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My life before raw foods



I wanted to share more of my health history. I feel like many people are still unaware of just how sick I was almost my entire life!!!I was actually sick and unwell from the age of 8 years old. This was when my symptoms first showed up after I contracted chicken pox.


In 1989 when I contracted chicken pox I never fully recovered. I had extremely swollen glands, extreme tiredness, slept most of the day and could not get through a full week of school.Many doctors did tests and nothing showed up. I finally got some relief from my symptoms when I was given a tonsillectomy. After this I was relatively healthy for the next 4-5 years.


Then at 16 I suffered from chronic pain, pelvic pain, severe tiredness, GI problems that had me very u well again. I really struggled to get through a day of school. I went to many doctors and specialists and nobody knew what was causing my health problems.



The doctors I saw offered surgeries to help with the pain I was in. They also did many exploratory surgeries that failed to produce answers as to what was causing me to be so unwell. I had some surgeries to relieve the pain and none of them helped.


By the time I was in my 20’s I had been through so much pain. I barely finished school and eventually dropped out of university as I was either too unwell to study or in hospital.


Finally at apex 22 I had a new surgeon who went to explore the area I had pain in my body. He finally found something and removed what he had found during a surgery. He found a secondary piece of uterus attached to nerves and ligaments in my pelvis. What he found the pathologist called endostromatosis. He had never seen it before.


When I woke up from this surgery my pain had lessened dramatically. I remember so clearly thinking all my problems were over!!!In a sense they were as I managed to be pain free and work for the next 2 years. I was still very very tired most of that time though the pain I knew as mine had gone.



The pain did come back and I was prescribed anti-inflammatory medication to help manage this pain. I very quickly then ended up anaemic and unable to stay conscious. I became so unwell again and needed blood transfusions urgently at one point, as I had a duodenal ulcer that had perforated and I had bled out.


After 3 massive emergency surgeries and almost 25 hours of surgery the doctors had removed most of my stomach, my duodenum and more of my small intestines. I still managed to get back to work a couple months after this occurred. Though after about 10 months back at work my pelvic pain had become so bad again I was back in surgery for the pain.


This meant more surgery and when the doctors went back in via surgery they found that they had missed the ā€˜focal’ or ā€˜root’ of the disease in my pelvis. Since they had opened the disease in the last surgery in the area; cells from the area had spread and inflamed the surrounding tissue. The doctor believed this was what was now causing my pain.


During the surgery the doctor removed the ā€œrootā€ of the disease (endostromatosis) in the area. It did not help me pain wise. I was now in so much pain I needed a walking stick to move, on massive doses of painkillers, needed my parents as full time caregivers and spent most of my time back in a bed and I was only 26 years old.



This went on and my pain medication increased. I also had many more surgeries where I was injected with Botox, local anaesthetic or had nerve releases to help with the pain I was in.


Finally just before I turned 30 years old the doctors discovered my pain left my body when I was put into chemically induced menopause. This made me so happy, except for the fact that the chemicals that put me into menopause made me sick. I requested that they give me a hysterectomy and I stop the medication.


So just after I turned 30 years old I had a full hysterectomy. This helped even more with the pain. I sadly then had a terrible time with menopause. I next got very very unwell and so came off of all the opioids and other medications that I had been on for years.


Every time I lowered the medications I was vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, faint, hair loss, dizzy and extreme weight loss. I had a couple of ICU visits and by 2017 when I was approximately 35 nobody thought I was going to live.



At this time towards the end of 2017 I had a break with reality, I could barely recall a lot of my past and some days I could barely remember my own name. I spent 4 months in an acute psychiatric unit.


I came out of hospital and came off all medication, started working and was going to the gym in 2018. I still had a very limited cognitive functioning as if some sort of trauma was blocking my memories. I ate a paleo diet that year. This diet was mostly fruits, nuts, seeds and vegetables. I would have a meat based dish each night.


Towards the end of 2018 I got Shingles through the trigeminal nerve in my right eye. After this virus occurred one day I could not get up, could not move my arms and legs or barely talk. My parents had to dress me, help me move and even eat.


I also had severe PTSD, depression and anxiety. Most days I felt suicidal. Due to not being able to move I had to go to a neurological hospital to relearn to do everything (ie walk, talk). I was diagnosed with a Neurological Functional Disorder which displays like a stroke by the neurologists.


After I left the neurological hospital and could do some basic functions again. I suffered terribly with my mental health. I spent most of the next 2 years in acute psychiatric hospitals. One stay was 10 months longs. During these 2 years I had decided to go vegan. I was eating a relatively healthy (hospital) vegan diet.



The longer I was on the vegan diet the more problems my blood work showed. Since going vegan my blood had stopped making many proteins. When they had nutritionists look at what I was eating I was told I was getting more than enough of all my body needed.


Once I left a psychiatric hospital that found a way to get me functioning at a basic level again I finally got to go home. Once home I started drinking alcohol to cope with my PTSD. I was drinking a bottle of wine and 1/2 bottle of vodka and within 2 months I was rushed to hospital as my liver was now not functioning properly.


After all of this my parents said I needed to move out on my own now. During the next few months I lived in hotels and psychiatric units. Then finally I rented my first apartment. This was the first time I was able to make my own food.


It was during COVID and I was getting very simple foods delivered that were vegan. I was eating a lot of fruit, salad and cooked vegetables. I was barely able look after myself as I was still very unwell.




I noticed very quickly after eating fruits and salads that I could do a few things without pain, tiredness, my tachycardia was less and PTSD was less as well. As opposed to when I made just a simple meal of steamed cauliflower or dry roasted pumpkin I noticed I could barely get off my bed. I remember so clearly thinking to myself ā€˜Skye what are you willing to do for your health?’ my answer was ā€˜ANYTHING!!!’. So right there and then I decided to eat raw foods.


Stay tuned as I will share more very very soon about all that changed after eating raw foods. For my on this please check out my YouTube video ā€œI saved my life with raw foodsā€ Make sure you subscribe to Roar so you get all the latest raw vegan health, blog and over 200 free recipes!!



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