Lymes' Disease - the trip to HELL and BACK?

First of all I must say PLEASE protect yourself against Tick, Mosquito and Fly Bites. 
Visit our store at 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/153602730/8-oz-family-size-best-selling-deet-free? I'm a stay-at-home Mom of 4 and my dedication is helping spread the word on this devastating disease. Thanks and God Bless!

Setting up at Farmers Markets a couple of days a week selling our Go Away Tick and Skeeter Repellant (Deet Free of Course:) I've been talking to alot of people who have had Lymes Disease.

It truly is a very sad story for many.  Some get diagnosed right away and are completely fine with having no troubles at all.  Others, I believe, never get diagnosed and are trying to walk through life finding what is wrong with them.  Then we have the ones who have been diagnosed and feel the effects of Lyme's Disease daily in very unpleasant ways.

Sanity is something you don't take for granted.  When you have your wits about you you are on top of your game.  Add a little anxiety, dizziness, chronic fatigue and then some serious anxiety then you feel like you are just losing your mind.

My husband has been dealing with debilitating anxiety and stress over this Lymes' Disease.  I have to be very careful in what I say to him to not put him in another panick attack.  I want very much to watch, "Under Our Skin" with him but at this point he can't handle the reality of what is going on in his body and mind.  He realizes Lymes Disease is a bacteria.  A type of bacteria that is mutant and changes shapes just to keep from being destroyed by the given antibiotic the doctor feels is right for the moment.  "Under Our Skin" is a documentary on the knitty gritty about Lyme's which most doctors won't and don't know to tell you.

I've had to totally rearrange my whole schedule to help my husband.  He needs someone to be with him during this difficult time.  During the days where anxiety is 24/7 he prefers to be with me.  I understand as at one time I used to have anxiety attacks quite often and wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.  I don't mind putting things off to help him as I would want him to be there for me.  It has been three weeks of sure struggle for John having Bells Palsey with both sides of his face being paralyzed, extreme anxiety, and utter complete exhaustion.

Talking with people that have been diagnosed with Lyme's Disease I have been finding that anxiety, brain fog, helplessness often is accompanied with Lyme's Disease.  Which has me thinking how many people are out there with Lyme's that are half nuts due to this highly undiagnosed disease?  We believe now that my husband was first infected 12 years ago when we lived down in Arkansas.  He had the rash, but we were looking specifically for a bullseye.  From the time of his tick bite his ability to function slowly deteriorated, turning into years full of chronic fatigue, bouts of depression and anxiety, and also being highly sensitive to noises.  He thought all of his joint pain was due to the hard years of Concrete Construction he had done in his younger years.

Many times I had told the doctors I had thought my husband had Lymes' Disease.  For one doctors don't want to be told anything really on what you think and second of all most doctors don't know a rats rearend about Lymes'.  What is even more discouraging is that the Lymes' test is known to be 70% inaccurate.  Wow!  So much for medical help!

Anyhow, from what I gathered talking to others, having Lyme's Disease that effects your brain is like bungi jumping and not having the cord attached.

Will be posting more as time goes on.

We'll be looking for a specialist in Lyme's Disease.

Today he is also going to see someone who does Muscle Testing who is very educated and knowledgeable about Lymes', so I will post what we learn.  Hopefully, we by that time will have watched, "Under Our Skin".

Blessings and thanks for reading <3 <3 <3

I'm really TICKED OFF about LYMES Disease and Ticks

I recently wrote to Whole Foods stating why I thought our Naturally Northwoods Deet Free Mosquito and Tick Repellant should be in their stores and I thought I should share it with you.  Please read all the way to the bottom as it goes into the start of our own personal journey with the horrible LYMES DISEASE.

Just wanted to touch base about our Deet Free.

I've been working a booth at our local Farmers Market Up North in the Northwoods and must say the response has been overwhelming with the Go Away Mosquito and Tick Spray.  In the past years I've just sold to my regular stores so this was the first time I've had feedback from our customers.

They love our product at the Farmers Market.  Some go for the 8 oz, others the 6 oz and then some tend to buy the small 2 oz bottle of the Deet Free to see how it works first.  The ones who bought the 2 oz. came back and bought 3 and 4 8 oz. bottles for their grown children's families. 

They LOVE the smell of the 8 essential oils of the Deet Free Mosquito and Tick Repellant.  I even had a lady from Madison that bought one at your store and said it smelled horrible:)  (I'm sure they don't all smell horrible but what are the odds:) 

I've always had confidence in our Deet Free but now I'm thinking our Deet FREE really needs to be in Whole Foods, don't you?

Let me send some for the remaining of the season.  Our season ends early up here because of the tourists stop coming up by the end of August but I'm sure yours might go into September? 

