Strong & Delicate Organs Part 5

People often take many things for granted and over indulge in material items. We cannot take material items with us to heaven, and they do not bring true happiness. The best life experiences and best memories will always be from when we are helping others and doing activities we enjoy.

Learn from other people's mistakes to make your life smoother. And from my stories, I hope you will be reminded of how fragile our vital organs can be damaged fast.

Always make time for your friends and family every day. Enjoy sports and your favorite activities on a regular basis no matter how busy life gets for you. And in the end, you will have no regrets about how you lived your life.

Best wishes for a wonderful life filled with much happiness and great health. :)

Strong & Delicate Organs Part 4

Recently on the news I heard results from a study that looked at the health of married couples. It showed that 80% of guys will leave their wife if she gets really sick. That number is huge! The study also showed that the majority of wives will stay with their husband if he gets really sick. Just the opposite.

That news story reminded me of the main reason why I'm single now. The love of my life left because he once said it's not good to have organ pain. Even though we were not married, I think that news story illustrates that it's even easier for unmarried guys to leave.

In the beginning of my relationship with D, I thought he was okay with knowing that I still had organ pain occasionally. When we first met I physically could not run. We visited a state park one time, got attacked by mosquitoes, and I could not run back to the car. My spleen kept tightening up and the liver was also very sore. He walked fast with me while the mosquitoes continued to bite through our clothes despite us putting on a bunch of DEET repellent about an hour before we started hiking.

While we were together, I started taking a bunch of supplements. My health improved significantly after just a few months. D also saw how my health improved, and we were together when I discovered that I was strong and healthy enough to run again. We were hiking again, but this time it started to rain when we were about 1 1/2 to 2 miles away from the car. I ran almost the entire way, and was bursting with happiness because I physically could run again. The only times I stopped running were to briefly catch my breath.

Even though I was very healthy except for mild organ pain sometimes, all the other good things just were not enough to keep us together. Being unique is really hard sometimes. Guys simply do not want to go out with anyone who has organ pain.

In February 2002 at the age of 24, my life changed forever in a few seconds. Because of that I will most likely be single forever, but I do not care anymore. Organ pain is something I will most likely have to live with for the rest of my life. I'm okay with it because I'm super thankful to have the abilities to ski, race, inline skate, help take care of my disabled brother daily, and do many other activities I enjoy. Plus, I have great friends; some of which are just like family.

Strong & Delicate Organs Part 3

Thanks to certain supplements I healed myself and became healthier than what I ever thought was possible after the skiing accident. Even though my organs are in good health they will always be susceptible to getting sore easily. I think the impact from hitting the wood post right across my abdomen made those organs permanently more fragile. They can get stressed out easier while exercising, and it's probably their way of protecting themselves from future severe injuries.

For almost 8 years now it's been a roller coaster with trying to do abdominal exercises. Some days it's very frustrating when my organs get sore from doing the activities I enjoy most (inline skating, skiing, and little exercises at home). All I can do though is rest those sore organs, and a few days later get back to exercising the way I want to so I can become stronger and build up the endurance in those extra fragile organs.

When you have a goal you really want to accomplish, it's easy to keep hope alive and continue trying even if it takes years to fully succeed.

Strong & Delicate Organs Part 2

The saying 'we never know what we have until it's gone' is so true. Even when we do not take special things and life for granted, anything huge can dramatically change a life in just a few seconds. Another line I like is from one of my brother's favorite movies: 'it's the experiences that count; and in the end the experiences are all we have.'

Shortly after the skiing accident I used to wonder why some people never exercise. They have the ability to exercise and better take care of their body, but just never make the effort to get started. I was suffering with excruciating pain, unable to exercise, and physically could not enjoy my favorite sports to the fullest. It took many years of slowly building back up my strength and the ability to ski and inline skate as fast as I want to go anytime. Supplements played a huge part in boosting my health back up to good much faster, but I also had to do my part with continuing to exercise and eating healthy. I think if a person has the physical ability to exercise and keep their body strong, they should make an effort to exercise regularly even if it's just 10 minutes a day a few days a week.

Being physically fit played a tremendously huge role in helping to save my life. We never know when we might have to rely on our physical strength to assist us with life and daily tasks.

