For those who happen to be aware of my new and improved walking phase🤓 a most exciting part has been the discovery of the LifeWave X39 patch which is what helped me lose those “last 10 pounds of pain” and got me walking once again.
This Saturday the 26th I am attending the LifeWave 3 hour conference in Long Beach to learn more about this product and how I can share it with others after the impact it’s had on my life. The link for this event is below, so please let me know if you’d like to attend so we can all meet up once we are there!
My X39 Story
This is my story through years of chronic pain, from international wedding photographer and VP of my mother’s organization Rebuilding America’s Warriors RAW (free reconstructive surgeries for Veterans) to an accident, a wheelchair, and tables which violently turned in the most unexpected, & ironic, of ways.
You see my condition was diagnosed as a ‘suicide disease’ of my spine. Great name for instilling optimism. After over 20 spine surgeries and procedures, labor-type contractions in my spinal cord, and 6 years in bed 90% of the time, every waking breath was spent loving my four children and husband with every ounce of humanity I had left.
After exhausting every option possible in the realm of western medicine, much which kept me alive due to pain levels technically rated on the McGill Scale of 1-10, as 1,000, a dear friend recommended stem cells.
I thought it was snake oil. Until I underwent the stem cell transplant, which resulted in the complete eradication of spinal contractions, and an 80% reduction in pain levels.
I had a life back.
And I was grateful.
However, I was still in the wheelchair outside of the house and limited to 1-2 hours of sitting before my spine gave out or legs slowly came to halted crawl.
I felt guilty wanting more.
My mantra of praying for my suffering to one day have a purpose or meaning, revealed itself upon establishing Veterans In Pain V.I.P. Facilitating Alternative solutions for Veterans suffering from chronic pain.
The irony is, that it was through this work and exposure to some of the most humblingscientific minds in the field of Interventional medicine, that I quite literally became the guinea pig for solutions brought to our program, before they could be considered as tools for our Veterans.
In steps LifeWave.
While attending a physician training symposium in San Diego, I roll in, and immediately gravitate to a table hosted by friendly inviting faces, explaining a new patch technology. Little did I know that our initial 10 minute conversation would culminate in the most unexpected discovery.
After placing an X-39 patch on my spine, I went on my way. Sitting in the symposium. Grabbed a few more patches, and returned the next day for lectures. With a newly placed patch, it was 1pm when I sat down, and I sat. And I sat. Still surprised I did not sense the usual need to lay flat every couple hours, it was not until well after dinner at 9:30pm that I knew there was some special to the patch.
This small yet mighty LifeWave X-39 patch is a circular, sheer, thumb-sized adhesive application through which a whole new world of possibilities was being revealed.
Similar to how I felt prior to my systemic stem cell transplant, I asked myself howcould something so simple ever in any way shape or cellular form, even begin to address conditions so all encompassing? I ‘must’ know what I’m talking about. Who could possibly convince me that something outside the traditional box of all things medicine, practiced by white coated physicians marinating in over 20 years of education in the field. And they don’t believe in it. Or, already do not understand the systemic inflammatory nature of chronic pain to realize how much sense it could actually make.
Fast forward to October 6 of 2020 at the OrthoBiologic symposium. Reps from LifeWave gave a presentation and the science behind it was explosive to me, and made complete sense.
So, I signed up simply because it allowed me to purchase the monthly order at the wholesale price. Plus there was this 90 day moneyback guarantee.
I wore a new patch every morning and took it off at night before I went to sleep and threw it away. Then I put on a new patch the next morning and so on. I tried not to think about the results at all, because with anything I try, the ultimate objective is to see if it works on me so we might offer an additional tool when addressing the needs of the veterans in our program. So many have to wait for their procedures, and suffer until they can schedule etc. so I’m pretty much the guinea pig as far as anything we include in our treatment protocols.
That said, within a few weeks I noticed an exponential increase in my energy, mental clarity, as well as overall pain relief especially within my spine. I started not needing my chair as much around the house and started going out to the mailbox to get the mail each day as it just seemed like it was such a possible thing to simply do, something I used to take for granted LOL but for so long I had not been able to take for granted again, even with the vast improvements I have experienced overall due to my systemic stem cell transplant.
By Thanksgiving, we are going to El Capitan in Santa Barbara, and camping in cabins type atmosphere with hiking paths, and went for a slow but steady 20 minute walk with Don. This was huge and the major turning point in realizing there is something magnitude magnitude within the patch that I should look into further. So this is when I really started paying attention.
By Christmas, my gate had increased and fluidity and my ability and fortitude to walk and a moderate gate with the kids to look at Christmas lights had increased to 30 minutes. Still stunted inflow, with pausing to look at lights, and could not go out alone, but every day these types of improvements we’re cracking like Easter eggs.
Fast forward to middle-end of January, and realized I had not used the stair lift since Christmas, and deciding it was time and Don & Joe removed it, with much fanfare, from the house.
Around the middle of the month, I’m estimating here, I began “having to and driven to” going on evening walks with Don, each ranging about 30 minutes in length. Every once in a while he would need to come back and pick me up, so we started walking in smaller circles.
But the impetus each night to do so and energy to do it with was consistent.
Finally, end of February 2021, I could not resist the impetus to go out on the evening walk, alone. To much chagrin from Don, due to his protective nature, but the feeling was overwhelming that I had to try to do this, alone.
So, I opted to bring Blue Belle, my service dog who pulled my chair for 81/2 years, with me. And there she was, on the end of a leash being walked, by me. Needless to say, she was a bit confused, but off we went. And went. And went.
My gate was as fluid as before my initial accident which led me down the surgical rabbit hole over and over again. I felt almost no pain. Every ounce of my being felt awake, almost intoxicatingly so. So I took a selfie video to simply document this moment for fear that it may never happen again.
How could it? After almost 9 years, and quite literally a life-saving stem cell transplant, and the blessing of having my personal recovery manifest itself in service to those who deserve it most, I should have been convinced in that moment that this was my new normal. This Science is science, cause and effect, hypothesis tested and research-approved.
Yet I still sit here today, in awe, that a month ago I sold my mobility van and watched it drive away as the film of tar on my handicap plates dusted left its film on my hands. That there is a “normal person” car in our garage now, and I can park in a normal person space.
I have used nothing else in tandem to the patch, except my remaining intrathecal pump which I have since reduced in concentration in preparation for extraction by July. Daily pain medications sit in my nightstand wondering if I forgot their name or if I ever really cared that they exist. The walking shoes my son gave me for Christmas once were pink and now a shade of grey. I can now stroll in hand with my husband, look into my eyes just like our wedding day. My children see a mother vaguely reminiscent of a past,
who stands for more than she ever could without the challenges she’s had.
So, as this all sinks in, that a little patch that could, has produced results I never thought
could be, I share my story because it’s here for those in theworld of pain who have prayed each day to live a life for those they love, like me.
LifeWave X-39 Stem Cell Generator Patch
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Micaela Bensko
Join me this Saturday June 26th as this pay it forward journey continues🦋 Be sure to DM so we can meet up as a group and can introduce ourselves to one another. Register Here:
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