And There You Have It
Well hello there friends!!! I am so totally behind on writing this blog....I think I stopped on day 7 of my Infusio treatment. For those of you that follow me on social media know that I made it and am still walking the earth...lol. I will begin again where I left off....
The rest of my clinic days at Infusio were very much the same....IVs....like 5 bags at a time, ozone treatment, trigger point massages, laser bed, thymus injection....find lunch, uber home....get jammies on....get in the bed.....try not to leave the bed. The biggest difference of course, was that my boys were with me now. So I went from my leisurely mornings only getting myself ready and finding myself food, to being awoken to a loud breathing 6 year old & freight train husband snores....frantically getting everyone's room service orders, finding peoples favorite cartoon channels, setting out little mans clothes, tidying up, setting up Lyft AND getting myself to the clinic before 9:30am. Full on mommy mode. HMMMM....did I reallllly miss them?
On Thursday of week 2 my big day of stem cells had arrived!! The day we were all anticipating. I wasn't even afraid...it was weird. I was like bring it on baby! Thats what Im here for so lets get it. My procedure was in a different area of the clinic that I hadn't spent as much time in. I had to be there for 7:30am. When we arrived they ushered us into a small room with a comfy chair for me. Dr Kim came in an asked me if I wanted a bit of "happy juice." I asked her if most people took it and she said yes. Then I asked if it would help with the pain...she said no. I said no thank you and she looked at me like I was totally insane. This is another big difference I noticed just being in the US vs Canada.....medication/drugs are pretty much no big deal. If they are willing to give it to you...ya take it...no questions asked. I wasn't nervous so I passed. Besides Im pretty sure early 20's Erin had enough happy juice of sorts to last me the rest of my life. We were not in the little room for very long when Dr Kim came to get us. "Ummmm is your little boy coming?!" she asked. "If he is allowed in there he is, because he is determined to see everything about this procedure...especially his mom in pain" I answered. "All right I guess if you are sure? Its not the nicest of things for most adults to see." "Nope! Im good to go!!" Karras pipes up. So we all go into the operating style room. I lay down on the table and the boys share a chair. Dr Kim "numbs" my back with her little needle. I don't exactly numb very well so I ask her to juice it up. She does. Then she makes 2 tiny incisions in my lower back....she inserts this long skinny suction looking device over and over into the tiny incisions....she repeats this until she gets enough fat to fill 3 syringes. I didn't feel much at first, but as the numbing wore off like 2 seconds later...I feel everything...it feels like shit. I swore she was pretty much bruising my actual bones in my back. This was pretty uncomfortable, but still tolerable....like Ive had a baby so I basically compare everything to that pain and this wasn't even close....so still doing ok. All the while Karras and Paul were snapping pics and taking videos. I looked over and Karras was basically emotionless....like just another day at the office. lol. I opted for the extra stem cells in the stomach, because of all of my digestive issues, so as soon as she had her syringes, I flipped over to my back. She then inserted like the longest needle ever into the middle of the left part of my tummy, and boom that part of the process was complete! It probably took all of about 40 mins. I got all bandaged up and we went back into the tiny room. They then hooked me up to an IV of Malitol. They said that this IV would open up the blood brain barrier to allow my stems to cross through. I was like ok ya my brain could use all the stems it can get....giddy up! While I had this IV Dylan the nicest lab pro ever mixed up my stem cells and waited for them to replicate before hooking them up to my IV. He showed me the number of the stem cells that would be entering my system and it was 164 million!! Seeing as the average is around 80 million I was feeling pretty proud of my little stemmies! Dylan allowed Paul and Karras to be the ones to inject the bag with the syringe of stem cells. I cant tell you what a special moment that was. It just felt so awesome to have them be part of the process in getting a new lease on life. I prayed out loud on my stemmies at that moment....I told them I was thankful for them, and I asked them to please go forth and do a wonderful job of healing my body. I magic-ed them all of my positive energy and love. Just like that it was over...they were in and I was on my way to a more healthful life.
The rest of the day my back was pretty real sore and was oozing saline & weird shiz so we laid low at the hotel and just chilled. I didn't sleep very well that night because of the pain. The next couple days at the clinic were a bit easier and lighter. The day I left I felt sad to be leaving my wonderful group of friends I had met and our insightful & hilarious yet professional nurse Hollis. I also felt on top of the world. I was done! I did it....I completed it man and I had my stem cells. I was ready.
We drove that day to Orange County and stayed at the beautiful Hyatt in Huntington Beach. It was such a treat to finally leave hot ass LA and relax in the breeze of the beach air and feel the love of our amazing family whom we miss so dearly. We really only had one day before we left for home so we soaked in as much as we could by the pool for literally 10 whole hours. I felt amazing that day....decent energy, no usual symptoms....it was wonderful.
