craigchome's Journal

It is Autumn, normally one of my favorite times of year but his Autumn has started as Summer ended, cold and wet. October sees me celebrating 10 years living in the USA, all of them in Georgia and after a tour up into the Appalachian Mountains this last weekend, showing my sister Angela (from Scotland) about, it brings home what a beautiful part of the world North Georgia is.

October also bring my first anniversary of being diagnosed with major liver issues. What a year it has been! From the depths of despair when I first found I had cirrhosis, to the confusion, the not knowing what to do, the feelings of helplessness and inadequacy, the fear and the pain.

I've lived through every emotion possible and every fear imaginable. The specter of death that haunts the mind nearly 24 hours a day, only forgotten for brief moments or even seconds. The realization that the end is inevitable and there is little if anything that can be done about it.

Then, if we are lucky comes hope, the glimmer of light, the chance that maybe, just maybe there may be a way out of this hellhole disease called cirrhosis. I reached for it, grabbed it and embraced it. More over, I believed in it.

My savior was a document written by a man I have never met, nor never will. This document became 'My Bible'. This man died a short time ago, I wish I had spoken with him, met him even, or just been given the chance to thank him. Unfortunately I found out who he was too late. This man saved my life.

'My Bible' became everything to me. It cured me and now, as I learn more and more and discover more about this terrible disease I become more and more entrenched in my views that what this man wrote was right and most of the medical profession is wrong. Wow!

Also, as time goes on, I find that other people are also using and benefiting from 'My Bible'. A message from another member the other night confirmed that what the 'Bible' preaches, works.

But as in all things, we must remember that time is a great healer. In the days of 'instantaneous NOW', we forget that our bodies need time to heal, time to adjust and time to repair the damage done by disease.

But, recover it will and the road to recovery starts by being kind to your body. By feeding it the essential nutrients it needs to be able to recover. By being brave and at times ignoring modern medical advice and going back not so far, to the days before CAT scans and Ultra-Sound. Back to the days when cirrhosis was treatable and transplants didn't exist! Think about it.

For many, recovery maybe too late. For them, the disease may be too far advanced to be halted or regressed. But for the newly diagnosed, there is now hope. Hope that the words 'untreatable' and 'incurable' are never uttered again. Hope that doctors will re-embrace solid time-proven medicine and stop their total reliance on technology and their book on how to prescribe without being sued.

What I practice is not alternative medicine. It is real, living medicine. It is medicine that works, is cheap, simple and effective. It is medicine that has stood the test of time.

Craig

Alpharetta, October 14th 2009