This post is the tenth in a series that shares my Divine team talks (conversations with and insights from my Divine team) since March 2020. (In case you missed it, you can find the first here.)
Background
From March through May 2020, I had bouts of lethargy and listlessness, sometimes having barely enough energy to get up and get a handful of food to eat. During that time, when I could eat, it was usually only crackers or soup, and I usually experienced great gastric pain, along with several other symptoms.
Waiting
My healthcare provider ordered a few blood panels and an abdominal ultrasound to try to find the cause. I was able to get the bloodwork right away and saw some very strange results (for me). But because it was early in the lockdown for COVID-19, the hospital delayed the abdominal ultrasound. By the time they finally allowed the ultrasound, I was no longer experiencing the pain every time I ate.
Trial and Error (and Some Surprising Results)
During the waiting time, unable to get answers from diagnostic tests, I listened to suggestions from a few friends who had had similar pain and energy issues; I experimented with various foods and discovered an apparent sensitivity to wheat. When I stopped eating wheat, a lot (though not all) of my fatigue and gastric distress—as well as most of my eczema and, to my great surprise, a plantar wart cluster that I’d had for about 5 years—cleared up. As a result, I started changing my mindset and habits around food preparation for the family and began replacing and removing wheat products from our house.
These entries pick up right after I received the ultrasound results.
21 May 2020
Received ultrasound results yesterday. Gall bladder, right kidney, bile ducts, and pancreas all normally sized, with no signs of inflammation.
When asked, [my HCP] said he doesn’t think my issues were caused by COVID-19 because most people who had gastro problems also had kidney problems, and my kidneys looked fine. (But my bloodwork[1] showed kidney abnormalities that indicated what he called early stage 2 disease, I remember.)
Well, at least things all look good. Now to keep myself consuming almost no wheat,[2] and to get my inflamed cyst uninflamed,[3] and then see how my body gets on from there.
22 May 2020
I’ve been treating the inflamed cyst on my right neck area. It looks terrible and is still tender, but when I feel it with my hand, I get the impression that it’s slowly being reabsorbed.
Overnight, though, I have developed a tender lump on my left side, at the [base] of my neck on the back. Cyst? Blood clot? Broken blood vessel? I’ve no idea, but I’m confused by my body right now.
This menstrual cycle is leading to much irritation in me. I’ve slept poorly for the past several nights (normal in the week leading to my period), but I’ve been cranky and snappish all week. Nearly everything tries my patience.
***
Interesting—even after running energy,[4] I’m in a negative frame of mind. Blech. I’m going to have to extend a lot of patience and grace to myself and others today. If I can find it to extend it.
24 May 2020
Friday night, I was shown that on Saturday morning,[5] I should put a bandage over my swollen cyst. So I cleaned the cyst yesterday when I got up, and I had [my spouse] cover it with a bandage and some tape.
All through the day while we were out and about, I didn’t have any discomfort from any part of my shirt rubbing the sore, stretched skin around the cyst. Finally, last night as we were watching a movie, the area under the bandage was feeling moist, so I figured it was time to remove the bandage and let the skin air out, then maybe cover it with a warm washcloth.
But when I removed the bandage, there was a fair amount of pus on it, and the cyst was still [leaking]. The area is still tender this morning, but the cyst was already VERY much reduced in size last night before we covered it with a new bandage. …
So it finally “popped” 3 weeks after I began feeling discomfort in it.
***
I’ve been positively cheerful for the past couple of days, laughing easily and wanting to be affectionate with [my family], rather than withdrawing. I feel like my “old” self—but I’m not sure which one. I don’t remember feeling this lighthearted in some time. This despite that I have no real idea yet how we’ll pay for all the expenses coming up over the next few months, how I’m going to get money coming in more and faster, or how we’ll handle [other family events].
***
In reading these entries as I drafted this post, I was once again reminded of how a shift in my physical well-being can make a huge difference in the energy around me, helping things in my life begin to shift.
Once I started actually doing what my guides told me—implementing my plan (e.g., exercising, eating nourishing foods that weren’t harmful to me) for putting my health above all else—everything else started shifting into place. More work and pay began coming in for me from the various avenues I had set up—just enough as we needed it.
Notes
[1] When he ordered my ultrasound, he also ordered bloodwork, which I had been able to get done the next day. I had always had “perfect” bloodwork, even 10 years before, when I was on medicines (for my idiopathic intracranial hypertension, IIH) that were known to affect kidney function. But this time, my numbers were all over the place, in ways we didn’t understand, which was why we had hoped for answers from the ultrasound.
[2] I was still weaning myself off wheat and trying to find if certain kinds and amounts had fewer or no effects on my body.
[3] As seemed to happen so much for so many people during the early days of the pandemic, all sorts of health problems were happening for me. A small fatty cyst that had been a bit below and to the right of the base of my neck, on my shoulder, and that had been okay for years had suddenly become inflamed and painful. My provider and I were watching it and hoping to let it run its course and let my body resolve it before we intervened with lancing.
[4] For an explanation of this, refer to footnote 2 in my blog post Divine Team Talk, 22 April–4 May 2020 (June 10, 2021).
[5] I didn’t make a note in my journal specifically how I was shown this, but it’s likely that, since I mention it happened at night, it was as I lay in bed the night before and did my evening meditation and Reiki self-treatment. Insight and images often appear fully formed in my mind in either situation—when I meditate or when I do Reiki (on myself or others).
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