My Book on Illness: Introduction
I'm posting drafts of my book-in-progress for paid subscribers.
I’m writing a book. Perhaps part of it is self-indulgent but also cathartic, because I tell a lot about my story. But I’m also hoping that the book will help some people here and there. The book is going to cover my chronic illness and explore all the different things I tried to do to heal. Along the way, I’ll be discussing everything from MRIs to faith healing.
Drafts of the forthcoming book chapters will be available to paid subscribers, and I encourage you to leave some feedback as I go. Or, you can wait until the whole thing is done…I’ll be selling it in ebook format for probably somewhere between $5-10. Thank you!
Introduction
Every morning, I wake up and my body is vibrating. Often from head to toe. Usually, my face is oscillating, my legs tingling, my feet burning. Sometimes, the insides of my stomach feel like an old Magic Fingers motel bed shaking, like the rumbling of a low earthquake. If I’m having a really bad morning, my back will also be tingling and twitching.
The vibrations move around my body each day. While they sometimes lessen in intensity, they have not completely gone away since they began about five years ago.
It all started after an acute infection almost killed me one night in 2017. I still don’t know why it happened, what the germ was, whether it was viral or bacterial or fungal, whether it was something I ate or something I was exposed to.
The unknowing has gnawed on me for years, as I have tried to unravel what happened, and why, in order to fully recover.
As I start the writing of this book, I have not fully recovered from that horrible, terrifying evening. I have a weird hope that by the end of this book I might have figured it out. We’ll see.
That’s not even the beginning of my story, because my battle with illness began back when I was 17 years old, when I got mono. And it was thirty years later, in the same month of August, that things got even worse for me in 2017.
Despite my health problems, or rather, because of them, I’ve learned a lot about healing over the years, I’ve amassed a number of holistic healing certifications. While I’m not cured (yet), I could be a lot worse.
In writing this book, I’ll be sharing a lot about the healing process, much of it informed by my personal experience.