Inspired by a post by Wwwdot "One Year Later" I decided to walk the same 5K route that I had walked 6 months ago.
I 'knew' my self treatment was successful. I wanted a definitive marker and was willing to face that there was no improvement in my ability to walk the same 5K. A small leap of faith.
I walked the route with exactly the same gear as 6 months ago. The temperature was a bit colder.
I was able to walk the full distance which includes hills without stopping which was not possible 6 months ago. It was not easy and the last hill was one foot in front of the other.
Very importantly there was no recovery needed that day and all I needed to do was sleep three times the next day and it was healing sleep.
Not yet wonderful! Shows I am headed in the right direction ignoring the map of failed experts and understanding not everyone needs the forms, frequency, amount, or concentration of B12 injections that I needed to accomplish what I have. Still doing trials to determine what is most effective.
Currently injecting every three hours and if I wake up in the night injecting then.
As I wrote it occured to me that the last hill at the end of my 5K was possible when 61 meters was not 3 years 5 months ago and I was 4 weeks from death. GP would have kept me alive. Just barely and they never would have felt a thing.
There is no reason other than arrogance and using 60 year old understanding of RDA's/1 mg that healing to the point I have needs to take this long. No reason to believe I would not have become one of the statistics that I have permanent damage and nothing can be done other than to eat leafy greens etc.