{"id":58,"date":"2016-12-03T18:58:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/?p=58"},"modified":"2016-12-17T07:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T13:28:36","slug":"58-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/58-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My first 3 weeks at Sponaugle Wellness Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nov. 20, 2016, Sunday<\/span><\/span>. My first week at SWI<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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My first week at SWI is going smoothly.\u00a0 I did not get treatment on Monday<\/span><\/span>, but I had a mild detox on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>. Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, Thursday<\/span><\/span> and Friday<\/span><\/span>. \u00a0These were the standard Detox consisting of\u00a0glutathione, amino acids, B vitamins,and \u00a0minerals.\u00a0 My energy has improved\u00a0steady since Tuesday. \u00a0For a few months before I arrived SWI, I was not able to leave home, and on some of the days I only laid in bed.\u00a0 But this week I went to the beach twice, and I went to Clearwater\u00a0Aquarium with the kids, and I was able to enjoy the whole time.\u00a0 Laird wants me to have more\u00a0aggressive\u00a0treatment, and I certainly want that too.\u00a0 During my first interview with Dr. Sponaugle, I only learned that I have severe black mold toxicity, and Dr. Sponaugle said I am an average patient. \u00a0My biofilm is significant, and my red blood cells are stretched.\u00a0 I have not done the\u00a0infectious disease panel because they want my biofilm to be broken up a bit before I do that test.<\/div>\n
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Many people I met at the center are in good spirits, and some of them have been very sick for as long as 30 years. \u00a0But now they all claim to be doing much better; a few are still struggling. \u00a0\u00a0 Mary Landsey<\/a>\u00a0 is doing amazingly well, and her family said it was a miracle that she could come this far.\u00a0 I met quite a few people who were included in Sponaugle's success story interviews.\u00a0 It is pretty interesting that I can actually talk to the people who once inspired me so much.<\/div>\n
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I will move into Gail Young's\u00a0apartment.\u00a0 The location is very\u00a0convenient because it is upstairs above the clinic.\u00a0 That means I do not have to have a car, and I have no need to deal with driving and traffic.\u00a0 Gail offered to give me a ride whenever I need groceries. \u00a0This is a bonus.\u00a0 Mom will stay with me, and I think we will do fine.\u00a0 I am so lucky to have a most wonderful mother!<\/div>\n
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People in SWI are very friendly and somewhat like a family. We are all fighters for life.\u00a0 I saw the need to make a\u00a0bulletin\u00a0board for people to exchange information.\u00a0 So I did one yesterday: \u00a0www.swi.jc-t.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I hope people appreciate my efforts and enjoy using it.\u00a0 It is so important for the new patients to get as much information as possible and to ask questions. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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I feel much more positive today, and I look forward to next week.<\/div>\n
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Nov.26\uff0c\u00a0Saturday<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 My second week at SWI<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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My second week at SWI: I feel that I am continually improving.\u00a0 But this is a short week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.\u00a0 Starting\u00a0on Monday<\/span><\/span>, I have been having two IV bags per day. \u00a0These contain phosphatidylcholine + glutathione\uff0caminos\u00a0+\u00a0minerals.<\/wbr>\u00a0 I have many\u00a0bowel movements but they are getting to be like diarrhea.\u00a0 My nurse Gary advised me to drink more water, and they also gave me more fluid in the IV bag.\u00a0 Gary told me to start taking Zeolite to help with the detox and diarrhea. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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On Thanksgiving day, I cooked Thanksgiving dinner, and we went to Clearwater Beach in the afternoon. \u00a0That evening I moved to Gale's apartment, and on Friday<\/span><\/span> the kids and Laird went home. \u00a0 My mood was a bit up and down Tuesday<\/span><\/span> and Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, but it has become better since.\u00a0 My Mom said I look like one of the best patients, and my spirits are good. I started to plan as to what I will be doing besides my medical treatments.\u00a0 I look forward to explore the surrounding area.\u00a0 Next week I want to ask Gary to give me a more aggressive protocol.\u00a0 I want to do Hot Yoga but I need a ride.\u00a0 Hope someone would want to go with me.<\/div>\n
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Ok, the second week is going smoothly, now I look forward to the third week.<\/div>\n
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Dec. 3, Saturday<\/span><\/span>. My third week at SWI<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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My third week at SWI: I am continually improving.\u00a0 This week my IV has three main ingredients: \u00a0phosphatidylcholine + glutathione+ ALA.\u00a0 Since they\u00a0adjust all patients' IVs according to their condition, it is hard to compare my IVs with others.\u00a0 Of course I wish they could tell me what exactly was in those IV bags and why I need them on that paticular day.\u00a0 But it is their policy not to tell everything to the patients, and I will make no further no comments on this. Since my reaction has been generally good, I aim to have a more aggressive\u00a0protocol.\u00a0 Gary told me my protocol is aggressive enough.\u00a0 I \u00a0can't get too much information about my own case either from Dr. Sponaugle, or the nurse.\u00a0 I first tried to talk to the veteran patients who have a lot of knowledge, \u00a0but it is hard for me to keep approaching them.\u00a0 The online bulletin board for fellow patients is a good\u00a0platform for communication\u00a0 but in order to\u00a0broadcast\u00a0to the patients, I was told approval was needed from Dr. Sponaugle.\u00a0 Anyway, this is an interesting place.\u00a0 I am doing better and better, and this is what matters to me the most.<\/div>\n
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The biggest event during this week was Anna's tragedy.\u00a0 Anna was a pretty 18-year-old girl from Louisiana who passed away on Monday<\/span><\/span> morning. \u00a0 She was a victim of the Gulf Oil Leak that occurred in April 2010, and she had been sick for many years.\u00a0 I was told Anna had made a lot of progress and was ready to go home for Christmas. \u00a0Her death was a real shock to every one, including the patients and everyone who works here.\u00a0 I heard this is the first case in which someone died during the treatment in Dr. Sponaugle's many years private practice.\u00a0 I don't have the\u00a0in-dept knowledge about her case, but rumors are coming from here and there, I really can't make a comment. \u00a0 What I learned from this\u00a0tragic case is that I can't take the treatment light-hearted, nor I can always try the more aggressive approaches. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Sure enough, my third week is going OK.\u00a0 I am looking forward to my forth week.\u00a0 In my forth week, I will have a meeting with Dr. Sponaugle to go through my PET scan; I will have another Fry blood test to see if my biofilm is being broken up; I will have my infectious disease panel to see what bacteria and virus are there in my body.\u00a0 Christmas is coming and I am being indecisive as what to do: should I take a break to go back to San Diego to be with the kids or should I stay here? Alternatively, should they come all the way to Florida?\u00a0 Travel costs are high, and I still don't know how well I will feel. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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I had no courage to take a picture when I first came to SWI.\u00a0 After months of not being able to get out of the house, lying in bed most of the day, taking sleeping pills in order to get some difficult hours of sleep, I did not expect I could look anyway closed to decent.\u00a0\u00a0 Only after started treatments at SWI, I finally had the mood to take some pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nov. 20, 2016, Sunday. My first week at SWI\u00a0My first week at SWI is going smoothly.\u00a0 I did not get treatment on Monday, but I had a mild detox on Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. \u00a0These were the standard Detox consisting of\u00a0glutathione, amino acids, B vitamins,and \u00a0minerals.\u00a0 My energy has improved\u00a0steady since Tuesday. \u00a0For a few months before I arrived SWI, I was not able to leave home, and on some of the days I Read more about My first 3 weeks at Sponaugle Wellness Institute<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-swi-experience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aNbl-W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jc-t.com\/journey2health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}