Please let me know and we can ship out right away.

Sincerely,

Susan

PS  The DNR states that Ticks are only repelled by Eucalyptus and Pyrythemin.  We'll go with the Eucalyptus:)  Going Deet Free is the ANSWER as they say DEET does NOT work against TICKS.

Also we are educating people about Lyme's Disease.  70% of the tests they give for Lyme's is inaccurate.

My husband in the last week went to 5 different ER and Urgent Care doctors with Bells Palsey and rashes.  Only the 5th diagnosed him with Lymes with Bells Palsey being the secondary infection.  My husband has both the 1st and 2nd stages of Lymes which now we realize he's had for 12 years.  Never once treated or diagnosed with Lymes.  He was diagnosed by Dr. Wenman from Howard Young ER only because the doctor himself had Lyme's 2 years ago.  Bells Palsey is where your one side of the face becomes paralyzed.  My husband's whole face is now paralyzed with him even being unable to blink.

We always spray when the mosquitoes and flies are bad but really didn't for ticks as we aren't out in the woods much at all.  But my husband for the last 3 weeks was doing excavating out in the forest.  

I now realize he was infected with a tick bite and it wasn't long after that he came home 12 years ago and said I can't do it (work) anymore.  He was building Pole Barns and doing Concrete.  He dumped his company and has been only 40 to maybe 70% at his best times productive physically and mentally while trying to raise 4 children.  I kept bringing up the possibility of Lymes but after 2 negative results of Lymes testing I stopped asking the doctors. Only by the Grace of God after coming down with the Bells Palsey and going into the ER where Dr. Wenman was on duty was my husband FINALLY diagnosed with Lymes Disease.

Now we have found the culprit and it is known as Lymes, a little parasite that mutates and is really smart.  So we will learn all we can and educate others.

Cancer...Do We Really Have a CHOICE???

For the first time since Adam and Eve, o.k. maybe not that far back, but for the first time in my 40ish years have they ever stated that Parents are going to out live their children.

Ouch!  That doesn't sound very good.  Why?  What is going on where our children are going to die before their parents?  Let's see, there is Food, Air, Water basically.

Our FOOD is being manipulated by Monsanto.  If you haven't heard about Monsanto they are the ones behind the Genetically Modified Foods, the GMOs.  They are Roundup, the pesticide that is killing many.  Monsanto is a 4 letter word for those who know about the company.  Google it but before you do fasten your selt belt as you'll realize how we are all being taken for a ride down Cemetary Lane.  Millions Against Monsanto is a great group to follow.  Go to www.zazzle.com/curethecause and take a look at our adorable Franken Veggies designed t-shirts.  Adorable! I had envisioned getting them into many "Health Food" stores but I realize that it is complicated.  The "store" would have to be able to say that they had nothing on their shelves that was GMO.  It is said that over 60% of stuff on the shelves in the grocery stores is linked to Monsanto's GMOs.  So my Franken Veggies sit waiting to be loved by all by sold by none.

Air....hmmmmm....we all have to breathe.  You can go to http://www.scorecard.org/ and see just how BAD the air quality is where you live and who is responsible for the pollution.  Eye opening!!  I've complained about the isolation of living up in the North Pole but I looked up our zip code and found that we have pretty much Virgin Air!! 

Water, H2O, the one thing that you can't go without for more than 3 days without expiring.  Our water was poisoned by Kraft Foods' millions of toxic waste gallons that made our Kool Aide a little different than others.  If you have well water, most certainly have it tested for heavy metals.  If you have City Water be sure and read the Reports sent to you every year and take a look for yourself at any signs of nasty Heavy Metals in your water.

RO, Reverse Osmosis is the most popular water filtration system.  It is somewhat affordable and is said to remove Arsenic out of the drinking water.  If you live in Mining states or near an illegal toxic waste dump site I would really get up and have your water tested now!  So many people are being exposed to Arsenic and have no idea.  Alot of towns in Arizona such as Chino Valley, Payson, Kingman, and others have very high amounts of Arsenic in their water.  You will see odd things happening in the community Arsenic is present.  Cancers, suicides, homicides, etc are common as Arsenic eithers hits your Brain or your Body or both.

Learn about the Dirty Dozen in Fruits and Vegetables.  Don't eat Strawberries unless they are "organic" (without pesticides).  To eat them with pesticides does your body more harm than good.  Pesticides are working hand in hand with Cancers today.  Pesticides are killing our children and our pets.  Learn, google, be curious about what goes into your mouth.  http://www.ewg.org/ is a great resource for finding out what you are eating and what you putting on your body that isn't safe.