Strong & Delicate Organs Part 1

All organs in the human body are strong yet very fragile. They miraculously perform thousands of tasks to keep us healthy and alive for sometimes more than a hundred years. We often take them for granted and do not think about them unless we or someone close to us experiences pain.

From personal experience I know how easily and how fast organs can be damaged. When a person is traveling around 20 to 25 mph it does not seem like you are moving very fast. Inside a safe vehicle, a crash at that those speeds only seems minor. But when you hit an object with your body at those speeds it's enough to kill a person almost instantly. I'm the exception because I lived, but others are not so lucky. At any moment your life could be over yet daily living is often ordinary, sometimes boring, and not always very meaningful. If more people would make time to enjoy life on a regular basis and help others more often, then this world would be a much better place. Or, at least the lives of more people would be greatly improved.

Life, One Second at a Time

The scene: the skiing accident right after slamming into the wood post. I was lying on the snow, going into shock fast, and almost could not believe what just happened. When I hit the wood post across my upper abdominal area, I had so much speed that my entire body wrapped around the post, and then rebounded back. It was like my entire body was a rag doll during those few moments. When I rebounded back after impact, the force threw my body a few inches away from the post.

Immediately after the skiing accident the pain was so extremely excruciating that it was too overwhelming and too painful to think about the future. Even trying to think just 10 minutes into the future was too much to handle. My intuition told me that I had internal bleeding, but at the same time I knew I would be okay.

The only thing I could do was start living life one second at a time. One second goes by quickly enough that it made it a little easier to get through the pain. When I tried to think about ten minutes into the future, I became very anxious wondering how in the world I was going to make it through this extreme pain for that long. So, all I could do was live one second at a time. I knew that eventually I would make it off the hill and end up in the emergency room. But during the present moment I simply could not think that far ahead. When future thoughts would pop into my head I would go back to focusing on living just one second at a time.

Life, one second at a time. It can make a very difficult situation a tiny bit easier. I hope to never have to live my life one second at a time ever again (unless if it's something I try for fun).

Being Thankful

The world is full of people who literally have nothing. They have no shelter, little clothing, little to no food, and no clean water. Their lifespan is shorter, and they must rely almost completely on nature for all the basic needs. If a natural disaster hits their area things quickly become even worse.

We live in a very rich society where even the poorest people have much more than what others around the world will ever have during their entire life. Once a year at Thanksgiving we are reminded to be thankful. But we should be thankful all year long for many things including our family and friends, good health, happiness, doing okay financially, having shelter, always having enough food and clean water to drink, having clothes that fit, having warm coats and blankets for cold winter days, having cool clothing to wear on hot summer days, and living in great country where we have freedom.

Besides the basics, we can also be thankful for things like the Internet, computers, and cell phones. Being alive right now during the Internet age is another thing to be thankful for. We have fast and easy access to tons of wonderful information that our ancestors never could have learned during their entire lifespan by reading books.

The majority of the best things in life cannot be bought at a store. Some of my favorite quotes illustrate the most important things in life:

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives." - Jesse Herman Holmes

"The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." - William Wordsworth

"We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic." - E. Merrill Root

Be thankful for all the good things in your life throughout the entire year, and try to really appreciate everything at least once a week. If possible, give some assistance to people in other countries who need the most help. There are wonderful non-profit organizations who accept donations along with sending volunteers to certain areas of the world in attempt to make their lives a little better. The simplest basic items we take for granted can greatly improve the life of someone who has nothing.

Inspired by Nature

Need more inspiration in your life? Or maybe need to come up with a really good idea? Try spending time alone in nature. Observing nature's beauty in solitude can be very inspiring. Watch a spectacular sunset. Notice an eagle (or other beautiful bird) take flight and gently glide through the air. Listen to the sound of a rushing river or play in a tiny stream. Pick up a colorful rock and see its beauty in the various lines, colors, and shapes. Discover nature's beauty in a tall tree, and for a few moments imagine that you are that tree. What challenges would you have had growing up in that spot? Possibly competition for sunlight with other trees, humans invading the area, or harsh weather conditions.

Spending time in nature is also a great way to solve any problems you might be having a difficult time with in your life. Nature has a unique way of clearing your mind, opening up your mind, and letting good thoughts flow in that could really assist you with various things in your life.

