I wish you all the best of health in the coming year!
So you can do your job well!
I never knew that getting involved in this industry would lead me to discover how I can resolve my back and joint pain.
(IF YOU WANT THE SHORT AND SWEET ON THIS, INSTEAD OF THE STORY, JUST PAGE DOWN AND READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH).
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THE STORY
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One day this past year, I was cleaning with a cleaner and his wife in NJ, Jim and Wendy.
Since I am interested in what is in chems, especially the chems we were using for VLMing, that day, on that job, I was googling the ph of certain chems, and components of presprays, and an article popped up about the ph of water, specifically alkaline water, and how it can help with back pain.
( BY THE WAY, THE DAY BEFORE I EVEN PRAYED TO GOD FOR HELP WITH MY OVERWHELMING PAIN, SO IT WAS A NICE COINCIDENCE! )
Well, being in pain that day, even great pain, not only my back, but my right toe, and right shoulder, and right elbow etc (been that way for years), I was surely open to reading the short article.
So, I said to Wendy, with whom I was cleaning a firehall via VLM with an eco, do you know anything about alkaline water and how it can help with health, like with back pain? She said, yes I have drank alkaline water, with an alkaline stick or something. She said, when we are done around 12 noon, we can go to the Wawa gas station across the street, and get some alkaline water. (I never seen the alkaline water there, not anywhere). Wendy knew about alkaline water! Wow! Another great link in the whole story.
So, around noon, we went to the gas station. Since I could not bend down to get the one on the bottom, near the floor, I asked Wendy if she could get me one (or something like that), so I could look at it. I felt like a crippled!
Folks, I could not bend down and touch the ground, wouldn't eve try it, my back hurt bad, lower back. Been that way for a couple of years. I thought I snapped something in it when I was tying my shoes by putting one foot up the stairs to do so. And I had just finished a dr's visit, and he scheduled me for 2 months of physical therapy, that I had not yet started. And when the dr asked me to touch the ground, I wouldn't do it, said I cant do that. It hurts too much. He said, I know what you need. Walked out the door. Came back with a piece of paper for physical therapy.
Back to the ph water at the gas station. The Essential brand said 9.5 ph, and I thought that's the one I want, the others were lower ph or not as clear on it or neutral ph. Being a carpet cleaner, I thought higher ph will work better in my situation. (And when I ph tested it, it was like 10+. So I was like "yeah!")
So, the rest of that day, I drank that 50 oz bottle. Didn't have any noticeable pain relief. Indeed, late that night, when I traveled back to pa, I got out of my car half way at another gas station, and struggled so much to get in and out of the car. I couldn't drive more than an hour without some serious lower back pain. Had to get out of that car.
Yet, after going to bed around 1 am, and waking up at 6 or so, something happened. I could get out of bed without any struggle or pain or carefulness. I noticed it right away. I stood there, and noticed it worked, I wasnt in any debilitating pain.
So, that day, I drank a second bottle. And the rest is history. Now, one day I did drink a little too much, and started to feel like I had flu symptoms. Then my wife said that is a side affect from drinking too much ph water. So, now I do'nt go over 50 oz in a day, but try to do less or at 50.
It gets even better. Since I had already had that dr's visit, and scheduled PT, I decided to take my ph water to the first PT session, and tell them why I am not in pain any more, and show them the bottle. We decided I didnt really need PT, communicated it with the dr, and yet still scheduled 3 or 4 sessions to test out my back and other joints. Turns out the PT guy best guessed or determined I had Piriformis, something related to the sciatic nerve in my backside. Yet, we both new the alkaline water was resolving the problem.
[Piriformis syndrome is an uncommon neuromuscular disorder that is caused when thepiriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve. The piriformis muscle is a flat, band-like muscle located in the buttocks near the top of the hip joint. ... Nerve compression can be caused by spasm of the piriformis muscle. ]
I have shared my story with a few others, and they are experiencing the same benefits of the alkaline water.
Interestingly, and incidentally, after a late night job in Harrisburg PA, when I was in another gas station, a Turkey Hill in Lemoyne PA, I struck up a conversation with the cash register guy, and he directed me to try a sort of similar product they had in the store. He told me that when he lived out in a western state, he drank the water, and it had minerals in it. And when he came back to PA, he did not drink the same water. So, he had fainting spells. The dr told him he had a mineral deficiency. Minerals are salt, are then not, even carbanates (baking soda, sodium carb, etc.) So, anyway, I am not the only person who has suffered because of a mineral/salt deficiency in water.
It's been about 3 months, and I am still doing consistently well. At the advice of another cleaner on this forum, who tried the Essential water, and benefited from it, told me Sams Club has it by the case, and seems to be cheaper than other places. So, guess what? Now I have a Sams Club membership, and the first thing I bought was two cases of that water at about 50 oz a bottle. Today, I plan to go back to Sams and get some more.
Now, I wonder if alkaline water can help with muscle and joint recovery, nerve recovery??, in playing baseball or practicing or preparing for baseball? My 10 yr old son and I are involved in it. So, we will try it this year and see how it goes.
