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I had a pretty rough night last night. One thing I forgot to take into consideration is adjusting to food. I have not eaten bread and I’m pretty sure yesterdays Especial de Jalisco put me in a bad flare up. I’m feeling better today. I’m going to need to adjust my diet accordingly. I want to eat all of the delicious food, but my body is not quite ready for this. However, today is my first treatment! Send all the healing energy! 💫 I found a great website that put the info on NK cells in layman’s terms. Eat, Meditate, (HEAL)th.💚

https://www.bdmswellness.com/health-guide/16/What%20is%20NK%20Cell%3F.html

Here is a link on how the NK Cells will work directly on EBV

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1009868&fbclid=IwAR3ijWSvNTRPvDg9YpWJ74sHYNPUtgccu1Dn15i1C8P0T_WwtI0rEVz09_Q

I think it’s important to share some of the symptoms that I have experienced in my EBV journey. This will also help me as I reflect back on where I was pre and post “Stemmies”🤩. In the previous blogs I mentioned I had Mono twice. Mono is the ultimate fatigue. I don’t test regularly for mono(as far as bloodwork), but my NMD believes that with my high titers for EBV there is a good chance I’ve continually had Mono. So fatigue and feeling like you’ve had the plague before the plague is my jam. It’s a constant feeling of am I contagious? So that’s fun. Insert global pandemic and well everyone is feeling that… well, okay not everyone. Lol. With EBV I constantly feel like I have a low grade fever. I am fatigued and generally look forward all day to laying back down. I cancel plans and at this point people stop inviting me. Lol. I believe EBV has affected my eyesight as it came out of nowhere and I now wear🤓. I’ve got that insomnia that helps me with my research. 😂 With the Rona I had shortness of breathe and lost some of my hair. This should grow back with the stem cells 💪🏼 Plus, Rona added more fatigue so that’s a blast. Now the biggest overall symptom is the constant brain fog. As a teacher I was constantly thinking five steps ahead and juggling many things at the same time. Now I forget what I’m saying mid sentence. My words feel jumbled and I just do not feel like myself. I have zero energy to work out and kettlebells and yoga are missing me as much as I am missing them. They told me so. I have felt depression and anxiety mostly due to feeling like I’m never going to get better coupled with the constant trying to explain to people that I don’t feel well (when I look fine). It’s exhausting. Just overall spending my days wanting to lay down. Okay the symptoms are documented. No more Debbie Downer it’s about to be Awesome Autumn (she is loading…🤩) It’s all about to change.

Day 2: So, it’s a 2 hour time difference as they are on CST. I had bloodwork at 9AM (7 my time). They (the company that I’m doing Stem Cells with) provided a list of taxi drivers. I called one of them. He picked me up and drove me to the Lab. I was curious how this would work out as my Spanish is muy poco at best and oddly enough I’m wanting to speak Thai which is bizarre because even after living in Thailand a year my Thai is very limited. In fact I do recall trying to speak Spanish in Thailand. Ha! Maybe I’ve always had brain fog 🤣. In any case the taxi cab said he would wait for me while I got the bloodwork. Wow! That was super sweet. Bloodwork was completed and back to my hotel for the included breakfast. I tried to explain in my Spanglish that I am a vegetarian and pretty sure I told him I was a vegetable. 😂 He said, “oh, I will make you the Especial de Jalisco!” It was delicious! Lots of resting today and a small walk to the lake. I am staying in Lake Chapala. 20 miles South of Guadalajara. The lake is 2 blocks from my hotel. It is the largest lake in Mexico. 50 miles by 10 miles. I’m so grateful to be here. I sat outside at a coffee shop and ate a fruit salad. I was so caught up in my feels. The slow paced life, the smiles, the joy they have have without the need for much. I saw a little boy collecting cans so I struck up a conversation with him. Turns out he was 10 years old (I thought more like 5 or 6) and yet there he was collecting cans and singing while doing so. It all reminds me of my year in Thailand. This is healing in of itself. I often feel that I don’t fit into the American culture. I’m sure I was Thai or Hispanic in a past life because this feels so comforting and peaceful. I’m creating my own Eat, Pray love … it’s called Eat, Meditate, health. Tomorrow is my first treatment.

