STILL FIGHTING BACK AGANST MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

 

Here I am, still pushing to keep Multiple Sclerosis from making any other decisions over my life or my will to keep fighting back. You kept coming with your random and not so random symptoms, from head to toe, from deep within and with outward manifestations Thankfully, I will continue to fight back as I  push forward toward my passions and purposes that I was put here to do. Even from this seated position, MS will not win. Twenty two years since being diagnosed, and it has diminished the use of my legs to almost useless. The key word for me there is "almost" though. I still have feelings in my legs.....but no strength and I've lost a lost of muscle. I'm still fighting back. I eat a mostly plant based diet and have not eaten pork or beef for about 30 years. We use a motorized foot bike, and I do arm and hand strengthening exercises every day and I take quite a few vitamins and other supplements.

Although I've been confined to my home and a have used a wheelchair for nearly 8 years, I am still fighting for my cure and quality of life that was viciously taken away over time by this illness. My will is STRONG; and I am determined that I WILL WALK AGAIN and believe I WILL BE CURED!

Thank you for reading this part of my life story. Please pray for me.

http://www.gofundme.com/ANewDayForIce

MIRACLE STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION!

Today, I feel more hopeful than usual about my future living with Multiple Sclerosis. I also believe in miracles. Whatever way that miracle comes, whether in how I eat, supplements I take, or the touch from the Masters hand, it must come. After living with this illness for 22 years since being diagnosed, and the more than 24 years of not having a name for the symptoms, I deserve relief. It is unconscionable that people in my situation who have not done well with Disease Modifying Drugs, must continue on living in a space between remaining hopeful and at times on the brink of despair. I took four of the DMD's and the effects of one of them, the first one I took effected my thyroid.  Now I have had to take medicine for the last 20 years to regulate its function. That will most likely be for the rest of my life.

I pray for relief from the symptoms of MS, and my need to be independent again. In my research over so many years, there was only one other therapy that I felt was useful to fight for, get and possibly be the relief and maybe cure I needed. There was a treatment that gave limited temporary relief. In the back of my mind, in keeping a vision of where I felt I was going and continuing on a journey to make this life better, I'm willing to try almost anything. This life journey has been nothing but a crash course with many struggles to overcome.  To continue striving to keep in a balance is one thing. Remaining at peace is made so complex to stay somewhat normal. Being chronically sick is not normal. Sometime ago, there was an article that was quite alarming, but the conclusion is believable. It stated that by 2050, almost everyone that exists on earth will be living with some type of illness.

The human body can only take but so much with bombardments of chemicals, toxins, pollutants, disease and everything we come in contact with daily. From the time we awaken each day, everything we put in and on our bodies begins our toxic intake. Water has fluoride and other chemicals we put on our largest organ, our skin. Then, we brush our teeth with fluoride toothpaste. Then we eat food with who knows what's in it or on it. Contact with toxicity continues during the day. Just think about it!

Stem cell transplantation is a concept whose time has come. America has the best healthcare system in the world. In dealing with Multiple Sclerosis, the costs associated with just trying to stay "well" with a disease that has no cure and so hard to manage is astronomical. Costs can be up to $69,000 and more per year. If restrictions were removed for stem cell transplants, Americans with MS wouldn't have to go to foreign countries to have the procedure done. It just doesn't that make sense. My prayers and focus  remain in place as the anchor to keeping the purpose of my journey for a better outcome in sight. Still, this is the closest to a "cure" I'll probably see in my lifetime. Although being 57 is somewhat old to some, there could still be about 15 years or more I can still enjoy somewhat symptom free and continue on a more progressive course absent of Multiple Sclerosis.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11442985/Miracle-stem-cell-therapy-reverses-multiple-sclerosis.html





Until next time, may GOD bless you. TBC - To Be Continued...........Soon!

You know, when you have been doing so much, the statistics may even actually show it. Like doing something so much for a period of time, a short period period of time can even be worse.
Since 2008, someone has been on a particular social medium, and they have posted, almost 94,000 entries, have a little more than 2,000 people in either direction, almost 400 pictures/videos and a few other categories. Dear LORD, if all this has been going on, where have I been? I'd love to have some time that didn't matter to some. Maybe you're already wealthy enough to not feel the need to do something else to elevate yourself, or to elevate mankind. I sure don't know!

I do understand. I'm trying to figure out a better life than this disease Multiple Sclerosis has stolen for the last 21 years. That's in addition to the over 20 years before of not knowing. I am still trying to figure out some things also. How to get a wheelchair lift or a ramp for the front of my home and a handicapped mobility vehicle so I can drive again. More than the aids for the front of the house, the ideal situation is to move to another home that is handicapped accessible inside and out. At 56, with a disease like MS, it's more important now than ever to "KEEP ON PUSHIN". Dear LORD, has all this has really been going on since I lost my ability to walk, along with the financial collapse of that time exploded? I'd love to have some time that didn't matter to some. Maybe you're already wealthy enough to not feel the need to do something else to elevate yourself to elevate mankind. I sure don't know!