If you have any questions or comments, you can post them here or pm me or go to my website and get my ph number and we can cut thru the writing, and talk over the ph to speed your journey, or mine!
But, know this for sure, alkaline water has had something to do with resolving the serious pain I was having, chronic pain for years.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT
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I never thought that being a carpet cleaner would lead to resolving my back and other body part pains! Years ago, I decided to drink RO water, reverse osmosis, like 7 stage filtered, which has no ppm of anything. It has 0 ppm. I wasnt even sure if this was the best water to drink. But, at the time, choosing between tap water, well water (which some were contaminated with nitrates in my area, and local govt advised pregnant woman against drinking or have well tested before doing so), spring water, whatever, I couldnt figure out which would be best. So, I just thought RO water will be the choice. I admit I did not know if it was the best choice. I even told folks when I was filling my jug with RO, I don't know if this is the best water to drink, to strike up a conversation on the subject. Maybe I would learn something. But, what this decision did to me was not give me any minerals, and minerals are salts, like carbonates. There is nothing in RO water. Over the years of drinking RO water, I developed severe pain in lower back, right toe, right elbow, right shoulder, and neck. Yet, when I started drinking alkaline water, specifically Essential with a ph of 9.5+, my pains went almost entirely away. (my neck is like it never even hurt, I dont remember how the pain felt it's been so ling since I had any). I had new vigor. My ability to focus my vision was better. And most of all, my serious, debilitating back pain was essentially gone. I could even now bend forward and touch the ground in front of me with my fingers. I could work more freely now, all day. If your having pain, and my pain was from my sciatic nerve in my backside, which was affecting my back and arm and toe etc, I recommend, if your health can take it, trying alkaline water. It's almost as if, or actually is, that acid build up was happening in parts of my body, because I had been no minerals in my water, and yet the alkaline water flushed it (acid) away. Hence, no pain. Not sure about all the specs and details of this. But hey, I am in much better health because of it. And the Essentia is only 40 ppm of whatever. I tested it with my ppm stick. It has sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in it and only like 3 other ingredients. Even so, Im sticking with their brew, I dont want to mix my own right now. It works for me, wonderfully. And I thank this industry, this forum, and Jeff at sunbrite carpet cleaning for discussing this with me at length, and jim and wendy in nj, whomever wrote that first article I saw on it, and the Lord, because it was to him I first reached out in earnest prayer over my serious pain, and it seems like he answered that prayer, since shortly thereafter, all these events and people in them unfolded, to my benefit. Thank you thank you thank you!
So you can do your job well!
I never knew that getting involved in this industry would lead me to discover how I can resolve my back and joint pain.
(IF YOU WANT THE SHORT AND SWEET ON THIS, INSTEAD OF THE STORY, JUST PAGE DOWN AND READ THE LAST PARAGRAPH).
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THE STORY
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One day this past year, I was cleaning with a cleaner and his wife in NJ, Jim and Wendy.
Since I am interested in what is in chems, especially the chems we were using for VLMing, that day, on that job, I was googling the ph of certain chems, and components of presprays, and an article popped up about the ph of water, specifically alkaline water, and how it can help with back pain.
( BY THE WAY, THE DAY BEFORE I EVEN PRAYED TO GOD FOR HELP WITH MY OVERWHELMING PAIN, SO IT WAS A NICE COINCIDENCE! )
Well, being in pain that day, even great pain, not only my back, but my right toe, and right shoulder, and right elbow etc (been that way for years), I was surely open to reading the short article.
So, I said to Wendy, with whom I was cleaning a firehall via VLM with an eco, do you know anything about alkaline water and how it can help with health, like with back pain? She said, yes I have drank alkaline water, with an alkaline stick or something. She said, when we are done around 12 noon, we can go to the Wawa gas station across the street, and get some alkaline water. (I never seen the alkaline water there, not anywhere). Wendy knew about alkaline water! Wow! Another great link in the whole story.
So, around noon, we went to the gas station. Since I could not bend down to get the one on the bottom, near the floor, I asked Wendy if she could get me one (or something like that), so I could look at it. I felt like a crippled!
Folks, I could not bend down and touch the ground, wouldn't eve try it, my back hurt bad, lower back. Been that way for a couple of years. I thought I snapped something in it when I was tying my shoes by putting one foot up the stairs to do so. And I had just finished a dr's visit, and he scheduled me for 2 months of physical therapy, that I had not yet started. And when the dr asked me to touch the ground, I wouldn't do it, said I cant do that. It hurts too much. He said, I know what you need. Walked out the door. Came back with a piece of paper for physical therapy.Back to the ph water at the gas station. The Essential brand said 9.5 ph, and I thought that's the one I want, the others were lower ph or not as clear on it or neutral ph. Being a carpet cleaner, I thought higher ph will work better in my situation.
(And when I ph tested it, it was like 10+. So I was like "yeah!")So, the rest of that day, I drank that 50 oz bottle. Didn't have any noticeable pain relief. Indeed, late that night, when I traveled back to pa, I got out of my car half way at another gas station, and struggled so much to get in and out of the car. I couldn't drive more than an hour without some serious lower back pain. Had to get out of that car.
