ME And My Lightning Process™ Journey

I had ME for 18 years.  I became ill over a period of time, finding cycling to work harder and harder.  My GP diagnosed ME, at which point I went into total despair.  I wouldn’t have wished ME on my worst enemy.

I was totally bed-bound, being fed, finding it almost impossible to get to the bathroom.  Often I couldn’t clean my teeth, because I had no energy and because my arm ached too much.  The only thing I had any control over was when to turn off my bedside lamp at the end of the day.  But when I did turn out the light I couldn’t sleep, often until 5am.  Then I couldn’t wake up until lunchtime and felt totally fatigued for the rest of the day.  My body hurt all over – just to breathe felt like it used up more energy than I had.  My boyfriend (now husband) came to visit, but if he sat on my duvet it was very painful, pulling across my legs.  I wanted to unscrew my useless legs and put new ones on that would work.

We were given a wheelchair and my big outing each month was to see my GP.  I didn’t go anywhere else.  I couldn’t hold a conversation for more than about a minute.  I had to watch ‘Neighbours’ twice each day to take it all in!

I tried different treatments, with optimism each time, but each time I was more deflated when it didn’t work.  Eventually I had to accept that that’s how life was – and quite possibly would be forever.  I felt like I had been given a life sentence – I would be in my prison until the day I died.

Over the years I did feel a little better, but after 18 years I still had a powered wheelchair to get around the bungalow and had homecarers in and out to do everything around the home.  I still needed 2hrs bed rest every afternoon (other people had to play with my children) and my body would ache and throb if I did too much.

Then in April 2006 a friend went to do the LP.  She was pushed into her first appointment in her wheelchair and she walked out, never using her wheelchair again!  We looked the LP up on the internet and the success stories looked too good to be true…  But what we read about the Process just made sense to us – it made sense of the whole nightmare.  So I did the LP in May…and I, too, was pushed into my first appointment and have never used the wheelchair since!  I came out of my prison on 22^nd May 2006.

Within a few weeks I was on holiday with my family in a tent for the first time.  I helped put the tent up and down, took part in the cooking and washing up, played football with the children.  I carried my 3-year-old across the sand to the sea for the first time (wheelchairs on beaches don’t really work!).  We went for our first ever family walk!

After 3 months I was able to do all the housework myself.  The first day that I had no homecarers I did the washing, the washing up, swept the kitchen floor, cleaned the bathroom, cooked the tea, took the children to a friend’s, walked to the shops and put the children to bed.  It was wonderful to take the children to school and pick them up myself.

After 5 months of walking each day to rebuild my stamina and strength I climbed my first mountain, and since then we have been on a walking holiday in the Alps.  My health is no longer an issue.

Others who have done the LP because of my experience have all had similar results.

To anyone thinking about doing the LP I would say that my life now just doesn’t compare in any way with how it used to be.  My husband says he now has back the girl he fell in love with 20 years ago, and the sparkle has come back in her eyes.  Now we walk down the road holding hands – something we didn’t do for 18 years while he had to push me in the wheelchair.

I was incredibly impressed with what The Lightning Process gave to me and with how it works.  It inspired me to train with it's designer - Phil Parker - so that I would be able to offer the same chance of recovery to others.  When I heard about my friend’s extraordinary experience in her first LP appointment I felt like I was being offered a golden opportunity.  All I had to do was choose when to take it…