Monday am arrived far to early, we didn't sleep well and were super tired from Sunday's events. We drug ourselves to the airport and through all the crap and finally arrived home that evening. To say I felt bad was an understatement. Muscles were sore, fatigue was crushing, dizzy, weak...the works.
As the days went on at home, it took me a LONG time to recover. Like quite a few days in and out of bed. When I did start feeling better, I realized I had alot of lyme symptoms return on me. Things like knee and joint aches, muscle pain, nerve disturbances, restless leg, irritated bladder etc. I am told this is normal and it happens to most. I am having to take naps daily. My days are just a bit slower and easier going then before. Its so hard when you are a mom and wife to "take breaks" as they say...like YA RIGHT no problem. lol. Not to mention its summer and my baby troll is home for however many more weeks. In actuality he is amazing for the most part, but you know, he still needs to eat, get bum wipe checks and forced into the shower now again. What I am noticing, is basically I can do quite a bit, but when my body has had enough it just shuts down, gets dizzy, weak and is like lay me down right now lady or I will lay you down myself! So I just mostly listen. I really like to get shit done, like I actually enjoy it, so for me doing less is not so easy. Infusio tells us....it will be a rollercoaster for a while....how long they don't really know...it depends on the person. Honestly so far I feel like I am doing pretty decent. I would be thrilled if it never got worse then this, and in the name of positive thinking....it won't....infact it will just keep getting better ;)
I forgot to mention, that from the day I got my stem cells, I am supposed to be taking it easy, not breathing in or using any chemicals of any kind, eating healthy and generally practicing clean living for 100 days. Thats the rule. The reason for this, is that all the time my stem cells are replicating and healing my body and we do not want to do anything to jeopardize this. I can't even color my HAIR. uhhhhgggg. That part is a killer, but I guess I can trade it in for good health....just this once ;)
So there you have it friends. Im home, Im full of stem cells, Im chilling and Im finding new ways of not killing COUGH I mean entertaining my 6 year old for the summer....so until next time....
Onward and Upward it is!!
Realzlifemomma OUT
<3 <3 <3
PS: Note the BH fashion pics. I just had to post. I mean c'mon. The leopard print was fur....FUR. Also the one pic is of Kyle's Store (from housewives of Beverly Hills). Apparently they were filming housewives there one day. Did we see anyone cool...no we didn't but hey...we could have...and that counts.
The rest of my clinic days at Infusio were very much the same....IVs....like 5 bags at a time, ozone treatment, trigger point massages, laser bed, thymus injection....find lunch, uber home....get jammies on....get in the bed.....try not to leave the bed. The biggest difference of course, was that my boys were with me now. So I went from my leisurely mornings only getting myself ready and finding myself food, to being awoken to a loud breathing 6 year old & freight train husband snores....frantically getting everyone's room service orders, finding peoples favorite cartoon channels, setting out little mans clothes, tidying up, setting up Lyft AND getting myself to the clinic before 9:30am. Full on mommy mode. HMMMM....did I reallllly miss them?
On Thursday of week 2 my big day of stem cells had arrived!! The day we were all anticipating. I wasn't even afraid...it was weird. I was like bring it on baby! Thats what Im here for so lets get it. My procedure was in a different area of the clinic that I hadn't spent as much time in. I had to be there for 7:30am. When we arrived they ushered us into a small room with a comfy chair for me. Dr Kim came in an asked me if I wanted a bit of "happy juice." I asked her if most people took it and she said yes. Then I asked if it would help with the pain...she said no. I said no thank you and she looked at me like I was totally insane. This is another big difference I noticed just being in the US vs Canada.....medication/drugs are pretty much no big deal. If they are willing to give it to you...ya take it...no questions asked. I wasn't nervous so I passed. Besides Im pretty sure early 20's Erin had enough happy juice of sorts to last me the rest of my life. We were not in the little room for very long when Dr Kim came to get us. "Ummmm is your little boy coming?!" she asked. "If he is allowed in there he is, because he is determined to see everything about this procedure...especially his mom in pain" I answered. "All right I guess if you are sure? Its not the nicest of things for most adults to see." "Nope! Im good to go!!" Karras pipes up. So we all go into the operating style room. I lay down on the table and the boys share a chair. Dr Kim "numbs" my back with her little needle. I don't exactly numb very well so I ask her to juice it up. She does. Then she makes 2 tiny incisions in my lower back....she inserts this long skinny suction looking device over and over into the tiny incisions....she repeats this until she gets enough fat to fill 3 syringes. I didn't feel much at first, but as the numbing wore off like 2 seconds later...I feel everything...it feels like shit. I swore she was pretty much bruising my actual bones in my back. This was pretty uncomfortable, but still tolerable....like