These are the things, I think I should share with you about the beginnings of M.S. for comparisons and intellectual debate only and for no other reason than to hope you all follow in some respect my view point and do what I have done about it, so here goes.

I believe, if you’re going to tell a story, tell it like it is. So, I am going to do just that and  will leave it to you guy’s to decide whether you think I am full of crap or not . So trust me on this one because :-

Without your health, you’re in Alice & Wonderland.

You’re in a different world because that’s just the way it is.

It makes absolutely no sense to you, at the time, why you suddenly can’t do something, whether it’s your fault or not, that’s irrelevant.

What is important is that you understand from that day on, your just the same as everyone else.

Some people are lucky and can walk through life not giving a second thought to anything or anyone.

Making it very difficult for those of us who do, actually listen and play by the rules, to be subjected to ill health for no particular reason.

I have always had an interest in the likely, as the likely always, or rather inevitably, becomes reality.

We humans are strange !.

Now, I have had children of my own, I quite clearly, having helped bring them into the world, see how fragile we are, in reality and how something good, could quite easily be taken from us.

Right from the get go, it’s a miracle nothing goes wrong and an absolute nightmare when it does.

Knowing what I do now , there is a very fine line, between life and death, all the way through.

Mother nature does have a funny way of re-inventing itself, if not to show us who’s boss, but constantly make us aware ,that we are not immortal, life can change or die at any time and never ever take what you have for granted.

                                                       Myself, I believe in karma.

                                            This of course is and can be a mixed blessing.

200 years from now, 2208, the human race will in my opinion have evolved both physically, mentally & emotionally, then again very much like the dinosaurs be totally extinct  if we carry on the way we do, which today is a distinct possibility ! .

                              Whichever way it works out, one thing is for sure.

                                          We are not here for a very long time.

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I have had some pretty appalling pieces of information and advice throughout  my life but I dealt with it . Some of my results will help you. The important thing is, to remain positive throughout, be prepared for the unexpected and do your own research  throughout your life, that way, you only have yourself to blame if it all goes wrong. Blaming someone  else is of course ,very today , but it’s not much good to you when your ill and there is nothing more final, than death.

When you do get ill, it’s amazing how quickly things can turn bad. The body it would seem just throws a shit fit and rarely gives you a warning.

For arguments sake I liken our structure on the mechanical side, joints  and  moving parts to a car engine, because I have taken a car engine to pieces and although there is no similarity what so ever, it’s better and simpler just to give you something that you can visualize, because very few of us get to take bodies to pieces and maybe that’s the problem !.

Maybe if we stepped up the anti  and  people who go to Medical School actually took bodies to pieces and studied brain matter, blood, nerves, bones, joints, we would move far faster in understanding the human body.

Evolution .

A funny word.

Evolution of the human, in my opinion, is the body’s way of dealing with everything it is exposed to throughout, it’s natural and useful life. It will and has and does mimic two things we use on a daily basis. One is the car. The other is the computer.

For a start, If you start putting the wrong fuel in it, it starts to slow at first, then recover, then die.

The engine ( Heart ) when working properly will lubricate every working part of your body and continue to do so until, depending on the abuse, it may need to have a service maybe parts replaced, because nothing is forever, wear and tear in any moving machine needs lubrication.

The Brain ( The Computer )  is able and I know this for a fact to shut down. It can mimic and re-write circuitry if it chooses to, it can bypass old wiring with little difficulty as well when made to. It’s a very sensitive sole and has great difficulty as we get older in adjusting to major trauma ,like the hard drive on a computer. It can loose the plot, loose everything of value to you and has only a fifty / fifty chance you can get it back.

Recently it has become clear to me that the medical profession  has allowed itself to be unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, maybe it’s really one of the same,  but when doctors can not give you a cure and I mean 100% cure for what you went to see him or her for, they can not give you either, an adequate explanation  and  brush whatever it is ,you went to see them for, with a pill they get from a book, that in my book, is a no, no.

No you have no idea what is wrong with me.

No, you have no idea what your talking about.

No, I came to see the wrong guy.

No, have you tried that yourself .

The reason, I say this, is simple is because,

There are doctors and there are doctors. Some good, some bad. Some really good and some

really bad. Some that should not even be practicing any more.

Why?

Would you send your computer to a garage to be repaired ? . I don’t think so.

Would you send your car to the computer guy to get repaired. ? I don’t think so.

Dealing with todays special needs children, is in my opinion a direct result of  something being altered in the genetic structure of the human-being, whether it’s directly influenced by the medical profession / pharmaceutical Industries, is up to you to decide. Knowing what I do now, I will take my chances once I have listened to all the information obtainable and available at that time.

The main reason I say this, is because. Never, never, have so many people in the western world been so affected by the supposed modern medicines of the west. Both mental illness

suicide and even death are at all times question mark.

So, I go back to my car and see that Oh, that wasn’t petrol I put in, it was diesel no wonder the car stopped.  Far too many pills today are taken by people having total faith in their doctors but little knowledge in and on the effect it will eventually have on their body and for that matter their brain.