A great book to read is "Knock Out" by Suzanne Somers!  She by no means is a stupid blonde!  She advocates the doctors who are really curing Cancer!  Chemotherapy is said to be a $30 billion dollar business!  I admire her and would recommend everyone to go get her book yesterday! <3

God Bless and please "Make a Difference Today for our Children's Tomorrow"

Susie
Cure the Cause

Beiber Doinks Head and Gets Concussion

I just read the Yahoo Page that Justin Beiber, my daughters LOVE him, ran into a glass wall and got a concussion.   Only feeling slightly dizzy he sang his last song to his performance and then went backstage and passed out.

Well, Mr. Beiber, according to our Neuropsychologist today, you would be better off having a major head injury with bleeding to the brain.  Sounds crazy?  Well, that's what I thought hearing those words coming out of his mouth.  According to Dr. So and So there is more Medical Diagnosis and help when your brain bleeds.

It is when you only have Concussions to the Brain are the Medical Doctors at a loss for advise to the injured.  We were also told that only 5% of people who have had serious head injuries (without the bleeding of the brain) have continuing confusion, frustration, depression, and anger outbursts.

I say BULLSHIT to that. 

I also say thank GOD for Dr. Daniel Amen, who also Dr. So and So said was controversial.  Why is Dr. Amen, his short bio follows via Amazon...

Dr. Amen is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice. He is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Bellevue, Washington, and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating, totaling more than 60,000 scans. The clinics have seen patients from 90 countries.




Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He has presented his work around the world. He is widely regarded as a gifted teacher, taking complex concepts in neuropsychiatry and imaging and making them easily accessible to other professionals.



Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the world's largest brain imaging/brain rehabilitation study on professional football players, which not only demonstrated significant brain damage in a high percentage of retired players, but also the possibility for rehabilitation in many with the principles that underlie his work.

Dr. Amen is the author of 40 professional articles, the co-author of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry's chapter on Functional Imaging in Clinical Practice, 28 books, including three New York Times bestsellers: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Magnificent Mind At Any Age, and Change Your Brain, Change Your Body. He is also the author of Healing ADD, Making A Good Brain Great, Healing the Hardware of the Soul, and co-author of Unchain Your Brain, Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing Alzheimer's.

So then why is Dr. Amen controversial?  Well, in my opinion it is because he talks about therapy and approaches to head injuries giving his patients alternatives other the almighty PRESCRIPTION DRUGS that are ruling America.  Yes, he talks about Amino Acids such as Tyrosine, Tryptophan, 5 HTP, and others that have worked miraculous in our own family!!  And I mean miracles. 

Had we trusted the AMA to fix our problems at the time our one daughter would be heavily medicated with some anti-psychotic drug.  Instead for some reason a short time on 5 HTP made the world of difference.  Our other daughter was told she had Seizure Disorder and the Doctor pretty much said she better take this prescribed medicine or she will get worse and that basically it would be our fault.  Well, I knew her Vitamin D level was only a 3 with 30 to 80 being the norm so I wanted to hold out.  She started taking 50,000 units a week but we really didn't see the absence seizures stop until she had started on Taurine, another Amino Acid that has been known to help kids with Absence Seizures.

So, Dr. Amen tells the truth, he gives hope, and he is giving people other options than pouring money into the Drug Companies of the USA which seem to have taken over.  Pharmaceuticals are a multi billion dollar industry. 

Word of advice, Justin Beiber, if you have any changes in personality, problems focusing or concentrating, feelings of despair, please seek a good Neurologist.  Actually just head to one of Amen's Clinics because after 20 plus years of being head injured we quite frankly think that most Neurologists don't have a CLUE.  They should all beat their heads against a wall first before giving STUPID and USELESS ADVICE when basically they don't know their ASS from a HOLE in the WALL when it comes to Brain Injuries.

Thanks for listening <3

Head Injuries - the Walking Wounded - there is HOPE

Simply a Head Injury or is it CTE? Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a new word hitting the news today.  TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury is a more common phrase known for having a hit to the brain that sends you for a loop.

My husband and I have 5 head injuries, Traumatic Brain Injuries  TBIs, between us.  We used to think we were the blind leading the blind when we first got married but then realized differently.  Especially after learning about the recent suicides by the NFL players Junior Seau, Dave Duerson, Owen Thomas and others.  We have realized that we are fortunate to have each other  someone who truly understands what having a brain injury is all about. As you probably already have found out Neurologists really do not have a CLUE! 

Diane Sawyer has done several segments on this http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/head-trauma-behavior-problems-linked-16426657

Having a head injury kind of puts you in a world all by itself.  Brain Injuries are by far the least understood of all medical problems.  In the past 20 years we have seen Neurologists and regular doctors that did not have a clue at all about head injuries.  Instead of getting any kind of confirmation or understanding at all we left the office more confused, angry and depressed.  One Neurologist down in Mountain Home, Arkansas told my husband just to go out and get a job!  I'm laughing now looking back as we see what an idiot he was and probably still is.  I believe if Neurologists are going to give advice, stupid advice, to people with traumatic injuries that they need to get hit in the head a few times before they open their mouth!

