Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome back to Integrative lyme Solutions with Dr. Karl Feldt. I am so excited about the show that we have ahead of us. We have some phenomenal information that could save lives.
You're gonna need to tune in to what's going on today. The information is jam packed, so don't step away.
Well, I have the absolute honor to have one of our nation's warriors in front of me, Janice Niederhofer.
Thank you so much for spending some time with me. I heard you at ilads and I was so inspired by your presentation. So thank you so much.
[00:00:44] Speaker B: You're very welcome. It was my honor.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Before we get into kind of the actual Lyme journey, I would love to understand or for the audience to really understand who you are, the type of work you're doing, who you are as a person. I would just like them to understand a little bit more that the powerful individual that you are and how grateful as a nation and as people we should be just for you existing.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: So would you want to tell your audience why you say that? To give me something to work from?
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Yeah. I get to hear your presentation on ilads and your.
What you. How you served, you know, your. Your service out of the country and in the country to protect us from a lot of things that we didn't know existed. And we don't know exist because of people like you.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: So I typically don't talk about myself unless I'm serving. Right. If I always say, don't tell a story unless it helps someone. So I'm a listener and observer my whole life. And I. I had an accidental career, and that's law enforcement. 30 years. And I would. I. I stepped out of my troubled upbringing, like a lot of us, thinking I should be an attorney. And that was because it would prove two points that I didn't have as a kid. Major points. Money, because they always fought over money. Right. And intelligence, because every one of us was called stupid. Wasn't my parents fault that did the best they could. So I come out of there like a mini adult since I was a kid, and I could see pain in people's faces. I could read them as if they were Saran wrap. I got all my skills growing up in my informative years. So I launched off to school, college as the only one who went out of five. And I ended up accidentally ending up in law enforcement because my junior year in college, the criminal justice professor said, if you think you're so smart, you want to be a police officer, go to Ocean City, Maryland. They hire 60 extra police officers in the summer. Give you a very short academy. If I told you how short it was, I'm not going to do that to them now.
It was crazy. And I was put on patrol. And on my days off, I started working undercover. And Monica Cover created a level of service that I didn't see coming, and I didn't recognize it, But I had found my calling right there. And this is a way I could be not invisible and use my skill of being invisible. Being able to read people, being able to understand sensory awareness, sensory acuity, the entire surroundings.
And I knew what people were going to do or say before they did. So I was very powerful. I was very street smart, and I love people, and I didn't want them to hurt. However that showed up. And so my goal in life to this day is to. Didn't know it then, but over the years when I started really understanding how I functioned, I like to close a gap between pain and pleasure for people because it took me way too long. And I call it 10 years undercover transformation because they did it on the job, nobody knew it. So I ended up in law enforcement. Thirty years, two police departments, and a full career with Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA as a special agent. Now, in that, I was just doing my thing, which is serve at the highest level.
I didn't think about it like that ever till later in my years, but that's what I was doing, and I loved it. The harder the situation, the more dangerous situation. I served. I felt alive, right? That was my value in life, to give back, take pain out of people's hands and protect people. I was a justice girl in that I broke a ton of glass ceilings. And people like to talk about the glass ceilings that broke. Being in a man's world going way back then, yeah, I did that. I didn't do that to prove a point. I did that because I went, wow, look at that elite unit. Can I have in. I was naive. Naive was my greatest quality, even with my disease, right? So keep that in mind. Remind me about that later.
Being naive in the disease probably is one of the elements that kept me alive. So in my career, being naive, I go, I want in that unit. And then I find out no other woman's been in it. Well, why not? I'd say innocently, right? And then I'd go get in it, and I'd be the best in it, right?
Only because that's who I was. So I didn't say it from stage at Eyelads how I got. And so part of my lengthy journey in the invisible disease I have was, I'm accountability, girl. I'm accountable.