So what I am doing is waving a very big RED FLAG WARNING to one and all. You must not just take pills , any pills, without first getting all the information you can from your doctors.

Why?

Because nine times out of ten you will be back at that office suffering from something else sooner rather than later, and nine times out of ten it’s a direct result of taking that very first pill.

I remember listening to a dying  friend of mine in August of 2007 who was held up in a hospital in New York. Barely coherent from the medication they had him on, it was clear that whatever he was on, was not helping, in fact if anything, it was causing him more pain than he could deal with. He just wanted to be left alone to die and told me so. Three days later he did die, in a hospice in New York where his daughter had moved him to.

Again, I hold a very big Red Flag to pills. I want to to know what they are for and why.

Reason being, many pills we take today upset something else in our already  stressed and overworked body. I personally, have always been good with electrical circuits and have always been able, a natural ability I might add and not something I learnt from a book. I made my first light circuit when I was seven, by twenty six I could wire the whole basement of a house with little difficulty which I did I might add and famously saved several parties as a guest in the early eighty’s when they had overloaded the breaker boxes at the venue and had

little chance of getting a fully qualified electrician to come and fix it at ten o’clock at night.

So, I know a few things about this stuff and liken our human circuit breakers and circuitry to much the same, although and of course there are no wires as such. Wrong !

In much the same way low voltage moves around a circuit board or house that operates on twelve volts for lighting and alarms, in much the same way it moves around a car, airplane,train, boat even the space shuttle, we humans have, as do all living things  a circuit system of sorts, protected by the Myelin sheaf which allows small electrical energy to move from our brain around the body.

                                                 M.S.  Multiple sclerosis causes huge problems to the human

body both in movement and brain function.

                                   How do I know this ?. I know this, because I have it.

If you look in the The Oxford English Dictionary multiple sclerosis means and I quote :-

An Abnormal hardening of body tissue .

A chronic disease of the nervous system resulting in symptoms including fatigue, difficulty     

in walking and speech defects.

3. The hardening of the cell-wall with lignified matter.

What does Lignified mean, I hear you say or even, is there such a word as Lignified because it seems to be missing an h or an s in my opinion?

I must say having read it I had to look it up, this doctor crap. Why they can’t just tell you in plain simple English that this or that is not right I have no idea, however if it’s for fear of getting it wrong and being sued then they seem to mask it with the good old, let’s make it complicated jar-gin that only they understand and if your really bothered you can look it up yourself. Duly did, duly noted.

Well, in a nut shell it means the blood supply in your body is being obstructed by a complex organic polymer deposited in the cell walls of your veins.

That in itself is quite interesting, because some drugs they prescribe today are designed to eradicate just such a thing. Think about that for a moment ,then ask yourself having taken such a thing why some people suddenly die from a heart attach or have a stroke.

The problem with all of the above, it can, as I have witnessed lead people ( other fellow human beings ) to believe that your mad. Which is interesting because I think I am in a better

place now, than before. I see other fellow human beings for what they really are, so I think ,

mad is a good place to be now.

But lets just look at number 2.

A chronic disease of the nervous system resulting in symptoms including fatigue for which I suddenly became aware of , after excessive use of my mobile phone on a business / pleasure holiday in florida, talking to Los Angeles and England while trying to agree prices on a film we were prepping for in England.

Once off the phone the right side of my face would be red and I would feel a little tired, my right eye would twitch a lot and the socket would be annoyed with a burning sensation continuing  for at least the next hour or two then disappear and I thought little of it.

I had no issues with walking or talking and no stress other than work related issues, which would go away after my second beer.

So, it was a little odd to say the least when I returned to England that week, had some guests to stay over that weekend and woke up Monday morning with absolutely no eye sight in my right eye, but with what looked like a red laser pin vision coming back at me, intense pain and  again a burning sensation around the eye socket.

My wife put some eye drops in it not really understanding that I had no eye sight it was gone apart from this red light which was a painful full stop. Why ! I have no idea. It was.

Twenty four hours later the pain had gone but was replaced with what looked like a net curtain, again no sight. We called my London Doctor. Dr Tony Greenburgh.

Here comes the tricky bit and the need for doctors to pay particular attention to some ones

lifestyle  once you approach good old 40.

I write for you the reader, because it makes little difference to me now what was to happen to me over the next six years, because it did. This is me writing about it, not someone else because I don’t need to lie or hide behind some fancy language or terms that your going to have to look up to understand.

Giving you the reader should you care to read on, the insight, the ability to determine what you should do if your not sure about the answers, because let me tell you no one is.

The series / program “ House”  Brilliant by the way, well written,  factual even, but one thing that does stick out is the fact people lie. I think that’s a little strong myself because I never did, it’s just a question of the way the doctor / G.P. physician put something, white lies are better put in this situation, ( everyone tells them ) “ House”  again, good point, although the difficulty here is, when your asked to answer how much you drink per day or week, I personally cant remember, never could. How many cigarettes do I smoke. I don’t smoke cigarettes, does that matter. Yes.