This said, even with ones wealth, if that is the case, that's a lot of down time.....or is it up time? It's a lot of time one can't get back, and that's for sure. If I ever had so many leisurely hours it took to amass such a portfolio, I'D BE RICH! and would have been long before computers. SIX YEARS OF BLISS, would be all I needed to be rid of the stagnation of this disease. Even if the wheelchair still existed, (preferably not), and a few other correctable things were removed I'd show you the value of a life not obsessed with too much of some things other people value....how not to waste so much time.....HEALTH and TIME! TIME and HEALTH! It all equals wealth that I and no many others appreciate the value of....even before a diagnosis.

TBC - TO BE CONTINUED

Maybe soon, but have to get back to the aforementioned things I just need to capture and recapture......and more!

GOD BLESS!

If it is thought by anyone, that there is any sense in finding that chaos is the best option while living their time on earth.........STOP!.......

Negative thoughts continue leading to the killing of thousands worldwide everyday. Read and listen to the real news .....think  about something outside the box. Do something outside the box than we usually do.......

  THINK BETTER,

DO BETTER!

 

  

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

              

CARTER G. WOODSON

Do you know the true origin and premise that a Black History Month needed to be created nearly 100 years ago? Well, here is a link to the truth created by Carter G. Woodson the Father of Black History Month www.asalh.org

This is the last week of Black History Month, winding down to where Black History is not thought of much until the next year , if at all. This topic is not just meant to be a few days of experiences in the shortest month of February where we know only has 28 days, except every 4th year which  has 29. It is and should be addressed by everyone 365 days a year, blacks, whites and everyone else. No one  should let anyone or their own ignorance lead us to think otherwise. We are still living in an age where people have chosen to take the easy way out,........opt out of moral consciousness and personal responsibility. Just read the real news and not just listen to the idiot box...TV. There is not much truth to be found there, but only destruction, lies and false idols.

Black History is a way of life, every day of our lives. There is still so much that needs to be addressed to evoke the visions of the ancestors and new visions created by us. Yes, things have gotten better but much is left to be realized . We were left with visionary purpose that still must be nurtured to come to the fruition deserved by those who laid the path to follow.

THERE STILL IS SO MUCH WORK LEFT TO BE DONE!

Giving PRAISES to the LORD is no longer the correct thing to do and live by if focused on the secular world view. If not for that, a Martin Luther King could not have sprung forth from oppression with messages of LOVE and PEACE. There also would not have been a Nelson Mandela, who after being illegally imprisoned for 27 years be able to offer all of us messages of PEACE and LOVE. Now, ask yourself, what it is that made these men of color rise up to the place of worldwide prominence and acceptance. The messages of LOVE and PEACE are what each of us are supposed to be able to live without having to fight oppression.

I COME AS ONE, BUT I STAND AS 10,000, was said by Oprah Winfrey while talking about walking into boardrooms and being the only woman and only black person in the room. Brothers and sisters, don't step away from your value by giving up respect for yourself by not respecting others. That is a universal message for everyone on earth that needs to realized.

The struggles of blacks in America are not those that we imposed upon ourselves, but were sanctioned upon us to create the melting that it is called America with free labor. All people who came here on their own accord benefited from the free labor of blacks who were forced into the institution called slavery. It was not right then and isn't now as slavery of men women, girls and boys around the world are being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Remember you are the ancestors of KINGS and QUEENS. You need to always be mindful of that everyday of your life. Share that PRIDE by the life you share and by living as an example for others. We must teach our children and ourselves the value and power of transformation. Learn from the ancestors and positive influences who are alive now about who and what you should be. It is your/my responsibility to give honor to those who paved the way for your/my life to become better.

LOOK BACK FOR INSPIRATION THROUGH THE STRUGGLES, LOOK AT THE LEADERS WHO ARE STILL ALIVE NOW, AND LOOK FORWARD TO BEING THE PROUD BENEFACTOR OF THOSE WHO PAVED THE WAY BY BEING INDIVIDUALS THEY NEEDED TO BE. More importantly, LOOK WITHIN to find the wealth of goodness that lies within ourselves.

And, to those of any race or ethnicity who choose to OPT OUT of the self examination of why hate and racism is so prevalent in their own lives, you must understand, those are learned and taught behaviors that only lead to destruction. You have the responsibility to change your own mindset.........

If a Martin Luther King or a Nelson Mandela chose to OPT IN to fight the atrocities that were imposed upon them by systems of hatred and violence they were born into in their homelands, what is everyone else's responsibility? I think man must evolve his own thinking if mankind is to survive. That's another topic for another time. Until then, may each of us strive to abolish those images within us and around us that cause hate and misunderstanding to rule this earth. Each of us are just finite visitors here but must work to leave it better than we inherited it.

I choose to offer my PRAISE TO GOD and PRAY that those who have the ability to read, write and understand will come to terms with who they are and what they were put here to do. Nothing about our existence here as short term visitors on earth give us the right to destroy anything.

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH!......AND LET IT BEGIN WITH ME!