Hello, my brothers of yesteryear: I pray you have been well. I think of you all often and I wonder how your lives are going.
I am in the middle of an adventure!
I had been dealing with what I thought was an athletic injury for many months - to the point where I couldn't go for runs any longer, couldn't squat weights... I had over $4k into physical therapy during 2020. It got worse and worse; I was thrown for a loop when I asked my general doctor for an X-Ray toward the end of summer, and he said "the hip looks perfect!" He did say the bone had a strange pattern... but said it was a non-issue. (We were mostly looking for arthritis: I don't blame those guys a bit).
ANYWAY.... long story short: on the very morning I finally prayed and asked our Lord to just "take the issue... because I give up... I have no experts left to pay.... but I don't even know how to give you this issue, that's never made sense to me, but please take it and heal this hip of yours", I bit the pain and rolled out of bed.
4 hours later, I went to walk up some stairs: my left femur disintegrated...! Wild times begin ;D
For reference, I was an athletic 5 foot 9, 168lbs with about 7% body fat. (It turns out that my hard exercise schedule with little time for recovery was part of my undoing; I didn't realize how much hard exercise taxed your immune system. Eat healthy fats and tons of greens, my friends! I had cut fat almost totally out of my diet. I also was eating WAY too many carbs - apparently even healthy carbs without enough healthy fats sets you up for some chronic issues like this.)
In the end, my dear brethren: the doctors tell me I am terminally ill with a rare blood cancer. BUT: all signs point to a miracle in the works here (despite the state of my femur, the rest of my bones are barely into the process; my blood work surprised the doctors with how un-advanced it was; after operating on the femur they feared the rest of my body wasn't far behind).
They say there is still no chance, but I do not agree. (And yet, not out of a state of denial; my faith consoles and I know that even the healthiest among us is terminally ill; I've never whistled too loudly past the graveyard).
But I am confident: you guys will see me live a full life. I have four children, 8, 6, 4, and 1. I will fight with everything I have, pray with everything I have, surrender and resist: and I will be okay; I've had two visions that have led to this confidence. Cool stuff! In fact, I have rejected chemo, this butchery, this poison. I have switched to HARD ketosis and have implemented a metric ton of dietary changes. I hardly ever ate greens before - one small serving per dinner. Now I'm eating 25+ servings between salads and juicing. (Expensive, but temporary until I heal; I think 6-8 servings is a good maintenance plan for you guys). I hired / assembled a team of researchers and on top of Keto + 48 hour fasts to weaken and starve the cancer, I am also on a regimen of 15+ natural treatment and remedies, with a 60/40 split between those proven to support the immune system and those known to actively attack cancerous stem cells.
Anyway, it'll be a good science experiment ;D (Not to take away from the fact that ultimately it's God who will make the treatments either land or not; be efficacious or not).
BUT HERE'S WHERE I NEED HELP.
Though my clutch foot is out of commission for a while, I have had my mechanic friend go and pick up my M3 from the place where I was when my femur collapsed. He's going to do a deep refresh. (I'm not short on cash and if I die my wife will be awash in several lifetimes worth of insurance money, so this isn't as reckless as it sounds):
I want to have him "fix" my exhaust once and for all. I put cheap Active Autowerkes stuff on from day 1, and I've always wanted to do it right.
Dr. Dan the M3 Man (Leigh) once told me that this was the ultimate setup:
SS V1 Stepped Headers + HJS Race Catted Oversized Section 1 + Twin-Pipe Resonated Oversized Section 2
But I was wondering if anyone can please do me a massive solid and provide me with exact, direct links to these three items?
I tried googling them, but it seems there are many options and diameters... and I struck out completely where the "HJS" section 1 is concerned. I found the company HJS, but their site is not for retail use.
If you guys can help, I sure appreciate it.
Wish me well; pray for me; I accept any outcome, and I have nothing but gratitude for the 35 years of life I have been given.
May God bless you guys,
Pat
I am in the middle of an adventure!
I had been dealing with what I thought was an athletic injury for many months - to the point where I couldn't go for runs any longer, couldn't squat weights... I had over $4k into physical therapy during 2020. It got worse and worse; I was thrown for a loop when I asked my general doctor for an X-Ray toward the end of summer, and he said "the hip looks perfect!" He did say the bone had a strange pattern... but said it was a non-issue. (We were mostly looking for arthritis: I don't blame those guys a bit).
ANYWAY.... long story short: on the very morning I finally prayed and asked our Lord to just "take the issue... because I give up... I have no experts left to pay.... but I don't even know how to give you this issue, that's never made sense to me, but please take it and heal this hip of yours", I bit the pain and rolled out of bed.
4 hours later, I went to walk up some stairs: my left femur disintegrated...! Wild times begin ;D
For reference, I was an athletic 5 foot 9, 168lbs with about 7% body fat. (It turns out that my hard exercise schedule with little time for recovery was part of my undoing; I didn't realize how much hard exercise taxed your immune system. Eat healthy fats and tons of greens, my friends! I had cut fat almost totally out of my diet. I also was eating WAY too many carbs - apparently even healthy carbs without enough healthy fats sets you up for some chronic issues like this.)
In the end, my dear brethren: the doctors tell me I am terminally ill with a rare blood cancer. BUT: all signs point to a miracle in the works here (despite the state of my femur, the rest of my bones are barely into the process; my blood work surprised the doctors with how un-advanced it was; after operating on the femur they feared the rest of my body wasn't far behind).
They say there is still no chance, but I do not agree. (And yet, not out of a state of denial; my faith consoles and I know that even the healthiest among us is terminally ill; I've never whistled too loudly past the graveyard).
But I am confident: you guys will see me live a full life. I have four children, 8, 6, 4, and 1. I will fight with everything I have, pray with everything I have, surrender and resist: and I will be okay; I've had two visions that have led to this confidence. Cool stuff! In fact, I have rejected chemo, this butchery, this poison. I have switched to HARD ketosis and have implemented a metric ton of dietary changes. I hardly ever ate greens before - one small serving per dinner. Now I'm eating 25+ servings between salads and juicing. (Expensive, but temporary until I heal; I think 6-8 servings is a good maintenance plan for you guys). I hired / assembled a team of researchers and on top of Keto + 48 hour fasts to weaken and starve the cancer, I am also on a regimen of 15+ natural treatment and remedies, with a 60/40 split between those proven to support the immune system and those known to actively attack cancerous stem cells.
Anyway, it'll be a good science experiment ;D (Not to take away from the fact that ultimately it's God who will make the treatments either land or not; be efficacious or not).
BUT HERE'S WHERE I NEED HELP.
Though my clutch foot is out of commission for a while, I have had my mechanic friend go and pick up my M3 from the place where I was when my femur collapsed. He's going to do a deep refresh. (I'm not short on cash and if I die my wife will be awash in several lifetimes worth of insurance money, so this isn't as reckless as it sounds):
I want to have him "fix" my exhaust once and for all. I put cheap Active Autowerkes stuff on from day 1, and I've always wanted to do it right.
Dr. Dan the M3 Man (Leigh) once told me that this was the ultimate setup:
SS V1 Stepped Headers + HJS Race Catted Oversized Section 1 + Twin-Pipe Resonated Oversized Section 2
But I was wondering if anyone can please do me a massive solid and provide me with exact, direct links to these three items?
I tried googling them, but it seems there are many options and diameters... and I struck out completely where the "HJS" section 1 is concerned. I found the company HJS, but their site is not for retail use.
If you guys can help, I sure appreciate it.
Wish me well; pray for me; I accept any outcome, and I have nothing but gratitude for the 35 years of life I have been given.
May God bless you guys,
Pat
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