IELTS Liz - My Personal Story

hello, it's been a long time since I last made a video, it's actually been nine years, it was 2015, my last video for all these years, people have written about many of you, what happened to you, why you stopped make videos, why does it disappear, what's wrong, are you sick?, what happened, so I decided it was time to make this video and explain to you why I disappeared for so many years. My

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actually starts before I started the YouTube channel I was teaching abroad and I started to feel bad, I didn't really pay much attention to it.

I just thought it would probably start to get better at some point, but as the months went by I started to feel more and more unwell and eventually took some time off from work. resting I thought it might be a little better but my friend told me before you went back to work why don't we have a coffee at the coffee shop around the corner from your apartment and I thought that would probably be a good idea, so We organized ourselves to go and started walking. When I started walking, I could feel something was wrong with my legs.

It became very difficult to take the steps and I could feel my spine starting to get weaker and weaker with each step. It became the hardest thing I could do and suddenly I collapsed on the pavement in public. My friends were surprised. I was surprised. They tried to help me up, but they couldn't because I couldn't even stand it. They had to carry me. I went back to my bed and at that moment I realized that I had something very serious about me, but I wasn't too worried because I thought that I was going to return to the UK somehow, the doctors would do the tests.

They are going to tell me what is happening and they are going to treat me well. I came back to the UK but it didn't work out that way. The doctor told me that I have a severe form of a particular disease that There was no cure for this disease nor any treatment. The doctor said some people might be sick for five years, but most will be sick for the rest of their lives. You know, hearing this was quite shocking. Was this going to be my life? I couldn't go out or I couldn't work. Alright. I have lost everything and it could be the rest of my life.

I thought no, no, this is not going to be my life, it's not. It's going to be like that with me I will do everything I can to help my body recover unfortunately I got worse, I got to the point where I started struggling just to put a fork in my mouth, that action alone became very difficult with pain all over my body . body and difficulty removing the arms. I had difficulty sitting in chairs, especially if there was nothing to support my head, as I got worse. He had to spend most of his time in a horizontal position.

It started to become increasingly difficult to move any part of my body, including my little finger, and as it got worse, I also lost the ability to speak several times. It was really shocking to think that the disease could get so bad, and of course the really scary thing was that it was. Even at the lowest level of the disease, it could get worse, so I realized that it was quite dangerous and yes, it was a difficult time. I can tell you that fortunately I started to improve. Incredibly, I was one of the lucky ones and after a year I had 10 to 15 minutes each day where I was well enough to sit on a couch, use a laptop, which obviously includes using my arms and hands and also have clarity of thought, but only 10 to 15 minutes each.

Today for most people that is nothing what are you going to do with that time but for me those 10 to 15 minutes were the most precious and valuable I had so I started dreaming and thought what I could do with my time. It would be wonderful if I could create a free art preparation website for everyone and it had free practice lessons, models, answers, topics, tips, information, that would be wonderful, but God, what a great dream, but you know, there is nothing wrong in your dreams. Well and to be honest, many important things in life actually start with the smallest steps, so I started building this website now, of course, i.com is actually one of the largest websites in the world of free form.

I prepared myself but at that time it started with just 10 to 15 minutes each day as the months went by I got better enough to make videos now. In fact, I remember my first video for YouTube. I set up my tripod, grabbed my phone, put it on the tripod and started fishing. but you know, the effort of putting the phone on the tripod was so overwhelming on my body that I actually had to stop, it was too painful and I had to film the next day, so when I say that, I did things in small steps. I really did and those first videos were incredibly difficult for me because I was in so much pain.

I mean, you could see me smiling, but I wanted to enjoy the process and, of course, I wanted you to enjoy the lesson anyway. Months and another year passed. I was doing very well. It seemed like maybe there would be a complete recovery. I was able to go out and do many things. I was able to make more videos. I was able to build the website. It was wonderful, but at the end of 2015, which was the last time I uploaded a video, my health deteriorated instead of improved and it was horrible again. I had already been struggling for two years and then realized I had more years of illness ahead of me, it was a really difficult time.

To accept the loss of a recovery like that, since then I have fought every day, every month and every year for my recovery and sometimes even hour after hour, it has been incredibly difficult for the most part. I haven't even felt well enough to go out. at my house every year I would also start to see some recovery and then get worse again and the next year I would start to see recovery and get worse again year after year it just never seemed to stop yeah it was a Unfortunately that's not my whole

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. During the period when I had this terrible illness that kept me so trapped, I also experienced abuse and neglect.

At times it was traumatic and at times it made me nervous. my well-being at risk abuse can happen to anyone it does not matter if you are intelligent kind successful competent it does not matter where you live where you are from your age your background none of that matters because the problem is not with the victim and you cannot stop the behavior of the victims people, you know, when I started making videos and my website with those three lessons, one of the things I wanted to do was show them that it actually wasn't as hard as I wanted.

Show you how easy it could be if you understood and wanted you to develop your confidence. I wanted to empower you so you can reach your potential. Abuse and neglect are actually the opposite of that. Abuse makes people small, crushes them, breaks them. It hurts them and it damages them and it takes away your potential if you are someone who is going through abuse right now please know that it is not your fault and you don't deserve it abuse can happen to anyone and it happened to me and remember everyone human beings. Regardless, I deserve support, respect and kindness.

I don't want to talk anymore about the aspects of the abuse that I went through and you've probably noticed. I haven't even told you what illness I have. To be honest, I'm just not ready to share those details yet, it's been an incredibly difficult decade and maybe one day I will be ready, but for now I'm confident that I can trust you and that you will respect my wish for privacy on these points. anyway. I'm sure you have a lot of questions like, will I come back to YouTube to make more videos? Am I actually better?

Well, I'm planning to make more videos. I don't know how many videos I can make this year because the truth is. The disease I have is still active in my body and while it is active it means I am at risk of deterioration and I am also very restricted and need to be very careful about what I can do now. I know I probably look pretty good. for you, but the truth is that some diseases are invisible, so I'm going to go little by little and probably start with a few small videos and see how we go, but I can't wait.

I have been waiting for this for many, many years. You know, I never wanted to disappear from YouTube and I always wanted to make videos for you. I have a list of ideas of all the things I want to explain to you about IELTS. I made this list while I was sick every year. I could improve enough to make videos, so I was always building my list of ideas, but of course if you want to tell me things you want, let me know, but of course you don't have to wait just for my videos. Also check out my free website Arts list.com.

It's a treasure trove of free Al prep materials. There are so many out there for you and I made it for you, so go ahead and take a look and benefit from everything I've shared there because there are so many. Advice, information and advice too, so use it and now I just want to say, take care of yourselves, have faith in yourself. See you soon, goodbye.