Monday, September 28, 2020

Can we embed videos anymore?

Attention Class. I am going to discuss a couple of things I don't want to discuss again. Got that? 

First, you all don't listen well at all. Tsk, Tsk,.
In my post a couple of days ago I mentioned my lifelong issue with my photos. I asked that none of you do that b.s. stuff with telling me I look fine or good or cute or whatever adjective. I was NOT fishing for compliments and I asked you not to do it. You did it.  Don't do that anymore. This is why no pics of me are to be found. (but thank you none the less)

I also am going to explain a bit more of this mold toxins/toxic crap. 
But allow me to tell you I got a great lymphatic massage on Thursday night. The inflammation in my body is off the charts and we need to remove it. 
She got everything moving. My muscles that turn to stone shocked her. 
She said, "you must be in so much pain." Ya think? 90 minutes with this woman was fabulous and painful. But the fabulous outweighed the pain. 
I think insurance is paying for this because it was part of the treatment. We will see.

Die off  - it seems no one really googled this. Once you begin a regimen/protocol for the killing of the parasite, toxic thing, whatever it is, you get your body fighting back. For me it is mold. When my husband the ole toxic/toxins of Lyme he went through this too. He began his medications and his body was fighting back. He felt far worse than ever before. 
That is what is happening to me. 

You do get better, but first, you will get sicker. As the treatment attacks the mold in my body the mold retaliates by releasing toxins in self-defense. This friggin' mold thinks it has a good set up inside my body and it doesn't want to leave as much as I need it to. 

Mold/fungi release mycotoxins They are what cause our symptoms and make us sick. The more mold you have in your body, the higher the number of toxins that will be released. These come out like flu-like symptoms and every other symptom you have had with the illness is magnified. 
I was so sick on Friday I closed down until 1pm.  In 14 years I have never done this even after surgery. I was so sick I did not work. I had a fever, I couldn't leave home because I needed a bathroom nearby for both ends, I could barely walk. Everything on me hurt from my hair to my toes, including my elbows? WTF?  Detox on this is no joke!

I was in bed Friday while it was still light out. I awoke Saturday to feeling so much better. Let's hope we are done with that. Although I do know things will be fine and they will increase some things again so it may happen again. It takes 6-12 months to rid yourself of this mold! 6 - 12 months!

So I am doing okay. I imagine I will be so-so or worse for a while. 
Same old, same old. Then I hope one day to awake from this mold nightmare and be done with this.

Lastly, I don't think I told you where we found the mold.
I got a bug up my ass a couple of weeks ago to clean all the lower cabinets. Outside and inside. I pulled pots and pans out and cleaned everything and put them back nice and neat. The last cabinet I saved was under the sink. 
I got everything out and saw water in the back. I cleaned the black on the cabinet while wearing a mask for covid to save more inhales of mold spores. I bleached it. Where is this water coming from is what I couldn't understand. I starred it wasn't leaking. How can that be? 
I waited for Rick to come home before I put in the new shelving I purchased for this cabinet. 

Rick found that the faucet had a very small leak. Since Rick can't get his shoulders under the sink well we called our plumber who we have a service agreement with - and Thank God!  He came out and show us the tiny hole in the faucet causing this link. He had to saw the faucet off it had rusted to the granite. Now if you looked at the base that sits on the granite it was clean there so I never saw a leak. When he got this off we saw the mold inside the faucet. So all I was drinking was mold water, cooking with mold water. Hence why my inflammation number should be at 2000 and mine were over 18,000. 

I asked the plumber if they needed to remove more piping to remove mold. He said no and gave Rick and me a reason. A reason I didn't understand. Rick tried to explain it to me. Still didn't get it. So I asked him to humor me and replace that pipe etc. He did and he showed me - no mold. It was all in the faucet, mostly neck. But he replaced that pipe and I was so okay with paying extra it since I wanted to know for certain even though he and Rick felt it was fine. I am dealing with this illness. Humor me, boys. And that they did. The plumber was so nice he didn't charge us for the new pipe, he said, you've paid enough. How nice was that? 

So now that we found the mold. Thanks to what Rick calls my cleaning issues. I feel like I can get better eventually, I hope. But at least now I know this is for certain mold. As I told you all I couldn't for the life of me understand the mold being in my house and how wouldn't I see it? Now I know! Neither of us saw it.

So I don't want to bore you with more illness stories. I really don't.
No one wants to listen to people complain about their illness. 
I know I don't want to be that person. Some days it so helps to vent and I will. But in the meantime, I hope to not talk about it more than that and bore you all to tears. Want you to still come around. 

In the meantime, I have enjoyed watching these boys (twin brothers) hear music for the first time. (Since I can no longer insert the video I had to try to link it for you. hate blogger) 
These 2 were not allowed to listen to secular music while growing up. A year ago they began this channel. I saw them on Kelly Clarkson. After that Rick and I had to watch a few.  People recommend a song for them to listen to. They crack me up. They don't have a genre they only listen to. They listen to everything. After watching several they seem to love 70s rock. They adore Queen and Freddy's voice. They love RadioHead and Pink. So it isn't just rap and that was so nice to see that they like so many versions of music. They are cute. I can't fathom not knowing Santana or Rob Thomas. I think in this video they think Rob Thomas is Santana.  I watched them watch Jimi Hendricks for the first time. They said they heard he was considered one of the great rock guitarists. Then when Jimi plays with his finger, behind his back, his tongue etc they flip out. They paused it and said, "is this real? is he faking it?" My goodness was that funny to us.

