Greetings all! Many of you might remember a little over a month ago the immediate onset of a lung condition I described to the group. This has been the most severe illness I personally have experienced thusfar in life. I remember one person writing, telling me that I must have a death wish for not taking myself in to the nearest hospital.
To refresh, one moment I was in perfect ( apparent ) health, the next moment I experienced an incredible pain in the lower lung, right lobe. Within six hours from this first pain, I went from perfectly fine to literally unable to walk. My wife begged me to let her take me to the hospital. I refused. At this time, I could feel the fluid building up in this lung, and I knew that it was enough to demand a chest tube. I had NO immune system response. No temperature, no loss of appetite, no weight loss, NOTHING. Since I've often followed Hospitals 2000 ( now 2001 I'm sure ) yearly hospital infection reports and their compiled statistics, I figured in THIS case it was a Bad Idea to go to a hospital. With an incredible reduction in the oxygen level in my own blood, and with my immune system apparently on a vacation, I didn't want to take the risk. I remember sitting alone that night, unable to lie down because I would not be able to take a breath. If I sat perfectly still for about ten minutes, it felt as if I were completely healthy. If I raised my arm or stood to walk, I would immediately become weaker than I'd ever been in this life. Every thought was focused on taking a breath, until I sat still long enough to feel better. I can say with all honesty that I felt on the virge of death. I had to deal both with this fear, and my own personal choice. Having conquered the fear that night, I did not experience it again. However, my oxygen tank was empty, and various methods that I attempted the next morning had no effect. I used Eucalytpus oil to help with my airways, and somehow managed to get the oxygen tank filled that afternoon. That night, I was fairly desperate for air, but not as desperate as I would become the next morning. In my mind, viewing my own state of being, I felt that there was a greater fluid buildup in my lungs ( both now ), however, my lung span and the amount of oxygen I was getting seemed to be about the same, relatively speaking. I used my colloidal silver solution and gave my first try at the oxygen nebulizer that night. It wasn't until the following morning that I realized that the nebulizer use of the night before did no good whatsoever. I had used the nebulizer many times before with healthy lungs, and trying to use with this condition was COMPLETELY different. While it seemed that my lung condition remained about the same, my state of health was not. I assume the lack of oxygen was taking it's toll, and I was weakening, trembling even. This prompted a more whole-hearted effort with the nebulizer. To date, no fever, no loss of appetite, no cough response, no "aching", no changes in my elimination system - everything indicated either an incredibly reduced immune system response, or none at all. I have a very fast burning metabolism, and this probably more than anything kept me going. So, on this morning, I determined that I needed to get the colloidal silver to the lower lungs, no matter how painful this might be. I'd already made peace with my "maker" so to speak. The first two inhalations failed. I learned I had to slowly empty out my lungs, then starve them for a bit before breathing the CS mist in. The EXACT first time I accomplished this properly, I started to feel the effects. In all honesty, I don't know how many minutes passed between that first "true breath" and the extreme reaction. I guess about four minutes. The reaction was the most "violent" reaction I've had to anything in my life. I don't know how I managed to take a breath when the effect started. There was a rush to the head, an extreme pain to the neck ( this I only noticed with hindsight ). One moment I was sitting on the floor, contemplating using the nebulizer again while trying to breath, the next, BAM! The coughing reaction was incredible to the point I must have been purple faced, my veins were elevated like long plateaus, and I really thought if I could have choked up my stomach, I would have. This lasted somewhere around 15 minutes. From that point forward, it was all downhill. I only used the nebulizer, if I remember correctly, once more MUCH later that day. The second reaction was similar but nowhere near that of the first. I regained lung capacity. By the next day, I was able to function. By the day after that, I was feeling well enough to stop the nebulizer treatment to see how well my body was responding. It did not improve, and MIGHT have been starting to get worse again. I played with various usage times and amounts, with an ultrasonic humidifier ( I believe the oxygen nebulizer worked much better, but the humidifier did the job in the end ) to see how my body would respond. I wish I had formalized this a bit more, but at the time I was just so thrilled at the results and at feeling better. A small infection remained, with a small amount of fluid that I could still feel in that lower right lobe. Still, no fever, NOTHING. Finally, I was "done playing" and I set a regime of ~ 45 secs - 2 mins of colloidal