My Curious Mind

As we are getting closer to saying goodbye to 2015, I am getting excited to begin a new year.   This year has been filled with a lot of joy and some sadness.  We said goodbye  last week to one of our beloved family members.  He was an inspiration to a lot of people and left us all with a gift.  The gift of cherishing every day with our family and friends.   He was my niece and nephew's grandpa on the other side of the family.  He will be greatly missed by his wife, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.   His funeral was attended by many friends of the community and I can see him in my mind smiling down from heaven.

Today is a special day for my dad and me.  It would have been my mother's 81st birthday.  If she were here I would tell her that I have discovered a lot about her own health issues that took her life.  She had many problems and in a journey to facilitate  my own wellness I have unlocked the key to some of her medical problems.  We can not go back, but I was able with the help of some terrific doctors and nurses to figure out what some of her medical issues were caused by.

We are genetically inclined to follow the path of our parent's health problems.  However,  with the advancement in medicine we now can help prevent problems that arise from those genetics.  I set out on a journey in September of 2014 to find out why I was feeling so badly.  It has now been a little over a year and I have learned so much about my own body.  I had some more test done recently which unleashed some medical problems about myself.  I feel now that I am able to become a healthy whole person again.  They are simple fixes yet they had the potential to end my life.  I am so glad that I sought the help of some integrative medical specialist that took the time to really listen to my symptoms and do some test that are not normally done at routine physicals.  I previously had some doctors that just wanted to treat the symptoms.  My curious mind and quest to find out what was wrong with my mother led me to these integrative medical professionals.  I got to thank them yesterday for changing my life.  They have left me very grateful and I wish that they had been around for my mother.  We believe that we could have made her quality of life much better.

Women's health issues are so over looked and I am glad that I never lost hope of finding someone that specialized in the whole HTP axis.  I was starting to feel better and now with the completion of the rest of my wellness plan the new year before me is going to be even better. 

Happy Birthday Mother!
Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth:)