1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
The Most Important Reason why You are the best Advocate in regards to your own health.
YOUR LIFE RELIES ON YOU
If you feel there is something wrong follow it up. Trust what your body is saying to you, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU NEED TO RETURN TO YOUR DOCTOR.
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
Journey
Having had a smear test 6 months earlier and it saying all was fine, I got diagnosed with C3 cervical cancer when I was 21 years old.
The only reason I found out I had cancer was because I would not let up in regards to getting tested again because I knew something was wrong. When my results came through and indeed it showed cancer, I was told that the cancer was so aggressive that had I not had the test done, 3 months down the line I would be preparing my funeral.
That story is such a long time ago feels like another life time, but sine than I have had numerous operations for one thing or the other, 23 to be exact.
I have had 3 close calls to the pearly gates and have had the medical profession scratching their heads more than once, twice or even three times asking themselves what have we got here? (medical mystery)
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
You are your best advocate
This lightly sums up my medical career, indeed I have equivalent to a PHD in medicine and know more about the human body (My body) than most doctors.
I have had so many strange things happen in my body, that all the specialists that I have, all laugh and joke at the fact that once they cut me open there would always be something unusual. The chances are there would be more to find than first thought, or the opposite. There will be absolutely nothing there when in fact images indicate there should be.
Thank goodness for their sense of humour.
My journey on this planet started off with resentment of being born. From the moment my mum went into labour, I protested at arms length at the fact that I did not want to come back to be born again, but alas lessons to be learned and passed on, so here am I, forceps delivered and fighting all the way.
On this incredible journey I have seen so many aspects of myself, it seems impossible to imagine there are so many. My search for answers started off as a selfish quest, to lighten my own load of burdens which I carried upon my shoulders. I was looking for ways to unload the pain and emotional trauma that I had experienced in my life.
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A Humble Thanks
My selfish quest has turned into something of humble thanks, as I learn and renew my ideas, constantly I am gifted with a ever ending flow of information and love. Constantly the universe shows me unconditional love in the rawest and most beautiful of forms. I feel like I have been blessed in so many ways.
They said I would never have children but Chris and I do have one beautiful daughter, her name being Angel because she really was our miracle baby.
I have had so many fantastic, wonderful, and surreal experiences in my life, some so truly bizarre they are unbelievable. I had the best parents anyone could ask for. I was blessed to have been given a gift, a gift that my father was aware of and in knowing this, taught me important skills when I was a child. Skills that would help me learn about myself, skills that would help me deal with my life. My father taught me the power of the mind.
What started off as a selfish quest to lighten my load has turned into a lifetime of gathering and teaching the unconditional love that the universe bestows upon me.
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
Blessed
Why have I had so many different amazing experienced in my life?
I learned and listened, to what the universe was saying.
I survive all the crap that I have had to endure, because of this, it has set me up in a perfect position, to be a conduit.
Here are some situations in my life that were crap, but in saying that these situations helped me become who I am today so I am truly grateful.
I know what it’s like to keep a secret for many years because of fear, because as a child one man using Neuro Linguistic programming told me that it was my fault, my parents would hate and punish me, they would not love me, if ever I said to them that he was touching me.( 7 years of sexual abuse as a child) I SURVIVED
I know what it is to struggle with spirituality, afraid of religious doctrines, afraid of burning in hell, I lived with demons every day. Real and spiritual. I SURVIVED
I know what it is like to be deluded, thinking that you have all the answers about what is good for your life, this deluded thinking took me down some very dark and dangerous pathways. I SURVIVED
I know what it feels like when the noise of life gets so loud in your head that you can not find your own thoughts anymore. I SURVIVED
I know what it’s like when you suddenly realise you no longer exist in the equation, that all your passions and dreams have withered away on the ocean shore, and that you are drowning in an ocean of lost hopes and dreams, leaving you feeling pointless. I SURVIVED
I know the feelings of losing unborn children, two children I did not physically meet. I SURVIVED
I know what it feels like to be an empath, when you feel someone else’s pain, the emotions pumping through your veins, the depression, confusion and pain but there is nothing you can do, because you don’t even know their name. I SURVIVED
I know what it’s like to be faced with your own mortality, are you going to die, is this the end of your life, Is today going to be your last day. I SURVIVED
I know what it’s like to have to learn to walk all over again, after surgery, wondering if you will ever run or enjoy life as you used to. I SURVIVED
I grew up with a view of the world that was different to what everyone else saw. I grew up with an insight as to what was behind the veil. I SURVIVED
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
Listen to Yourself
Life is strange, complicated and odd in many ways but it is exciting, fascinating and all inspiring in so many other ways, it is continually calling me to pursue more courage for more knowledge.
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
Nobody knows your body better than you.
Listen to everything your intuition is telling you.
