Six Figures

Around the 13th anniversary of Lumigrate's "go live" moment in late March, another "value event" / benchmark occurred when the first topic in our long, little history broke the six-figure read number!  100,000 looks very different than 99,000.  

I fondly remember the first read numbers, way back in 2009 -- topics might get 100 reads, then break through to 1,000.  Then there would be the first to hit the 10,000 mark.  The next biggie, in my mind, was when a thread would have been "hit" 100,000 times. 

There has always been, since it's first months on Lumigrate, one thread with wildly different read numbers than anything else I'd provided on Lumigrate in the forums.  I created the thread myself it early in 2015 -- January 9th, to be exact.   

The "Mardy PopIns" chapter of my life had just begun that Christmas Eve day, in late 2014, and I had felt I'd been immediately rewarded, esoterically, for the choice I made to follow my "guidance system" and do something so nonsensical as "becoming Mardy PopIns" when the vision came to me that spring.  

I'd not have had a lot of time for Facebook during the time I was ridding my rented home of as much as I could sell, then boxing what I was taking with me in life "on the wind of Mardy PopIns".  Moving things would occur when my helpers with trucks could come, which was Christmas Eve morning.  One was a young computer genius (literally, what a career he's had since) who simply was drawn to the computer I had at the time, and wanted to move and set it up for me.  Hence, I was not offline for more than an hour or two in the move. 

Later that Christmas Eve day, I'd see post after post with ranting, so to speak, from a woman who was the main administrator helping the originator of a Facebook group that I'd been in since August.  I had been aware the people in that group were very proactive learners who had a lot of knowledge, and they were onto something that had them very excited that I wasn't grasping simply because I didn't have the time to delve into it while I was ridding my home of things to be on my way as Mardy PopIns. 

The links shared with the posts by the woman I'd call "Poster Gal", due to her posts that Christmas Eve in her time zone were about patents and the accompanying research for efficacy in medical conditions from A to Z (literally, almost) for chemicals similar to fenbendazole. 

As I sat for the first hours at my work station within the first home I'd be at as Mardy PopIns, the posts stood out because almost everyone is with family on Christmas Eve, doing Christmas Eve stuff, not broadcasting a series of links about "the patent trail" of medications that have yet to be marketed, proving there are solutions known (and patented) that are not on the market.  The rant was from the woman posting's anger at the way her family had suffered and were in the financial position they were --- at Christmas and generally -- with these solutions known by insiders, but not the public. 

"This is history in the making, you need to focus on this" was what came to my mind as this was unfolding.  So, that is what I did.  Not realizing it was going to be a rabbit hole that would consume my resources for the better part of the coming TWO YEARS.    

Early in January 2015 someone in the group asked the group creator if it was okay to distribute the information -- a protocol that wasn't yet written up by him or the group helpers -- to others. "Shout it from the rooftops" was the response.  It was a kind of far fetched protocol for me at that time, so I thought I'd drive to the local stores that day to just look at the few core items in the protocol. 

My first stop was the health food store, to look at what they carried for red reishi mushroom extract, and magnesium.  The first step in the protocol was to have gastro-intestinal elimination working and the body generally able to handle what would come as side effects of the one patented medication in the protocol, fenbendazole.  I didn't purchase anything -- I wasn't planning to "do this", just try to better understand what people were doing (and raving about) in the group.     

I went on to a livestock supply store, where the clerk that happened along just as I gave up looking for the fenbendazole.  "Can I help you?" she said.  "I'm looking for fenben......", I choked on the complete word but she finished it for me "....dazole, fenbendazole.  For horses or goats?", she asked.  Well, neither, really, I said. 

I quickly gave an overview of the information as I understood it to that point -- cyanobacteria and stuff growing in the intestines and the beauty of fenbendazole being it doesn't "kill", but rather disables the bodily functions of "bad stuff".  So this protocol I was checking around about basically has you get your elimination of the gut moving, stabilize your immune system response to toxins, then stun the "bad stuff" so it can basically make it's sluggish, dying way out of your body before it does more harm than good. 

Suffice it to say, we had tears in our eyes as she said "the hairs on my arms went up when you said this", and she went on to share about her immediate family's experience, starting with everyone living in a rented home in my old college town (city) becoming ill at once.  Finding mold when they suspected it, they moved out literally immediately.  She was back to baseline in a week.  The other family member, years later, had done everything mainstream has to offer and had unsatisfactory results, so she had been studing in her available time to figure out what was REALLY going on. 

When she said "... and I had come "this close" (holding fingertip to thumb tip) to figuring out what you just told me", the hair on my arms went up, and I realized I had followed my gut of when to go to explore the stores and products at exactly the right time to hear her feedback as the first person to whom I'd relate this new-to-me information.  

I then said how I felt it was meant to be that she was who helped me, considering there were at least several other workers standing together talking the whole time I was looking around, lost, not seeing on the shelves what I was looking for.  "I normally work in the (neighboring town) store, they had me come here today because they thought they were going to be short staffed."  

I purchased what they offered.  I felt like I was in Monopoly -- Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.    

I would, that evening, create the new topic --- at the following link, and quietly start noodling around with applying the protocol to myself.  

www.lumigrate.com/forum/steve-his-images-his-protocol-and-facebook-group-community-and-other-resources-chronic-illness

I'd look frequently at the read number total on the topic -- 100, 200 .... 1,000 ..... 1,500 .....  

The numbers increased about the same amount as the members in the group about Steve and his images (and the protocol).  I therefore thought the group members were each reading the topic once (generally).  A few months later, the group administrators wanted new member requests held until they got the protocol produced in a readable, succinct form, as it was overwhelming without that to teach the newcomers, which were coming in droves.  A graphic was produced due to the abilities of "Poster Gal" (which you'll find at the topic if you take the above link).  (The protocol did not stay the same, by the way, it morphed as more experiencers gave feedback, and people saw opportunities for making money from products, perhaps.)

