He was a strong believer in giving blood at the Red Cross where he was a member of the gallon club.
In lieu of flowers please donate blood in his name.
It is
with a very heavy heart that I write this newsletter, but I want
everyone to know what happened with the hope that it will prevent
others from losing their loved ones and going through what we did
over the past 6 months. Please read all of it as you will
recognize many of the symptoms some of you or a friend or loved one
is now experiencing. The most important thing I have learned is that
when you have acid reflux, SOMETHING IS OUT OF BALANCE IN YOUR
SYSTEM. YOU NEED TO FIND IT AND CORRECT IT, NOT KEEP PUTTING
MORE AND BIGGER BANDAGES ON IT SO TO SPEAK, LIKE TAKING MORE AND
MORE PROTONICS - ACID FIGHTERS LIKE OMEPRAZOL OR PRILOSEC.
That stuff is not candy, but doctors treat it like it is. I AM
TOTALLY CONVINCED THAT THIS IS WHAT KILLED Paul, along with doctor
errors. He had acid reflux for over forty years, but never had
an ulcer. He pretty much controlled it with Tums, baking soda
and watching his diet, avoiding spicy foods. The worse side effect
of the acid reflux was the need to periodically dilate his throat
where scar tissue formed from the acid a simple and quick procedure
done in the doctor’s office. Had he continued on dealing
with it that way and never followed the doctor’s advice, I know he
would still be alive today.
Three
years ago, Paul’s doctor suggested he start taking a protonic,
either Omeprazol or Prilosec which he said is perfectly safe, so
Paul did. This was the first big mistake. Within months,
he started experiencing all the side effects of that drug, such as
wheezing, mental confusion, unusual tiredness, headaches, and
tightness in the chest and stomach pains. We just never
connected it to the Omeprazol because the Doctor kept telling us it
was just that he was aging and the pill was safe. Over a
period of a year the symptoms increased in intensity so the doctor
decided to do a scope and an MRI. They found irritation to the
throat from the reflux that obviously hadn’t stopped, even with
the pill. In spite of the fact that he didn’t experience the
reflux symptoms, and a mass attached to or next to his pancreas,
scar tissue that a seat belt had created during a severe car
accident 44 years ago. His doctor suggested a biopsy but told
him that the procedure would probably kill him, or they could remove
it which would also probably kill him. Since it had been there
for 44 years, these procedures scared Paul, so he declined and went
on our Herbal treatment for cancer, just as a precaution.
Several months later, his doctor asked him if he had lost weight, to
which he replied “no” to because he had actually gained weight.
The doctor’s remark was, “well it couldn’t have been cancer
then”, so we assumed he was safe from cancer. Over the next
couple of years, Paul had the mass checked and since it never grew
and he felt good except for the weird side effects of the pill, we
ignored it. For the next year, he was in and out of the
hospital with severe vomiting and stomach pain both of which are
side effects of Omeprazol and Priolsec and each time, their answer
was to double up on the pills. He would temporarily feel
better, come home and again the symptoms and vomiting returned.
Finally in June of 2011 they again did a scope and found an
ulcerated Duodenum which is at the opening into the small
intestines. They treated that for H Pylorie bacteria which
they found at that time and increased the protonics. We
thought he was getting better after the trip to Alaska, but within a
couple of weeks of returning home, the Duodenal Ulcer burst and he
had to have emergency surgery to patch it. Why they left a
small opening at the site, I don’t know, but it eventually created
an gelatinous abscess that extended from his liver to his groin,
which harbored so much bacteria that even the tube they put in
to drain it couldn’t do its job. All they could kept telling
me was, “he is old, let him go, pull his feeding tube and let him
die in peace”. I cannot tell you how that hurt because he
was a strong man with a strong will to live. He kept saying,
“I am ready to meet God but not ready to leave my wife and my
children”. He fought hard so I refused to help him die.
I tried to move him from that hospital, but couldn’t get him out
of there until finally they sent him to a rehab facility.
While there, he started to get better, then would crash, got better
and crashed again. The doctor’s answer every time was to give more
Protonic and anti biotics. He gradually became weaker and
sicker because of the abscess, to the point that he ended up back in
the hospital, but this time we got to the right hospital or so we
thought. There we learned from a nuclear test (he didn’t
have to have a biopsy after all) that the mass or the pancreas was
producing a hormone that causes the body to produce excess acid.
