Dr. Yu!

I want to update everyone on the last few days. I was able to get in to see Dr. Simon Yu on Tuesday because of a cancellation.

We knew going in that this experience would be an adventure, simply from reading his website. Dr. Yu is an internist, who after his first ten years in the field became frustrated at the fact that he was not healing his patients. He realized that by prescribing medications for their illnesses without getting to the bottom of things, was simply masking the problem. At that point, he began exploring homeopathic and alternative medicines. He has been practicing these along with internal medicine together for the last ten years of his practice.

His website mentions a lot about how dental issues can affect your entire body and especially your heart. He talks about Acupuncture Meridian Assessment, Infrared thermography, chelation, and hair mineral analysis. Sounds weird right? So we were unsure of what all to expect, but being an avid patient of biofeedback, I knew I needed to be open minded going into the appointment.

My mother-in-law was with me through the process, when we arrived, my vitals as well as my weight, body, fat, and water mass were all checked, so semi normal exam thus far. I was then taken into a room and sat in front of what looked like a regular video camera, but was informed this was the infrared thermography, which would scan my face for any hotspots, which could mean underlying issues. The next room we were moved to had two machines that tested me further. The first one, I held onto two big metal probes and a program was run that scanned my entire body, and there were a few things that popped up. One of them being vitamin K-3 deficient, which does not surprise me since I have no idea what that vitamin is or where it comes from.  The next machine seemed quite similar only I placed my feet and hands on four metal plates while the scan took place.

The next room we were moved to is where I actually got to see Dr. Yu. This was the acupuncture meridian room. Dr. Yu came in and spoke with us about what is going on and looked at all my medical history and paperwork before starting the testing. This was certainly different from traditional acupuncture. He had me hold a large metal probe in one hand, while he held a small, kind of pokey probe to certain acupuncture points on my other hand. When he held the probe at each point, the machine would beep until he moved it, for a higher score the beep would be higher pitched. After he finished the first hand, he moved on to my other hand, and then each foot. Out of 40 areas. 17 of mine were out of the normal range. He then chose several different bottle of things, liquid and pills, and placed them on a round silver plated part of the machine. He went through all of the 40 points again, and this time only 2 were below normal, and these two areas, he said were related to dental. His theory is that I had an infection in my left socket after my wisdom teeth were removed that has never been healed.

He took me into the next room and did a short physical exam that was unremarkable. He then prescribed two parasite medications, as well as homeopathic liquids that are for allergies, liver, and kidney function (these were all bottles that he had put on the machine for the second round of meridian testing). I was instructed to take the homeopathic stuff three times a day for two months, and the two prescriptions four times a day for 1 month, stop and repeat in one month. I have never really thought that I might have parasites, but I hope at this point that I do and they are completely squashed out with this treatment! Especially because that liquid tastes like drinking straight rubbing alcohol even when diluted, GROSS!

After this part of the exam, I was returned back to the nurse’s care who proceeded to draw blood for food allergies, and chop actually quite a bit of hair off for a hair mineral analysis. We will be getting these results May 16^th, at my next appointment. Now it definitely feels like a waiting game!

I am SO ready to get back to normal. These days I am able to get up and around for a few hours in the morning, and then I need a good nap and rest period, before I am able to be up and around for several more hours and then very ready for bed. My migraine pain fluctuates almost by the hour. I can go from feeling like I can easily read or watch tv, to wanting to hide under the covers with no light or sound.

Today is my birthday, and I am certainly sad that my beloved husband is over 1,000 miles away from me, along with my parents, brother, sis-in-law, and nephew, but I am very blessed and pleased to have so many of Dan’s family and friends here with me to help celebrate and just to love me!

So many people when they are faced with a tough period such as the one I have been going through really get depressed, and down, they stress and contemplate suicide. All these things I cannot imagine. Though there are certainly times when I get frustrated and wish that I didn’t have to go through this period, I am so entirely glad that I am!! I have always wondered how someone can go through a struggle without having a relationship with Jesus Christ, and that wonderment rings ever so true in these moments of frustration. I have grown so much closer in my walk with God over this trial, that there is no way I could ever see it as anything but great! I urge you all to look at difficult situations, whatever they may be, in this same light! God loves you way too much to ever allow you to suffer for no reason. Just remember that he is all knowing and all powerful. Cling to him in your time of need and believe me, things will go a whole lot easier than you thought they would!

I have a couple of praise reports. Lisa, my sweet friend I asked everyone to pray about, is doing amazingly well after her kidney transplant, and she may even be able to return home this weekend if all continues to go so well! I also want to share with you a joy that a very close family friend of ours who had a stroke several weeks ago, was able to return home on Tuesday. He still has a long way to go to get back to the same ole Freddy, but God is amazing and steadfast. He will take care of us at all times!

But he said to me, ”My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.  2 Corinthians 12:9-10