Eileen
by EileenI am a nurse by training and profession and I love my work. I always did and I've always, as far as I can think back, wanted to be one. And I have always looked after myself, it was the way I was brought up. I learned cooking from my Mum – I don't use a microwave and these pre-cooked meals and I don' t think I've ever eaten any of those hamburgers from those fast food places.
In 1995 I started to feel unwell and I went for an examination and I was diagnosed as having a congenital heart defect. One of the valves in my heart had to be replaced and I was facing a major operation at some stage . But despite looking after myself well I kept feeling unwell and it wasn't getting any better and things dragged on for years. Then, in 2001 I was going to have my heart surgery and as part of the pre-op examination I had a full blood test, which showed a very high liver enzyme level and, to cut a long story short, it turned out that I had Hepatitis C and had contracted the virus in 1987, when I had accidentally scratched my skin with a needle that I had used on a patient to get a blood sample and this patient had proved positive for Hepatitis C.
I had my heart operation in 2001 and was off work for a year and in 2004 started treatment for Hepatitis C. It was awful, I got viral gastroenteritis, felt very,very weak and lost a lot of weight. I looked and felt emaciated and was hospitalised for three months and spent a whole year recovering. When I did go back to work I could only do part time. I honestly think , that only people who have gone through this sort of thing themselves can understand how awful the side-effects of the treatment are and how awful they make you feel. I had no motivation left in me. Everything was a huge effort. Going shopping was a major exercise that had to be planned in advance and I had to drag myself around the supermarket to do my weekly shop. When I did eventually get home I felt annihilated – as if someone had pulled out the plug and left me with no energy. I had little life left in me.
Last May, in 2007, I was asked by G. if I wanted to try a new colostrum,holvita liquid colostrum. It was being tried out with a group of Hepatitis C people and she had responded well and she thought it might be good for me. That was ten months ago and I haven't looked back since. It was the start of a “new lease of life”. I still can't quite believe what's happened to me and neither can the people around me! I was at a funeral last week ( I'm now of the age when you meet old friends at a friend's funeral!) and people were just amazed. Some of them even didn't recognised me at first! They all said that I looked 10 years younger and that my hair looked so lush!
I had a holiday last year – the first for many years. I went on a walking holiday on the Isle of Weight with some friends and it can be quite hilly there. Well, I walked and walked, I DID get out of breath but I now recover so quickly!That' s the big difference, you recover so quickly. And I feel so well. It isn't just that the illness has gone, taking holvita colostrum makes me feel better in my whole body. If someone had told me a year ago that this is how I'd be one year on, I would not have believed them. I can honestly say, that since taking the holvita colostrum – and this is no lie! - I' ve got my life back again. Oh, and I'm also back doing what I like best, nursing!
P.S. I didn't have flu or a cold this year, while my healthy son was sniffling and coughing through a lot of the winter!
Eileen
March the 10th, 2008