Well hello, 

 

I don’t even know where to begin. 

 

At the end of November 2015 I was diagnosed with labyrinthitis. I had recently had 2 throat infections and an ear infection. Add in the horrible stress of my workplace, it toppled it over and I ended up severely sick. I have had vertigo symptoms for 8 weeks now and it has been utter torture. I have tried working and it just isn’t helping at all. I am a beauty therapist and I specialise in facial waxing, mainly eyebrows. As soon as I start to tweeze the world starts spinning and I get really dizzy and sick. 

 

I have seen numerous doctors, one put me on Stemetil , 3 times a day. I took one tablet and ended up really sick. 

I have done many “balance” tests with doctors, and I have seen a chiropractor twice, my naturopath once and a ENT Specialist once, I have also done a hearing test. I have been in hospital twice. To put it plainly this is the worst illness I have ever had. 

 

When I saw my naturopath, I did some tests, I have cleared my parasite in my stomach finally. YAY (thats a whole different story) She put me on a few new tablets and some homeopathic drops and told me a motto to live by at the moment “Keep It Simple”. 

 

When I saw the ENT he told me I was not to go to work for at least 2 and a half weeks. He is sending me this coming friday to another specialist for more tests then I am to see him again a week later. He told me to try to do some yoga to strengthen my balance again, to also try the Stemetil again and to relax. RELAX? This is the most non relaxing illness I have had. 

 

Yesterday I went to the beach with Caleb to try to relax. We set up our lil shade tent, and walked out into the water, not even 5 minutes later I felt this horrible sting on the back of my knee. I looked down but couldn’t see anything. I walked straight out the water and my leg was still stinging, we then went over to the life guards. At this point the area was starting to go really red and was hurting more and more as the time passed. The life guards had NO idea what they were doing. There was a bunch of them, all ages, and they just put sting goes on it and one guy even poured bottled cold water on it which i now know is one of the worst things you can do to a jellyfish sting. I then was given ice in a glove to put on it and told I would be fine and that it would calm down in 5-10 minutes or an hour. 

We went back to our little shade and a mother asked if I had been stung and told me to go home and put vinegar on it or pee on it. There was no way I would be peeing on the back of my knee. 

We packed up and headed home. I had a hot shower (which was recommended on WebMD) and then put vinegar on it. Some websites said to do one thing, while other websites said to do another. It was all over the place. No one knows what to do. 

It kept stinging for a good 2 hours and I started getting extremely dizzy and sick so I called the health line, who wanted to call me an ambulance. I told them I would get Caleb to drive me to the hospital. 

 

Here I was again back in the hospital for the second time in a few weeks. The doctor looked at it, gave me pain killers and then we spoke about what has been going on in the last 8 weeks. We ended up being there for 3 hours and they kept trying to give me more pain medication but I didn’t want it. I just wanted to go home to bed I was so over it and upset. They let us go around 10pm and I went home to bed. On the way home Caleb said to me that he thinks it is about time I started reading The Secret again. I have been so down and out and depressed over all this that I was on such a bad downward spiral and the jellyfish sting proved just that. I was bringing so much negativity to my life. This morning I have woken up, my leg still is sore but no where near like it was. So Im thinking time and a hot shower and vinegar was the way to go. 

 

I picked up The Secret and started reading. Now I’ll be honest, I haven’t read the whole thing before and when I did read some of it, it was about 5 years ago. All signs are pointing to the fact that I am certainly bringing on more and more negativity to myself as I am daily speaking about only negative things.

It is extremely hard to be positive when you feel so sick. For a week straight when I was driving to work a few weeks ago, I would listen to Brendon.com on Youtube. I think I listened to about 10+ of his videos that week, but I didn’t apply anything that he was saying. I was just listening and trying to convince myself that I was doing a good job of being positive. Yet, I wasn’t implementing anything. This is not the way to be. 

So today as I was reading The Secret, I decided that I am going to make changes to my life starting right now. 

 

I have 2 weeks off work at the moment and I am going to use them wisely. 

I have to go to 3 appointments in that time, and other than that I will be doing all that I can to get better. Everyday I am going to write down all the positive things I am doing and I am going to journal. EVERYDAY for the next 2 weeks, possibly longer. 

I feel this way I will keep it up. I will want to do better as I will be writing it here. Telling people. Not just sitting around feeling sorry for myself thinking about how unwell I am. 

If I do this, things HAVE to start getting better. If i focus on the positives more positive things will come. 

 

Lets get started.