Be an Advocate for your own health, take charge, take control, follow through on intuitive feelings.
DO NOT let the medical profession bully you, belittle you or ignore you. !!!
Be strong get your answers, get results, don’t settle for a non explanation.
I kept a journal for my daughter, I started writing it in 1994. Very time I went in for surgery I knew there was a possibility that I would never come home, The more surgery you have the higher the risk of complications. I would write to Angel like it was the last thing a mum would write to her daughter always telling her how proud I was and how much I loved her.
My Dad gave me an incredible gift.
My dad taught me when I was 4 years old the value of mind, the value of concentrated energy and thought. This has at the end of the day got me through so much, it gives me strength when I need it the most.
I did not like church, and always had an issue with church authority even as a little girl. My father new this and in order for me to sit quietly in church for an hour he taught me a game. He would tell me to stare at the back of someones head that was near the front of the church. He told me if I stared at the back of their head long enough and really concentrated I could get them to turn around and look directly at me, but they would not see me. Sure enough this game kept me busy and entertained for the hour, and dad would often give me a nudge with his elbow when he saw the whole front row turn around and look our way…
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
The Gift of Mind
This valuable skill that my dad taught me has helped me deal with physical, mental and emotional pain. What my dad taught me was how powerful the mind and thought could be, in fact it was not until I got much older that I realised just how powerful all this stuff could really be.
I say I am a conduit because I do not have the answers to all the unexplainable events that have happened in my life, events that have no logical explanation so I have come to the conclusion there is a bigger source playing it’s hand, and I am but the vessel. Like each and everyone of you, we are all vessels. Now is the time to share with you my story.
Much of what I will be sharing with you in my blog are things that have deep meaning for me. I have struggled with health problems all my life, and when my dad died I found one of Louise Hays books. From that day I have questioned every thought, trying to find clues as to where my thinking has failed me as to why I have had so many health problem, but I have learnt it is not in my thinking, it is simply my journey.
Someone asked me on one of my posts what website was I sourcing my information. I was a little taken back at first, wondering why someone would ask such a thing but then I realized I take for granted what is in my head. I have my own website which I put together while I was in Canada. I have not been practicing healing since my return to New Zealand so the website is on the back burner while I explore my place in blogging.
1 Reason Why You Are The Best Advocate In Regards To Your Own Health
Now I Write
Everything I post in this blog is in the hope that I will be helping/teaching someone something that they find useful and enlightening. I have been blessed to have had some real crap in my life, of which I am grateful for other wise I may never have learned the knowledge I have now.
Our lives are uniquely our own experience. We all have a job to help those that need our support, if we have survived, we can help others survive.
Love and light to all, stay strong and listen to your body when it speaks, it is trying to tell you something.
Like you I have struggled endlessly to find my purpose, I have stopped looking now and just decided to write.
10:18 pm on July 6th, 2015
Chur Rhonda that was a well written part of your teenage years that was way ahead for that time hahaha totally cool perspective on suicide that no one really wants to talk about aye Chur.I remember I had a project at college and my subject was Death hahaha I went to a funeral parlour and asked them if they could talk to me about how they deal with Death wow right that’s when my fascination with think outside the box started then hahaha chur
12:14 pm on July 7th, 2015
…. laugh out loud…You’ve got to have people like us in the world aye Missy, those few that question everything…LOL
12:52 am on July 7th, 2015
Thank you for writing this blog. It is very badly needed in today’s world.
12:27 pm on July 7th, 2015
Thanks Shaun I couldn’t agree with you more. We all need to get our heads out of the sand and realise that this is a pressing issue that so needs to be opened up and talked about. Each and every one of us have somehow had a connection to suicide in our lives, whether by someone we know or have heard of. Talking about it might take away the stigma of mental illness and bring it out into the open as an every day reality because that is exactly what it is. Regards Rhonda
4:03 am on July 7th, 2015
My birth father committed suicide. Even to this day I haven’t really processed what that means. I was 5. All I knew was that one day he was there and the next day a nurse was telling me he was gone. To this day I still don’t have an emotion to attach to that moment. I was very matter-of-fact about it. Life went on. It had to.
I’m not too sure however that I would call what he did brave … I think he was just hurting so much and the only way to ease his pain was to go.
Sadly he had reached out to the medical profession & had been admitted to hospital … but somehow … when he got out … things didn’t go well.
And that’s a story for another day.
Thank you for writing about this subject … and yes … as Shaun mentioned … it is a subject that needs to be discussed.
We were never really allowed to discuss it … it was almost as if it never happened.
12:43 pm on July 7th, 2015
Thanks Erica that’s a very personal experience on the topic, thank you so much for sharing!
Yes I understand you when you say, “we were never really allowed to discuss it, it was almost as if it never happened.” To often in the past this has indeed been the way people have dealt with the topic. It’s such a frightening issue to discuss for most people, death in general is somewhat of a “no no” in conversation.
