Plans for 2025
Hello, everyone! How are you doing? What are your plans for the rest of this year? What changes are you willing to commit to in 2025? I ask a lot of questions, don’t I? So, how about this… I will tell you my answers if you tell me yours. You can comment below.
My plan for 2025, is to continue to recover from the health issues I have been dealing with for the past five months. I will go into a little more detail about that in a bit. Like every new year, I hope to continue to be the best friend to my wife, Tracy. I will also continue to be involved with both Plant Based Nutrition Support Group (PBNSG) and Sage Circle Alliance (SCA). I will try to read more and learn more, but NOT watch more television! That is my short list for 2025.
Before I share a bit of an update about my health, I will first start with a thought: Have you ever planned to do something, but wondered if you probably should not do it? Well, the day before Tracy and I recently left for a twenty-one hour drive to Florida, I looked in the mirror and asked myself, “What the heck are you thinking, Paul?” After all, I was still having pain while sitting, and sometimes even needed to use my right arm to lift my left arm. I was thinking that the warmer Florida weather would help my recovery. So, we left early this past week to drive south, and do you know what? Of course you don’t. LOL. Well, someone was watching over me, because the drive did not cause much pain at all. It felt like my health issues were cut by more than half. Sure, we made a few more stops that usual, but the drive was okay. I still have a way to go, but I am feeling better.
As I reflect back on the past thirteen years, I feel like I have truly found my purpose: To tell people about the benefits of nutrition before pills or procedures (why I started PBNSG), and more recently, to tell people about Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a). I am now starting my 3rd year in a Phase III study to help bring a drug to market that can lower Lp(a) levels. Whenever I have blood taken, or get an injection (drug or placebo), I feel like a human pin cushion. My purpose of being part of the study, is to not only learn, and hopefully lower my Lp(a) level to normal, but to help others.
My most recent purpose is to tell others about polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), an inflammatory disease that causes pain and stiffness in muscles and joints. Heck, I had never heard of PMR until I was diagnosed with it. So everyone knows, I had many different paths of treatment to choose from, to treat or cure my pain. The conventional medicine path suggested cortisone injections, and either a new hip, or steroids over a prolonged period, or for the rest of my life. I was also told about four other alternative treatment possibilities. As many of you know, I decided to follow Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s advice and try SoftWave TRT therapy, which activates my own stem cells for healing. I am so fortunate to have Dr. Fuhrman as a friend and health adviser. He is simply amazing! I will have more to follow on this.
Lastly, I would like to give my prayers of healing to Chef AJ who is facing her own health issue; she has helped and continues to inspire so many.
I also give my deep appreciation, respect, and lifelong friendship to our Director of Operations, Marion Treece, who has watched over our organization for nearly six years, as she is retiring from PBNSG. Please join me in welcoming Nicole Jobe to the PBNSG team as our new Director of Operations. Please consider making a kind donation to PBNSG, or tell your friends and loved ones to join us as a new member. Remember, the first month of a membership is free!
Most of all, please stay healthy, be kind, and stay positive!