The question should be. “ Do you smoke “ anything ?.

Yes.

What ?

Cigars.

Oh, how many ?.

One on a good day and four on a bad day.

Do you inhale ?.

Yes.

You must be fucking mad.

Yes. I am.

Point here, is when asked the direct / right question you answer it honestly, if you don’t your an idiot.

In my case these questions were asked and I did answer them. What was not made clear to me all the way along, was that if I did not pack it in, I would end up in serious trouble.

They say ,no one ever died from smoking Pot / Grass whatever you want to call it or for that matter from cancer from smoking pot / grass.

Huh, I have never met someone whose brain is able to function properly having used the stuff let alone die of cancer, as it would probably take too long for the signal to get to the brain from the brain.

Anyway. Off to see Tony Greenburgh, who although I had seen him occasionally for ear infections from swimming I was in good health. Wrong, as there was issue number one.

Why was I getting them and why,  when I got bitten by a Bee / Wasp was it taking my immune system so long to control the infection and get rid of it.

Antibiotics, of which I am not a great fan of were causing more damage to my immune system than was obvious to the eye.

Now, here’s a thing and once again I will say it, when someone, can’t actually see that there is something physically wrong with you  like you have broken your leg there is nothing wrong with you.

Back to Mr T. G . again.

He found I could not see, out of my right eye which I told him, but as far as he could tell everything else was normal, although you don’t just loose your eye sight unless a major fuse has gone.

His first referral was Dr Jagger an eye specialist in Harley street, not only an extremely

competent guy but really good. In a matter of less than twenty minutes, it was nothing to do

with my eye.

This was getting bad for me, although still in control, it had not dawned on me, that this was a circuit problem of some sort, a brain issue a major fuse had gone but everything else worked.

Back to T.G.

 

Next, his referral was Dr Desmond kid a consultant Neurologist at the Royal Free hospital in Hampstead.

He carried out his tests, asked a few questions, asked me to read a couple of books and tell him what I saw.

Having covered the other eye up, which I had not done up till now, I could not see or read what it said in anyway. The color had gone and I started to cry.

Fuck me I thought, that’s it, I have a brain tumor, I am going to die.

No, Dr Desmond assures me, it’s not.

So, what’s wrong then ?

Cant say !, but whatever it is, its very mild and should get better within a couple of weeks in the meantime we need to get an MRi done of your head.

So then it was off to have an MRi.

Up until now, would I know what that was ?.

No.

Its lying on your back, with what sounds like a washing machine full of bricks ,spanners hammers, in fact the wife has just thrown the entire contents of the kitchen in it, going round and round, until you think the whole thing is going to fall to pieces and blow up.

All goes quiet you leave and wait for the results.

I saw Dr Desmond before leaving the hospital and remember asking him should I be on medication for this.?

He said No. It will settle, any serious issues like loss of anything else call him immediately.

So, he obviously had his suspicions but was unable to voice them, until he had a look at the MRi, although with what I know now, quite what that was going to conclude without a spinal tap, I have no idea.

Over the next couple of weeks my sight did return, not 100% No. About 95%

Later on down the road I had another meeting with Dr Desmond Kidd at the Wellington

Hospital NW8 were I was assured that I had picked up a virus obviously from swimming in

Florida and that eventually it would all settle down.

He assured me, having asked him point blank, am I going to die, that I did not have a brain tumor, cancer, or was in any danger of dying in the not too distant future, but other than the virus I had acquired I was going to make a full recovery.

Reading through the lines now that was his / my first big mistake.

Why?

December 2000.

It’s Christmas time. That’s good news, I am not going to die. Lets forget about the whole thing and have a festive season of good cheer and thank my lucky stars that it was nothing worse than some bloody virus.

That said, I received a letter from Dr Desmond Kidd M.D. Consultant Neurologist at the Royal free Hospital on the 5th of December 2000, Yes you guest it, the exact same guy who told me that I had picked up a virus nothing to worry about, no brain tumor, no cancer, no life threatening problems, but that I should set up an appointment, a follow up if you like, preferably before Christmas, but most certainly after to discuss the implications of the disturbance.

As it transpired this was not anything like the letter he sent Tony Greenburgh my London based G.P. ( General Practitioner ) on exactly the same day.

Looking back on the whole thing now it’s probably just as well I did not go to that meeting after all he told me face to face in the hospital that I had nothing to worry about.

The fact I was thinking of marrying my long time girlfriend and partner of seven years, starting a family and moving back to California, were not really relevant at this stage to either party when it came to my health as everything was fine and you just got on with life after all I was only 38 strong and healthy.

To view the letters sent by these doctors go to appendix 1.

Moving right along, I always said I would move back to California get married at 40 and settle down and make babies. What I say I will do, I will do.

After Christmas something came up in January making it not possible to set a date or time for a meeting with Dr Desmond Kidd as I had to get back to California on business.