I misdirected the doctors. Now I'm wondering if I walked into your office, if you would have been misdirected. No. You would have heard the symptoms. I'm thinking from researching because I do my research, right? I research you. I thought, you know, this man would have listened to and watched and went, wait a minute, there's more. What is going on with this girl? Right? But I was a senior agent with DEA at the time. It was way back in the years when marijuana was just starting to come on the scene, and it was still a Schedule 1, et cetera. So we were out doing our job. Don't hold that against me. And this junior agent was executing a search and arrest warrant in downtown San Francisco in a warehouse where this couple lived. It was huge and it was filthy. And he had this gigantuous indoor marijuana grow. And here's where a big turning point my life in this health journey. I'm standing there because, you know, I was a senior agent and my supervisor was with me, and we're letting the junior agents do their thing. And he was standing in the middle of this beautiful marijuana grow. And he had a turtleneck, gloves. He was covered from head to toe. So his buddies, junior agents, were giving him, you know, heck, because we always do that. Hey, why are you all covered up? You know, you. No, no. And I was watching and I said one little thing to jump in, because that's what you do, right? I don't remember. It was. It was just very simple. In fact, it was kind of quiet. As soon as it came out of my mouth, it went. I don't know why, but I shouldn't have said that. Honest to God. That's a quote. The next day, I get a rash in my neck. I got bit by a flea. I had no clue. I thought I was allergic to something in that marijuana grow because there's chemicals and all kinds of things. So I went down the path of that agent in the middle of that marijuana, saying, I'm allergic to this stuff. I went, I'm allergic to something in there. Logical.
Ah.
Years of that moment, I would pay the price and not know it. So I went about my hunky dory way, and I ended up all kinds of dermatologists, wouldn't you? And it started with the very first symptom was a rash. And it went on my forearms. I've got pictures of it.
And I have a really good friend. She was an agent for a long, long time. And I said, look at, man. I got this rash from this, okay, So I go to dermatologist and I tell my story. Of course they're enthralled. I'm an agent and, you know, and so they want to know the story. And so they went down that path. Never looked beyond my story, ever.
There was one point, I was laying on the table and there was three dermatologists looking at my skin because now it's a.
Basically I devoured my body and my, for example, my thighs were completely raw, oozing rash, completely raw. And I was still working and. And they said, I don't know what this is. And they're talking about me as if I'm not even there. I'm looking up, going, well, I hope this gets somewhere. Of course, it never did. I had a primary doctor at the time. He was very integrative, alternative, very, very wonderful man. And he took great care of me. Took care of some digestive issues I had and stuff. And he could put up with, you know, I was pretty direct. I was a badass, you know, so he really took care of me. Well, he didn't. Now, in the end of my career, I had to leave early. I had to leave eight years early. Eight years before we, for the last year we could. We have a mandatory retirement. So I went the earliest month I could go.
Took a month off beforehand. Family sick leave. I mean, I had it. I had it full blown at that point. I was my, my friend who's an agent, she said, what's wrong with you? You can't remember anything? I go, I don't know. She goes, and you're clumsy as hell. I go, I know. I go, I don't know.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah, so explain that a little bit more. So you had the rash and now you're talking about memory and then also coordination. Because obviously as an agent, functioning on the field, dealing with live fire, and I mean your reaction time and your ability to respond to things very, very quick, your mind, very, very sharp. Memory, very good. So all of that started to change as well after that flea bite?
[00:09:40] Speaker B: Yes, massively. But here's what happened. The symptoms started slow. I got the rash first, then I got the. The memory started going and then the clumsiness started appearing. Then the fatigue about somewhere in there that got salt and peppered in. I was so fatigued at the time. I was a world renowned interview interrogator for the agency. And I had a soundproof room and you had to know where it was and I go in there. Oh my gosh. I couldn't keep my head off my desk. So I would sneak down. We were in a building, it was really tall, government building. I go all the way down to the sub basement, get in my undercover car, put the seat back and pass out. I mean, I'd be out. And because of my circumstances, I was a one woman show at the time, so no one would notice.
So that didn't last long. Because I go, I can't do this.
I don't know what this is. But I have integrity. I cannot do my job anymore.
And not one supervisor said. Because they knew I got a rash. My direct supervisor specifically, and so did a few others.
They said they never offered up workers comp. Or anything, nothing. So I not knowing because I've earned every dollar I've had. I've made my own way. I've never had anybody hand me anything. And I'm out serving the world, saving people, helping. I go. I got to leave. So I left early. Eight years now. Think of the financial pain that's about to happen because these diseases are expensive.
