While walking through my unknown health challenges, I continued my relationship with God more deeply. I have mentored and provided life coaching in the past; however I know without a relationship with God and a true understanding of a deeper knowledge of your being, it is impossible to find freedom from your pain and suffering.

As a Christian counselor, my goal is to walk with others and provide a space as they uncover the root of their suffering and find the courage to move through whatever life’s challenges present. My trust in God has seen me through various life traumas, misdiagnosed physical life-altering moments, bouts of depression, chronic pain, skeletal muscular instability, and moments of despair.

“Where are you, God?” Although this invisible pain cannot be seen but others, it was real and God knew. I felt alone, unseen, and unheard. When all the tests come back normal, it is hard to explain to friends and family. Finally, you find the right doctor to listen, understand and do the test that reveals the miracle. Since 1940, there has been a path forward, yet there is more research and education needed as symptoms vary from person to person. B12 feeds your central nervous system and DNA.

Now can you see it’s not just about energy! It’s all about energy. It fuels the body’s systems on a cellular DNA level.

As all the neurologic systems became more pronounced during the COVID years it is difficult to get in to see a doctor. I was first told it appeared as a concussion. As the pain continued, I was then referred to a neurologist. The first MRI appear that I had a stroke with gray matter appearing as such. All other tests over time ruled out a stroke. The initial blood panel and B12 test showed pernicious anemia as well as deficient B12. More MRIs would follow as I was referred to a neurology oncologist who insisted I need to do injections if I wanted to get better. I started injections in September 2022 once a month and increased to injections twice a week by November due to my advanced stages of the disease and neurological deficits.

My journey of misdiagnoses when I finally began to be listened to:

First concussion, then strokes, then a brain tumor, and finally all related to my chronic B12 deficiency due to pernicious anemia. Now with injections twice a week, I am rebuilding muscle and doing my best to honor my healing process. If I had been tested earlier, decades before when I was so exhausted with no apparent reason, it would have been caught. B12 is not a standard test. The area in my brain is still being watched to make sure it doesn’t change. I was told I could have been born with it. They will keep an eye on it.

For many, B12 is not just an energy boost, it’s a matter of life or death. We get B12 in the food we eat. If you have a condition where your body cannot process the B12 it slowly depletes over time with symptoms becoming more advanced until mental and physical disability leads to death. Today there is an answer and we must know the facts to advocate with our doctors. Listen to your body, make note of your symptoms, and request the tests to rule it out. If you are supplementing orally, keep in mind your tests will not be correct. Your levels will be higher.

This spiritual warrior is on a mission to change the mindset, practice, and awareness. This test should be a standard annual test when a CBC blood panel is also taken. Anemia is the last step in this disease and often the symptoms are overlooked and just seen as being “too sensitive”. I am sensitive and intuitive, but not the way it was communicated to me as if it were all in my imagination.

With love,