Seven months ago my family started using Young Living
Essential oils. A friend from church had
some pretty amazing life changing healing take place for her son’s asthma This boy, whom was severely restricted by his disease,
was able to complete his first 5k last Father’s Day. God is good! They got started using Young
Living’s Thieves cleaner because with her son’s asthma, they were unable to
clean using your conventional household cleaners because the toxic chemicals
and fumes exasperated his symptoms. Soon,
they began using Young Living’s essential oils to treat his asthma and his
healing was miraculous. Hearing their
story piqued my interest.
Prior to trying essential oils, I dabbled in home
herbalism. It didn’t go so well. I love
herbs, well the concept of them at least.
I really enjoyed making ointments and salves (and still do) but had a
hard time with the delivery method of herbal tinctures, decoctions, and
teas. I found that teas and decoctions
were inaccessible, unpalatable, and hard to administer. Have you ever tried to force feed a quart of
agrimony tea to a toddler? Yea…that didn’t
go over so well. So then we tried garlic
lemonade. One of my friends said her kids
actually liked the taste. NEVER.
AGAIN. My poor children. I shudder…
Another friend suggested something called “yucky honey”. LOL.
If your friend hands you a recipe card with the word “yucky” in the
title, she’s no friend of yours. Just in
case anyone is wondering, “yucky honey” is 10 drops of GSE in 1 tbs of raw
honey. (For the record, we still endure
that one on occasion :: Shudder :: ) We
all decided we’d rather be sick or just eat it and go to the doctor for
antibiotics than suffer through ANOTHER herbal remedy.
It took me a while to pull the trigger for buying my first
kit of essential oils. I was still
traumatized by my failed attempts in becoming a home herbalist. I wasn't sure my children could endure
anymore pain. But man, am I ever so
grateful. Using Young Living oils
literally changed my life. At the time I
purchased my oils, I expected to be able to ease some cold and flu symptoms and
replace my wax warmers with chemical free fragrances. Never did I think that these oils could heal
acute ailments. Never did I think that
God would use these oils as a medium to heal me in a miraculous way.
You see, the summer of 2012, unbeknownst to me, I suffered a
stress fracture in my right foot in one of the small little sesamoid bones
beneath my big toe joint. I had been
hiking, wearing the wrong shoes, and came home from a week long camping trip,
in a LOT of pain. My first thought was
that I had just thrown it out of alignment.
I went to my chiropractor and had her adjust it, to no avail. A few weeks later, I learned I was
pregnant.
It was a bit of a tough
pregnancy. My progesterone levels weren't
as high as they should have been and I had some bleeding. I had had a miscarriage a few months prior and my husband and I had been trying for a baby for more than 6 months at this
point. So when we became pregnant for
the second time, life stopped- and the focus was not on the pain in my foot,
but in keeping this pregnancy strong and healthy. I was put on progesterone supplements which made
me extremely ill. Every day was a
struggle to function. I was in survival
mode. All this time, my foot pain was
increasingly worse. There were some days I couldn’t walk on it. But at the time, I just dealt with it. My growing baby was more important to
me.
(^^^ That's what I felt like lol)
Around the middle of my pregnancy, my husband started
nesting. He decided now was better than
later to begin the process to get the house ready to sell. Bless his heart…he
decided to bless me….and remodel my kitchen.
If any of you have ever remodeled a kitchen while you’re living in the
home, you know. And for any of you who
are thinking about doing it….dont. I’ll
save you the mental anguish. Just light
a match. He really was trying to bless
me and I’m grateful for his heart to please me.
It was just a lot at the time, being pregnant, having
toddlers/preschoolers, and being sick.
Did I mention we were planning a homebirth?
Anyways….with everything going on, I wasn’t taking care of
myself and I continued to ignore my growing foot and all the pain that came with
it! My daughter was born and I hobbled
about my day as usual and sucked it up. But
by the time my daughter was 3 months old, it occurred to me that this lingering
foot pain was anything but normal. At
her well baby exam, I mentioned it to our family doctor. He sent me to an orthopedic surgeon for
xrays. By this time, my foot was twice the size as the other foot and walking
was done very carefully and slowly.
So when I went to the ortho doc, he took xrays of my
foot. When he came into the exam room,
he had this smirk on his face, and asked me to tell him what had happened. So I explained my story- how I’d been hiking
a year before and ever since that day, my foot just hurt and swelled for no
reason at all. I mentioned to him that
it felt almost like it was broken. With
that, he chuckled and said, “Your foot IS broken”. He showed me on the xray and sure enough,
there was a nice jagged line through my little sesamoid bone. He explained to me that I was going to need
surgery because a break like this doesn’t heal, it dies, and that my bone was
surely in the death process at this point and would need to be removed. He scheduled me for an MRI 6 weeks later to
assess the damage, but told me that my surgery would leave me unable to bear
any weight on that foot for at least two weeks, with another 6 weeks of
recovery and physical therapy. Did I
mention that my dad had had a stroke a few months prior to all of this and that
he was living with me full time and that we’d just moved?? (I really had my
plate full). So here I was, 3 months
post partum, unpacking a new house, taking care of my recovering dad, being
told I had to have surgery. Talk about a
bummer.
I had remembered somewhere in the recess of my memories that
frankincense supposedly could heal a broken bone. I never EVER thought that it would work. But, since I had bought myself a kit of oils
for my birthday two months prior to my diagnosis, I already had a bottle of
frank. It couldn’t hurt. So I used frankinsence, valor (nicknamed “chiropractor
in a bottle”), and panaway (a EO blend used to help relieve pain) morning,
noon, and night in the 6 week interim period between my initial diagnoses and
my MRI. And we prayed. Oh did we pray.
Within a few weeks, I noticed that the inflammation went
down and then my range of motion returned.
By the time I went in for my MRI, I felt really silly to be there
because my pain and inflammation had completely disappeared.
So I get the MRI and wait the 3 days to hear the results
from my doctor. Finally, the nurse called and said, “This is crazy, but
the MRI shows that you have no break. I don’t
know what you’re doing but keep doing it!
To this day, I have no pain! (that was 4 months ago)
Since the Lord healed me using that little bottle of
frankincense, I am never ceased to be amazed at the healing He can provide
using the tools and resources he gave to us in the beginning, back on day
three.
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