And I was doing pretty good financially, right?
Compared to what. But I was doing good.
And I had my retirement rocking. I was investing and doing all that stuff. And I leave naively thinking because I was at the time a trainer, a speaker, I was training.
You name a law enforcement agency, I was in front of it. Anchorage pd, Detroit pd, lapd, Homicide, dea, FBI, ncis, CIA, all their black opsites. I was everywhere. Mexico's version of the CIA. I was everywhere. The phone was ringing off the hook and I was teaching, training and doing my job on the streets, doing whatever I needed, lost at all. I walked out. I look back and go, how did I do that?
I left the very thing I loved. But I thought, well, maybe it's time to go. I need to start my own business. And I tried. But here's my metaphor, Doc. This day, having what I have is. Is similar to being on ice.
You keep trying to walk on ice and you're stuck in place. Sliding all over the place, falling. You can't get forward. You may have the intention, the desire, the will, but you can't move forward. As soon as I retired, every symptom I had that would show up, kind of go away. Show up, kind of go away. All of them, all of a sudden, they went. I think it's because my mind knew I had nowhere to go every day. And those symptoms collided and I hit the deck. I didn't see that coming. Now I'm a fighter. I still think I have an allergy.
I don't know because no one's told me any different. And my integrative doctor, who I really respected, still do honored and was grateful to. He's holding my hand through this. So it was, let's see, it'd be three or more years of me being super sick. And I said to him one day, I'm tired of being tired. Oh, well, let's test for some. And that's when he tested. And I came back positive for both Lyme and Bartonella. That was the first time. And I don't have a good memory. But the I I seem to remember, I know for a fact he didn't address Bartonella. We never even talked about it. And because of not being well, which affects your cognitive ability, folks. Oh, my gosh, is this stuff getting your brain? And I was hot, hot, hot. I was sharp, sharp, sharp, smart, smart, smart.
Say goodbye to that. And he did. He only focused online and didn't do a very good job of it either. And it's not his fault. That's why we have ilads and folks at you to educate others, educate the patients to look for the right kind of doctors who have spent time in this area and know these diseases. You must find someone who knows these diseases, not say they do research them. I just researched today, another federal workers comp doctor, they threw my way who evaluated part of my case. I went, I'll tell you right now, this guy knows nothing about what I have. I researched him. Not one patient does he see with my disease. And he evaluated my claim. Give me a break. Okay, so I go on, and I don't know what he does between then.
So two more years go by. I still have him because I trust him, believe him in, in him. He tests me again, positive for both Lyme and Bartonella. I got no better.
Nothing happened. I can't tell you what he did because I don't remember, because, you know, I lost my short term, long term memory. It's starting to come back after all these years, gleefully, thankfully. And so I go another two years trusting him because you're too weak, too fatigued, your cognitive ability. I can't swear in this podcast, but it's not there. I couldn't assess, I couldn't research. I couldn't be the investigator I was. I couldn't do any of this to help myself. It was gone.
I was gone. Do people understand that? I used to carry a submachine gun, be on SWAT teams. I used to go Undercover, I used to go up against guys 6 foot 5. I had no fear. And now I didn't know what I had except a problem.
Right. And so in 2013, July of 2013, I just let him go because he wasn't helping. Now I had nowhere to go. And at that point, I went, who knows about this stuff?
So I live in an area where there's a lot of Lyme doctors. Now. I've learned that's a brand. And that brand for doctors make a lot of money. And at that point, all those years, I started digging into my retirement, started taking second mortgages out of my house. People need to know this. This is what happens with these diseases. I start and I pay all my bills because I have integrity. I am not going to be laid on a bill. So I start draining all my reserves, and people start taking advantage of me. That never happened in my life. And I couldn't fight back because I didn't have anything to fight back with. So now I'm searching for reasons to stay alive. And so for three years, I quit seeing every doctor I had, made a pathway of doctors and practitioners, and got nowhere. And I just went dark for three years now, because I'm. I call myself a service girl, a warrior for the greater good. I isolated. I didn't have a chance to get married, have kids, nothing. And I'm the. I'm the service girl. I'm not going to marry someone to be my care. I'm not going to start dating someone to be a caregiver.
