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Last year I got MRSA.* The first time I had it the doctor thought it was a simple staph infection, but instead of getting better, it got worse, and the doctor then knew I had MRSA. I started taking two heavy-duty antibiotics and cortisone to get rid of it. Ten days after finishing the medication, another MRSA bump showed up. This went on for seven months.
Every time I finished whatever antibiotics were prescribed for me, within a week to ten days, up popped another MRSA bump. Every time the MRSA showed up, thoughts of the plague would enter my mind. I suspected for quite some time that MRSA and the plague were somehow connected but could not figure out how. Last Friday night, for the first time in a few months, I found another MRSA bump. I knew what it was without looking at it. Thoughts of the bubonic plague entered my mind again.
When I woke up on Saturday morning, the bump was worse. I started thinking about it, and it hit me out of nowhere. In ancient Egypt cats were very prominent. There was something we used to keep fleas off of the cats as it was known that flea bites caused a very bad sickness in cats and people. This sickness would spread like wildfire and killed most of those who got it. This disease was so feared that there was a law requiring everyone to do the flea treatments on their cats. I thought the elders were full of it about the fleas; I thought the stuff we used to keep fleas away didn’t really work. So even though it was a law, I didn’t dose the cats as often as I was supposed to. Added to the mix was the fact that I was teaching children how to care for their cats and apparently dosing the cats was part of that.
As a result of my actions, several cats got fleas. Within days there were cats with boils on them and people started to get sick. Many died and most of the ones who died were kids and cats. My actions caused an outbreak of bubonic plague in Egypt. Because of what I didn’t do, so many died. The pain I felt then and from the realization was very deep. I felt all of the fear, guilt, and grief that I felt back then. I know that in this past lifetime I never recovered from it. I am not sure if the plague killed me or the guilt I felt because of what I had done.
Once I took responsibility for what I had done, I felt so light and free! I felt so relieved and very uplifted. I knew I had finally figured out the connection between MRSA and the plague. You see, MRSA has symptoms that are very similar to bubonic plague—eerily almost identical.
Throughout the day on Saturday, I noticed the MRSA bump wasn’t getting any worse. It seemed to me as though it was getting smaller. When I woke up on Sunday morning, it was gone!! Totally gone!! I know that without this realization I would be on heavy-duty antibiotics right now, which I do not like putting into my body since I like natural remedies. My healing is wonderful! I am still blown away by it.
—Jennifer K.
* MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a bacterium that is resistant to methicillin and related antibiotics, such as penicillin.