I had always been sickly child. No one understood why. What was the matter with me? Why did I get ill so easily? Why did I always have that death-warmed-over feeling? I experienced migraines daily, I felt sick to my stomach at least three times a week to the point of losing my meals. I was so tired that I could literally go to bed and sleep for over 15 hours and wake up feeling like I had not gone to bed at all. My mind was foggy. To say the least, my track record for attendance at my job was quickly declining. I had always been a hard worker, this was not normal for me. It was hard to accept. It made me mad. It made me cry. It made me decide to get some answers. I began telling people about my ill health. Surprisingly I found many, many women who shared the same physical symptoms. I was a cosmetologist so I was with other women in great numbers on a daily basis. These women began telling me of something I had only heard about but never thought once of myself having it. CFS. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Me? NO! Not possible! I am too, too....type A! Well, hello. Those are the very people it likes to hit! I was a sitting target. I had had many, many colds as a child. Chicken Pox hit me really hard. I contracted the Herpes virus. Same virus as Chicken Pox. I had several episodes where the doctor could not tell if I had mononucleosis or just a bad case of strep throat. I had measles as an older teenager. The list of illnesses just grew and grew with my age. I began reading. LOTS! About CFS. No doubt, this is what I had. So I began treating myself. You see, back in the early 90s, CFS was thought to be an all in your head kind of illness. Gee thanks. So not only was I experiencing what felt like real illness, I was so creatively-minded that I was actually creating my own illness! Ok. Wonderful explanation. So I thought, Well, then, I will create my own wellness then too. I began following all of the suggestions in all of the books I read. From modifying my daily intake of get-it-now food drive-thrus to extracting all chocolates and sugars out of my diet. I went to bed early. Got up on time and exercised. I drank gallons of water each and every day. I began purchasing every supplement on the market and actually taking them too! Wheat? Out of my diet. Soy? Out of my diet. Corn? Out of my diet. But chocolate, oooh that was a hard one. But I did it! Cigarettes? Gone. Alcoholic beverages? Gone. All of this helped. To a degree. There was something else. Something I was missing. I had this strange feeling down deep in my gut that it was my blood. After all, why would I have myself tested for AIDS if I didnt suspect something with my blood? No one in my family had ever been diagnosed with a blood problem. Why would I even think it? It gnawed at me, day and night. I didnt know where to turn. No one would believe me. Remember? According to medical doctors, I thought up my own CFS. Then my daughters began having female problems very similar to the kind I had when I was younger which eventually lead to my hysterectomy at age 26. One of the doctors we all visited one day had some very interesting news for us. He said that we could quite possible have a blood disorder that was causing our problems. Blood? Disorder? Hmmm.

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