No. So I isolate from everybody, and I don't ever live near family. And our family isn't close anyways, so I'm on my own completely. But I love German shepherd dogs. I didn't have one.
She passed away. And a friend talked me into this kitty right before I got this disease. A cat. I can't have a cat. What's a cat do? Doesn't bark.
She. You take that cat. This is my Asian friend.
Oh, she loved cats. I go, what am I going to do it? So I take a cat. That cat kept me alive because of an indoor kitty, because I'm going to protect it, right? I fed it, I took care of myself. I ate, I showered. I can't tell you how I have no memory of any of it.
All I know is I'm taking care of that cat because she never died. And she's indoors, right? She's not allowed outdoors. And one day I woke up and I could see the front door from my bed. And I asked myself three Questions. Every morning I woke up and I use. Sorry to your audience. I use the F word. I'm a law enforcement girl. Back then, you know, it's just the way it rolls. And I'd say, is this a good day, a medium day, or an effed up day?
Almost all of them were the third on this day. It was the third. And I looked at the front door. I'm only up five, three, two minutes. If I died, who would find me? I had no idea. How long would it take for someone to find me again? No. Answer the third question. Who would feed little Fern? My cat. She would die if I died. That cat kept me alive. Do I need to say more? No. You understand what I'm saying? So you look for something if you're in a situation. I was. Which it was. Looking back, I don't complain. Wine or anything. You can imagine that it was dire. If I'm talking about somebody else, and I'm talking about myself, outside of myself. Oh, my God. Right.
So as things would have it, it was time for whatever you believe in to step in. And a friend of mine, very wealthy lady, said, why don't you come up to my condo in Colorado? She brought a bunch of women up. I couldn't really ski, but okay. So I went up. She puts me in a room with a veterinarian. That veterinarian had a patient. That patient had bartonella. That patient had a specific doctor. Am I allowed to say who it is?
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Yes, please.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Dr. Robert Moeni. Dr. Mo was his doctor. So it took some time.
And they're like, you know, everybody comes to you with all their witchcraft. I'm being funny, but they come to, you know, this vitamin, this, this, this. And I'm like, stop. You know, you. After a while, you just stop. Nothing works. Leave me alone. Right? You just like, okay, thank you, but no. Right.
So they were doing the same thing. I go, whatever. So he calls me, this friend and he starts identifying my symptoms because he's got some of the same. I go, what? He made sense out of the unknown. And this is now 10 years. 10 years of this on my own. He says, well, My doctor is Dr. Robert Moeni. And he's really busy. I'm not sure I can convince him to take you out. So he calls him. I write a letter. I can't tell you what was in a letter. I wrote him a letter. Well, whatever. I just let it go and went on my merry way.
He called me one day driving down the street, and there he was. And he said, and he identified all my symptoms. Oh, my gosh. I never felt I had answers to everything. And he goes, I don't know if I can take you on because I'm really busy, but let me think about it. Now, he knew my background. I don't think I. I don't know how he knew my background, but he did well. He had a heart for military, now me, law enforcement. And he realized the system failed me, the government system.
Now, I'm not. I don't cry the blues. I don't feel sorry for myself. Don't hear that in my description or when I hear the fight in what I'm telling you. Not the boohoo me.
Okay? I'm always looking for what keeps me alive. I'm going to tell you a story of just. Just say wheelchair. And it'll prove how I think, because this will help your patients. So he took me on, and that was September of 2016. And I believe I'm an expert in what I do.
Pretty dang good at it, right? Or was starting to come back a little bit gleefully. You saw it at the I lads, that was my first time out. And I went, I still have some, right? So I'm thrilled. I can still give back. And, yeah. So he took me on and started working with me. He wanted to really discover where this came from. I told him my story like I told everyone else and got what he. Guess what he did with it. He didn't run with my, you know, the story of the arrest and search warrant. He did. He got it. He asked me questions about the inside, what was there, what it looked like. And he made me realize that the bottom layer had been dug up under construction. And there was probably all kinds of termites and all kinds of things in there, right? And the people that lived there had a cat, and more than likely there was fleas in there.
