False Alarm! It wasn't MRSA...

Kombucha is now ready.  I took a probiotic
break and all havoc happens to my body:(

Here's an update on the MRSA they thought I had.  Well after two hospitalizations and a lot of iv steroids,  and antibiotics which put my body through havoc, I am now recovering.  However, I find out after I dragged my tired body to the doctor yesterday, that I tested negative for MRSA.  Thank God, but they think it was an outbreak of shingles again.  It's not as painful as before when I did have shingles two years ago.  I just have to recouperate from all the drugs that gave me steroidal diabetes and high blood pressure while I taking the meds.  Now, my sugar is at 106 (not fasting), and my blood pressure is back to normal. Thank God again.  But my body is depleted of all the healthy bacteria...which means I have to get back on my kombucha, kifer and probiotics.

I think that the probiotics have been warding off most off my previously illness.  I did take a probiotic break for two months and look what happens.  I am now brewing another batch of kombucha.  It should be ready by tomorrow.  I just had to start from scratch so the SCOBY (SYMBIOTIC CULTURE OF BACTERIA AND YEAST) mother could grow her babies. I started as soon as I got out of the hospital.

See, if I am quiet I can listen to my body, and follow my spirit, I know what I must do.  Once I get back on my homemade probiotics my strength will be up to par.  Before I leave, I want to jump for joy that I am still showing no sign of diabetes after having it for about 15 years. Yay!!!  I must be doing something right.  Right?  Natural probiotics folks!!!

Yum homemade kombucha...ahh, homemade probiotics.
Now I'm a happy camper:))

I just had to share because I did have a few viewers who visited this blog.  It's just an update:)  Also, perhaps anyone out there has had something similar that they can relate to and or would like to share or comment, please feel free to do so.

Well that's it for now.  Many blessings

Sincerely,

Mary Helen

MERCY ME, IT''S MRSA

Me at 63 free of any sign of diabetes, etc.
 Still chubby but healthy, and very happy with my life.
Except for the boils.  Taken  in May 2012

Where do I begin.  I just found out a few weeks ago after an emergency room visit that I have MRSA.  Sorry about the misspelling of the tittle.  I was er am really out of it.  I just got out of the hospital today because I had a MRSA blowout.    My doctor said it was really good that I got there in time as it had now entered my bloodstream, and I was quite toxic.   So I was hospitalized for 5 days of intense antibiotics, and steroids IV therapy.  Great.

The patient has left the hospital

But now I feel so sick.  And sad, for a moment, but, I know I will be fine.  I feel sad because I spent a whole year free and clear of diabetic episodes to the point where I was off all 300+ medications that I had been taking to control my diabetes, hypertension and  high cholesterol.  Diabetics usually have to deal with the forementioned illnessses and then some.  However, now with this eposide of MRSA and with the meds they put me on.  It's all back.  My head hurts so much they had to give me morphine and sent me home with a bottle of hydrocodone/acetaminophine.  I don't like putting all these meds in my body at all.  I don't like feeling like this at all.  But I have faith and know this will pass.  And I am grateful that it was finally identified in time and is being taken care of.  Trust me, I am thanking the Lord all the way.

My doctored cup of noodles, that tasted
 better than any hospital food I had with
my herbs and spices.

I got home today, and I feel so weak.  My body feels like it has been put through the wringer.  So I open my bag of meds they give me and I am so weak I can hardly stand on my own two feet.  I am back on oxygen, because of my asthma is really trying to let me have it good.  My eyes feel like they are about to come out of their sockets.  I don't have an appetite, but because of all the meds I have to take, I don't want my sugar to drop, I dragged myself to the kitchen, holding on to the appliances for support, I was able to boil some water.  I added some frozen veggies to the pot, herbs, and a cup of noodles. I topped it with a sprinkle of a cured chopped tofu cheese I had made a week earlier.  Dinner was served.  Usually I enjoy cooking but not today.  At least I was able to do that.  Thank God.

For about 15 years  I have been dealing with huge painful boils on my belly.  I've been in a few nursing homes because of other major diagnosis, the boils were always put on the back burner so to speak.  Funny, because every hospitalization they found some sort of bacteria and could never pinpoint it.  Till now.

The good thing is that I am home now, Thank God and there is not one needle in my arm.  Yes I will continue taking all these medications they put me back on to control all that ails me. Hoping the boils outbreaks will clear once and for all.  However, know that I as soon as I am able I will do everything to recover back to the way I was feeling a few weeks ago being diabetic, hypertension, and cholesterol free.  So today I take all these pills...but as soon as I can I will be back to where I was.  I know that,"I can do all things through Christ, who strenghtens me.  Phil 4:13

Lord, knows, I know what I need to do and that AFTER my body has healed completely I will be back on my natural probiotics, like my ferments, kifers, and kombucha.  It worked for me before and is a more natural healing, that is so much easier on my body.  I will be working with a doctor who works with alternative medicine.  Yay, right up my alley, where he encourages me to continue my fermented foods, and probiotics.  Yes.

Well, that's it for now.  I am wiped out.  Goodnight and God Bless

Sincerely
Mary Helen