And the lead detox begins

I had a dream one night, soon after the earthquake in Japan, while I was still on Salt Spring Island BC. My bed was spinning, and I thought, "maybe I'm in an earthquake," but too tired to get up and since the roof hadn't collapsed on me yet, I figured maybe I was wrong, and went back to bed. Ironically, my best friend on the island who has the same illness had the exact same dream that night. I'm actually more amazed that I didn't try to get up during that dream and run out of the cabin!

There's a famous, quite insightful book, "It was on Fire When I Lay Down on It," by Robert Fulgham. From the '70s or '80s. I believe the title infers that we get our keep ourselves in trouble even when we know what's best for us.

My aforementioned friend, in the past year, has worked in a drycleaning place, painted peoples' houses for money, and sometimes uses immensely toxic cleaning solutions for her apartment. I love her, and I keep reminding her why she's not getting better when she wonders why she feels so awful, her body swollen and wracked with pain, but I can't get her to see the light. Of course, sometimes the load of toxins affecting us greatly cloud our brain, so this may be her problem, but I wish I could do something. Sometimes the toxic load is so bad, we even self-sabotage. Some of us try to prove how strong we "really" are and keep submitting ourselves to such tings. But for all of us, avoidance is key.

When I've hung around her too long and she tries to convince me that my MCS may be in my head and that I can just "acclimatize" myself to toxins, that's when I leave! Or hang up the phone! And this week, I proudly announce that I took charge. Now that all my mercury fillings have been removed, I began my lead-detox (my lead levels are right off the chart when I did the standard urine challenge test) with EDTA-chelation IVs with a holistic MD. With the Vitamin C IV that comes right after, it will come to about $200 a week and I may need a couple dozen.

But as many MCS'rs, I have heavy metal poisoning and can't sit back. My cognitive functioning already felt a bit better yesterday afternoon. Hopefully my energy will improve also. Everyone else I've met whose done these has had great success. It may even help my MCS--in great anticipation, I await. It's been ten years since I began removing my mercury fillings so that the day would come when I could do this.

It's difficult with this illness to not simply give up, but if you have mercury fillings, don't wait; summon up all the few common-sense neurons you may have left--remove the fillings now--with a dentist whose specially trained in the area. There's a protocol of how to do it and supplements to take before and after each one. Don't do it any other way. Then, do a urine test for heavy metals, and let your life begin. Don't continue to sleep on the bed while it's on fire.