Friday, February 21, 2014
Why I Love Essential Oil?
If you would of asks me a year ago if I would be sitting here typing up a post on why I use and sell essential oils I would of laughed and called you crazy!!!!!
You see even though I have never been keen on modern day medicine, I can't say that I believed in "natural" treatment either. But before I go on let me first start from the beginning, years ago I was pregnant with my first son, shortly after I delivered him I started to experience some muscle and joint stiffness and pain. I thought it was just a hazard of the trade since my primary job is making people beautiful as a hairstylist, one morning when my precious new son awoke I went to pick him up out of the crib and couldn't, my hands were so stiff I couldn't close them around his tiny body.
I talked to my doctor who referred me to a specialist whom tested me for carpel tunnel. The test came back negative and the pain went away and of coarse I got busy and never followed up again. Now and then I would experience this same type stiffness but being a new mom I ignored it waited for it to pass and continued on my way.
Fast Forward two years later, I gave birth to my second beautiful bundle of joy who was every bit as precious as his older brother. A couple month after delivery I woke up with a horrible pain in my abdomen, I tried to nurse through it but with the insistence of my husband we packed up our newborn and toddler and headed to the ER. I spent twelve hours on a morphine drip before removing my appendix, eight hours later I was back home snuggled up with my precious new baby.
I thought for sure I was finished with my little bits of soreness and sickness until 5 days after my appendectomy I was rushed to the hospital but this time it was more serious than ever before. I spent 4 days in one hospital only to be told my heart was failing and they needed to ambulance me to a different hospital that has special doctors and a cardiac ICU. Please note at the time I was 28 years old and weighed about 110lbs, the last person in the world you could ever picture being ambulances to a special cardiac unit. The doctors all put their heads together and decided I was suffering from Postpartum Cardiomyopathy. After a total of 8 days in the hospital I was sent home with several mediations and an extremely low sodium diet.
Over the last 5 years I have been able to come of all but one of my medications and my very strict diet was lifted to a more generous "be wary of what you eat" diet. Everything was looking up, I was feeling great, I had dealt with my disease and what that meant for my life and future and I was moving forward, happy, healed, heathy, and alive.
That was until these past holidays, came down with Strep throat on Thanksgiving , followed by the flu at Christmas and new years, basically I missed all family functions during the holiday season due to viruses! I finally got the whole house better after several rounds of antibiotics for everybody when I started feeling soreness in my legs. We had just went to an RV show and I thought that maybe I was complexity and sadly out of shape and that was the cause for the soreness in my upper thighs, but the soreness slowly moved to my knees, and my calfs, then my ankles and toes, followed by all the other muscles and joints in my body. I couldn't sleep, my legs crapped all night and my hands felt like two 50lb lobster claws I couldn't position right. When I woke up one morning unable to close my hands into a fist, I knew something was seriously wrong. Turns out I might have Lupus, yes you heard right Lupus. I was shocked with the suggestion but my bloodwork and medical history were pretty convincing.
So here is were my oil testimony comes in, I sat across the table from this very sweet, very qualified doctor, with empathy inner eyes she started to explain what lupus was an dhow it is treated. She basically painted a picture of a life filled with pain killers, anti-inflamitories and immune suppressants. I already hated the fact that I had to take medication for my heart that was doing Lord knows what else to my body, that I couldn't handle the idea of more medicine. No one under the age of 35 should need a gigantic pill box. I them preceded to asks her about the side effects of the treatment and medication. I had heard from other that the anti-inflamitories would kill your kidneys. In not these exact words she said, we worry about treating the issues that have presented them selves today and will address the others when and if the occur.... great so what she was basically saying is "we have to rob Peter in order to pay Paul." Not my idea of a good treatment plan!!!
I did some research of my own, I started visiting a chiropractor and trying some more natural ways to manage pain during my flareups. Thats when I got turned on to Young Living Essential oils by a longtime client and now mentor. I have to say they work!!!! Hands down! Without Panaway ore Peppermint oil I might not have made it though my last couple flare ups.
I invite you to join me on this journey, I feel so passionate about theses oils and believe that lives can be changed and we can step away from all this big pharmacy medication push and get back to the basics, use the oils that God placed on this earth with intension to help heal us from pain and sickness.