So he tracked it for two years. He worked with me for two years and built a history and found. I knew. I knew when I got it was obvious. I have pictures of it. And I went, this is when I got it. And then he was the detective. Now the roles change. And he went back and he systematically figured out what had happened through testing my history, my other.
All the medical that gone too. And he figured it out. Didn't take him along because he's really good at what he does. And then he starts working with me, and I've been working with him ever since. Now, it wasn't easy. Wasn't easy at all. You know, you take somebody who's so fatigued that they. They don't want to drive because they're. I think I'm going to crash into somebody or my reaction time is off and I don't ask for help. I don't know how I did it. I still don't have a memory of it. I don't know how I did it, but I did it and I'm here to speak about it. And so in this part of the story, please, folks, know that look for that person who knows what they're doing, not just charges you for it. You know, an hour you're out. Look for the person who you can see feeling here that they care and they do want to help you. And. And so they're the expert. I threw my hand. I threw myself metaphorically in his hands. Let's go.
What do you want me to do here? I listen to everything he said because he's the expert, not me. He chose this career. He's been in it so many years. He knows, like yourself, he knows. And so I listened and I was compliant. And at one point he said to me, patients aren't compliant. I go, what? How can they not be?
How? He goes, well, they're too sick or just don't want to. I go, I'm an expert in my lane. You're not. I. You're the expert. I want my life back. So please, people, listen to your doctor that you find and research that doctor. Don't take their word and make sure they're the right doctor who can be that detective and get over passed through the symptoms down to the root cause of what is going on with you and then do what they want to get rid of that. And will you maybe go walk through some fire to get to the other side?
Quite possibly. Do it anyways. Know that you have a future out there. You have a future if you pay attention and apply what they're saying. And know maybe you're going to go through a little heartache here, a little pain, but it's worth it. You can do it. Look at what you've been through already.
I follow what he said and he's a great doctor, he's a great friend, just amazing. And you know, we support each other now, not just in a doctor patient relationship. I support him in his practice because I have talent that he needs. You know, that's what it's about.
[00:24:38] Speaker A: Hello, dear listeners, this is Dr. Michael Karlfeld, your host of integrative Lyme solutions. Today I'm excited to share an exclusive opportunity from the Karlfeld center where we blend healing power of nature with groundbreaking therapies to combat Lyme disease and its associated challenges. At the Karlfield center, we're not just fighting Lyme, we're revolutionizing the way it's treated with cutting edge therapies like photodynamic therapy, full body ozone IV therapy, silver IVs, brain rebalancing, autonomic response testing, laser energetic detoxification and more. We aim to eradicate Lyme. Our approach is comprehensive, supporting your body's immune system, detoxification processes, hormonal balance and mitochondrial health, ensuring a holistic path to recovery.
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[00:26:39] Speaker B: So there's one story I want to backtrack with. I had a will. I didn't know how I was going to do it. And here's another thing that kept me alive. Not only a furry little four pod kitty, I didn't know how long this was going to last. As a kid I survived. I lived day to day. I would just see something, go do it. I wasn't a real goal setter. I am now. I've created that over some years now. But I didn't know this was going to take this long. I didn't know I'd go through 10 years of hell and then find somebody who. Now I've got to get through that gauntlet in order to get to some sort of health where I can have a life. If I knew how long it was going to take. Those of you that are out there really dark, and you're thinking about what's the easy way out. Don't do it. Take that little bit of will and start simple. Get on the Internet. If you don't have a good doctor right now, look, search, seek, they're out there. You have all kinds of tools to do it. Now, start with eyelets. They'll find you somebody, and then do the work. They can't do it for you. I have a friend right now, I know she's got one of these. She don't want to do it because she can't pay someone to do it for her. You have to be accountable for your health. I'm accountable for who I am in this world, and that includes this disease. Now, the other part I want to say to you is never give up during your hardest days, this is how I did it. I would look for the smallest snippet of positivity. I don't know what other word is the. The high side. And here's an example. I, I was still working with dea, and I had to fly all the way across country to interrogate a bad guy who said that the agent stole money. Now, my job was to be very neutral. It's a whole nother story. But I, I hadn't flown since I had this. And my body had that rash.