Eye sight back to about 95%, still not perfect, but good enough not to worry.

The thing is, I knew something was wrong but I could not put my finger on it. Over the next couple of years I found myself searching for reasons as to why I would suddenly feel very very tired for no reason. I quit smoking, quit drinking, quit just about everything I did during the glorious 80’s & 90’s and still I new something was up. I still got tired some days worse than others. I would get mosquito bites when abroad  bee and wasp stings which never really cleared up quickly, or for that matter having to take a nap without wanted to.

Knowing the immune system now, mine seemed to be crashing ,for no good reason. Red wine which I loved was beginning to make me feel very tired when I drank it so I stopped drinking it all together. Dropped the cigars and still there was something not right.

I took it upon myself to maybe get a medical or several done which I duly did, blood test’s and all. Although for my age group I was sound, physically fitter than the average person of the same height and weight if not better than most of my friends I just did not feel 100%.

The tests did show that after years of drinking large amounts of fantastic wines, spirits and beers, it was time to give it a rest ,before I took one permanently. That said, I had already addressed that issue but obviously not well enough and so, as well as being an English problem ,more so hereditary , if I were to be honest, at least like the old black and white portraits of our great capital London, I was never one for spending any amount of time puking into the Thames or for that matter on any side walk. In fact I never thought it was an issue just that everyone in my circle drank just as much if not more than I.

Clearly it was time to half it immediately or die. It also showed increased bad Cholesterol known as HDL which I had to take care of. Measuring your blood pressure daily is a good thing and I would like to draw your attention to Appendix 2 , so that you can now, yourself monitor your own position, because I have made copies of all the blood test’s during this period, because I want to make you the reader understand that you can do so much damage to your body in a short period of time without realizing it and then it’s the hard slog of bringing it back the other way.

I am still alive to tell you the story and make you understand that you can do this on your own or die young.

I had, have, no time for ill health never did ,never worried about it at all. Even after seeing one of the very best Ophthalmic eye surgeons in London he could not find anything wrong with my eye, what was there to worry about?

Just before my wedding however we went to the South of France to stay with some dear friends. I picked up the worst ear infection from swimming I have ever ever had.

Nothing would shift this thing, not even oral antibiotics so it was off to see a specialist again in London who actually had to inject the antibiotic direct into the ear. Needless to say you feel tired and it’s my wedding in less than a week.

It just about cleared up the week of the wedding and on an enormous high for several months Sophia Charlotte Formby and I became man and wife and traveled the Middle East, Southern Africa and then it was back to work in London.

Feeling good, no problems at all, no more infections or viruses, tired from time to time though. I set about getting Sophia her green card so she could work in both country’s and at the same time decided that I really did not want to live in the U.K. anymore and that it was probably best we sold the business and started again in California.

Getting all the Directors to agree would be a difficult task.

Working under stress and not really knowing it, is another thing ,the body does not really let on about it until it’s had enough.

Between getting somewhere to live in California ,traveling backwards and forwards to England ,putting everything up for sale, bringing the dogs over and finding out your wife is pregnant, selling your business, packing up my London apartment, my country cottage and my only house in California it was definitely all change.

Things don’t always go to plan even when the best laid plans tend to drag on and on something always goes wrong or takes to long or just does not happen. I had enough money put aside for most eventualities including setting up my new business www.themdtv.com.

Yes this business which will help others along the way.

Importantly never take no for the answer and always search for the way forward as sometimes it’s not always either clear nor straight forward.

My daughter Emillie Savanna Formby is proof of that ,because around six in the evening, on the 12th of August 2005 ,she was born with her feet on backwards and she was the prettiest thing that I ever did see, but the pressure was on to resolve the situation mentally and physically for her and us.

Thank God we were :-

In the States.

Had Medical Insurance.

In a great hospital.

Had Great doctors and advice.

No sooner was she born, the staff and doctors were absolutely brilliant at assuring us, that it was 100% correctable, A slight exaggeration at the time, but none the less this is America and they can do anything, never forget that people.

Two days later we were off to see a wonderful doctor by the name of Dr Michael Maguire in Santa Barbara, who in a very short period of time was able to tell me face to face that the condition was very much correctable, the importance being, do it now, rather than later.

You learn something new every day !  he also told us that newborns bones don’t actually start to harden for two years and that providing there was no deformity  all he had to do was turn them round the other way.

Strange in fact it was never picked up on a scan or whatever else they use, but it was not and Emillie’s legs were in fact perfectly formed, but just the wrong way round.

Once I had heard what Dr Michael Maquire had to say it was clear to us he knew what he was talking about and doing. In England they would have broken her bones reset her poor little feet and she would never have been able to walk or run properly ever again.

This way no surgery was involved, unless and was likely  the tendon needed to be released but that was further down the road, at this stage like the horse whisperer he felt her legs very gently from her knees to her toes and Sophia and I knew we were in good hands. The object was to turn the feet the other way, like undoing a cloth you have just ran dry.

