User:Wimbeek

The desease I had during my studies at Leiden University turned my life completely upside down. I couldn't finish my studies and more than 15 years I have suffered a serious and "incurable" disease.

It started just before my 21st birthday. I had severe symptoms. From one day to the other I could not walk anymore, I had pains in my face, my extremities and my skin felt like it was burning constantly. I lost the sensitivity in my right hand and my stomach area and I could hardly see with my right eye anymore. After a long series of tests, the neurologist diagnosed me with M.S. He told me what I wouldn’t be able to do anymore and gave me no hope.

In the hallway of the hospital the neurologist told my mother: "I’m sorry, but Wim will not be able to walk out of the hospital." My mother was very upset and I comforted her. I thought, "Is that really true what you are saying, is it you to decide?"

My father is a doctor and he is great. In his work environment, I had already had taken notice of how doctors are used to deal with illness and health. Doctors usually focus on that is wrong and what could go wrong.

Personally I like to focus on possibilities and opportunities. I took responsibility for my own health and life and said: "I’ll decide for myself! I said to myself: "I will recover and restore my health completely." I didn’t know what I would do exactly and how. But I knew one thing: with my strong desire to live, my willpower and my determination I will achieve my goal and nobody can stop me!

We know that not everything can be cured with medications or surgery. People in hospitals do wonderful jobs, but science does not consider the inner powers and capacities of the person behind the patient and possibilities outside the conventional health care.

Believe it or not, three days later I left the hospital, arm in arm with my mother. Walking.

Because I couldn’t find answers in conventional health care, I decided to explore the possibilities for my recovery and rehabilitation myself. I met people, including doctors, who had a lot more to tell. I read a lot about people who did recover, outside science.

I learned very much of these people and their stories. They confirmed me in the effective health strategy that you need to recover and keep healthy. What knowledge, skills and attitude do you need to recover and keep your health and high quality of daily life?

Where does my energy and my attention need to go? What is still blocking my recovery? How and where can I start the recovery process?

So I discovered powerful tools for my recovery. I found out specifically what effect nutrition can have on your recovery and your health. I learned some simple exercises that almost everyone can do and I discovered so much more. All together it was very powerful and brought my full recovery and my freedom once within reach.

A world of new possibilities opened up to me. I realized that these opportunities are available for those who want to take steps to feel much better in 5 or 10 years then they are feeling now.

Practical knowledge and skills were clearly indispensable and necessary for my body to recover. It had everything I needed to get my desired goal: optimal health and full recovery. I was making big steps in my health and in my daily life and in my enthusiasm I made an appointment with the neurologist. I would like to tell him all about my experiences and my journey. He said he could see that it went well and that I looked healthy and strong. That it was completely different compared to when I was six times as good as paralyzed in a hospital bed had been.

Even before I could start he said he was happy for me to find me in good health and that it was clear that she had made the wrong diagnosis. The rest he did not know because he was concerned only with his own discipline, neurology.

I was stunned, but I could understand his attitude. My new conditions were very clear and indisputable. They were almost perpendicular to what medical science had already "decided" that it should be. I had respect for that belief. I thought it was unfortunate that there was no room for something new. I had tried my best.

The experiences in my past health and disease have given me a significant life mission. With my experience and skills I help other people suffering from pain or illness to recovery and reach higher levels in their health and energy.