Comments on: Softer Light on the Path

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:36:35 +0000

Hello back, Beth, and welcome!

Thank you for telling me of your own experience with cognitive improvements. It was inspiring to read. I have seen that, too, and it’s been wonderful indeed. Without such real improvements, I would not be able to write this blog. Dr. Esselstyn’s guidelines have been very good ones for me, too. So glad to have you along!

Maria

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:43:13 +0000

Hallo Maria,
And thank you for writing of the improvements you are seeing in your health I’m pleased for you, and also because it makes me sure the effects I am seeing in my situation are not just psychological. After a bout of demyelinating illness 25 years ago, I was left with problems finding words when I was speaking, which had gradually worsened in to difficulties with ideas, faces, etc. I started the Esselstyn plant-based diet because of cholestrol problems, but after 8 weeks on it I discovered that once again I could talk fluently, and remember what I went to the fridge for without writing it down!
May your health continue to improve!
Best wishes,
Beth

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:10:53 +0000

Welcome, Polly. Thank you for your kind words, and sharing some about your own health. I am glad to hear healthy eating is helping you as well, and that you’ll be following along.

Maria

By: Polly

Polly — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:52:16 +0000

Hello Maria,
What an encouragement you are to me!!! I don’t have MS but I do have fibromyalgia and a couple of other things.

Similar to you, I experience lots of pain but find that 2 aspirins or Ibuprofen take the “edge off”.
I have also changed my diet because I have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I eat very little sugar…only natural sugar in fruit. I make myself a large pot of stew/soup about once a week, store it in jars and freeze it so I have ready meals most of the week. I just add a salad or a side dish for a wonderful meal.
I plan to keep reading your blog because you are so interesting. and I want to learn how to eat more correctly.
Thanks again for your encouragement.
Sincerely,
Polly

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:08:17 +0000

Hi Sandy,

I am sorry to hear about your sister-in-law receiving a diagnosis of MS. Sometimes it’s hardest for the people around who want to help. But it will be up to her. I am glad reading my blog helps YOU, whether or not your sister-in-law is ready to be open to such a change in how she eats. But maybe she will be when she is ready. And thank you for your kind words. I do cherish joy of life, and am so stubborn I would never allow my diagnosis to take that away from me. 🙂

Maria

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:47:15 +0000

Maria,
How odd for me to decide to read your blog and to learn that my sister-in-law was just diagnosed today with MS. I worry that she will not be open to changing her diet. I have been eating vegan for a year and a half and she said she grew up in Michigan and loved a good thick steak.
Perhaps she will have time to reconsider her life choices as she lays in the hospital bed being tested and tested some more. I am relieved to be able to read your blog. It lessens the fear I might have had with this diagnosis. You seem delightful and do not choose to allow your diagnosis to take away from your joy of life. Thanks for sharing your story. I look forward to following it.

By: imdhreeves

imdhreeves — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:15:10 +0000

As a newbie on the starch based vegan no oil diet, I love the idea that not only will my MS be less damaging but rosacea too! I am taking daily low doses of antibiotics for my rosacea. The last time I tried to get off of it I had a flair that was a teenagers nighmare. In a few months, on this new diet I will try again. Thank you very much for the encouraging news.

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:01:08 +0000

Hi narf7,

I don’t spray them or anything either; as you say, they have their role in things. (The sugar phase and meat phase is insteresting, thanks.) But I have been known to get help knocking the nests off the house, too. And trust me, it isn’t any fun to get stung. You are lucky!

Maria

By: narf7

narf7 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:46:44 +0000

Our yellow jackets are just starting to think about making a move out in the garden. They start on the flowers (their sugar phase) and will predate anything sweet and progress as the summer progresses to their meat phase where they tend to hang about our defrosting dogs dinner steak chewing holes in the bags. My dad was happy to let them nest here. I know…go figure dad! But now that we are ensconsed on Serendipity Farm we make sure that they don’t build their nests on the house. The rest of the garden is free reign as they predate many pest insects and do a good job cleaning out the pests. I say live and let live but I haven’t ever been bitten yet! 😉

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:08:24 +0000

Thanks, kally. Glad you’re feeling great and that you can’t imagine “going back.”

Maria