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[@ukraina91]

Hi Blake! I enjoyed your pergola video series a lot! I hope you are going to continue getting better because health is what matters the most. Cheers!

[@mcmullaj1]

Sorry to hear you are struggling! Keep fighting and keep that positive attitude. Looking forward to watching your projects. I love to learn too!

[@joycreated]

Thanks for sharing your difficult journey! I'm sure everyone gives you advice, somy unasked for is ....and this is for EVERYONE! Get off seed/omega 6 fats. This is the most destructive food for your body. Next eat as much organic as possible and grass-fed non-grain raised protein products. It's pretty easy to find grass-fed beef but I have to reach out for online companies to buy non-grain fed pork or chicken. It's expensive so I have those as a treat unusually by the ground less expensive cuts. And then of course eat as much organic as possible and get off sugar. I bet you've done most of that I wish you a continued great recovery and a positive future. Thanks for sharing the video on fencing it helped me a lot!

[@elizabethtaylor3779]

Kudos to you for having the strength to encourage others; it's helpful to receive support from those who have experienced difficulties. Wishes for better health.

[@vanessaking8220]

I watched your poison ivy video and then foud this one. I hope you are able to get better and better as time goes on. Hopefully you can find some anwers. Given the outdoor video I just watched, my first thought was Lyme disease - even if you never saw any specific tick bite. Good luck to you!! Thank you for this video. It may touch someone right when they need it.

[@calvingibson8869]

I hope you are doing better. I learned a lot from your fence videos and look forward to some more. You did the right thing seeking medical help when you started feeling off. I hope they find the answer.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thanks for the encouragement.

[@NetStrider]

Thank you for posting this. I went through a period of various illnesses a year ago. One after the next and it felt like there was no light at the end of the tunnel for a while. Being in the middle of that was hell. Being patient with our bodies is so, so difficult and frustrating. Hang in there and hope things continue to improve.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thank you. Not knowing what’s happening is often worse than the illness itself. Fortunately I have some answers and medication that is helping now. But it was a long wait. I hope you are improving every day.

[@foodcriticusa3407]

Hey Blake, I enjoy your videos very much. I’m sorry you have to struggle like this. Hang in there and hope you feel better soon. ❤️

[@danielcarroll5667]

You are doing the absolute right thing , been through very "rough patches" myself . I know from experience you are on the right path , keep fighting , stay positive and thanks for sharing what you're going through....

[@zinginstruments]

Great video Blake. Life can get awfully tough awfully quickly, so well done you for sharing your struggles.

[@traceysanderdonovan1905]

It's important to share stories like this. I am sure it will help someone.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

I hope so. Thanks Tracey.

[@elizabethh-d1186]

Your videos are informative and helpful. Take care of yourself.

[@southerncomfort971]

good to see you back and hope you are doing as well as you appear. As we grow older it becomes more and more important to maintain good health. Taking care of ourselves has to come first. i know that sounds wrong but the people around us can not get the help they might need if we are not healthy enough to take care of ourselves. Take care, thanks for sharing. Best of health.

[@colleenthomas-gb1oj]

Hello Blake, I will be praying for your recovery and I hope you have seen steady improvement over the past two months. I will be following your instructions in erecting a wire fence and thank you for the precise and clear instructions! A REQUEST - When you are able to, could you please make a video on how to light a bulk or run a small fan while using magnets and copper wire?

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thank you! I'm not not I would know how to do that. Sounds like you're making an electrical motor.

[@debdonnelly8930]

So sorry to hear about all this happening to you. Thank for sharing keep up with treatment and keeping getting better. Hang in there!! God Bless you

[@lurklingX]

hey man. i went through something like this and a few things help. doing some elimination diets to see if there is a FOOD item messing up your gut (look online, it'll list out 'safe' foods, be on those 2 weeks, then introduce food groups back in. many plans listed online. surprising some of the things that can mess you up...) ALSO, if you look up *adrenal fatigue* i think you'd benefit from the protocols. it focuses on keeping your cortisol low. because like you said, makes it hard to sleep, but also having it amped all the time spurs the exhaustion. doctors were about USELESS in my situation. had to put on my med student hat and detective hat and research the HELL out of stuff to find anything that could help. *probiotics* can be a great help. different ones have different strains tho, so you might have to trial a few to see which actually make a difference. SLEEP- waking up feeling drunk. this made me think you could possibly also be dealing with CANDIDA overgrowth. basically, it's naturally in the system but it can go nuts sometimes and drown out other beneficial bacteria. if you have it bad, it can actually register as having a blood alcohol content even if you are dry. and then, your body is trying to filter all that out TOO. as an aside aside, i found that if my CALCIUM gets low, i get wicked insomnia. try the milk before bed trick, or even take a calcium pill. see if that helps. calcium helps you stay asleep. if it's falling asleep that is the problem (in addition to low mood, muscle aches, constipation, if it's real bad) that's MAGNESIUM. these two work together and balance each other out. optionally buy a vitamin that has both, in the proper ratios. but singly can be controlled more. _________ i still have no idea what happened to me, specifically. it just came on hard like a flu - body aches, feeling 90, exhaustion x9000. doctors no help. losing weight drastically, losing more hair than usual, etc. terrible. i could hardly drive to work OR work. BUT, something a functional doctor said to me many many years later is that sometimes if you had a virus previously (even if it's not one of the ones they check for, and so it looks like 'nothing') certain things can trigger it, like reactivating it in your system. at least to where your immune system freaks out and starts attacking again. not sure if you ever had any viruses that you know of that could be it. also, if you got the silent version of *covid,* you wouldn't have known to check, so that's a possibility there. weird that you are registering for *mold,* yet your wife is fine. makes me think house is ok, maybe, but then where's the exposure coming from? i would get a test and make sure. you buy it at the Depot and send it for analysis. could be low levels, and you're just more sensitive to it and so reacting. i did suspect mold at the house my illness started in, but didn't know enough about anything to check. ________ hope this maybe helped. so sorry you're dealing with this, it's fkking brutal. especially the mental toll when it gets so bad you don't wanna be here anymore. depression will kick you in the nuts like that too, for similar reasons. and things do feel wretched and pointless. just wanna say, it's been a long road, supplements and naturopaths are your friend -- the Nat a coworker told me to see actually helped me get out of the weightloss freefall and where so many foods were making me ill or spawning headaches. get the doctors to run panels of your vits and minerals, a few are an isolated test like iron. hang in there, it can get better.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thanks for all your notes here. I matched with a number of these. Candida was an issue that we treated. I had some issues with the antifungals and antibiotics. They messed up my digestion quite a bit more than it already was, but I am working my way back from that with probiotics. Lots of Kefir. I've tried several elimination diets. A big one for me was the Acid Watcher diet, just helping to heal my gut. I've also explored the virus theory with doctors and naturopaths. The latest nat I saw would agree with your thinking on that. We just can't figure out what the trigger was. I will look into the adrenal fatigue a bit more. That's definitely been an issue. Low calcium as well. I was on nexium for years and that kills the calcium absorption. Thanks again for your thoughts. Hope you are back on the straight and narrow from your experience.

