Daily Share – From Extreme Sports To Extreme Chronic Illness…

Hi Mastin and fellow daily lovers, this is my first time posting on TDL and I wanted to share my story. I am a 34-year-old woman whose life has gone from a life of extreme endurance sports (lots of work, friends and fun) to a life of extreme chronic illness. Once an intense marathon runner and triathlete fighting to get to the finish, I’m now seriously ill fighting to get my life back. Two years ago I fell HARD and became completely debilitated. I am now on a journey to find true health, happiness, joy, and inner peace. My ‘fall’ sounds sudden but it was a gradual grinding of ‘running’ away from emotional pain, fear and low self-worth. This was the foundation that set the stage for a big time fall out and opportunity to really live and love again. An opportunity to face my lack of self-love and excessive self-loathing but to make it really fun, my fight back not only includes an emotional and spiritual path but an INTENSE physical one as well.

I was training for an ironman two years ago while attempting to go back to graduate school and my physical body started to fail. I was gaining weight despite 3 hours a day of exercise and what I thought was healthy eating, losing all my beautiful hair, massive panic attacks that last for days, severe insomnia and unable to stand for long periods of time, and that was just the beginning. I thought I was dying. Over the past two years I have tried conventional medicine, steroids, hormones, you name it and it only made me WORSE. I also got very vague answers as to why I was so incredibly sick. To make a long story short I started to look inward and do some pretty serious internal and long overdue housekeeping. I also realized traditional doctors were not helping and had to take my health into own hands. I will keep this short but my journey is still in process as I still fight to get well.

My best ‘soulmate’ friend happened to get sick at the same time as me (we were living in two totally separate states at the time), she is also an ironman athlete. She has been my rock and basically kept me alive. We are both doing everything we can to get well and expose serious autoimmune disease and how to approach it from a holistic standpoint.

Thanks Mastin for creating The Daily Love, we read it daily and hope someday we can reach out and help as many people as you have!

A TDL Reader

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http://beyouliveyourdream.blogspot.com/ Sarah Noel

What a story! First of all, I was so glad to see that you’re now shifting from “conventional” medicine to holistic. I think traditional/conventional/Western medicines CAN help us, sometimes. But we are really more in control of our health and well-being than most people realize. Our thoughts have SO much power. We do so much to ourselves (good and bad), that we attribute to outside forces. So I was happy that you took your power and took control of your own health and body!

I also believe in holistic medicine. I know several people who have benefitted from it.

Best of luck to you in your continued journey!!
Tedge

I believe in YOU!!!!! Sending you lots & lots of LOVE!!!!!!!!!
Eva

Thank you for sharing your story, this is the story of my son who passed on last October 2012. He was a 6 footer, big and very handsome, so physically fit and an excellent athlete, but his passion was basketball. He was so loved by all who met and knew him. We did not know the extent of his influence on people until his passing, the outpouring of sympathy and condolences from young and old alike was amazing, people we did not even know.

My son was socialising with friends in a bar and while sitting at a table having a drink, some unknown assailant fired at him from the back at close range dispensing 3 slugs of bullets as he retreated. The close range shot damaged his oesophagus, next one got him from the waist down and the slug was lodged in his left thigh and the 3rd grazed his right thigh and bounced off. He passed on with the slug still in his left thigh.

As a result my son was paralysed from waist down since then and he lived bedridden for a year and 4 months before his body finally collapsed. His big frame of body was wasting away before our very eyes, the fluid intake via a tube directly to his stomach could not sustain his body for long. He could not eat normally, as the oesophagus was damaged and was diverted for healing and food or anything else were not allowed to pass through it. The nerves were severed by the bullets eliminating any possibility to regain the feelings of his lower part of the body.

My son was finally released from this bedridden body and move on to a far better dimension 6 days before his 23rd birthday. It was difficult to let go but I find comfort in knowing that he is free now and gone back to the original source of life. It will be a joyous reunion when I finally pass on to rejoin him and all others.

I wish you all the best in your recovery, stay positive and here is an opportunity to heal to an all round life balancing, mind, soul and body.