silver use every fifteen minutes, set according to tolerance. I learned rapidly that it's best to take one full breath of CS, followed by one normal breath of air. I used the text-book pranayama breathing style for maximum effectiveness ( earlier, I couldn't even THINK about pranayama yet alone perform it! ). After about four hours of doing this, I was really starting to feel better. Then, I repeated the same "protocol" later that night, this time, I was about two hours into it, when WAM my immune system fired up. I didn't measure my fever, but I would guess it hit about 102, with the sweats and aching body. I felt mildly miserable but triumphant. The fever broke sometime late that night ( or early in the morning ), and by the next day I was on the rapid road to full recovery. This must have been about 10 days ago? ( sorry, time is not my strongpoint! ). Today, my lungs are clear and I feel like my old self. I probably wouldn't have mentioned it to the list again, accept for the following: Three days ago, the same thing happened to my wife. The symptoms were EXACT, accept the fact that it was her LEFT side. I might play around with my health, but certainly not hers. In her case, we had the tools available for use, and not 48 hours + later. Following from my personal experience, she was able to devolop a rapid profficiency with using the humidifier. At first, she felt that casual use would probably suffice. After STRONGLY reminding her of what my next eight hours were like, and then those that FOLLOWED, she wisely then chose to do the 15 minute usage "protocol". Keep in mind, it is not pleasant. It hurts. It doesn't hurt with healthy lungs, but when that mist reaches those infected tissues, for whatever reason, it's NOT fun. Now, an hour into the treatment, she was starting to get scared. To feel all of your strength start to drain away that rapidly is quite an experience. And THEN, not being able to breath... *shudders*. After four hours, she paused, in a space of non-judgement ( I think she afraid to hope she was feeling better! ). Now, I should mention that she did NOT get the reaction that I first received, probably because she started before one could feel the fluid "slogging" around in the lung. She used it for "an hour" before bedtime, and then the ALL IMPORTANT FIRST USE IN THE MORNING!!! before the fluids can completely drain into the lower lungs via gravity. That day, she recovered fully, as far as I can tell ( I am real in tune with my own body ). Today, she's certainly fine. I tell this personal experience in such a full monolog in the hopes that anyone out there listening, upon experiencing similiar inital symptoms, would ACT QUICKLY! If one waits too long, one is seriously jeapordizing one's health. If I were 20 years older, I don't think I would have survived that first real colloidal silver treatment. I think I would have coded. THE DANGER IS THERE, THE SOLUTION IS TO ACT BEFORE it reaches that point. Furthermore, if one responds quickly enough, one can use this very aggressive "protocol", without limiting one's options. ( Remember, it was about eight hours into it that I really started to get concerned, and my wife started within the first hour of experiencing the first and hard-hitting pain in the lung ). I also tell this story in the hopes that if someone whom is of the mind to take personal responsibility in their experiments, having read the numerous claims on the list that "normal" colloidal silver doesn't work, realizes that I used a very poorly brewed "batch" of colloidal silver, because it's all I had on hand. In fact, I filmed the process of making that EXACT batch from beginning to end, and I "overburned" it by about thirty minutes just to demonstrate the whole process on video. I let this 9 volt battery brew settle out for a few days ( not for any particular reason ), and later combined it with a current limited batch I had made with a Coyote low voltage generator, because I was too lazy to get a fresh container. I don't usually do this, but I was doing quite a bit of photography and film work, and I'd just finished it up. I was planning on using that CS as a base for a healing clay batch, and I didn't have a batch saved of "properly" made CS, I had added all THAT to essential oil spritzers. Granted, you would want the best colloidal silver possible, IF possible. I used a colloidal silver made from an example batch of how "not" to make colloidal silver. This stuff would have made the CS perfectionist's eyes widen, with the bajeegas crawling down the spine! ( It wasn't THAT bad, standard over-yellow rather than "gold-hue", that actually wasn't potent enough to keep the yellow color when added with a low PPM 32 ounce solution ). I also say this in partial justification why I get so irritated with comments such as "yellow colloidal silver is worthless". To some, they might just be words cast off without thought, just a part of a high-sounding sentance with just the right punch to get that editorial flare and oh so "shining just right" lead in. To me, I ask myself, "If I would listen to this stuff like this, where would I be? Where would my wife be? Where would my son be?" Well I for one can say, I'm sitting right where I am, and without one shed of regret! -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