I've spent 20 years looking for answers. 

We noticed something wasn't right after I fell 10 feet onto a concrete parking deck needing 160 stitches to hold my head together. Going to doctors back then was a joke.  My husband had 3 TBIs in less than a year.  His total demeanor changed.  At the time, especially back then 20 years ago, there wasn't any real help that we knew of for rehab on our brain, not even realizing that we needed rehab at that time. Our families had no idea on what was going on or what to do after our head traumas.  They knew the old Johnny and Sue (before we met) had taken on different personalities that weren't as nice, patient, and calm.  Replaced was having a short fuse, impatience, easily angered, resulting in crying jags, confusion and depression.

I didn't find any help or support really until I found Dr. Daniel Amen's book, "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life".  You can find his work at http://www.amenclinics.net/  Go take a peek.  You'll find you are not alone and that there is HOPE.  We are still hoping to one day get a Spect Scan which shows which parts of your brain are not working properly.  This is soooo important as it is concrete evidence of where and what you need to become the best you can be opposed to the guessing game the doctors do with meds.  Doing the wrong meds can leave you to be a total whack job! 

My husband is starting a blog at http://www.onetoomanyhitstothehead.blogspot.com/ where he will be sharing the day to day issues he goes with have 3 major head injuries.  He'll give an informative yet whitty perspective on what it's like to have multiple head injuries.  We hope his head injury blog gives light to those who have been whacked in the head through football whether it is playing in the NFL, college, high school, or pee wee.  Or those who played hockey, rugby, baseball, you name it anything that gets you up off your feet that you can whack your head! 

Also all the Men and Women coming back from Iraq.  I was told the soldiers in the Military have very little help if any at all from the doctors that are assigned in helping these wounded get back on their feet.  The suicide rate is high for those coming back and I am sure many of them have had some kind of head injury as well as post traumatic stress both of which Dr. Amen discusses in his books.  These men and women need help, the right help, right away!! 

Be sure and follow my blog.  I'll be updating about TBIs, CTE, and maybe PTS.  And don't forget PCS, post concussive syndrome:)  Educate yourself, be informed, get involved and realize you are NOT ALONE!

The suicide of Junior Seau, Dave Duerson, Owen Thomas and others was a tragic loss.  So sad, so unnecessary.  But hopefully through their tragic deaths hope will be given to others as more light is brought onto the subject of people with head injuries, the Walking Wounded.  God Bless their families and may they see HOPE through all this.  Thank God for the NFL Brain Bank and we pray that they continue on with their intensive research that will help all brain injured people including the NFL football players and many others.

Thanks for listening :)

Susie

Suicides...........
who or WHAT is to BlaMe??

Growing up 2 blocks away from what is probably to become known as one of the Largest ILLEGAL Dumping Sites RESIDENTIALLY in the US has brought awareness to problems associated with ARSENIC.

Arsenic levels were very high for over 30 years.  We weren't aware that our Kool-Aid also contained Arsenic.

Last year we became suspicious of all the house to house Cancers.  Then I realized that there were nearly 30 SUICIDES within a 5 mile radius of this Illegal Dump Site, one of those people being my brother.

My brother had a newspaper route as a young boy.  He would deliver Mr. Hale's daily paper walking where Mr. Hale had just hosed down the back of his dump truck.  In the waste water contained high levels of Arsenic that came from Kraft Foods and Mobil.  Mr. Hale must have been paid quite nicely for disposing their 55 gallon barrel drums of toxic waste from the 60's to the early 90's as they found over 1,000 of them on his 2 acre residential home.  (We believe that there are 10's of 1,000s still out there as Cancers and Suicides are still abundant.

I asked my Chiropractor who is quite knowledgeable about most everything about the correlation between Arsenic and Suicides.  He thought for maybe a brief moment and stated that Halogens deprive the body and brain of much needed Iodine.  When these levels become low or imbalanced it sends the person in sort of a BiPolar state. 

These people that have committed suicide, including my brother, do it once.  There are no preattempts, no second attempts, they get the job completed the first time.  Their mind (or lack of) is determined on ending their life. 

If you follow the mining areas of the US you will find the highest rates of Suicides. 

If you look at the catastrophic Arsenic poisoning in West Bengal, India you will also see alot of "unexplainable" Suicides.

Coincidence?  I don't think so.

I think we need the CDC, the EPA, and the PHDs to start taking a closer look. 

If they look closely I believe they will see a link between Arsenic and Suicides / Depression.