A clay substance was mixed and a bandage wrapped round both legs from her thigh to her toes and having gently turned her feet outwards and around, about maybe an inch, the clay set and hardened and once a week that’s what dear Sweet Emillie had to endure for the next eight months. Every week we would  go back to Dr Michael Maquire and he would cut the plaster off and reset the plaster again.

Several months went by. It was time for shoes and a brace. The shoes had to be specially made by another lovely Irish Guy in Oxnard California ,who specialized in not only the brace bar, but the shoes, this equipment Emillie would have to wear 24/7 until she was one year, and then nights only, when she started to walk.

Needless to say she hated the restriction but I know that my girl will be the best God Dam snow border on the mountain one day. Dear sweet Emillie endured all that until she was one.

Never really having a fit about it, it was just, what it was and getting better every month just like Michael Maquire had said it would. She did of course have to go in and have her tendons moved in a very simple operation which involved putting her to sleep, my wife was very emotional about this procedure as was I, but I had no idea how ill I was becoming due to the stress of everything. Being in California was I have to say a load off and home to me as it always had been, were I had been most happiest in my life. The sun helped a great deal as did the stunning beauty of Santa Barbara the coast line ,Camarillo, the farming land and the University campus Camarillo, which we had made our home for the last year ,while I learnt to

re-program my brain from Windows to Mac and get to grips with the Final Cut Pro program and everything to do with a Mac.

Still traveling, still spending the summer doing a bit of filming here and there, still editing, still creating www.themdtv,com. These things take a lot of time and patience ,but while my family was nesting we were learning and loving life in California and the shear dread of having to deal with London or even going there, was a prospect I did not  even want to think about, my darling Emillie and Sophia were all I was concerned with.

However, it’s amazing how people look at the parents and then the child or the child and then the parents and then see suddenly that there is an issue and either turn away or really just don’t know what to say !.

Let me give you a hint on that one :- Just ask !. “ Is there anything we can help with or person we can introduce you too a specialist ect ect. “  Don’t just sit there and stare. I know that those that did, were just getting over the fact our daughter was so beautiful, it did not matter. People do, do that, I think, everyone does in fact, but there are ways in which you can learn to be a little  more discrete and considerate.

One acquaintance played with her all over lunch, a single earthling who I could understand at the time would be put off even having children or even getting married if this is what could happen ,  we never heard from this supreme being again. People are funny like that.

I can also see that several years from now and having told you all, the first thing people are going to do when Emillie is around, start at the feet and meet the face.

We took her back to England for Christmas and had a fabulous time introducing her to all the family while at the same time I was clearing up some of the loose ends business wise. sealing the deals and getting closure was not easy as this time, after the new year I really wanted to get back to California and get on with our life but it was doubtful that closure was going to happen right away which was very stressful although I did not know it at the time.

Emillie travelled well in a Bassinet provided by our favorite airline Virgin Atlantic, an airline I have supported since there very first flight into Los Angeles, for me there is no other airline like it. In fact I remember the very first day Richard Branson managed to clear us at Customs in England so we did not have to go through all that shit at L.A.X. when we arrived. While everyone else  cued the green card holders sailed through. Oh those were the days ! .

Then Tony Blair got in to power and all the walls went back up and the attitude came back. ( let’s not go there, it’s another story “ ).

Returning with Emillie was a walk in the park until we got back to Los Angeles. The Limousine  driver was nowhere to be seen and by the time we had our luggage it was midnight. I knew they had the wrong day so the quickest way back to Camarillo was by cab, even a guy like me can’t  get a car to the airport , with all the numbers I have in half an hour, it was not going to happen unless real luck is on your side and your going to get a car from your limo company that has just dropped off.

I knew that was not going to happen either because all the airlines had landed and instead of the usual four flights a day they were down to two, after 9 / 11 .

That said , I collected Sophia off the sidewalk were she had been waiting with Emillie for the last half hour while I made the various calls. I never used that company again.

Organizing a Cab at L.A.X. is pretty easy curb side, either you want a sedan or six seater passenger van we opted for the latter and a very nice African American turned up curb side and loaded our bags into the van while we loaded Emillie and made ourselves at home.

Having given the driver brief directions from L.A.X. north on the 405 to the 101. West on the 101 until you get to Camarillo wake me up then. He duly did and very quickly we found ourselves back at the Cal State University Camarillo were we had been living for the last year.

Having duly paid the guy the amount agreed before we left the airport which I think is important plus going by the meter just in case he said his meter does not work ! I gave him directions as to get out of the University grounds, back to the 101, we were at last home from the awful return trip home from England.

While Sophia put Emillie to bed I made us a drink. Not ten minutes had Sophia done that than she announced that she could not find her wallet and having searched the bags, her bags, Emillie’s bags the wallet could not be found.

It was no more than three hours maybe four, since we landed, so if it had been lost at L.A.X. we had  a slim chance it had been handed in or who ever stole it would  go easy and wait until the morning to use her stolen cards. Then maybe set about stealing Sophia’s identity,  drivers license, social security number  and whatever else it is they do.