So I went, drove my car over to a drugstore, parked, and I was feeling sorry for myself for a moment. I thought maybe I was eating wrong. I didn't know what I was doing.
I go, I gotta get some gauze and some tape to wrap my legs, wrap my feet, wrap all the raw areas so I can sit on a plane and get to my job. And I said to myself, oh, quit whining. At least this is a quote. At least you have legs to have a rash on, unquote. I walked to the front of that drugstore, the two double door automatic doors came open, and this woman comes forward in a wheelchair with no legs.
Now, if that's not a sign, I don't know what is.
I would look for things like that.
So now I'm watching every time I eat something. Nobody talked to me about nutrition during those searching years.
Well, watch your nutrition patients, my friends that are out there listening to this. What you eat truly affects these diseases.
Don't feed those little critters, they love crap. You eat crap, they're gonna have a field day. And you're gonna feel worse and worse, and you're gonna get darker and darker. Well, I was eating comfort food that whole Time. Because no one said anything to include my integrative guy. Not one word.
Why would I. I wasn't, remember? I didn't have cognitive abilities to even think. Maybe food has something to do with this, right?
So on TV, there was this young boy, 10 or 14. He could only eat 10 foods because he was allergic to whatever. And I went, what would I do with those 10 foods? Maybe that's me, right? Well, I figured out, okay, let's figure it out. Find the will to figure it out. Find the will to move forward. Find the will to see the light in it somewhere that's just the crack of the door. Anything. Just look. And for goodness sakes, don't be like me. Ask for help. I don't know how I ate. I don't. I never got out.
Nobody knew how bad I was. I protected them, right?
And so I was still trying to open a business. I ran a huge event in 2013. That was my turning point. I gave it all for three days and three nights. It. It. This is not about that. And it was incredible event. We were driving there. My friend who was the agent, I looked over at her, said, I can't move, I can't walk, I can't think. I'm exhausted. She said, this is your event. You're going to have to buck up. This is an agent, right? Where that's how we talk. You got to buck up. This is the last thing. You got to pull it together.
So I put my head chin down. She comes around. We park. She comes around the car, opens the door, pulls me out of the car. She's half my size. I'm a tall girl, right? She's half my size. She's. And she walks me up to the front door as I'm leaning on her, and I get to the front door and I kick it into gear. And I pulled it off. And then my body crashed.
Crashed for years.
Don't be that.
Look for help way before you get to these points that I got to understand why I did it. It's not because I was stupid. It's because I love people.
And I didn't want to ask. I didn't want to lean. I don't want to appear weak.
I couldn't get answers. I searched and searched and searched. Couldn't get answers. But I barked up the wrong tree. I thought it was an allergy. Who would know? I had this little flea bite that totally changed my life. Yeah, I'll take a breath now and you can ask your questions.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: No, I love it. I mean, and that, that's what I loved. You know, your presentation. I mean, it, it. It's so. I mean, it's exactly what people want to hear and what they need to hear.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Your.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: Your story, you know, your. Your mindset, what you were going through.
And.
Yeah, and, and just kind of for people to recognize. I mean, here you have somebody at the peak of their performance, you know, mentally, physically, attitude wise, you know, emotionally, you know, at the peak.
And, and just showing how these, you know, tiny little pathogens like Bartonella, you can change all of that.
Something so small can take down something so great and so powerful.
And yes, you still had legs, and yes, you still had arms.
You didn't lose a body part.
But the impact from this little pathogen, Bartonella, completely messed with your mind, completely messed with your coordination, your muscle strength, your energy production, your immune system function. I mean, all of that get dysregulated.
And so it's just understanding the gravity of what something so small can do inside a person.
And so.
Yeah, well, what. I'm curious what. I mean, because you did all these other therapies and I know you're still obviously not at the peak of your existence yet, but you have improved a lot since from where you're at. I mean, you would not have been able to stand on the stage, you would not have been able to be part of a podcast like we were doing now and then even kind of recall the story.
So what have you done that you felt like? I did this, and this really started to make a change. So I felt clear, more energy and so forth.
[00:34:15] Speaker B: If you're referring to medications and stuff, I am not going to be the one to ask because I can't remember right.
But I can support your folks that are experiencing these diseases like this. Commit, make a decision.
