December

Looking back, December was my best month.

While everyone was planning their Christmas vacation, I spent my day in bed watching Christmas movies all day long, trying to figure out how I would squeeze in some winter fun with my family.

One evening, while it was getting closer to Christmas, some close family friends stopped by, with the most amazing Christmas gift at all. Good health. With some basic information on a drink called Asea and hyperbaric treatments, which had tremendously helped a member of their family.

I began taking two ounces of Asea on December thirteenth, a few days later I had my first hyperbaric treatment.

Basically, the Asea worked at a molecular level to force my body to recover how it would naturally. It replaced the damaged redox signaling molecules, brought the partial healthy molecules up to optimum level, and with the help the the hyperbaric sessions, it would increase the level of oxygen in my body so that my body would be forced to recover the way it should, instead of with the help of prescription drugs and surgery.

I didn't know what all Asea did, but other than salt water, the ingredients in the Asea are native to the human body, so it obviously couldn't hurt me. I started from two ounces a day, until I was taking 16 ounces of Asea every day. Within two days, we saw immediate results. On a scale of 1-10, 1 being hardly anything, and 10 being the most excruciating pain I've ever felt, I was battling a 9-10 pain every single day. After two days with Asea, my pain was down to a 5.

This was not to say that I wouldn't have my days of high pain, or a hard time getting out of bed, but it was obvious how well I was beginning to feel just with the help of Asea alone!

I started hyperbaric treatments just a few days later, which is basically a big tube that I laid in which stimulated me laying under four pounds of pressure. Which was basically like going almost thirty feet under the sea or ocean. This got my body up to its optimum oxygen level and after just an hour per treatment, that would help my body and the Asea do its job and heal.

Because the hyperbaric treatment was so weird, I just kept reminding myself that Michael Jackson used to sleep in one, and probably every single one of the players on the Dallas Cowboys had used one at one point in their career, so it obviously wouldn't do any damage or even hurt. In fact, the car ride over to the treatment facility, in the back of a tanning salon, hurt worse than laying in the hyperbaric tube for an hour.

About a week before Christmas, immediately after my treatments, Nick, my mom, and I went Christmas shopping, went out to one of our favorite restaraunts for dinner, and then went off to the Broadmoor to look at Christmas lights.

Pulling up to the valet, tears filled in my eyes. Just being able to get out for this one night was the best present I could have gotten this year for Christmas. For the first time, I got to do something normal to celebrate the holidays like everyone else would. For the first time, I could get out without doubling over in pain. I was feeling so good that night, that I never wanted to go. For the first time, I was the one begging to go for another walk instead of begging to go back home so I could lay down.

Christmas was exactly the same. I was able to get up early with Zach and my mom and open presents and even walk all over the complex with Zach and Nick while they had snow ball fights and took Zach's snow skates out. The whole day was perfect.

After hitting such a low point in my physical and mental health, this Christmas showed me what it was all about. I didn't get a new iPad, I didn't get a new designer bag, or a new car, but I got my health back. I got to have a holiday without any pain, and it was spent with those who truely matter in my life. I couldn't be any happier.

I knew that it could only get better from here.