A massive thank you to my old school chum Coleen Campbell-Peach for sending me the link to Joe Cross and his amazing journey in Fat Sick and nearly dead. I, as you are aware have been caught in the terrible spiral of med's = side effects = more med's. It is a very hard place to be when you are ill and or have other health issues. So his personal journey really interested me for many reasons. The combination of the weight loss to increased stamina and vastly improved health which ultimately improved his whole quality of life is fantastic and something I've been fighting to regain myself for the last couple of years. I made some very serious and potentially life threatening decisions last year based on very powerful drugs I was taking, I chose to take myself off the harsh cancer prevention drug among others to give myself a chance of a quality life. Something I really didn't have at all - in fact my reaction to the drugs were so bad I had no life at all, I could hardly get myself out of bed and dressed on my own. So yes, I understand the risks I have taken ,but I chose to have quality of life over quantity if it comes down to it. So I'm still on the road to getting my quality of life back, I have made great leaps forward but still have a way to go.
The frustration of getting a couple of steps on the road forward to be knocked back 3 or 4 is a tough place to be, especially when trying to maintain a positive outlook on everything.I see this as the final part of me grabbing back my life - not the old one, obviously I'll never be that person again,nor would I want to be, but a new me, and a new life that I have started carving out for myself.It's a simple existence I want, nothing fancy and no chasing of a career - I don't want or need that, I know from my own personal experience that I would rather be able to dedicate my spare time to War on Cancer, spending time with family & friends and going out with my camera than chasing a career and money. The essence of me will always be the same, the drive, the motivation to achieve the hard challenges I set myself, my unwavering desire -- no, my need to try and help make someone else's life better, more bearable. To get the biggest satisfaction and a feeling of calm knowing I am doing my tiny little bit towards those goals, this is who I really am and who I'll always be.
So from tomorrow Monday Jan 28th I will be doing a juice de-tox in the hope I get somewhere near the results Joe got. I plan on starting it for a couple of weeks and will then decide whether to carry on for a further couple of weeks. I have everything to gain from this and absolutely nothing to lose.....I will do a short daily diary to update on my progress from how I'm coping to any improvements I'm getting. This is going to be a great experience for sure! As you can see in the photo, there's plenty of vitamins, nutrients and goodness going into the de-tox juice.
The juice recipe Coleen has sent me is packed to the rafters with vitamins and nutrients which are going to give my poor battered body a massive boost. For anyone who has read any of the blog in the last 12 months will know the health problems I've been having with my bladder, all the UTI and kidney issues, the 11 solid months on antibiotics and the couple of surgical procedures I've had in the last 6 months to try and eradicate it all. Not only am I still on antibiotics and still with my bladder consultant, but I am now under another consultant who is a gastro/liver specialist.
I have been suffering with terrible abdominal distention for months, I thought it was all tied into the problems with my bladder/lower pelvic area. It's hard to localize things sometimes like for instance, I can't remember a time now where I haven't had lower back ache and flank pains - sometimes the pains are dull and other times they are quite cutting, bearing in mind I've been seeing consultants for the last couple of years with my lower pelvic problems. So I didn't think the abdominal distention was anything other than another problem connected to my ongoing issues. I did have to have an urgent consult with my bladder consultant just before Xmas and I asked him to do something about the distention because it was really getting to be too much, it feels like all my internal organs are crushed against my rib cage and there's not enough room for everything. I feel sick most of the time ( I was blaming the antibiotics - could still be that of course ), I am partially sick nearly everytime I eat....I can actually feel the food or fluid getting popped back out of my stomach back into my eophagus and there it will stay until I get up. I can in actual fact carry on doing whatever I am up to and as long as I don't stand up, it will stay there. It is very uncomfortable, but I can leave it, but as soon as I stand up I have to go be sick. It feels like there is a tightened belt or stuck in a vise all the way round my middle around the area where you last rib is, and something, I don't know just behind my lower left rib feels like it is been forced to bend in half and wrap around my last rib - uncomfortable times indeed.
My latest consultant is sending me for a CT scan - I'm waiting for a date, he did say just like my GP that all this abdominal problems could in actual fact be caused from the long term use of the antibiotics, because they kill off the good bacteria in the stomach and intestines as well as the bad, they will have killed off many strains completely and will have decimated many others.So until the scan it is unclear what is going on.
So by doing the de-tox juice I can only be helping my poor body, I'm going to be piling tons of vital nutrients and vitamins into it and no other crap - fingers crossed all the cleansing of the liver, kidneys etc will sort out the balance my body hasn't got and hopefully it will help re-address some of the issues the drugs I've been on have caused.
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Until next time
Tracy
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