Enjoy nature and all it's wonderful beauty. :)

Regaining Feelings Through Experiences Part 3

In autumn 2002 we had early snowfall and temperatures cold enough for ski areas to make snow. On October 26, 2002 I skied again for the first time since the skiing accident on February 25th, 2002. Wild Mountain always opens first in the state every year. I had never skied there before, but adventured out alone for the 1 1/2 hour drive to the ski area. Only one run was open, but that was enough to make me super happy. I could now experience what it felt like to ski again. It was awesome despite my liver and spleen getting very sore on the slopes during each run.

The skiing accident might have took away all past feelings, but I relearned what it felt like to feel every kind of feeling again at the ages of 24 and 25. Every activity was like a brand new experience. And it was a wonderful way to reattach feelings to memories that occurred before the accident.

Anyone can enjoy similar types of feelings of doing an activity for the first time again. It's easy. Simply focus on what you are doing and how you feel. Even now, several years later, I can create extra special and wonderful feelings while inline skating and skiing. Sometimes I go faster or simply take a moment while alone to really look at nature and what is surrounding me.

Never forget that you are unique. Life will throw challenges at you. And it's up to you to make the best of the opportunities that come along your way. When you create more positivity in your life, any negative things will get better faster. Make time to fully enjoy life now and your future memories will be filled with wonderful experiences.

Regaining Feelings Through Experiences Part 2

During spring 2002 I bought new inline skates, and was so excited to get out on the trails again. After getting new skates, I first practiced skating again at home. I started in my room, went through the hallway, and then into the kitchen. Several times I skated that path just to get the feeling of skating back again. My mom was home while I was skating around indoors, and to my surprise she did not say one word about me skating inside! I guess when a person almost dies it also changes the people they live with; at least a little bit.

My first time back out on the trails was scary and fun. As soon as I stood up after putting on the skates I almost lost balance a few times. I knew how to inline skate, knew how to move my legs, feet, and body, but it felt like it was the first time in my life inline skating. It was great already being a very good skater and skipping the learning stages.

As I went from the parking lot to the trail, I started to build up speed. Immediately I was experiencing feelings of freedom, exhilaration, and was bursting with happiness. A couple times I tripped on sticks/stones which threw me off balance, but I did not fall. Those experiences brought back feelings of being scared.

When almost done with the usual 5 1/2 mile route, I decided to head up towards the university to inline skate on the sidewalk. First I went uphill. Later, the downhill trip was not much fun. I was very scared of falling even though I mostly had my speed under control. The injured organs were still extremely sensitive, and I knew that a fall (especially forward) would cause a huge setback. Falling would have meant even more excruciating pain, if not another trip back to the hospital. Luckily I did not fall. And from that experience I knew to stay away from that long hill until after those organs had a few years of healing time.

Regaining Feelings Through Experiences Part 1

Everyone is unique in several ways, although some people might not recognize their uniqueness yet. It's what a person does with their uniqueness that shows the world what type of person they are.

When I was in the hospital after the skiing accident, I realized that I had lost feelings along with losing the majority of past memories. I could not remember what it felt like to be happy, sad, etc. At that time the only feeling I knew was extremely excruciating pain.

I knew how to ski, but what did it feel like to ski? The part of my brain that stores feelings could not remember any feelings except non-stop pain. This was a very interesting thing that happened. And I looked at it as a wonderful opportunity and a blessing. The only way I was going to get all the normal feelings everyone feels back into my life was through experiencing everything all over again.

Experiencing happiness and laughter happened while still in the hospital. First, my funny aunt made everyone laugh. It felt great to laugh again, but laughing after you have had internal bleeding creates even more pain. Many times I had to remind relatives not to make me laugh. When I finally felt okay enough to start watching TV again, the first show I watched was my favorite: Friends. By that time I was able to control the laughter so the lacerated liver, bruised spleen, and lung (that had been partially collapsed) would not hurt too much more with tiny laughing.

I felt so much joy and happiness just knowing that I now had a very rare, unique, and wonderful opportunity to re-experience everything again as if it were the first time. Usually people have so many firsts occur when they are too little to remember them into the far future.

