5 Years Ago and Healing Highlights
On this day, 5 years ago in March of 2018, I woke to blurred vision, which led my husband to take me to the ER, which led to an MRI which showed I had recently had a stroke. Just the night before this blurred vision, I was in the hospital under anaesthesia having a lung biopsy due to 8 months of walking pneumonia and an unusually high level of eosinophils (white blood cells) in my blood. With every pharmaceutical, every antibiotic, every steroid, I was not thriving more, I was being led deeper into sickness. The self-education began before the stroke, but the reason for my sickness and my path for healing wasn't clear. A year later in March 2019, the confidence that was lacking stared me in the face as I watched my live blood cells interacting with each other under a powerful microscope displayed on a computer screen--all of my white blood cells were desperately fighting to clear my body of a severe systemic fungal and parasite infection. Our "health" system tested me fo