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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Why? Beginning this Journey!

This blog is to track and share my own experiences with Essential Oils. I have learned so much about something I thought was just for making things smell nice and for those dreaming of things that assisted them in daily life using their dreams to believe they worked.
Let me say this just to be clear. I am not a doctor or any other medically trained individual. I do not know cures or treatments. This blog is about me and what I have learned through my own research and experiences.

Now on to my story. In July of 2014 I was in a store with my husband. He went to the restroom and the next time I saw him he was wandering the store and seemed confused. I finally got his attention and he did not know where he was, why I was there, where his children and grandchildren were, or what year it was at the time. In fact he did not remember his grandson who was about 1 month old. 

On a 20 - 30 minute maunuvering and coaxing session to the car and ride to the hospital he went so far as to forget what a cell phone was or that he had been married 26 years. The 10 - 15 minute wait at the hospital took him from formed sentences to scrabbled words. CTScan showed his brain had a mass and had so much swelling it was pushed to the left side by 7mm. A transfer to a trauma unit at another hospital gave us several tumors and a clouding of cells that were predicted as cancerous due to the MRI. Surgery several days later after the swelling could be reduced to a point surgery was possible, seizure activity was not seen, and fever was reduced gave us the dreaded prognosis of Glioblastoma Mutliforma (GBM) mostly in the right temperal lobe.

GBM is referred to as a death sentence in many articles. 14 months after resection of any sort is the average life expectancy. The more that can be resected the longer the life expectancy however there was much left in my husbands case due to location. It is the brain and some areas are just to dangerous to touch. So to research I went. I read, asked questions, made phone calls, ordered books, and searched the Internet. You know what I got? A bunch of depressing information. No cure, no way to slow down, and longest survivor was in a tiny percentage. 

I learned GBM does not have the funding that other cancers have, that the only thing cancers have in common are they are abnormal cells, about 2% of Cancer patients have GBM (16,000 - 20,000), patients with GBM have less finacial assistance than other more mainstream known cancers, that treatments were all basically poisoning the body.

So I kept reading as an aggressive 6 week radiation / chemotherapy treatment started. I find sugar and carbs feed Cancer cells, vitamin D3, vitamin C, vitamin K2, vitamin E, can assist the body in fighting the Cancer. And there are many more. Did you know the daily recommended dosages of vitamin and minerals were the minimum amount for a completely healthy body? I start changing the diet plan .... This I can tell you is not easy with a hardheaded person. I started adding supplements after researching each ones source, ability for the body to absorb, and interactions with all other medication and supplemental intakes. I added each to the doctors list also to make sure I did not do something to their conventional treatment that was dangerous or counteractive. 

I kept coming up with Boswellia. Well I did not know what Boswellia was so I started searching for this highly recommended item. A Boswellia tree is where Frankinscense comes from and to this I rolled my eyes but I kept reading. A lot of the research I started with was out of Germany but eventually I got deeper and found more throughout the world. At this time I started seeing Essential Oils over and over again. I ignored it and looked for a pill or capsule form and still I came up with Essential Oils. 

Ok fine I gave in and started to look at aromatherapy seeing no purpose for smelling things and expecting results. Let me tell you I had no idea what Essential Oils really were or what aromatherapy really entailed. From here I started researching oil companies. I picked the one I buy from after some extensive research, testing of my own, studying what really made a difference, and asking questions of anyone I could including a few doctors. 

During this time I was intriqued with other oils however tunnel vision kept me with studying Frankinscense. At this same time my husband was still on a steroid and the two times we had tried to remove the steroid he had  enough swelling to cause some sort of reaction that appeared to be similar to a seizure. He gained 50 pounds on that steroid, his blood pressure was going up, he was fatigued, had headaches, seemed foggy and confused, and you can just imagine internal organs the steroid was tearing up. I had already decided if I could not beat the blasted GBM I was going to keep his body from breaking down to cause more issues and pain.

We tried a third time to remove the steroids and again had an issue. I read some more about withdrawal from steroids. This is where I decided to introduce the frankincense. It was supposedly known to be able to move through the brain blood barrier (many things can not make it through this extra barrier so what might work on the Cancer itself can not even make it into the needed area to try). So a month and a half later the next MRI and there is no swelling and less headaches.

Did it really reduce the swelling and headaches and lower the blood pressure? I am not a doctor or any other trained person that could give an educated answer however the swelling has not returned and the steroids are no longer being used and the blood pressure has been reduced.

So this is how I started in the oil world. Once I saw what I think was results from the oil, I have tried many other oil applications and although some didn't work many seem to work and make my life healthier, easier, and happier. I will be sharing with those of you that choose to read my blog entries the rest of my story up to the present time than I plan to continue to share with you as I learn and move forward.



If you are interested in the products I use and believe in enough to sell please feel free to browse the website listed. In fact if you choose to try essential oils and do not want to buy from me that is great and there are a few good companies out there ... Do your own research and pick one. Essential Oils are not just some natural trend. They have been used throughout history and there is science behind their usage so please leave any preconceptions behind and give them a try! http://www.mydoterra.com/heatherpoole/

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