I am going to find answers and I'm going to heal. I don't know how long it's going to take.
I need to find that expert or if you have one now, get serious and dive in and ask the right questions. They're the experts, but give them the information they need and don't sit there. And they're not your.
They're not your therapist, they're your doctor. Give them respect, their time and their expertise. This is what's going on now. Keep track of what you're doing, give it to them and let them adjust. And then, and then experience the adjustment. Go, well, this worked. This didn't work. Work with them as a teammate. Just don't pour your tears on their shoulders, so to speak. Right you'll get much more bang for your buck, literally and figuratively. Be compliant is what I just said.
They're the expert if you trust them. Don't let your ego get in the way and don't let your fatigue get in your way. Don't let your sickness get in your way. Find a way to crawl to your pill bottle. I don't care what you got to do. Do what they want you to do, right? And be their teammate. Get your ego out of the way. They've studied this stuff. They know they've seen patients and make sure they've seen a ton of patients with these things and look for something to live for. That's the third thing. In your darkest days. I still had a desire to help people. And like I said, I didn't know it was going to take so long. Thank God, because I don't know if I would have made it. I still wanted to serve. Yes, my current career was now gone, but I had come out of that with a ton of skill level. And here's the other part. I lost it all.
I couldn't find my way out of a paper bag. And I'm sharing with you in most humble, honoring way, humility. I was a badass helping people. I become so tuned into how to help people mentally.
I mean, I did things in the world you would never guess. I can read people like a book. I can get trauma out of them. I can do. I have the skill level of a master. And I lost.
So in those days, my compelling future, as simple as it sounded, I didn't know it was going to last this long. Thank goodness. I'm grateful for that. 2. I wanted to serve again.
I didn't know what capacity. I had tons of ideas when I could think, but I didn't know if I could even walk forward physically do it.
So how did I keep going?
Stubborn. I just kept going and growing and not complaining and finding that little light, finding the light side of everything, the upside of everything. The high tide, not the low tide. And then I had to test, where am I? Do I still have a skill level to sit with someone and learn their trauma and then be able to get that trauma. Did I have the skill level? I didn't have as much as I had, but I had enough to still help. And I started experimenting. They didn't know how sick I was, so I started experimenting with what do I still have left.
And then I had to find ways to do it. So I take notes or, you know, you find ways, get over the blues. And find ways to move forward.
Then, most importantly, Doc, I hope your audience hears this. Where are you at now and what is your new identity? You can bring forth some of the things you have, obviously your character, your integrity, trustworthiness, the things I had, the care and love of people.
But who are you now?
So here's a real life example of that. I used to be a hot public speaker all over the place. Civilians demanded me because I was outrageous. You saw that, right?
Asked me to speak. I went, say what? I haven't been out there in years.
Now I've been working on, who am I now? You know, you know, who am I? What do I have to talk about? You know, because when you're sick, you have nothing to talk about.
I'm going to backtrack for a second because I don't want to forget this very important part. One day I went to a business early on when I didn't know I was. I had this stuff. I went to a women's business luncheon and I'm sitting next to this tiny little woman and she was talking about how she had a brain tumor. And when you're really sick, your friends and family abandon you because they don't know what to do.
They don't know what to talk about. I mean, what do you have to talk about when you're sick? For years, Nothing, right? Nothing. You're not out active, so they abandon you. Now, I was a self sorter. I abandoned everybody else, right? Because I didn't want to cause harm. But everyone else finds it. People run from. So when I see someone sick now, that friend or something, I hang in there and I, you know, try to help because I know, okay, so backtrack for me because I have Bartonella. I was on a pathway. Where was I, Doc?
[00:39:29] Speaker A: You're saying.
[00:39:32] Speaker B: See, I'm getting better.
So when they asked me to speak, I went, okay. Well, I found that very interesting because I hadn't been out in years. And then the very organization that has doctors, practitioners, scientists, researchers that study these invisible diseases were asking me to come be their inspirational motivational keynote speaker. What?
Okay, I can do this.
Well, I had a block, Bartonella block, right? Works with your cognitive ability.
And it wasn't until the first, till that week, Tuesday, Wednesday, it started pouring out of me. And I was working on it till last minute. And I got up there and folks, first thing I did was, was fall on stage. You saw that, right?
