[Oe List ...] Fred's health note

[Devi Dhiraj]

Dear friends,
  Loving greeting s.
  I have been reading with sadness the state of health and the passing on of our close colleagues and would now like to share some of my readings and experiences with vibrant health.
  We need to take more responsibiltiy for our own health than relying on the doctors who don't always know (bless their hearts) and have studied only disease and sickness in medical schools rather than vibrant health.
  Anyway, I have been vegetarian for more than twenty years and have gone all raw fruits and veggies for the past two years.  I have seen amazing results in reversing and eliminating illnesses.
  If you can break the desire and addiction to tasty, savory foods, please do go organic raw because there are no specific diseases except for one which is called Toxemia.  Thick dirty blood and a dirty colon from the western diet of high fat, high protein, and high starch.  Get away from all meat and dairy and I guarantee you will have vibrant health in a few weeks.  IThere are many books to read out there on this subject but one I love very much is called "Health Survival in the 21st Century" by Ross Horne  Australian author and can probably be gotten on amazon line.  
  ""Unless the doctors of today become the dieticians of tomorrow, then the dieticians of today will become the doctors of tomorrow."
   
  Darlene Golembo (formerly Darlene)
Norm and Judy Lindblad <nj.lindblad at gmail.com> wrote:
  Dear Fred and Nancy,

Our thoughts and prayers are with you as we give thanks for your thoughtful and faithful acceptance of a new assignment.  As always, you are a sign and guide for us.

Grace and peace, Norm and Judy

  On Feb 3, 2008 8:12 PM, Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
   Dear Friends,

Our lives continue to be full of adventure and and wonderful
relationships.  We want to share a new part of our Journey together
which began when Fred received a medical diagnosis  about a month ago
for the symptoms he was experiencing, one we had never imagined.

After seeming to "grow old" too soon and too quickly, Fred has been
medically diagnosed with ALS or "Lou Gehrig's" disease.  Since being
given this "new assignment", he is deciding what he wants to do in
the next months or years that he is still functional.  We do not know
just how this condition will play out but we do have lots of support
from family and community.  The best of all worlds, he will be able
to be at home with lots of medical and "machine" support.  We will
still be traveling; Mexico this coming Wednesday through 2/26,
Cincinnati and New Mexico in May/June, and RI soon after that.  We
would also like to be present at Fred's 55th high school reunion but
we will take life as it comes.  His breathing capabilities may be a
determining factor.

Bruce came out for a week 1/24-1/31 to spend time with us and the
rest of the family.  He and Nancy are quite sure they will be moving
to Vancouver, B.C. Canada sometime this coming summer.  It couldn't
be a better time for them to be close.  Our family had good
conversations with many tears and lots of laughter as we try to take
in what this will mean for us.  Although there are a few research
studies being done, this condition is very "mysterious" with no clear
picture of its cause and no treatment except one drug, its effect is
still limited. The book and video, "Tuesdays with Morrie" is an
excellent story of a man with ALS.  After watching it the other
night, we felt it could even be shown to children 9+.

I am ready to take on the role of primary caretaker and realize that
it will be a huge undertaking.  The emotional and physical energy
required is enormous.  Fred has been my life's partner for 50 years
and the thought of not having him with me is scary, this disease as
well.  However, he is seeing the rest of his life as very much a part
of his spiritual path and we will travel it with respect and
acceptance.  We hope to be able to celebrate our 50th "jubilee"
anniversary together, but are planning to begin that celebration
now.  It has been an unbelievably wonderful life we have had together
and with our children.   Our lives are very good just as they are -
we are loved and blessed.

You are all loved,

Nancy and Fred



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