Beginning of the Healing Process

This is the story about how I started to heal myself naturally. It all began 4 years after the skiing accident. Once I experienced the wonderful healing power of one special supplement, then a couple years later I started learning everything I could about other natural healing topics.

One night while skiing I was talking to a friend about the upcoming ski racing season. Neither one of us were ready to start racing due to injuries. My wrists are permanently weak and one was sprained. When I was little my wrists did not grow properly (ends of the ulna bones did not grow long enough). So with every movement of my hands/wrists, the ligaments have to stretch farther which makes me highly susceptible to sprains.

My friend introduced me to a new, unique, patented, all-natural supplement. She said it was doing wonderful things for many other people and even helps people who have serious health problems. We attended a meeting a couple weeks later, learned about the natural product, and heard many amazing health improvement stories from people who had already regained good health. My mom and I figured we had nothing to lose by trying it.

Three months after starting to take the all-natural supplement, the health of my organs improved more than what I ever thought was possible. The liver and spleen were so good that I regained freedom to run again. It did not take long to realize that I was going to take this supplement for the rest of my life. I will never give it up because it helps me maintain good health, and I love the extra energy. Also, I am very thankful for how it has helped my disabled brother to improve not only his health, but also his quality of life.

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Choosing a Path

Sometimes in life we quickly come upon two pathways to take, and are forced to make a quick decision. Imagine that as soon as you get onto one path it becomes slow, bumpy, and hard to move along. Many people would often have immediate regrets about not choosing the other path. But once on that path it's usually too late to go back to the other path. When you get further along though you see how smooth and easy the path becomes. Then you realize that you did choose the right path. Who knows, maybe the other path would have led to a dead-end or a cliff? Then, you would have had more work to do to get back to the path you should have taken right away.

The idea for this post came while I was inline skating last fall. During that route I had passed the 500 mile mark for the year. I was having fun and started to head back to the car. Where the trail becomes two trails I usually go left. But I had planned on taking the trail to the right since the trail on the left was dirty from geese. Traveling along with a good amount of speed, I realized at the last split second that I needed to turn right instead of left. The trail was wet, so breaking would not have helped.

After starting a large turn to the right, I ended up off the trail onto wet grass that was covered with a thick blanket of brown leaves. The ride at that point threw me off balance a little, but when I got back onto the trail it was a smooth ride.

Life can be that way sometimes when you make a fast decision. Sometimes you discover later on that you did take the right path; other times maybe the other path would have been better. But it's often hard to know exactly what the other life path would have been like. So instead of having regrets, make the best of the path you are currently on. And if possible, look for another path to get onto when you can. The good thing about life is that we have freedom to choose the path we want to take.

If you are one of many people who is currently very sick, you can also choose a different path. It could be as simple as making small changes that improve your life a little. Such as a change in attitude, having more hope, or possibly taking certain supplements to feel better.

If you are unhappy with your life why not try a different path? Create your new, happier path even if it means a slow transition that could take a year or longer to complete.

The Bald Eagle

As I stand on the edge of the trail looking out at the Mississippi River, I notice a bald eagle sitting in a tree on the island. He sits there with great pride showing off his strength to the world. At times it's almost as if he is guarding the area. He appears to be watching out for all other wildlife ready to protect them at any moment.

After several minutes he decides to take flight. His strong wings elevate him into the cool air and prepare him for his next journey. He gracefully floats effortlessly high above the mighty, rushing river. On both sides of him are other islands filled with mostly bare trees that have already lost their autumn leaves. He follows the path of the river between the islands, then beautifully begins to turn right into the setting sun. I watch him until other trees hide him from my view.

Those few minutes of watching the eagle brought such a wonderful peace that embraced my body for the rest of the day. I love seeing eagles especially when they are flying. They represent so many great things and can instantly melt away stress. It's almost magical watching them fly and sit near the tops of trees on branches that seem too small for their large bodies.

Viewing wildlife or even just spending time in nature can refresh the human soul, spark inspiration, and leave us feeling relaxed.

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Here you will find inspirational true stories, you will see how I healed myself naturally with supplements to go from poor health to good health, and discover how my life has changed because of the skiing accident. Occasionally I will also write about experiences I've had when exploring nature, skiing, inline skating, and hiking.

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