Sunshine Journal

Over a year ago I picked up the book Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. It spoke to me right away. I got through about half of it sometime ago and then it ended up at the bottom of my book pile. I recently picked it up again and reread some chapters and finished out the ones I hadn't gotten to. It's all so relatable. Sheryl lost her husband. Her kids lost their dad. Her mother-in-law lost her son. Her brother-in-law lost his brother. Their friends lost a friend. And the web goes on. Loss affects many people. We touch many lives in our time here on earth. I could pull something great from every chapter or even page, but today this spoke to me. "But just as grief crashes into us like a wave, it also rolls back like the tide. We are left not just standing, but in some ways stronger. Option B still gives us options. We can still love ... and we can still find joy. I now know that it's possible not just to bounce back but to grow. Would I trade this growth to h...

Note: Many of you don't really care to know what my actual protocol is. So you can stop reading this now if that's the case. As I continue on this lovely journey I've become that slightly annoying patient that asks oodles of questions. My main issue is that I can't always come up with questions on the spot. I'll be emailing later with a list. Absorb information, let it percolate, ask more questions <--- that's me! So now that I've inundated my new clinic with multiple emails, I hope they'll continue to be patient with me. My supplements have now been shipped out and I had a call with the doctor this morning to go through everything with me. So this is what's on the docket: Viral Binder - This will take care of any retroviruses, both at the gut level and cellular level. What is a retrovirus? It's a type of virus where RNA ( ribonucleic acid) is reverse-transcribed into DNA. Typically with viruses it's the other way around, the DNA w...