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Joan wrote:
Lillian it's so good to have you back. It sounds as if you and Carla had
a wonderful time but was sorry your computer had to be so difficult. We
are holding up here, thanks for asking. George's xray yesterday
indicated that the antibiotics may have helped a little but the doctor
didn't think very much. After conferring with the radiation doctor and
lung specialist, he decided that further chemotherapy and added
radiation were not advisable at this time, but another round of
antibiotics, this time he will be on Augmentin. We were told that he
would probably always have pnuemonia or some kind of lung infection
other than the cancer because of the blockage there, and his lungs can
not properly aerate. He is happy that they opted to give him more
antibiotics for now, though.
His brother from Hawaii is coming next week, I have never met him,
but have met his wife and she is a lovely person. Apparently he is the
argumentative one of the family, so I called in reinforcements, and some
of the the other brothers and sisters are coming from California and one
in Oregon, but the star of the show will be his 84 year old sister from
Iowa who can whip her weight in wildcats when it comes to debating and
arguing, so this should be interesting. Apparently these two together
with one of the older brothers who is in Canada right now used to get
into some pretty wild discussions, each taking an opposite view just to
irritate the other, so I may be calling on all of you for help next
week. George, as one of the youngest in his family, will sit back and
enjoy the show, so it can't be all bad if it provides him with a little
humor if only for a little while. Actually he is in very good spirits
considering he doesn't feel so perky.
As far as my green thumb is concerned, I'm looking forward to the
Hawaiian brother tell me what is wrong with my roses I just planted, he
grows them on the Kona Coast and sells them to local florists. His
growing methods for that climate have been adopted by others, I guess.
Maybe he can tell me the proper way to grow herbs. We'll see. However
I'm sure he would be very strict as to the kind I should grow.
When Marty gets back everything will be back to "normal" on here,
whatever normal is. Your friend, JoanDonna Jennings wrote:
> Joan, I wish it were not true that we have become a society of
> chemical scare and artificial injections of harmones to our meat;
> etc.; but it is fact. We used to make something our family loved while
> living in Vermont called "sugar on snow". The maple tree's were taped
> and just when it would start to snow, the maple sap could be
> collected. We would gather the fresh snow and poor the hot maple sap
> over it, oh was it good. Then we started hearing about the pollution
> in the air, that would get into the snow as it fell and that ended a
> wonderful family goodie. Our own little herb garden would certainly
> be the best route; but I don't have a green thumb, what say you? How
> are you doing Joan, holding up okay? Your friend, Lillian
>
> Joan wrote:
>
>> Carla, that must have been an unsettling meeting. It would indeed
>> be scary to think we are consuming nothing but chemicals along with
>> our healing herbs. One thought I had on the doctor's statistics,
>> however, is in that reporting the amount of herbicides he said we
>> used in the 30's, he also did not call up the fact that there are
>> millions and millions more people now, with the demand for food so
>> much larger than that we can't even imagine. This in itself would
>> bring about the need for much more pest control, which is a very
>> large burden for food producers. However, we can wash our food
>> before we eat it, but how can we wash herbs? Maybe we should all
>> start our "victory health herb gardens" in our backyards and
>> kitchens. I may be completely out of line in my comments here, but I
>> do think the chemical scare may be an exaggerated one. I certainly
>> hope so. Your friend, Joan
>>
>> ken naehring wrote:
>>
>> > My head is spinning a little because of a meeting that I attended
>> > tonight. The speaker was an internal medicine doctor and the
>> > program was on herbs and tincture extracts for healing.. I only had
>> > a moment to talk with him as after he was finished many people were
>> > lined up to talk with him, but I do think that I will make an
>> > appointment and go in to see him and see what he recommends.. He
>> > had some really good points... such as that we should all get life
>> > from live... plants etc.. He told how many herbs used to make the
>> > products sold in health food stores are imported in from other
>> > countries and they come in bales.. When they get to the U.S., the
>> > government orders them sprayed with chemicals and then they are
>> > used in the natural products we are buying... I found that
>> > unsettling... I for one am trying to get away from chemicals and
>> > toxins.. He said that in 1935 before we were using
>> > pesticides/chemical fertilizers the U.S. had 10-15% loss of crops
>> > due to insect damage.. In 1993 it was 18%, so they are not doing
>> > what they were to do and are filling us with toxic poison.. He said
>> > that many of the prescriptions are made with a petroleum base which
>> > is toxic as well.. Now, he is an Internist and he does the
>> > nutrition on the side... When I asked him about cancer, he said
>> > that one or two tinctures were not the answer.. He said that first
>> > I would need to detox my system with distilled water and herbs..
>> > He also said that he could do a blood test and tell from that if a
>> > person was going to get cancer and/or if it was going to come
>> > back... He said that he monitors his cancer patients this way, by
>> > taking a drop of blood at each visit... I think it is worth going
>> > to see what he says on a one on one basis... Afterall, I am taking
>> > a bunch of herbs, vitamins and minerals now and juicing... I know
>> > what the tinctures cost and it would probably save me money each
>> > month over what I am doing now... I don't know, but I just thought
>> > I would throw this out on the mol and see if anyone else has ever
>> > come across a doctor who truly studies and prescribes
>> > holistically??? Thanks, Carla
>>
>>
>
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