I look forward to hearing stories of how lives have been impacted and changed by taking steps in a more natural direction.
Many Blessings,
April
You see even though I have never been keen on modern day medicine, I can't say that I believed in "natural" treatment either. But before I go on let me first start from the beginning, years ago I was pregnant with my first son, shortly after I delivered him I started to experience some muscle and joint stiffness and pain. I thought it was just a hazard of the trade since my primary job is making people beautiful as a hairstylist, one morning when my precious new son awoke I went to pick him up out of the crib and couldn't, my hands were so stiff I couldn't close them around his tiny body.I talked to my doctor who referred me to a specialist whom tested me for carpel tunnel. The test came back negative and the pain went away and of coarse I got busy and never followed up again. Now and then I would experience this same type stiffness but being a new mom I ignored it waited for it to pass and continued on my way.
Fast Forward two years later, I gave birth to my second beautiful bundle of joy who was every bit as precious as his older brother. A couple month after delivery I woke up with a horrible pain in my abdomen, I tried to nurse through it but with the insistence of my husband we packed up our newborn and toddler and headed to the ER. I spent twelve hours on a morphine drip before removing my appendix, eight hours later I was back home snuggled up with my precious new baby.
I thought for sure I was finished with my little bits of soreness and sickness until 5 days after my appendectomy I was rushed to the hospital but this time it was more serious than ever before. I spent 4 days in one hospital only to be told my heart was failing and they needed to ambulance me to a different hospital that has special doctors and a cardiac ICU. Please note at the time I was 28 years old and weighed about 110lbs, the last person in the world you could ever picture being ambulances to a special cardiac unit. The doctors all put their heads together and decided I was suffering from Postpartum Cardiomyopathy. After a total of 8 days in the hospital I was sent home with several mediations and an extremely low sodium diet.
Over the last 5 years I have been able to come of all but one of my medications and my very strict diet was lifted to a more generous "be wary of what you eat" diet. Everything was looking up, I was feeling great, I had dealt with my disease and what that meant for my life and future and I was moving forward, happy, healed, heathy, and alive.
That was until these past holidays, came down with Strep throat on Thanksgiving , followed by the flu at Christmas and new years, basically I missed all family functions during the holiday season due to viruses! I finally got the whole house better after several rounds of antibiotics for everybody when I started feeling soreness in my legs. We had just went to an RV show and I thought that maybe I was complexity and sadly out of shape and that was the cause for the soreness in my upper thighs, but the soreness slowly moved to my knees, and my calfs, then my ankles and toes, followed by all the other muscles and joints in my body. I couldn't sleep, my legs crapped all night and my hands felt like two 50lb lobster claws I couldn't position right. When I woke up one morning unable to close my hands into a fist, I knew something was seriously wrong. Turns out I might have Lupus, yes you heard right Lupus. I was shocked with the suggestion but my bloodwork and medical history were pretty convincing.
So here is were my oil testimony comes in, I sat across the table from this very sweet, very qualified doctor, with empathy inner eyes she started to explain what lupus was an dhow it is treated. She basically painted a picture of a life filled with pain killers, anti-inflamitories and immune suppressants. I already hated the fact that I had to take medication for my heart that was doing Lord knows what else to my body, that I couldn't handle the idea of more medicine. No one under the age of 35 should need a gigantic pill box. I them preceded to asks her about the side effects of the treatment and medication. I had heard from other that the anti-inflamitories would kill your kidneys. In not these exact words she said, we worry about treating the issues that have presented them selves today and will address the others when and if the occur.... great so what she was basically saying is "we have to rob Peter in order to pay Paul." Not my idea of a good treatment plan!!!
I did some research of my own, I started visiting a chiropractor and trying some more natural ways to manage pain during my flareups. Thats when I got turned on to Young Living Essential oils by a longtime client and now mentor. I have to say they work!!!! Hands down! Without Panaway ore Peppermint oil I might not have made it though my last couple flare ups.
I invite you to join me on this journey, I feel so passionate about theses oils and believe that lives can be changed and we can step away from all this big pharmacy medication push and get back to the basics, use the oils that God placed on this earth with intension to help heal us from pain and sickness.
I look forward to hearing stories of how lives have been impacted and changed by taking steps in a more natural direction.
Many Blessings,
April
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