For Lucy it all began in the mid 1980s.
She was a young, ambitious real estate agent.
She was working hard, really hard.
Usually the first person
in the office in the morning and the last one out at night.
Plus, in her free time she was studying and taking courses on how to become a better real estate agent.
But, she felt so tired.
Which makes
sense, with all the stress and long hours.
Except it was an unnatural tiredness.
She consulted doctors. Many doctors.
Eventually, they diagnosed her with Epstein-Barr, a virus that causes mononucleosis chronic
fatigue.
They gave her medication. But she wasn’t at ease taking the drugs. So she started to go into the natural world and consulted naturopaths.
At that time, she was trying everything and pretty much anything, treatments, acupuncture, massages.
This all came to a head in about 2000.
Clearly, a lot of her symptoms were stress-related. Not just due to stress in her professional life but in her private life too.
That year she split up with her husband. They’d met in real
estate 11 years previously and had some good years together. But they’d grown apart.
There was a lot going on, and as Lucy explains, “if your immune system is down, the frequency of your body is down”.
Then, one night she was out at a club having a good time. All of a sudden the room started
spinning and she broke out in a sweat.
In minutes her dress was completely drenched, she had to go outside to the patio.
It wasn't until some time afterwards that she realized what had happened. She'd gone into instant and dramatic menopause.
Following this episode she began to experience pain in her extremities, her fingers and legs. It would come and go, a mixture of tingling, numbness and pain.
Increasingly, she was experiencing ringing in her ears and an, “electrical zapping in the occipital areas of my head”.
Sleep became impossible.
She was doing 15 hour days, but whenever she could she would take herself to emergency, consult doctors, try different treatments.
But it was always the same old refrain, “nothing’s wrong. We’ve done all
these tests and we can’t find anything.”
This went on for years and it got worse. Her nervous system was fried, she was increasingly depressed and there were times she could barely walk.
Then every three months, as a real-estate agent, she'd instinctively hand her phone over to a colleague and leave
for two or three weeks at a time.
She’d go to a wellness center. She'd do the treatments, do the detoxification and she'd feel better. She'd go back to work and then three months later, bam, she’d be sick again.
One day she got angry with her doctor, “I’ve been telling you about the pain in my legs
for four years now and you’ve done nothing about it!” He was shocked. But he’d just returned from a weekend seminar at an environmental clinic.
Her doctor replied, “wow, I think you’ve got this… you’re the first person I’ve met… I think it’s called electro-hyper-sensitivity“.
He told Lucy to
try and find a clean environment and get away from electromagnetic fields, "to see if things improve”.
So she did. And they did.
Amazingly, Lucy is now 'cured' from electrical-hyper-sensivity.
For my next interview I'm delighted to welcome electromagnetic radiation specialist and geomancer Lucy Sanford.
