Rife and an Update

I am long overdue for an update, and a lot has changed!

I have read a lot of books. Here are the ones I have read but not reviewed.

36) Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
37) Doctrine and Covenants
38) Pearl of Great Price
39) The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase) by Rick Riordan
40) Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt
41) A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories) by Chris Colfer
42) Beyond the Kingdoms (The Land of Stories) by Chris Colfer
43) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
44) Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Howard W. Hunter, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
45) Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Ok, on to Lyme updates.

I told you that I quit treatment, right? It's been months and months. My husband was doing our taxes, and he quantified how much we had spent on healthcare in 2015. We were shocked, floored, maybe even devastated.

That was the last straw for me. My guts were worlds better than they had been when I started treatment, but nothing else had made that much money's worth of progress, and I was fed up. So I gradually took myself off of EVERYTHING I was taking except for the two cheap prescriptions. I got some salt lamps and bath bombs and a free library app. I determined to maintain myself through self care, etc. In the back of my mind, I knew there was one modality called rife with a rife practitioner that I had meant to try, but I didn't want to drop fifty dollars to try something that might not work. I was done.

I was content. We had modified our lives to my level of energy, and it was working. I still spent more time in bed than out, but I was okay. Our kids were happy. My husband was productive. I rarely had pain; I just had no energy. The summer heat made me really sick, but we had puppies the kids could play with all summer long.

After many months of doing well enough but not progressing, I heard my son praying one night. He asked Heavenly Father to help me feel better. I noticed he asked every night thereafter. The requests were specific to days and then events and then the entire month. This boy is endlessly patient with his slow mother, but I though that maybe I should try to step up my game to not just maintain myself, but maybe even improve. Maybe I should try to manifest some of his hopeful prayer.

An invitation to the state-wide Lyme support group meeting appeared in my email inbox, and it said someone would be demonstrating a rife machine. Rife--that thing I'd never tried. If I went, I could try it for free. So I drank some caffeine to get me there, and I went.

A man who had had Lyme showed us his machine and explained how he had been well for eight years, having used rife intensively for one year at the start plus a couple years of maintenance. Rife is a frequency generator, manifesting in radio and light waves, that can be tuned to different frequencies to heal or to kill, depending on the need. He demonstrated a couple healing channels on us, one for sleep and one for increasing energy. I was extremely sensitive to both. Then he put the machine on a kill channel for Lyme. I felt sick to my stomach and anxious, but it went away once the short cycle was over.

These energies don't care that Lyme spirochetes can manipulate their DNA to hide from the immune system or build biofilms to protect them or burrow deep into tissues where antibiotics can't find them. The right kill frequencies can find the spirochetes and blast them apart. Done. And all you have to do is clean up the mess and manifest exacerbated Lyme symptoms in a process called herxing. With time, these reactions lessen as there is less to clean up. Slam bam, thank you ma'am--you're on your way to wellness.

It took me two weeks to recover from this short demonstration. From what I remember, this manifested in migraines, severe gut pain, foggy brain, insomnia, mood issues, and involuntary bedrest. That's how badly I herxed.

Rife worked for me.

I decided to look up the rife person from my contacts that I'd managed to avoid for a year, and I made an appointment. The practitioner seemed nice at first, but she was so motivated by fear that she seemed impassioned about scolding and scaring me into submission with different treatments she recommended. Furthermore, she only scanned me for problems and didn't actually let me try their rife at all. I left, $250 poorer and frustrated. She tried to get me to come back in with a courtesy call, but it was barbed with warnings and expressions of doubt. I fired her services from my life.

I turned to my online support group to see if anyone knew of a practitioner in the area who could let me try rife again so I could decide whether to buy one. I expected an office situation, but a woman in the group reached out and said I could come to her house. When I arrived, she ran a cycle on me and another gal. We talked and found true empathy in each other. We discussed how our purpose is to survive until a cure is found. I went home comforted, but with a splitting migraine from the treatment. I felt terrible for a day, but then I had increased energy for about three days after that.

Miraculously, and in time, we were able to get a machine, and the woman who helped me in her home graciously answers any questions I have as they come up. I'm doing a 45-day treatment protocol which includes detoxifying foot baths using the machine, and overnight rife treatments that take about eight hours. I use the machine at least twice daily. It is busy, but far more comfortable than any treatment I've ever done. The machine is a miracle. It isn't just good for Lyme--it helped my son get over a fever last week. It has hundreds of channels that are being updated or added to every week. I'm so happy and impressed with this modality. I feel hope, like maybe my son's prayers for a healthy mom will be answered someday.

I'm only a week into my Rife program, but I feel a difference. I tried a self-designed program, but I herxed. The 45-day program doesn't make me react so severely, so I am actually functional at least part of every day--sometimes all day!!!

Further, I am exercising twice a week. I found an inexpensive pair of figure skates online, and I go to the ice skating rink to do laps and try new skills. The laps are my cardio; the skills build additional muscle. My rationale is that exercise adds muscle, which adds mitochondria and ATP, and therefore, it creates more energy for a fitter mom. As a dancer, I loved working my lower body and feeling those muscles burn, so skating is a thrill that way and also because the icy air that moves past me as I skate is exhilarating. I usually zone out and listen to an audio book while I glide along.

What inspired me to skate was the older gentleman I spied doing laps when I took my kids skating one day. Since then, he has actually skated alongside me and helped me with a skill I struggled with. The same people seem to come during the public skate hours I attend--students taking a class for university, the older gentleman, and some figure skaters with a coach in the middle of the rink who are actively training. I love going; it is such a joy. It's a miracle that I can endure some exercise.

That is a sufficient update for now. Let me know if you have questions. I struggle to explain rife, so try googling the nitty gritties of how it works. The machine was expensive, but only a small fraction compared to what we spent on healthcare in 2015. I feel tremendously blessed and hope this information can help you too.