Well, let me tell you folks heres what you don’t do.

You don’t wait and think that everything is going to be alright and it will turn up. No No No....

No point in accusing any one of anything. If has gone missing, it went missing either at L.A.X.

or in the Passenger Van home it is gone full stop. Cancel everything immediately.

Trying however to get your wife to tell you what she had in that bag is another thing !.

All that is important to her, basically her entire life, so you run through what she does have and then get to what is important.

Which credit cards exactly did you have in that bag ?

It must have been two in the morning, No maybe three, when I realized she had lost all her company credit cards duplicates of mine and our personal duplicate credit cards attached to my bank accounts and payable on demand every month.

Problem ! Yup you bet.

By this time I had had probably one hour of sleep. I jumped out of bed and rang American Express in London to be told that in the space of no more than five hours maybe six ,these guys had run up a bill in excess of thirty thousand dollars on the two American Express cards and cleaned my personal Visa cards out within an hour of obtaining them, clearing the driver who could not have been driving the passenger vehicle and spending the banks money at the same time.

No, as I thought, my wife have taken her eyes off the trolley on the curbside and the dark side of life had taken over !. She freely admitted it the following day not that that made anything go away.

All my money yes, that had gone in an instant so typical of L.A.X..

Had I moved fast enough to stop it. Yes, but not quick enough. Lesson to one and all.

Keep all your credit cards, passport, drivers license, social security on you, when you travel it’s your responsibility no one else’s. Keep the numbers for your credit card companies or banks on you or were you can get hold of them immediately this happens and cancel everything there and then, then it’s the banks responsibility.

That said, I had to almost fight the inept almost robot like person from American Express who while trying to interpret the language I spoke English while speaking to them I thought in in England when in fact it was India.

Lesson Two.

Make a note of exactly the person you are talking to, which country and the time there and were you are. Note the date because it’s an opportunity for the card supplier to tell you, you called over a day late so your claim is not valid and so on. By the time you have finished with these people  making sure your safe from further fraud, you will have wished you never took that trip.

Having said that, I went to sleep that night a very worried man as to what else they may have got their hands on which may affect Sophia’s green card application and I.D.

The following morning I woke as usual to go downstairs to make a cup of tea, brushing off the fact the right hand side of my body was not working properly, it was still asleep, somewhat heavy, uncoordinated yet manageable or so I thought until I tried to bring the tea back upstairs.

Again I thought it was still waking up, but in fact it was still the same and when I got to the top of the stairs one of the mugs had no tea in it left ,the rest was all over the floor and walls. Then there was the simple fact I could not remember going down stairs, in fact I really could not remember anything, gave my wife her cup and went back to bed. I must have slept for a while then prepared for the day by getting up again. I had not spoken to anyone so I was unaware my speech was not all there either.

Then it struck me when I tried to get in the shower, I could barley lift my right leg, only two inches no more, to get over the lip of the floor and into the shower not much but something  we obviously take for granted because we can do it every day. Not this day !

I had at this time said nothing to anyone, well there was only Sophia. Emillie was just born so if there had been a conversation with her, she may have understood me and we probably would have understood each other, anyway having entered the shower, again it’s not something that registers when you have had a stroke, practically everything is in slow motion and you cant remember anything well I couldn’t I have to be honest now.

I lifted my right arm which was like lead, very, very heavy. When I say heavy it just would not do what I wanted it to ,let alone allow me to clean my teeth. I knew then I was in serious trouble !

I could not brush my bloody teeth that’s awful aged 43. A useless stroke victim. I could not wash nothing would work properly. Struggling to get out the shower and back into the bedroom I made it to the bed and collapsed with uncontrollable crying, self pity and more, doubt in fact, is this the end.

Sophia came running from somewhere as to be honest the whole thing was a complete blur from then on in. I could barley speak but managed to say that I could not move properly, my right arm was not working properly nor my leg and now I had used my voice that was not working either.

The next thing I remember was being in a wheelchair at Camarillo Hospital emergency entrance being wheeled in to emergency were I could here doctors muttering something about a stroke

“ Oh, he’s far to young “. Well believe me, you’re never to young to learn what you have in life and then theirs the ability to keep it.

I truly thought the games over. All I kept thinking about was my darling Emillie, Sophia, and another baby on the way, unable to control my emotions, tired and helpless this was no place to be. Being wheeled around a hospital from room to room, interviewed by various doctors and physicians and mumbling through the answers like a idiot you cant remember a thing probably really. All you want to do is go to sleep, your seeing everything but it’s not registering at all. Brain Trauma is now something I can actually get a handle on and understand because I have been there, the difficulty is it’s not understandable nor understood or explainable unless you have been there yourself.

That difficulty is only explainable by those whom are fortunate enough to recover and maybe write about it like I will over the years.