Ahhh… I’m glad you asked! Before venturing to do this state of the art medical treatment, I have tried many different healing modalities. I have tried: Accupunture, Reiki, Emotion code, Therapy, Massages, Essential oils, Herbs and Tinctures from my NMD, IV blood Ozone therapy, Vitamin IV Therapy, Myers cocktails IV, High vitamin C, restricted diet (limited gluten, sugar, alcohol, dairy and no meat -personal preference), monolaurin and L-lysine, rest and water (per every primary care Dr-thx 🤦‍♀️), HOCATT sauna. While many of these options made me feel significantly better and I would have days where I thought I was in the clear only to be followed by an even bigger flare up. I’ve jumped in support groups and found so many struggling with EBV for most of their lives. Why!? It’s frustrating as it is the underlying cause for so many illnesses. It’s not talked about and it’s so prevalent. Only recently due to “Rona” that they are studying EBV as most humans that have suffered significantly from Rona have high titers for EBV. This is all discovered via bloodwork. I will point out that your primary care Dr does not want to test for it. “Everyone has EBV” is the common response we get. For the the record, I am not opposed to western medicine. I have just found through my parents health changes and that of my own… they simply do not have time allotted in their schedule to get to the root of the problem. Luckily for me with EBV they can’t prescribe antibiotics as this is a virus vs bacteria. I’m clearly resistant to antibiotics anyways. In one of my support groups a member stated she went down to Mexico for Stem Cell treatment. This caught my attention as I’ve been heavily researching how I can help my mom with her memory loss. The insomnia really pays off! I have learned so much about the healing benefits of Stem Cell Therapy which helps everything inflammation related. So, basically everything. Hips, knees, shoulders, EBV, Lymes, MS, Crohns, brain fog, dementia, Hashimotos, Long Covid, cancer…. Just to name a few. I will discuss the stem cell procedure I will be getting in the next blog. For now… I’m on my first flight from TUS-PHX. I’m fairly fatigued from the preparation to get to this point and a day of travel does not sound like what my body needs, but I’m so close to a new Aut that I have tears of joy and relief. Several hours later….I’m here in Guadalajara 🎶 ¡Buenas noches!

Let me take you back …. Wayyy back when I was a wee little Aut. I seemed to always get strep throat. Freshman year of high school a family member died in a car accident and I was incredibly upset. I ended up with mononucleosis. I missed my second semester of high school. The fatigue was not something I could forget! I used to run track and cross country back in those days and I remember always feeling so exhausted…I know what you’re thinking… Aut you were running… that’s why you were exhausted. Nope. Turns out I have had Epstein Barr Virus or EBV my entire life. I’m not alone in this as 95% of the population has this virus, but most are able to keep it dormant. Although, I did not know this at the time. Well, as life continued on after high school I certainly had bouts of healthy times, but always managed to have strep throat. Now if you are familiar with strep throat… then you are familiar with a million rounds of antibiotics. Talk about a gut punch. Fast foward to me becoming an elementary teacher. More specifically first grade. AKA the best grade!!! Also, It is the strep throat build-your-immune-system grade. 🤣 I recall getting strep throat so many times that during my first 2 weeks of the school year I taught them how to NOT sneeze or cough on their teacher. In one year I had strep throat repeatedly for 4 rounds of antibiotics and at one point the pharmacist said, “oh your Drs bringing out the big guns!” I thought this was odd, but I was so naive and allowed the Drs in their 7 mins of time to keep on prescribing more antibiotics… because the 5th round is probably going to be the one. 🤦‍♀️ Then the Dr suggested I get my tonsils out. Made complete sense to me. WRONG! If I were to have regret in this life, it would be getting my tonsils out. This was 2015. One if the most painful experiences of my life and I lost so much weight it was terrifying. Then I got strep throat…. AGAIN! You have got to be kidding me! Nope, I’m not. Wish I was. True story. Then bronchitis and constant colds which I had never experienced before. Turns out those tonsils serve a purpose. Why are we so quick to remove body parts? Tonsils, gall bladder, prostate gland. I digress. That’s a story for another blog. In 2018, I had arrived back from a year in Thailand to go on a journey of supporting my father through his prostate cancer. The insomnia kicked in immediately. I was not about to lose my father from this planet. I searched to the end of the internet. I’m telling you I nearly found every remedy under the sun. I do my best research during insomniac evenings. Thankfully, with a loving community, Drs open to different ways both allopathic and eastern medicine, my dad was never sick. Not even a day with stage 4 prostate cancer. However, I noticed pretty quickly that I was feeling pretty miserable and fatigued. I tried a new school to teach at and found out that was very misaligned with my previous years of being an educator. Every day at that place made me sick full of anxiety. Stress was at an all time high. Insert Mono AGAIN! Mono in my 40s… whattt!? Turns out the underlying cause for Mono is EBV. Mono is miserable. There is no other way ti describe it. I was completely unaware of this virus (EBV) that had been wreaking havoc on my body for my entire existence. Then in October I got the Rona. I have so much to say on this… more blogs to come. Needless to say, I’ve been sick with reactivated EBV for 2 years and 8 months. It’s an incredibly long time to be sick. For the first time in a very long time, I have hope.