Ive had a baby so I basically compare everything to that pain and this wasn't even close....so still doing ok. All the while Karras and Paul were snapping pics and taking videos. I looked over and Karras was basically emotionless....like just another day at the office. lol. I opted for the extra stem cells in the stomach, because of all of my digestive issues, so as soon as she had her syringes, I flipped over to my back. She then inserted like the longest needle ever into the middle of the left part of my tummy, and boom that part of the process was complete! It probably took all of about 40 mins. I got all bandaged up and we went back into the tiny room. They then hooked me up to an IV of Malitol. They said that this IV would open up the blood brain barrier to allow my stems to cross through. I was like ok ya my brain could use all the stems it can get....giddy up! While I had this IV Dylan the nicest lab pro ever mixed up my stem cells and waited for them to replicate before hooking them up to my IV. He showed me the number of the stem cells that would be entering my system and it was 164 million!! Seeing as the average is around 80 million I was feeling pretty proud of my little stemmies! Dylan allowed Paul and Karras to be the ones to inject the bag with the syringe of stem cells. I cant tell you what a special moment that was. It just felt so awesome to have them be part of the process in getting a new lease on life. I prayed out loud on my stemmies at that moment....I told them I was thankful for them, and I asked them to please go forth and do a wonderful job of healing my body. I magic-ed them all of my positive energy and love. Just like that it was over...they were in and I was on my way to a more healthful life.
The rest of the day my back was pretty real sore and was oozing saline & weird shiz so we laid low at the hotel and just chilled. I didn't sleep very well that night because of the pain. The next couple days at the clinic were a bit easier and lighter. The day I left I felt sad to be leaving my wonderful group of friends I had met and our insightful & hilarious yet professional nurse Hollis. I also felt on top of the world. I was done! I did it....I completed it man and I had my stem cells. I was ready.
We drove that day to Orange County and stayed at the beautiful Hyatt in Huntington Beach. It was such a treat to finally leave hot ass LA and relax in the breeze of the beach air and feel the love of our amazing family whom we miss so dearly. We really only had one day before we left for home so we soaked in as much as we could by the pool for literally 10 whole hours. I felt amazing that day....decent energy, no usual symptoms....it was wonderful.
Monday am arrived far to early, we didn't sleep well and were super tired from Sunday's events. We drug ourselves to the airport and through all the crap and finally arrived home that evening. To say I felt bad was an understatement. Muscles were sore, fatigue was crushing, dizzy, weak...the works.
As the days went on at home, it took me a LONG time to recover. Like quite a few days in and out of bed. When I did start feeling better, I realized I had alot of lyme symptoms return on me. Things like knee and joint aches, muscle pain, nerve disturbances, restless leg, irritated bladder etc. I am told this is normal and it happens to most. I am having to take naps daily. My days are just a bit slower and easier going then before. Its so hard when you are a mom and wife to "take breaks" as they say...like YA RIGHT no problem. lol. Not to mention its summer and my baby troll is home for however many more weeks. In actuality he is amazing for the most part, but you know, he still needs to eat, get bum wipe checks and forced into the shower now again. What I am noticing, is basically I can do quite a bit, but when my body has had enough it just shuts down, gets dizzy, weak and is like lay me down right now lady or I will lay you down myself! So I just mostly listen. I really like to get shit done, like I actually enjoy it, so for me doing less is not so easy. Infusio tells us....it will be a rollercoaster for a while....how long they don't really know...it depends on the person. Honestly so far I feel like I am doing pretty decent. I would be thrilled if it never got worse then this, and in the name of positive thinking....it won't....infact it will just keep getting better ;)
I forgot to mention, that from the day I got my stem cells, I am supposed to be taking it easy, not breathing in or using any chemicals of any kind, eating healthy and generally practicing clean living for 100 days. Thats the rule. The reason for this, is that all the time my stem cells are replicating and healing my body and we do not want to do anything to jeopardize this. I can't even color my HAIR. uhhhhgggg. That part is a killer, but I guess I can trade it in for good health....just this once ;)
So there you have it friends. Im home, Im full of stem cells, Im chilling and Im finding new ways of not killing COUGH I mean entertaining my 6 year old for the summer....so until next time....
Onward and Upward it is!!
Realzlifemomma OUT
<3 <3 <3
PS: Note the BH fashion pics. I just had to post. I mean c'mon. The leopard print was fur....FUR. Also the one pic is of Kyle's Store (from housewives of Beverly Hills). Apparently they were filming housewives there one day. Did we see anyone cool...no we didn't but hey...we could have...and that counts.
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