We now live in 2015, we have had missile threats, bomb threats, human life is lost everyday in war,we go to the airport and have to be scanned, body searched and swabbed, and why incase we are going to kill someone, plant a bomb or hijack the plane. Seriously and no body wants to talk about suicide…….??? something is not right here. Regards Rhonda
4:21 am on July 7th, 2015
Great post, and I understand what you mean about brave/courage bc it is a huge act. And one thing to your point is that I found something I was going to post, it said, “… because someone who was depressed suddenly appears to be happy, it doesn’t mean they’re past it, it could mean they’ve got the suicide planned” …
…and this happened in 2 cases I’ve been close to, but when it came to my courage to post it, I didn’t bc I know the reaction is that it’s negative stuff to post about (it is but that doesn’t stop the fact that it could be helpful info for someone dealing with a depressed loved one).
Thanks for openly posting on the topic.
XO, Zen
12:58 pm on July 7th, 2015
Thanks Zen there is no other way to deal with this topic if we are truly going to get a handle on it and save lives, it must be talked about. People don’t want to die, they quite simply can’t see another alternative that suits. People don’t always want to talk about their problems do you? I don’t.
I am sorry to hear that you have experienced 2 people taking their lives, I to have known someone take his own life, he left behind a partner and 2 small children. It truly and simply was a decision and choice by that individual to do this, no one had any idea of his depression or plan, So we never know what anyone is truly thinking, happy or sad makes no difference. The way I view it, if we talk about it more, people might feel safe to discuss their private thoughts more openly. regards Rhonda
4:48 am on July 7th, 2015
Wow.
As I am beginning to see, you love to tackle those ‘Hard’ topics that others are not up for but should be thinking about.
As a young person, I admit to having suicidal thoughts primarily because I didnt follow the status quo … I was ever the rebel. I was always in trouble because I thought differently, questioning everything, thinking outside the box, creating a nuisance for my teachers and parents. This stemmed from my imagination and creative abilities and the fact that I read an amazing amount of various older / mature reading material. Books were always my escape from religious oppression… my father being a minister really didnt help much. Lol.
I think my leaving school and that whole regimented style of learning was my saving grace. I also believe that walking away from my fathers religious fervour was also a big help in my still being here today
Life is about the choices we make and the strength of purpose to walk the path that we choose. Death is the end of that journey and even though I believe your view that it takes incredible strength of purpose to take ones life … I valued my path more than not being able to experience as much of what is beautiful in life, more than giving over to Death.
Thank you Rhonda for writing this blog. It does indeed seem to be the last taboo subject but, It needs to be opened up and discussed.
1:10 pm on July 7th, 2015
What a beautiful comment and warm response Rodney, now that one hit home, perhaps I felt I was looking in the mirror at times when reading this. “Life is about the choices we make and the strength of purpose to walk the path that we choose.” oh so true Rodney, like you I valve my path and believe all the crap builds your character. If we could bottle some of that strength and place it with the preserves and open up a jar when we were feeling a little low on energy that would be great…. giving over to death well I think we all have to much to do and to much to see, life is short enough how it is..Thanks again Rodney.. Regards Rhonda
8:17 am on July 7th, 2015
Wow! Powerful subject and another subject people do not want to discuss. I have had some exposure to this in my world but it is something that many people put in the “too painful to deal with” pile in their IN basket (thought process). Another great post appreciated – thank you.
1:14 pm on July 7th, 2015
Hi Nancy like every single person here you are not alone… this is the point I am making in my article, such a common reality but so little said about it. I am pleased you appreciated my post,thank you Nancy means a lot to me to have people acknowledge the fact that it needs discussing.. this topic holds so much pain for so many people lets open it up and set it free..Regards Rhonda
8:45 am on July 7th, 2015
wow – yes powerful topic… I have no experience with suicide and I’ve never felt I wanted to do it, either but for whatever reason I have amazing compassion about it.. Knowing I couldn’t do it – I do think its brave… and I think its just awful that those people are in such a place that they are not thinking about the incredible hurt of those left behind… I have a friend whose father committed suicide, I think she was pregnant at the time too… so I can’t image how it feels to lose a parent or child or anyone to it.. I know if it were me, part of me would feel I’d failed.. although I know that would not be the case. Thanks for sharing Rhonda, what a emotive subject ..
1:38 pm on July 7th, 2015
Thanks Helen, thanks kindly for your comment, I agree with you Helen when you say the amount of trauma those left behind go through is enormous, in some cases so enormous that people are unable to work through it. I believe some people have immunity to suicidal thoughts while others are plagued with them, It’s certainly a very personal journey. Thanks Helen appreciate your comments always. regards Rhonda.