My journey and quest for alternative ways of healing started years ago when I was diagnosed with chronic hives which lasted a solid year and left me pretty much bedridden. I had lost the ability to sweat and my body was covered in hives from head to toe (seriously). There were even some days where my eyelids looked like I had been in a boxing match. I was given allergy meds and steroids and while the allergy meds fortunately did not give me any side effects, the steroids made it feel like my bones were being crushed. I purchased books on aromatherapy and looked for alternative means to heal. Eventually it was just time and a change in diet, building up my immune system and reduction of stress levels I guess that made that go away. The slow disappearance of hives and how it happened it still a mystery to me over 20 years later, but I’m grateful it opened me up to alternative medicine.
Funny thing is before this in 2001, I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome that I only purchased one book for…and while in the beginning was rough, I got a hold of my symptoms by not eating certain things. A small list that made my condition really easy to deal with. Over the years, stress, diet, and a host of other things cause my symptoms to get worse and then I was diagnosed with gastritis in 2019, then esophagitis in 2022.
This website it about pushing through all of that, and all the things that have happened since then. What works, what doesn’t and above all learning to accept for now what I can and cannot do and working around it. Basically, becoming a MacGyver in the kitchen and in life.
I hope you join me on this journey and in me documenting my struggles, may you find the strength to get through your own.
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