Doozy

Well, today was the best day ever, until the end part. I went from 6 am to 3 pm not needing ANY pain medicine, which is a long time for me. Yay! I tolerated the 3 bags of IV fluid meds well, no nausea, no headache, then I was going to get two quick shots before I left for pain relief in my neck and migraines. Little did I know what all that entailed. The treatment is called prolozone and has kept people from needing invasive disc and cartilage joint surgeries. Amazing stuff. This may not sell you on it though...

It started with 6 numbing shots, which should have clued me in this wasn't going to be quick and painless, right? No! I'm an optimist when it comes to my health, don't ya know?! I wouldn't still be alive and trying if I wasn't! Then, he stuck a needle deep down between my vertebrae in my neck and filled the area near my nerves with a large volume of fluid full of I don't know what all-- folic acid, a mild steroid to keep from excess inflammation from the shot, and several things I don't remember now followed by ozone gas. The cocktail heals tissues and draws blood to the area for pain relief and healing. The first shot on the left made me feel a little numb in my arm and warm, but ok. The second on the right made me feel numb, then super hot, then dizzier than I've ever been in my life and like I was on some kind of drug. I think the fluid pressed on a nerve to my ear because I could audibly hear the fluid going in, the bubbling of the ozone gas, then my world flopped completely upside down. I had no equilibrium at all.

When it was over, I knocked a cup of water over trying to move it and threw up until I was dry heaving and sweating profusely. When I finally realized opening my eyes made me cascade into a whole new round of nausea, I blindly climbed my way up on the exam table and tried to will the dizziness away. Someone brought me a blanket and turned off the light and I laid there for an hour or so, I think, and wondered what I signed myself up for?

It passed though and I'm better now. I'm 2/4 on throwing up after treatments. Not fun. I think I felt progress today before that last treatment, which is fast. Last time it took 1.5 weeks before I noticed anything positive. No pain, no gain, right?

Super exciting good news for me is that my doc wants to carry my soap in his clinic. He wants activated charcoal and bentonite clay soap for his patients to aid in detox. I am so happy! His office workers all love it and want some too. So I need to get my website done and more soap made. If I could apply sales of this soap to defray treatment costs...ahh what a blessing. Something I love to do for something I desperately need and can't afford to do. This could be really great!

P.S. Isn't my niece hilarious?