I barely know what day it is today, but I am alive!
Here are the updates for this week . . .
Mold:
The first phase (and hopefully last phase) of our home mold remediation is 90% complete. We didn’t have a lot of mold in our house to begin with, but my doctor has us doing some items to make our home more conducive to my healing. Basically, no homes have zero mold spores, and the trick is figuring out how much mold someone in my situation can tolerate and be well. Every mold expert has a different opinion, and my doctor has his own opinion, and that leaves us with a lot of opinions and not a lot of facts. The mold experts have basically told us that this is an emerging field and the science changes every day, so what we know now could change by tomorrow. Well, great! That makes it super easy for us lay people to know what to do and make decisions. And, by decisions, I mean like 50 decisions per day about just this topic. It is truly overwhelming even on the simplest days.
On Tuesday evening, we got the okay to move back into our home. They are still doing work in one or two rooms. Once they clear those rooms, then we will wait about 4 weeks to do another, different test to determine if that test also states that the house has even less mold spores than the original test. If it does, then we get to move on for now. If it doesn’t have less mold spores than previous testing (even though that testing indicated not very many spores), then we will need to do more work on our home.
All of the companies/professionals we have had in our home over the last 4 weeks have told us that our house is built really well. Everything they uncover in their work looks brand new even thought it was built 10 years ago. So, that is encouraging. I guess once we get it to a point that it is conducive to my healing, we can never move. I am joking, I think. Haha!
We wanted to be out of my parents’ home by Wednesday evening since my Dad was coming home for work. We wanted to give him his house back. We were able to move our stuff back home and clean my parents’ house by late Wednesday afternoon, so it was close. We may need to move back in at some point if more work needs to be done on our home, but we won’t know that for at least 5-6 weeks. We are truly grateful that we have a place to stay if and when we need it.
Healing Plan:
We also had an appointment with my main doctor (the functional medicine chiropractor) on Tuesday afternoon. I have been in more physical pain and have had extreme fatigue and nausea over the last 10 days due to my treatment, but the pain, fatigue, and nausea have been manageable. When I reported the increased pain, fatigue, and nausea to my doctor, I made it clear that I would just deal with the side effects. If I have to endure unpleasant side effects (beyond my normal symptoms) in order to heal, then I will do it without hesitation. He then told me that he was going to make some adjustments to my protocol and increase the support for my liver and kidneys in order to try to keep the side effects from getting worse.
I reminded him that the pain and other side effects have been manageable, to which he said, “Without a better way to say it, you are a Badass. You are someone who keeps going regardless of what I throw at you and the circumstances involved, and it is my job to slow you down as needed. I have some patients who I need to push and some who I need to slow down, and you are one who I need to make sure to slow down when needed. You have had to learn to endure a lot of physical pain, and that is not necessary right now.”
(This doctor and our therapist have both told me in the last 3 weeks that I am a Badass. I guess I should listen to them.)
I also finished my 30 days of full dose treatment for SIBO in the midst of all of the other happenings. We have now moved on to Babesia (parasite). I have to start slow on the treatment and work my way up to a full dose (as usual), so this part will take at least 2 months assuming that my body can learn to tolerate the treatment and continue with it.
Here is an update on the plan (and a list of all of the other items my doctor asked me to complete):
1) Get body as prepared as possible for treatment (support organs that are struggling the most)
2) Treat the following–
a) Bacteria/Parasites: SIBO, Babesia, Lyme, Bartonella
b) Mycoplasma
c) Mold toxicity
d) Heavy Metal toxicity (Thallium)
e) Yeast
f) Viruses (Epstein-Barr Virus, etc.)
3) Determine which body systems have improved from original test results and which need more attention, and then treat the remaining items that are abnormal in my lab results. (We won’t know the extent of this until possibly years from now.)
Other items my doctor asked me to complete during treatment for the items listed above:
check radon pump in housecomplete home mold testing- complete home mold remediation (if needed)–90% complete with initial stage
get cone beam scan by a holistic/biological dentist to check for underlying oral infectionget oral cavitation surgery (if needed)complete neurofeedback sessions
I feel good about how much we have accomplished in such a short time from the list of other items to complete.
Not gonna lie, though. It has been a real shitshow in our neck of the woods. I guess I can be proud that we are holding our own in the midst of the shitshow and continuing on while also maintaining jobs and all of our other regular adulting responsibilities?
Brutal. No clear source of mold in our home, so no clear answers. Too many decisions. Physical side effects from treatment. Physical and emotional exhaustion.
Beautiful. A home that was built well. Supportive parents and a place to stay if and when it is needed. Completed SIBO treatment. Other completed tasks assigned by my doctor. Being told I am a Badass by another practitioner on my healing team. Calm in the midst of chaos. My loving husband. Being back in our home. Holding our own in the midst of the shitshow and continuing on.
Just another day of . . . This Brutiful Life: The Brutal & Beautiful Moments of My Life.
This Brutiful Life 