The first rock song they ever heard was Aerosmith's Dream On.
Oh my, when Steven hits the high note the brother on your left gets very excited. The rock ones they like were Queen, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi to name a few. They never heard of Stevie Wonder. So it is kind of cool to watch they react for the first time. 

17 comments:

Misadventures of Widowhood said...

Wow, finding the source of that mold is HUGE! Hope you are feeling a lot better soon.

Abby said...

Glad you found your mold! (never expected to make that comment anywhere) Detox and Die Off sound awful, but take it as a sign of healing? I know, easy for me to say.
Those youtube brothers are cute. Never allowed to listen to secular music? seems like child abuse. I'm happy you found something positive to tune into during your healing time!

Cruisin Paul said...

Thank God you found the mold. Now you'll feel much better Peg.

Cruisin Paul

Mike said...

I've never heard of mold inside a faucet. That's a new one on me. So I looked it up. https://moldhelpforyou.com/water-mold/ All you ever wanted to know about moldy water.

Ami said...

I'm glad you're heading in the right direction with your recovery but I'm sorry you got sick. :(

What a horrible mess.

Pippa said...

Glad you found the mold. Check that off your list. THOSE GUYS! My favorite I watched a few weeks ago was to Genesis "In the Air Tonight". Their amazement at the genius of Phil Collins not playing the iconic drum beat half way through the song blew their minds! I get it. I'm 57 and I still wait for" my cue" to hit the drums in that song. And by drums, I mean steering wheel, table,etc. It's embarrassing,really. But I'm not.;-)

Olga said...

That all sounds horrific. And unfair that the cure is as bad as the mold -- but hopefully that will resolve in the end. Stay strong.

Arkansas Patti said...

Good grief, it almost sounds like withdrawal from hard drugs. So sorry you have to go through that to detox. Our bodies sure don't make it easy for us to get better. Hope you have been through the worst of it. Good on you for finding it. Hang in there and let us know how you are doing. We care.
I saw a video of those boys on the news recently as they listened to Dolly Parton for the first time. I didn't know the story and just thought it was their first venture into country music. Interesting.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Jean, so next time my husband says I clean things too much I can tell him - I found mold! back off buddy. :-)

Abby - saw them on Kelly Clarkson who said when she was growing up she too was only allowed to listen to Christian Musics. Wild huh? I love how unbiased they are to all forms of music. I have watched too many of these while in bed this last week while sick!

Mike, you are sure a weirdo looking this up. But I love ya for it. I printed some stuff to do to my pipes. Just cause it's over kill Rick will go nuts but hey I"m the sick. can't be too cautious. Who knew though right?

Ami, I will have ups and downs but I know it's working and that's the good part. This time next year if I should be golden.

Pippa - oh you're one of those! Tappers right? My husband played drums for 20 yrs. He still taps everything. The steering wheel is a biggie. It drives me mad but sometimes he doesn't even know he's doing it. I will look at him and his hands are going and I will say, the band doesn't need their drummer when they have you. Then he looks at his hands and realizes what he's doing. It's funny to me.

Olga, thanks I will end up just fine and I have to remember that.

Patti - I saw that Jolene one as well! I will have good and I will have bad days but I know I'm getting better and that is all that matters right now!

Linda said...

What in the world made you think that I, or any of our fellow blogging friends, would obey orders? You way overestimated our ability to follow directions. All done in love.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Good one Linda!! Hey Rick told me they found Boy Scouts car. In one piece??

Brian said...

What Linda said. aNd glad you found the source of that mold. Can't imagine how bad things could have gotten if that were to hang around indefinitely.

Got to hook up the twins with some Funk No. 49 from Joe Walsh.

Julie H said...

Trying again to leave a comment, last one went poof.

How in the world do you grow up and not hear music? Did they live in a bubble? Parents must be some whack ass people.

So did you say the mold was inside the faucet? That's just crazy and scary.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Brian - good one!!! Love Joe Walsh doing anything. I'd probably be dead since 3 doctors have told me they have never seen one as bad as me. So I think we caught it in the nic of time. It's been like this for a couple of years. Great eh?

Julie - yep inside the faucet. In the neck mostly. I don't think their family was wack ass. I think they were religious. Or is that the same thing? :-) Then as they got older they heard rap from their friends. Now they are adults, one in college and they can do what they want. But when the doors opened up they said all their friends listened to was rap so they were well versed in rap. I think it's cool to be young and want to open your mind and expand your world.

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Mr. Shife said...

Hang in there. 6-12 months is indeed a long time but it will be worth it. Keep fighting the good fight. Congrats on the mold discovery. Awesome news. You make me paranoid that I need to go investigate all of our nooks and crannies.

It's.a.crazy.world said...

I did look up die off. The implications blew me away ~ I didn't know what to say, and it was more fun to comment on the photo since you asked us not to. Silly! You know that saying "don't" means we will!

Glad to hear you found the mold, but I would never have suspected it would be in the pipes. I certainly hope it doesn't take a year.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Yvonne, die off is such an odd name for it and it blows me away and I have to deal with it. I never knew mold could grow in pipes. it's so bizarre - all of it.
I'm hoping not a year as well.