With the group numbers staying the same, I was surprised to see the read numbers on my topic continuing to  increase.  And not linearly --- exponentially.  I sent my first private message to the group founder since the day he invited me to the group and said he'd come back and teach me 1 on 1 (and didn't come back -- which was fine since I was, at that time, busy selling / "moving house"). 

His response was that we needed to talk on the phone -- immediately.  

And so we did.  

It was a call I'll never forget.  I am not at liberty to share what he said, but I will share that I took it seriously to heart and filtered what I could share, and devoted my life for quite a while to the information you find at that link.  It's merely a collection of the highlights that were shared there, names changed, and so on -- knowing that some of it would be surplufuous, some might even be incorrect, but it could be a "storehouse" of what was being discussed there at that key time.  I could sift through it later -- time will tell, as they say. 

I would add onto it, but not go in and modify it by deleting.  What is in there that is catching people's attention and driving the read numbers, I don't know!  So I've left it, knowing that it allegedly was vetted by those who determine what is allowed and what is taken down on the Internet.  

I'll offer this blog to honor the 100,000th read as story for you to read if you wish to leave it at that. 

Or take the link and go see the topic I'm referring to.  Know that I've left it filled with much information that likely is irrelevant, as I said, above. 

Steve, the founder, would be a baffling guy to all who got to know him.  An enigma, that main administrator would say.  He would say that he didn't have the initial protocol written up anywhere, but he did have a little website site (separate from Facebook) where I found it -- written up.  Why did he put the helpful gals who learned initially through not having a written protocol in the group and have them produce something?  Why did they suddenly stop being administrators and bow out or disappear from the group in April of 2015?  Similarly a year later, I was removed with others who knew the information well, over his being told or shown screen shots of some of us conversing critically about him.  No conversations with us directly, just cut out.  

I'd hear that money people sent him to help an alleged sufferer was used for his personal expenses. 

I'd have someone drop me a link to Federal court case records from the arrest he had.  He had been transparent about his being in prison, and about cannabis being part of his world -- he had not shared, however, the extend of the "ring" he was in.  Was he recreating a "ring" but with less illegal "money making" products?   Was he used, because of the incarceration history, as a tool for the government's good people trying to get information out that's not being allowed through The System's conventional ways?   I have my theories.  But that's all they are.  

Enough was "straightforward" for me to continue ushering people to get support and help from him or his group.  But I would accept an administrator role with Crystal Tripp of Dis~Ease Solutions' Facebook page, because there is support there, with Crystal and just a very few of us others who are entrusted to help her see when people are asking for help.  

I'd talk a lot to him -- learning a lot -- over the next two years.  I would, as "Mardy PopIns" go to a second, then a third house in 2015, where I'd REALLY get underway with things.  O'Rio's family of origin's house (I'd become his official human guardian in 2017). 

Surrounded by farmland, conventionally farmed, and with an irrigation pond for the property's "flooding" type irrigation, which is the way the Grand Valley of Western Colorado mostly gets irrigated -- using the slopes on the south and north sides of the Colorado River (formerly called the Grand, hence "Grand Valley and Grand Junction" names from the 1800s we use today. 

What was in that irrigation pond, I sent him a sample once it was drained and dry for the winter.  He was shocked at what he found -- he thought I'd looked at what I'd collected and only sent suspicious things.  I hadn't -- I'd gone with a baggie in hand and grabbed a random sample without touching it, and sent that.  When I told him how I'd collected the sample, his response was simply: "You guys out West are in worse shape than I thought." 

Unfortunately, he was someone who baffled most of us at times, so we'd hash over our thoughts sometimes in a group that had long been a safe place to compare notes, I guess you'd say.  He would learn of the conversation and who participated, and banished several experienced Facebook friends from his group (and unfriended).  Almost exactly one year before, he had done similarly with all of his administrators, who were really as wonderful a group of administrators as I've seen then or since. 

It just seemed to be part of his "M.O.", to clean house and start out with newbies to shape into leaders and teachers for a while, then --- rinse and repeat.  I could not longer really suggest him and his group to people because of that.  But the topic continues to gather the most reads of any on Lumigrate, before, or since.  

100,000 reads in 7 years (plus a couple of months) ..... OR in 2,615 days.  38 reads a day on just that one topic, alone.  I hope some people were really helped by it.  Every now and then someone does contact me that has found the contact information I provide.  I'm sure many others are helped I never know exist.  

Due to the Covid focus that virtually nobody excaped awareness of, and the Ivermectin "horse worm" controversy (despite there IS a human pharmaceutical version of the medication), the thread is more "ripe for the picking" than ever before.  

Perhaps the people who suspect Steve had information being given to him from good people inside the government who wanted information that could help people to get out, which allegedly lead to them scrutinizing the thread and approving it due to my non-hysterical way of presenting the information are right.  It seems to add up, though at the time my head spun when I was told that is what was causing the high read numbers in April of 2009.  

So, I guess that's a good place to leave off with this little blog.  Thank you for being among the X # of people who are accounted for in the "read numbers" on this thread.  Every one has value!  ~~Mardy 

Grand finale -- an O'Rio photo ......  February 2016, before I got very far addressing the symptoms of what I might call acquired environmental illness.  Mud on his belly from the walk we'd been on in the nearby "desert", the red eye that was a constant at that time (which resolved in time, with work).  He was turning 11 soon, and lived to be 15!  He had improved so much in the summer of 2017 (due to a lot of things working in his favor, including ideal diet that summer) -- well, I'll add that, below.  

(I've learned so much, I'm GRATE-FULL to share it). 

Read # one month later = 101,967