MY
DECENT TO HELL AND BACK
I just
started working at a prestigious company downtown, with a good salary and
advantages to go with it. The Job
consisted of a lot of brainstorming to come up with better ideas to organize
the way things were done, and was a work in progress. I was really happy to
finally land a decent job, and so was my family. Unfortunately my Mother was sick in the hospital
when I started working, and two weeks later she died of pneumonia (she was sick
for over 14yrs, & her immune system was weak). This is when my personal Hell began, in March
2008!!
My work was
stressful, and all I could think of was my Mom, she was also my best friend as
well. I couldn’t talk to her anymore, and we would talk every day, all I wanted
to do was cry. This is when I went to see a doctor, and I was prescribed
antidepressants. After about a year has passed and I started having pain in my
legs and back, but I had fallen a couple of years back, and thought it was due
to that. It became so painful to walk, that for a 15min. walk to work I would
sometimes take a Taxi. Afterwards I lost my job, but not due to the way I was
feeling, but due to restructuration.
I found a Doctor to follow me; she did blood
tests, an MRI, and a photographic test of my Bones. Nothing was found, yet regardless of pain
medication taken I still was in pain, and didn’t feel well overall. The Doctor
moved to a private sector, and I had no family Doctor, therefore when I was
having bad pain I went to a clinic.
THE DIAGNOSIS
One day in
September, 2010, I went to my Local Hospital, and deep down I wished they would
find out what was wrong with me. When I got there I was in bad shaped,
constipated from the un-inflammatory meds. And an X-Ray showed that my Pelvis
was broken and I was in a lot of pain. I had gone to this Hospital more than
once for my pain, and the only thing they did was prescribe me pain medication
and go home.
One Doctor
there decided to take my dossier and figure out what was wrong, she told me I
was anemic for over a year and my pelvis was broken for no reason. She decided
to do more tests, which included blood and a 24hr urine test. With the results
of the tests and two specialists to help her find the right diagnosis, I was
finally told I had Multiple Myeloma, which meant nothing to me at that
moment. I was told the disease is in my
blood and that it destroys my bones, also it was treatable but not
curable. I found out later it was Cancer
and I had to go through chmiotheraphy. Wow,
I wanted to know, but not this!!
THE TREATMENTS
I was
immediately referred to a Doctor in another Hospital, had a bone biopsy done,
and a series of different kinds of X-Rays.
The diagnosis was confirmed and I started chemo right away and this for
3 months, at two times a week.
Afterwards she told me since I am younger than most (46) that have this
disease, that we would go the aggressive route.
I would have a stem cell transplant, from my own cells. I would have an aggressive form of chemo
first, and then a pic line put in with two tubes. They would take out my own stem cells, and
then treat them, and they would be put back in me. Wow, technology today!! The treatment would consist of one month stay
at the hospital in a controlled environment, since my immune system would be at
zero with more aggressive chemo. This
was the worst part of the treatment; I had to stop smoking…and one month
stay…like in a prison. The pain of this
treatment was HELL, stomach pain, nausea, loss of hair etc…
I could
have gotten out earlier yet I had very bad diarrhea every day, this had to pass
first, and I got 2 stomach scans to see if everything was all right. Everything
was fine and I was out after 3 weeks. My Myeloma was stable at the moment but
not in remission yet.
I had a
talk with my boyfriend of 12 yrs that life was short, and we never know when we
are going to go, yet with my experience, I might have 5yrs or more, no one can
say since each case is different.
Therefore I told him that I would like it that we finally get Married,
and my dream is to take a real Vacation by plane on a Beach somewhere. My Mom
always wanted to go on a Vacation but never had the money or health to go, I
wished that I wouldn’t have to wait until it was too late.
Well after
the treatments that ended in March of 2011, we set a date to get married in
July at home in our back yard. Luckily enough we even got money for our
Honeymoon, which we took in Cuba at Varedero at the Sandals Hotel. The Wedding
was epic and the Vacation a real dream….everything was perfect except I had to
wear a wig.
After all
the treatments I had my Cancer was still there and still needed treatment, so
another treatment was started around September 2011 until the present, until in
remission (Revlimid with dex). I still
wish to take another Vacation this year, hopefully I will be feeling better to
go.
HOW ALTERNATIVE HEALING CAME ABOUT
I then
started to look for other ways to help me Heal and get better, to finally take that other Vacation. This is when I first found this site, which
sounds incredible, and gives a free Healing Trial of Mind Power over Healing;
I will use
this Blog to give out more information on how this will help me, as well as
other methods….thinking of Yoga next, Occult Magic, etc… I will be giving out the sites I use, and
whatever free info and E-books that I will find. I hope that you will follow me in my
experiments, and encourage me as well.
Until Next Time....
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