The truth being, it was impossible to gauge just how serious this was when your memory was not working properly everything's a blur and your not alright, really, but you’re still alive. After a few pills ( blood thinners ) no more no less an M.R.i . or two, your back to square one in the not knowing because you don’t know, because you cant work it out,  because your not the same. the lights are on but no one is at home a major fuse has blown and now it’s a waiting game to see if it can repair itself or if your going to need help.

Pretty much after that ,the days a blur and you’re back at home in bed with your wife bringing you meals and  comfort while all the time drifting in and out of deep deep sleep, that’s the way the body repairs itself. Sleep no pain, just sleep.

I can’t remember how long it took to get the movement back to near normal a couple of days maybe a week, you just can’t monitor the situation the way you would normally. After the initial

observation by the many doctors I saw, or rather it might not have been many, but they were all brilliant that day the hundreds I saw or maybe just one. Again there was no waiting around this is America a can do place, lets sort this out and get this man back to work so he can pay our enormous bill.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Behzard Ourmazdi M.D. M.sc  of Camarillo Hospital who carried out the most thorough investigation I have ever been through to get to the bottom of why a guy my age, very fit and healthy one day should suddenly and without warning fall victim to what can only be described as a major relay system going down, probably for good at that time.

It was only because I was so fit and had been monitoring and changing my lifestyle because there was and always had been those unanswered questions from the past that had made me and my body change my lifestyle and not burn the candle at both ends, slow it down a bit after all your not twenty anymore and you don’t take drugs. Alcohol yes, drugs no. Yes and that’s a drug too.

I had to wait a further two if not three weeks for  Behzard Ourmazdi M.D. M.Sc report and analysis it went quickly and I think I began to get better and things began to return to normal with no medication at all just the body doing its thing. My immune system was not down and out  that was for sure just the electronics. The Brain, which did not really bother me that much , because those that knew me, did not think I had one anyway.

Enlightenment  folks !  Because the sub-conscience took over and gave me another one, minus a few of the old cells this one seems to be creating and running things much better than the last forty years.  They say life begins at forty !

Now back to Behzard Ourmazdi M.D. M.sc. We turned up at his office. Myself, my wife, Emillie in push chair, for the neurological consultation which was going to change my life and give me the missing pieces to the puzzle I had been so desperately searching for.

Out of the hundreds of questions the final one which changed everything but changed nothing the final one that put the jig saw together yet did nothing to change the situation was had I ever lost my eye sight in one or both eyes?

I thought about the question for a while, strange yet very specific as the pieces were not yet in place for me to make an adequate assessment of my predicament and yet it suddenly dawned on me that Tony Greenburgh had not been entirely honest with me.

The answer was Yes.

When?

1997

Oh, in that case I am pretty sure you have M.S. however I need to do one more test to make absolutely sure of my findings and that would be a spinal tap which we can do right now and get the results back by the end of the week. That being okay with you, I think we should proceed immediately. Said Dr Behzard Ourmazdi M.D.M.sc.

Oh Right sure !

I cant say the spinal tap was painful but not unlike when my wife had an epidermal  it’s pretty close you are awake and they do go into very dangerous territory, one move and you could paralyze yourself.

You are very awake and it takes no more than twenty minutes while they extract a large amount of  fluid from your spine brown in color not that that has anything to do with it or does it I am not to sure.

Read his notes and entire breakdown they can be found in :-

The wait was a long one and I had been doing my own research as well.

I called Tony Greenburgh that night and asked him to review my file and medical notes.

He asked why.

I told him that I had been in hospital in Camarillo California and been told I had suspected M.S.

He went very quiet, for there in front of him he could see that Dr Desmond Kidd had written to him on December 15th 2000 telling him that I had M.S. with I might add nothing like the back up I got from Dr Behzard Ourmazdi M.D.M.sc.

I cant tell you how he then coughed and spluttered his way through the next several minutes of explanation as to why he had not told me as my whole world fell apart.

Jesus Christ I thought I was going to die, I really did, because no one had ever told me the implications of the disease or if I was going to end up in a wheelchair what was going to happen next and when.

My conversation to say the least witnessed by my wife in my office was brief , somewhat subdued, if not completely took me by surprise was the ending and rather nonchalantly almost arrogantly the way he finished .

“ Well Jonny. he said. I took the view that it may never happen again, so what would be the point in telling you that, when your in the prime of your life and you recovered so quickly the first time.

I got it wrong, I am sorry but that’s life “.

I asked him to fax the medical file to me which he duly did so that I could give it to Dr Behzard Ourmazdi M.D.M.sc to see if I needed any further treatment.

When age becomes an issue and your body does not recover quickly from any trauma then you really do have to start to consider all avenues of treatment and recovery.

Dr Tony Greenburgh made me the angriest man on the planet for almost a year.

My job as I see it now, is to provide you all with up to date information on what’s new in the world

of supplements which do in my opinion help your body to recover when all else fails. I have done my best in this regard because I have, if you like, listened to all the pro and cons regarding modern medicine and at know time has any doctor ever said we have a cure for that.