Yet, after going to bed around 1 am, and waking up at 6 or so, something happened. I could get out of bed without any struggle or pain or carefulness. I noticed it right away. I stood there, and noticed it worked, I wasnt in any debilitating pain.
So, that day, I drank a second bottle. And the rest is history. Now, one day I did drink a little too much, and started to feel like I had flu symptoms. Then my wife said that is a side affect from drinking too much ph water. So, now I do'nt go over 50 oz in a day, but try to do less or at 50.
It gets even better. Since I had already had that dr's visit, and scheduled PT, I decided to take my ph water to the first PT session, and tell them why I am not in pain any more, and show them the bottle. We decided I didnt really need PT, communicated it with the dr, and yet still scheduled 3 or 4 sessions to test out my back and other joints. Turns out the PT guy best guessed or determined I had Piriformis, something related to the sciatic nerve in my backside. Yet, we both new the alkaline water was resolving the problem.
[Piriformis syndrome is an uncommon neuromuscular disorder that is caused when thepiriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve. The piriformis muscle is a flat, band-like muscle located in the buttocks near the top of the hip joint. ... Nerve compression can be caused by spasm of the piriformis muscle. ]
I have shared my story with a few others, and they are experiencing the same benefits of the alkaline water.
Interestingly, and incidentally, after a late night job in Harrisburg PA, when I was in another gas station, a Turkey Hill in Lemoyne PA, I struck up a conversation with the cash register guy, and he directed me to try a sort of similar product they had in the store. He told me that when he lived out in a western state, he drank the water, and it had minerals in it. And when he came back to PA, he did not drink the same water. So, he had fainting spells. The dr told him he had a mineral deficiency. Minerals are salt, are then not, even carbanates (baking soda, sodium carb, etc.) So, anyway, I am not the only person who has suffered because of a mineral/salt deficiency in water.
It's been about 3 months, and I am still doing consistently well. At the advice of another cleaner on this forum, who tried the Essential water, and benefited from it, told me Sams Club has it by the case, and seems to be cheaper than other places. So, guess what? Now I have a Sams Club membership, and the first thing I bought was two cases of that water at about 50 oz a bottle. Today, I plan to go back to Sams and get some more.
Now, I wonder if alkaline water can help with muscle and joint recovery, nerve recovery??, in playing baseball or practicing or preparing for baseball? My 10 yr old son and I are involved in it. So, we will try it this year and see how it goes.
If you have any questions or comments, you can post them here or pm me or go to my website and get my ph number and we can cut thru the writing, and talk over the ph to speed your journey, or mine!
But, know this for sure, alkaline water has had something to do with resolving the serious pain I was having, chronic pain for years.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT
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I never thought that being a carpet cleaner would lead to resolving my back and other body part pains! Years ago, I decided to drink RO water, reverse osmosis, like 7 stage filtered, which has no ppm of anything. It has 0 ppm. I wasnt even sure if this was the best water to drink. But, at the time, choosing between tap water, well water (which some were contaminated with nitrates in my area, and local govt advised pregnant woman against drinking or have well tested before doing so), spring water, whatever, I couldnt figure out which would be best. So, I just thought RO water will be the choice. I admit I did not know if it was the best choice. I even told folks when I was filling my jug with RO, I don't know if this is the best water to drink, to strike up a conversation on the subject. Maybe I would learn something. But, what this decision did to me was not give me any minerals, and minerals are salts, like carbonates. There is nothing in RO water. Over the years of drinking RO water, I developed severe pain in lower back, right toe, right elbow, right shoulder, and neck. Yet, when I started drinking alkaline water, specifically Essential with a ph of 9.5+, my pains went almost entirely away. (my neck is like it never even hurt, I dont remember how the pain felt it's been so ling since I had any). I had new vigor. My ability to focus my vision was better. And most of all, my serious, debilitating back pain was essentially gone. I could even now bend forward and touch the ground in front of me with my fingers. I could work more freely now, all day. If your having pain, and my pain was from my sciatic nerve in my backside, which was affecting my back and arm and toe etc, I recommend, if your health can take it, trying alkaline water. It's almost as if, or actually is, that acid build up was happening in parts of my body, because I had been no minerals in my water, and yet the alkaline water flushed it (acid) away. Hence, no pain. Not sure about all the specs and details of this. But hey, I am in much better health because of it. And the Essentia is only 40 ppm of whatever. I tested it with my ppm stick. It has sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in it and only like 3 other ingredients. Even so, Im sticking with their brew, I dont want to mix my own right now. It works for me, wonderfully. And I thank this industry, this forum, and Jeff at sunbrite carpet cleaning for discussing this with me at length, and jim and wendy in nj, whomever wrote that first article I saw on it, and the Lord, because it was to him I first reached out in earnest prayer over my serious pain, and it seems like he answered that prayer, since shortly thereafter, all these events and people in them unfolded, to my benefit. Thank you thank you thank you!
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