[00:40:18] Speaker A: You, you didn't fall, you tripped. That's a big difference. You tripped.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: Well, either way, when you go flying on your face and it wasn't in the direction of the podium, that's not a good sign. Right.
So luckily, I'm still very agile and I can react really fast. I fall and trip and do all kinds of things all the time, and I'm catching myself.
So that's what I did that day. But what I learned was I still have it in me to serve the people there.
My story resonated with them. I had no idea if it would. I took a gamble, poured myself out there. Very, very logical way. And so many people come up. Doctors, patients, name it. And literally some of them had their lights going out, and I relit it for them.
I don't. I don't take that lightly. Right. And doctors who. Patients were ready to shut their lights off or ask me, what would you say to these people?
This is what I would say is what I'm saying to you in this is never give up.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: Yeah, I love. And you even navigated. You know, we have technical difficulties, and you navigated all of that beautifully. You're patient and adapted, and so all of that was really impressive.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Well, thank you. It's about getting over yourself. Because I never had to read a note, and here I'm reading from a script because my computer wouldn't work and I had to read from a script. That didn't make me any less. All I knew is I had to give this information out to these folks. Never realized who really was in that audience and how much impact it would have. So you don't know what you can do in a world for a child's life where people in your. In your inner circle, you don't have to do things like I'm doing. But here, how I got through this, now, people, now I'm going to use. I have a close friend. Now, I know she's got one of these diseases, and I can't get her to go get tested, right. So I'm stepping up and stepping in in any way I possibly can to help her. She thinks I'm a freak of nature, an anomaly, because.
Yeah, I have a physical therapist. You should see them work.
When we go to the gym. I'm lifting some heavy weight and I'm not young, right?
And these young women in the gym, they just go, you know, and even the men I'm lifting because I used to be really strong. I'm starting to get it back. I lost it for a whole year because I had a really bad doctor who did some really bad stuff, and I got really bad And I fought to get that back, too.
You have to believe in yourself, and you have to have a compelling future.
What are you living for? What's important to you?
I don't care if it's gardening or serving your nation. I don't care how small or how big. You've got to have something to live for bigger than yourself. If you don't, you're not going to make it.
And don't question how long it's going to be. Just work hard and it'll happen when it happens. Create your new identity. I'm finding my way, my new identity.
I'm not where I was, but I can be and I still can serve. And that's my life, that's my heart, that's my soul.
And as long as I have that, I'm not going to stop.
That's how I keep going.
And right now, I have such bad osteoarthritis that my feet feel broken. I literally went to a surgeon, podiatrist surgeon, said I have a broken bone in my foot, because I'm sorry to say, you're loaded with arthritis in your foot. Go. What? I just went out, did an hour hike today. I still lift. I still.
I still do it all.
Because the old saying goes, if you don't use it, you lose it.
And I'm going to keep going.
The more I move, the more I grease my joints and the more I can move. If I start moving, I'm going to be in trouble.
Okay. It's the way it is. I'm not going to complain or cry about it. I'll find a way around it. It's like, bring it on. And I'm going to find solutions to a lot of things.
I'm not giving in.
I'll shut up now.
[00:44:27] Speaker A: No, I. I love it. I mean, that. That's amazing. And. And I've. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Janice, for.
For what you do, who you are, the message, what. How you're serving. And I know that this message is going to reach thousands and thousands of people out there struggling with Lyme or knowing people that are struggling with Lyme throughout the world.
This podcast goes out to nations all over the place. So I'm really grateful for this message and for people to have the opportunity to hear your story and hear, you know, you know, your. Your mindset and. And how your. Your fighting attitude and your will is just pushing through, and. And that is where. That's where the solution is, you know, that's where you find it, you know, so. So thank you, Janice.
[00:45:25] Speaker B: That's my absolute, just absolute pleasure, delight and honor. I say that in all humbleness. If I can use what I've seen, seen, felt and heard and pass it forward to help people have a shorter journey of this, I'm all over it.
[00:45:43] Speaker A: Wonderful. Thank you so much.
[00:45:45] Speaker B: It's my pleasure. Thank you. Doc.
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