I went to Israel in 2006 and traveled and spoke extensively. After I came back to Maui I had a biking accident and dislocated my scapula and broke my collar bone. This was so very painful and I don't use drugs for pain I use golden ale (more enjoyable than pain killers). Anyway, my recovery process was long and difficult. I had a hard time moving and thought that I was depressed from drinking for pain, gaining weight and having my sacrum give out from gaining 40 pounds. But, I was wrong.
Around the end of 2007 I had completely healed the shoulder, got some Rolfing and fixed the sacrum, got active and lost the weight, and I was still depressed. Then I felt ashamed of being depressed since I was one of the most fortunate people I have ever met. My life is spectacular and I couldn't move, I was flat on my back and doing some pretty deep psychiatric help with shamans, family and friends. Even though this was helpful and healing in many ways it did not deal with the inability to move. Then I got a mysterious pain in my stomach.
After a year of diagnostic testing and finding a mass below my stomach that was very frightening!
As it turns out I actually had a bacteria that I contracted in Israel called H-pilori!
I was shocked to find out that 1 in 3 people have this in the undeveloped world and 1 in 4 people have it in the developed world. It is easy to kill with a combination of strong antibiotics but, it is highly contagious.
In the early stages this bug mimics severe depression
In it's later stages it causes Gastritous (inflamation of stomach and deuodynm) and heart burn. Later it ulcerates the stomach and has been found to be THE cause of stomach ulcers.
There's an interesting antidote about the scientist that discovered that H-pilori is the cause of stomach ulcers. the scientific community would not listen to his claims about this, so he infected himself and conducted a recorded experiment with HIMSELF. That is dedication, to say the least. sorry I can't remember his name at this moment.
Anyway, I was so happy to find out I didn't have cancer, didn't have a hiatel hernia, didn't have depression and that the gas and heartburn were simple to fix.
When I spoke to my friends in Israel they had already gone through the same tests that I had, then they got all their friends and family tested and everyone of them had it. I was thinking it may be living in the Sea of Gallilee where they all live and swim. this sounds reasonable bc the sea is simultaneously their sewage dump and their water source! WTF! I stopped swimming in it as soon as I found out it was a sewage dump....probably too late.
I feel it is important to get this word out bc there are so very many people on anti-depressants for depression and so many people that have heart burn, stomach ulcers and eventually cancer in the stomach or colon, thinking that they got cancer because of many reasons that are not it. Let your friends and family know about this and get the simple blood test that is necessary to identify this prevelent bug. Its so prevelent I was wondering why we have not been told more about this by all these health agencies???
Today I have been surfing on a swell of well-being because, as a result of having almost every test under the sun to find out what was wrong with me, I got to find out that I am in excellent health, with happy organs.
This process was all about The Will to Live and the faith that I harbor about my birthright. Now that I'm on the other side of this ordeal, I wish to spread the good news about my recovery and spread the news about Heliocobactor-pilori. If you think you are depressed get a blood test for this bacteria before you go the psych route. aloha