Yes they have all the blockers, uppers and downers but no cure, these in my opinion cause other problems in the body which I don’t care for as is evident when I look around. I go back to the fact that as you grow older your body does get tired and things do just stop working that’s a fact.

Even computers and every machine we build has a life span. Nothing. I repeat nothing is forever .

Look after what you have, it will in turn look after you. I know so many people who are not in good shape at all and will have a tendency to blame everything and everybody for there current state of health knowing full well that they are and had put themselves there.

My suggestion is you read some, if not all my blogs and findings as we go, on. Everything in my opinion is curable . If we think about something for long enough you do eventually get the answer and and but it might just not be the one your looking for.

Like being told you have cancer. Well we eat so many things today that have been injected with so much crap it’s not surprising cancer is becoming the number one killer. So watch what you eat in my book.

Remember one thing. Is it not interesting, that in the 21st century we buy just about everything from a supermarket, that’s food and in particular wines ( sulphates ) and spirits  that have products in them known to cause cancer. They make millions from it. We then, have to go to a doctor because we, after a while ,start to get ill, we feel ill and after a long time we are very ill.

The doctors without a proper and thorough investigation and absolutely thorough blood test are only going to here you lie and miss things out, that are vital in my opinion, in determining what could be wrong with you. I cant stress this point more potently, in my opinion if your not going to absolutely come clean, as to why you think you got to this point then the doctor is more than likely

going to put you on Meds you don’t need and will most definitely cause major problems for you in the future.

So who are we kidding here ?. The doctor or ourselves.

I remember telling a doctor and this is absolutely true, that during the fish oil fetish, going around in the 90’s, that we must take ,Omega this and that ,which I did, my left leg started to get painful in the muscle and calf to such a point it really did start to bother me. I told a dermatologist this who was looking to see why and  as I went under the knife to remove a small bee sting which had been buried in my leg for at least six years and I thought that was the problem. He told me after the op, to stop taking them and the pain would go.

Not many doctors left who actually listen to what you actually say and then advise. He said straight away stop taking them, they obviously do not agree with your system.

Most doctors prescribe pills today, that, and I am sorry completely obliterate your immune system

together with your Liver and Kidneys both of which process everything we do on a daily basis.

My point is that in the beginning we play this game and what your given will take away the pain but further down the road up comes something else and if you look back you should never have gone down that road. that is all I am saying. Doctors can not read your mind ,they trust us to tell them the truth which when your young is a little vague or they just as were you, not listening.

Still you have absolutely no one else to blame but yourself. That’s why the medical profession makes millions and trillions of dollars. Should they care. No. Your ill. Heres a pill.

My opinion is if you take the wrong one, your going to have major problems.

Who’s fault is that.

Simple. Yours.............

Your body Listen to it and it will help you make the right choice. Lie you die........

I have put together under the following appendix, the following examples that are absolutely true were I am concerned so that for those of you who believe me when I say that you neither want to go there or get there.

I have been there and back, managed to stay out of the wheelchair and hospital and I think you can do the same.

So good luck and be healthy.

Appendix 1. Deals with letters sent to Dr Tony Greenburgh I never saw and he never told me about.

Appendix 2. Deals with letters sent to me from Dr Desmond Kidd.

Appendix 3. Deals with Letters I received from Dr Desmond Kidd

Appendix 4. Deals with my Reply.

Appendix 5. Deals with the First English MRi results ( England ).

Appendix 6. Deals with the Second MRi results and conclusions and follow up. ( U.S.A.)

Appendix 7. Deals with Blood work I had done at a very good clinic in Hampshire England by the

                    name of Sarum Road Hospital. I would recommend it to everyone who lives in that

                    part of hampshire I lived not very far from it and would recommend it and there

                    programs.

                    What I am trying to get through to one and all, is that, it’s clear that

                    once you reach a certain age and live, which I did, in the fast lane for quite sometime   

                    your blood gets effected, your going to need an oil change ( Blood ) or start to clean

                    and thin it, before you have serious health issues which I indeed seamed to obtain.

                 

                   Why would I be putting my own blood charts on line for you to read which are fact !.

                    I have nothing to hide especially when I already know , that I am unemployable to

                    those people who would use my findings as an excuse to not employ me. Any excuse

                    today an employer can find not to employ you it’s a fact.

                    So, heres what I did.

                     I cleaned up my act before it cleaned me up.

                      Stay close to these findings, which you can do, without telling anyone and from

                       close to death you can change all that, mature like I did and life a healthy life.           

                 

                       There is a reason for everything ! , one of mine is obviously to tell you guys it’s not

                       all a bed of roses, life can change on the flip of a dime as they would say and you

                        really, really don’t want to go there because it’s so tuff getting it back.

                         Believe me when I say, take a look in the mirror at 40. If it is not, really happening

                        man, step back and take a deep breath , because it never will. It’s all down hill

                         from there unless you realize we are all the same.

                         At some stage you need to realize, this is reality as we know it.

                                                                  Respect..................

                       

                                                                   Yours..........Jonny.