Dizziness was one of my major complaints

By Julie taylor

It's difficult to know where to start when you've experienced a serious physical trauma and you have a long list of 'what's wrong'. There are often many small individual complaints/disabilities in addition to one or more 'main' disabilities. Like most people, I had a 'list', all of which were caused by my brain injury and I assumed that whilst I could work at general fitness - which made a huge difference to my general quality of life - there was nothing I could do about most of these problems.

I was wrong!

Dizziness was one of my major complaints - the earth moved for me every time I stood up or walked, let alone danced or ran. I was also unable to turn my head from one side to the other, particularly fast. Walking a straight line whilst turning my head was also difficult.

Another major problem was lack of stamina - I have to take great care not to get overtired because it can take days and even weeks for me to 'recover'. My neurologist, Dr Adele Hern, once compared me/my stamina to an overstretched rubber band! I'd lost the ability to snap back! Over the years I have found way to improve my stamina and feel better: regular vitamins and supplements are essential and I break out in acne within a couple of days if I forget them. Glutathione is also helpful. Despite vitamins and regular exercise my immune system was poor and I would get ever cough, cold and sore throat around... Until I started using a blood cleaner (my zapper).

Other problems were minor - at least in that I was used to them and they caused comparatively little trouble. Of those my thyroid, like many brain injured grads, was no longer working properly. Ever since my brain injury I had been unable to focus at different depths - for example if I concentrated my gaze on you I would see much of everything around us as a blur.

Considering that my prognosis was not to see at all, this seemed acceptable. Memory, particularly short term, is often unreliable although I'd learned another way of learning from my mom. There are dozens of other 'little' problems and as they come up, Martin makes a mental note of them for me.

Over the last few months, Martin has helped me to itemize many of my complaints and as he learned my story he has amazed me by gently explaining to me - over and over so that my brain could really see and understand and accept thoroughly - the emotional connection WHICH WAS UNIQUE for each complaint. It wasn't, like I thought, "just my one brain injury": Each complaint seems to have its own program and trigger. And once we find them - one at a time - problems that I have accepted for nearly quarter of a century as "just one of those things" have resolved and healed. I will talk about all of these in detail in future articles (which will be linked here for easy reference).

I realize now, when I look around the room at a meeting of neuro-rehab grads, that so many of the symptoms that stop otherwise healthy adults from being able to work, participate fully in or enjoy life could be healed. I am both very sad (that most people will not hear of Total Biology and will suffer from all their ailments for years) and filled with hope... Because it's possible to heal some of these problems. Totally. Problems that I had forgotten were problems. Every single one of which improves my quality of life yet more.

The End!!

Julie