[@lurklingX]

​@@BuildingWithBlake oh, you're so welcome!! i have one theory - a med called Accutane, for skin. later got a suit for messing up people's guts. and after a dental procedure that they put me under for, the gas i swear i reacted weird too and maybe something about that lasted. (had an out of body exp. like i'd died. was looking down at myself, no one in the room.) the gas is known to tank B12. so if you genetically have stuff messing with your B12 levels, absorption, whatever, a med can toss you off a cliff. i remember being a lot more tired after that in general. Meds woohoo -__- *waves flag* anyway that's actually pretty great that your med/health folks were able to get you this far. i really hope you continue to improve. totally loved the deck awning vid, seeing you all work together, and it was a happy looking slice of life.

[@mariafhp]

Thank you for sharing . I appreciate this and hope that you are doing well ❤❤❤

[@johnfilicicchia1651]

So this was a helpful video. I nearly skipped past it after watching the Clear Roof video. But the title caught my attention. And when you were in the garage, one of the first things I noticed was the race numbers behind you on the wall, then the Jamis MTB, and what looked like road bikes behind the Jeep. Awesome. I too love mountain biking-I’m old enough that it was a new thing when I started racing 40 years ago. Hope your health continues to improve; best wishes on the new property.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thanks for your note. I'm strictly an mtb rider. It's dangerous enough without adding cars or gravel to the mix. My bikes are hiding behind the Jeep cause they're typically covered in mud (the Jamis belongs to my wife). I haven't been able to race the last few years but hopefully I will again someday.

[@moboknows]

Just found your channel today and I wanted to tell you your videos are amazing! Love the way you get right to the point and how simple you explain the building process! Now that I’m watching this video…I have to comment. Prayers for your health and well being and for your family/support system, and many many thanks 🙏 to you for sharing this with your viewers!

[@susanbeals3971]

I can so identify with this! Thank you!!

[@Nightshade-333]

I hope that you are doing better.

[@nettebalser4229]

Sorry to hear about everything you have been going through. But your positivity is inspiring. And of course thank you for sharing your story, That isn't always an easy thing to do. I appreciate your videos and you have defiantly encouraged me to put up my own fence this spring. I am very excited to see the video of the gates!! I am glad you are getting back to good health, or at least healthier. Our own personal health is always a work in progress mind, body, and spirt.

[@califrench6732]

I was sad to see you had health issues and you are in my prayers 🙏🏽 I hope God heals you and restores your energy so you can continue to do what you do! I watched the video on your welded wire fencing (I’m about to put one up on my yard for my dogs (2 8week old bully pits, my sisters 5mo old German shepherd/❤husky{my sister is in jail}) I was sad to see there wasn’t a next video on how to install a gate 😢 idk how to add the gate if you have any advice or know of any good videos to watch is appreciate it ❤ again I hope you get better!!!

[@karenlawford8403]

There is another video showing the gate installation

[@lurklingX]

"i'm not a mechanic, i'm barely a woodworker" 😂😂😂 (also, '99s are still with the old good engine's a think? and the overall tough build. could be wrong, i forget the year but during a buyout a new company borked everything up and they were no longer reliable as they once were. i'd wanted a jeep but looked into it and reliability on new ones was trash. still, the old ones? Mmm.) also eyeing your garage setup. I'm reassembling mine, in this house of a thousand projects. talk about exhaustion, physical and mental. i'm *seriously* not a woodworker, and this has been my training ground. for all trades. anyway nice setup. it's inspiring some ideas. about to put the pegboard back up which i ripped the water-damaged parts off and repainted it white. MDF walls, though, holes from water and god knows what else. so i mudded it so i can throw paint on, just to make it a little less UGH till i can do something more permanent like plywood and insulation, drywall. the door is borked, too. like i said, lots of projects. anyhow, excited about the car! :D

[@midday1565]

Just saw your video. I have same symptoms and took several doctors and years. To find out I have mixed connective tissue disease with sjogren as my primary an auto immune disease not saying you have that but worth seeing a rheumatologist for testing for any autoimmune condition.

[@BuildingWithBlake]

Thanks for your note. I have been ruled out for autoimmune but there is definitely a connective tissue problem. Not quite sure what to call it.

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