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A couple of months ago,I had a personal loss that made me rethink my priorities, as losses will do. In fact there was a”perfect storm” of events. It all started when my daughter decided to do a documentary about the cancer patients she helps with Covering All Care for Kids, her non profit. Without exception, in the last 3-4 years, everyone’s cancer came back. I found this shocking because every kid I’d ever known growing up had lived (and is living still!). I couldn’t help obsessing about “why”. Almost immediately, my daughter got these gnarly bruises, like she’d been beaten, all over her body. Literally, 6 to 7 thousand $ later, (one blood test at St. John’s Hospital, just a blood draw to check her platelets, cost 1500K!) she was diagnosed with an idiopathic blood disorder. Idiopathic means they don’t know where it comes from or why, you fucking idiot. The third incident, the loss of her father, has been more devastating than I ever imagined.
Anyway, I told you to purge the “pain” (ha-ha), I went on a rigorous cleanse, which I’m still on. I have to chronical in a separate blog my daily progress, which has been crazy. I have never been on any diet where I could have unlimited potatoes, oatmeal and rye bread. This is a diet for cancer patients, I reiterate, because I find it too good to be true. Ofcourse, I say this now that the nausea, like I was pregnant, the achy muscles and tight joints from detoxing, have subsided (at least at the moment). If weight loss is what you’re after, this is a fabulous way to go because you are floating, you are so full of goodness 24/7. Really! If it’s prevention or living toxin-free and without carcinogens, this is it. Trust me, it is NOT for the faint of heart! It is time intensive because you have to prepare and eat every hour of the day! (Did I mention coffee enema’s 3X a day? No?) And, you have to give yourself an enema 3x’s a day. Yes, you do feel lighter and younger after but that doesn’t diminish the fact that you are sticking a hose up your ass! All of this made me get more in touch with my spiritual side and I decided, to get through this,I would have to “up” my spiritual practice orn I wouldn’t be able to keep it up. It’s funny, even though you feel better and you know everything going in your mouth is beyond healthy, there is till that little voice telling you it’s ok to be bad. The other major issue, ifyou’re like me, is you can kiss parties, Thanksgiving and Xmas good-bye, in terms of eating and hanging out…the temptations are too great.
With all this going on, and me packing an igloo full of food and drink every time I leave the house, I decided to go back to school to get my master’s degree. I’m getting my certification in drug and alcohol counseling and I’m getting my master’s in Health Education, because after the last 3 months, a lot of people need education, me included. It’s been a LONG time since I enrolled in anything academic. You’d think that with the internet the application/registration process would have become streamlined and easy. HELL, NO! There are still the long lines, people in advisory capacities that know next to nothing. It was as though I was from a foreign country. In fact, I felt sorry for foreigners. Nothing was synching up! So when I realized I would probably have to go back to school a sixth time to get some answers, I was dismayed and second guessed my decision. I decided I had to go to my department major, Health Sciences, to get some advice. (The night before, I happened to see on the website that I may need to take the GRE, and I about keeled over!) I had not signed up for this!!!!! Of course the person I was meeting, was not there. Before long, a very young, jovial man bounced in to the office and jokingly asked me if I was his 2:30.I opened my mouth to say something and he held out his hand, “I’m Mario.”
It turns out Mario aka The Messiah, was the head of the Dept, a PHD, and possibly the only helpful person on my journey to date. Keep you posted!
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