did the last time I ruined my fast by drinking carrot juice (I know it was the starch). I knew I needed the cream for the fat to cleanse that toxic bile out of my system. And oh boy, yes it did. But thankfully it went down instead of up, and the diarrhoea and gurgling of my whole digestive system has passed now, and I feel much better and more equilibrated.

The interesting thing is that my urine is known to have a much higher osmolality than my blood and it's a concern for me to lose my electrolytes. Coconut water is an isotonic solution, and the nut itself is a first class protein and contains beautiful oils like lauric acid, which assist the body's fat metabolism and does lovely things like killing microbes and inactivating viruses. Both the water and flesh contain a wonderful array of vitamins and minerals. The juice is a sterile water that is fine enough to perform blood transfusions with. It's an amazing medicine and a versatile food.

I just love coconuts. They are the best thing in the world.

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