Woman who fought strange, painful nerve ailment and facial disfiguration tells of an ordeal that pushed her near to suicide
“The doctors told me that my illness will never get better and it will only get worse as I age,” said 48-year-old Debbie Reynolds. Ms Reynolds had been suffering from severe sinusitis problems from she was a child and was later diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia some years ago. Trigeminal Neuralgia is a chronic pain condition which affects the trigeminal nerve, which carries sensation from your face to your brain. She also had tumours in her sinuses and experienced excruciating pain in her face which she likened to the pains felt by a woman in labour. The tumours in her face were on the increase and there was one in her forehead that grew so big that it pushed one of her facial bones to the right. To make matters worse, chunks of flesh which lined her nasal passage started eroding and she would either cough it up or it fell out of her nose.
SUICIDE
“I understand why persons commit suicide because many times I was tempted to cut my face and take them out,” she asserted scornfully. As a result, she had to do a re-constructive surgery in July 2011 in which they removed some of the bones from her face. Thinking that this would be the end of her health misery, she was wrong. Ms Reynolds said the pains only got worse. “I didn’t sleep for nights,” she vividly recalled. Sometimes I wanted to sleep and couldn’t sleep and sometimes sleep just wouldn’t come,” she said In addition to that, she was constantly hallucinating and she would do things such as getting dressed and brushing her teeth over and over again. Her jaw was out of line after the surgery and she had to get braces to realign it. She added that it was the first time that the orthodontists were dealing with a procedure of that nature. All this surgery and doctor’s care were draining her financially.
“The pains in my nose and tongue were terrible,” she explained, her facial expression seeming to accurately describing the degree of pain she felt at the time. “The pain in my tongue felt as if it was pushed in a light bulb socket and the switch turned on.” “I tried all kinds of things, Herbal Life, Organo Gold, Nutralife, and I went to doctors after doctors,” she explained. Sometimes when I went to the doctor I would leave angry because they all told me that they checked my eyes, ears, nose and throat and they don’t know what is wrong.” And when Debbie thought her situation could get no worse, she did a scan and was told that a fungus started growing in her nose. The doctors advised her that the temperature in her community, Philadelphia, St. Ann was affecting her. She packed up her belongings, gave away some of her stuff and moved in with a friend named Norval.
On December 15, 2013, she did another surgery to remove the fungus from her nose, but unfortunately her skull was broken by accident during the procedure and she began to have very poor vision. “When I came home, the patch that they used to patch my skull, I lost it so I had fluid draining from my brain coming down my nose and my mouth,” she declared. Debbie used to wear surgical masks in public because she could not bear certain odours and she had to go to bed with napkins and plastic bags to collect the fluid that was coming from her brain. People in her life, to include her own daughter turned their backs on her. However, her sons and a daughter-in-law were always by her side.
The doctors told her that they couldn’t do anything to help her and she started to plan her funeral.
She gave up. One day, her daughter and a friend visited her and the friend told her about the Miracle Water. At first she blatantly shunned the idea but the friend told her that she had nothing to lose and she decided to take the chance. “When I took the first two corks full, in less than ten minutes, the pains stopped and the nerves in my face instantly felt relaxed,” she said in amazement. She asserted that she was in awe of what had occurred but she knew that it was not her imagination. She started to throw it down her nose because blood and inflammation pus were coming down from the brain. Excitedly, she explained that the very next day, there was no blood and pus. Ms Reynolds said that within a couple of months, her skull healed completely.
As the months passed, she started to put the Miracle Water it in her eyes and her vision gradually got better. Ms Reynolds was then able to watch television, brush her teeth and eat foods which she had not been able to consume in a very long time. “I was so glad to come out on the road, just to see stuff!” She laughed excitedly. I could now take walks on my own and since then I have never been lonely. Natural medicine practitioner, Dr Andrews Marc-Ali, who practices in St Ann’s Bay, St Ann heard about Ms Reynolds and contacted her. He has been treating her with the Miracle Water and other forms of natural medicine and she expressed that though she was very sceptical about consulting him, she is extremely appreciative of him as he has shown her a new life. Ms Reynolds is still recovering from the last surgery but says she is enjoying life and she is much better off than she was before she started using the Miracle Water.
“When I tell people about it, they say I’m lying but it works I tell you,” she declared reassuringly. She extends sincere gratitude to all those who have been there for her especially her two sons Don and Damion, her stepdaughter Tabia, her friend Norval and Dr. Ali. “If it wasn’t for the Miracle Water, I would have kicked the bucket,” Ms Reynolds said. She now lives in Brown’s town and is trying to rebuild her life.
