… Is that my kidney function has continued to improve. Despite the discovery of anti-nuclear antibodies, my eGFR was up to 72, and my creatinine 0.9, as of yesterday. I can only attribute it to the intensive diet and herbal and qigong and acupuncture and reiki regime. Add in the countless prayers and healing intentions and energy we are receiving from family, friends, healers, strangers, and others, and you have a powerful recipe for healing.
The downside to our necessary therapies? I can tell that the herbs decrease my milk supply. It had gotten so low, and Adahlia so frustrated, that I took the whole day off yesterday from herbal therapy. And last night, the deep pain crept back in, and my kidneys ache now. So I will have to restart them.
What a balancing act!
It’s okay.
We can do this.
It’s just a little tricky, but we can do this.
I will do it for me, and dang it of we aren’t going to heal Adahlia, too, I don’t care how impossible it supposedly is. I don’t care how many of her doctors stop talking to me because they find my quest to restore her health insulting, and how many others look at me patronizingly or pityingly. It’s possible. The body is made to heal itself.
It baffles me how so many conventional physicians don’t see that an integrative approach is not meant to threaten them. It includes them. Working together means synergistic results. It’s a good thing.
It’s so interesting to me how I’ve had to incorporate so many modalities, so many approaches, because one by itself isn’t enough. And that makes sense to me, because eating healthy isn’t just about eating spinach. You’ve got to eat the right proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, and minerals – and one food, or set of foods, just isn’t going to make that happen. Likewise, exercising healthily is a lot more than just running, or just strength training, or just flexibility. And spiritual health is more than just the obligatory check-in at a church.
My medical doctors, the ones who have been so anti-Chinese herbal therapy, so vocal that “we have the answers!” and so sure that the only thing wrong was an obstruction, despite my non-correlating symptoms, so dismissive of my experience of my body, so against the naturopathic doctors and Chinese medicine practitioners that they actually called them “charlatans”, must be flabbergasted, and are most likely, quite upset, and maybe even a little embarrassed.
The doctors of the established medical paradigm would benefit greatly from listening to their patients more, and opening up to the idea of preventative and integrative medicine. More important: their patients would benefit!
It is time to demand a change for ourselves and our loved ones.