2 years post explant...

[Guest guest]

Hello ladies!!

Wow it seems like its been forever since I checked in. I guess it has been almost a year. Greetings to all the new members!

Its coming up on my second anniversary and life couldn't be better! I went from being totally disabled pre-explant to being healthy and feeling like I am in my 20s again! Of course there has been a lot of trial and error. A lot of puzzle work to try to figure out exactly what needed to be "fixed". But all in all since I have turned my back on the medical community and taken full responsibility for my own health I am doing better than I have ever been!

I now own 2 dance studios, and am diligently working towards franchising my business. We have been incredibly successful in teaching self esteem to women of all ages and sizes. The student testimonies that I receive are worth their weight in gold!! And I make sure that every one of our clients knows my implant story. It keeps growing and growing and eventually I will be able to keep my promise to you ladies here and truly have such a success story that I can bring it to Hollywood and make the movie version of it. My students amaze me daily! They hear my story and want to reach out to other women like I have in some small way. I now have 15 women working for me!! They all started as students who decided they needed to "pay it forward". Its been incredibly hard work and I am amazed that I am physically able to handle it all.

I havn't given up my decision to be healthy. I think that is the strongest medicine I have had. I keep a close eye on my body and what it is telling me. If I need to slow down I do, but I don't give in. I'm sticking to a great diet, nearly all organic, and keeping up with daily vitamins and probiotics. Unfortunately it seems like the battle with the candidaisis will never end no matter what I do, so I just know that a couple of times a year I need to get really agressive and fight it hard for a couple of weeks. Going gluten free has also drastically changed my life! My food bills are still way too high, but I don't even suffer the occassional monthly bloating anymore, let alone my once daily "episodes" and the dependance on Immodium. Sometimes I look in the mirror and don't even recognize myself. I was so used to being this sickly person for so long. I find myself having to think really hard about what it was like to feel sick. What a great feeling that is!!!

I have worked so hard on building my business that I still haven't had time to finish writing my story. But this fall all 3 of my kids will be in school <happy dance!> and I will finally have some time to be by myself and accomplish that goal. I think I might go into shock after having kids at home with me for the last 11 years. This past year I was the Girl Scout leader, the soccer coach, and full time mom, all while opening 2 very successful dance studios and training a full staff. And to think that it was only 2 years ago that I was unable to peel a banana by myself because I was that sick!!!

For all of you new members who don't know me, I was implanted for 11 years. I was as sick as I could possibly be. Know that if you take the steps to heal yourself it is possible. You may not be able to have full recovery depending on your circumstances, but you can get healthy again. I never thought I would be able to enjoy life. I gave up at age 26 and lived totally disabled for the following 8 years. Doctors did absolutely NOTHING to help me get better. In fact, they made me think I was crazy. I'm proving that I was never crazy, it was never in my head! If it was, I could never have accomplished what I have since my explant surgery.

Best of luck to you all!

Love,

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls” ph