It is called a Gastronome, a rare form of malignant or non malignant
tumor that forms on the pancreas either from the scar tissue or
formed on parts of the spleen that didn’t get removed during the
spleenectomy. These doctors at Legacy Emanuel told us that
they could successfully remove the mass as soon as he was strong
enough as they had privileges with one of the two expert surgeons in
Oregon who could safely do the operation. Had we been informed
of this by the previous doctors, when he was strong enough to have
the surgery, he would have done the proper procedures, but because
the previous hospital and their doctors didn’t have privileges
with those physicians, they never recommended it. Much to our
dismay, he was now too weak and the more severe side effects of the
protonics had kicked in. Those side effects of the Omeprazol that he
experienced were Duodenal and Esophageal ulcers, SEVERE INFLAMMATION
OF THE PANCREAS, this drove the scar tissue which had been there 44
years, to act up and increase the overproduction of acid creating
the gastrinoma in that scar tissue which was attached to the end of
the pancreas. They never proved that there was any cancer. Now
the lining of the stomach was pretty well gone, liver enzymes were
up and the kidneys were taking a hit. In the list of side
effects, killing the kidneys is the most severe and final fatal
stage side effect of that drug, which is exactly what killed him in
the end, kidney failure. All the time this was happening,
their answer was to give him the protonics by IV in a constant drip.
Now we know, they were actually infusing him with what to him,
equaled poison.
There
are some other problems you need to be aware of with the use of
those drugs.
1.
Your body needs the Hydrochloric acid in the stomach
to break down protein and calcium When you block the
production of that acid, you can become malnourished, especially
protein, iron, magnesium and calcium deficient, which is exactly
what happened to Paul, something he had never experienced before
Omeprazol. When this happens, the body says, “wait! I need
acid to break down your food,” so it produces more acid to
overcome that blockage. This becomes a vicious cycle as the
doctors tell you to take more and more of the drug, the body
produces more and more of the acid and it just escalates from there.
Paul experienced that process after he started taking the drug,
eventually contributing to his death.
2.
You don’t need to block acid production, you need to
control it so it doesn’t do damage. This can be done by
taking Gaviscon, which protects the esophagus and stomach lining.
Baking soda in a little water or calcium carbonate (Tums) will also
neutralize the acid safely. The calcium carbonate in Tums is what is
needed for neutralizing stomach acid, but for your major source of
calcium intake you want to use a food source that your body can more
easily absorb such as calcium citrate. One quick side note, TO
PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS, you MUST KEEP YOUR pH at 7 to 7.5. The blood
pH must remain at that level to keep your organs functioning well,
so a blood test will not tell you what is going on in your complete
system. If it drops, (caused when your system becomes acidic)
your body will then pull calcium out of your bones to maintain the
proper balance, causing osteoporosis. Testing your saliva and
or urine will tell you what is going on in your overall system so
check it often. We have test strips that only cost $10.00 and
will give you about 100 tests.
3.
Find out what is out of whack in your system. If
there is a tumor somewhere in the body, even if it is as small as a
pea, can cause the body to produce the hormone that pushes over
production of acid. The nuclear test can find it and when
safely removed, will stop the excess acid production. There
can also be another imbalance, such as hormone, nutritional, or a
toxin in the body such as exposure to herbicides or heavy metals.
Find out what it is and treat it like one of my clients did.
Her daughter nearly died from the protonics until they found out she
didn’t produce any progesterone. When they supplemented it,
the acid reflux went away as well as other health concerns.
Don’t just put a bandage on the problem, like Omeprazol, Prilosec,
Nexium, etc. but remove the source of the acid reflux. The
medicine can kill you faster than anything else. It took
almost three years to kill Paul. We just never connected the
two. Don’t let it happen to you.
4.
Another bad side effect is that it can eventually
cause a heart attack. Being an athlete when he was young, Paul
always had a strong, healthy heart, but he had a minor heart attack
last September. They found a small blood vessel had collapsed,
they opened it and his heart was strong again until he died.
5.
Another side effect is seizures. Our daughter
hadn’t had seizures since she was a child, just seemed to outgrow
them. Her doctor started her on Priolsec and Omeprazol and
within weeks, she started having grand mal seizures, swelling of the
hands and feet, terrible weight gain and bloating of her stomach all
side effects of these drugs. The doctors couldn’t find the
cause, but when I read that seizures can be a side effect of that
drug, I told her husband to take her off the medication. He
did and for the past 6 months she has not had another grand mal
seizure. Sad to say, the seizures left her with brain damage
and no short term memory and is she still bloated.
TAKING ASPIRIN? CHECK THIS OUT!
I’ve
been complaining for years that taking aspirin every day is
dangerous to the lining of the stomach. The salicylic ACID,
(the key word is that it is an acid) burns holes in the stomach
every time you take one and you can lose up to a teaspoon of blood
with each dose. Besides that, IT ISN’T THE ASPIRIN THAT THINS THE
BLOOD, BUT THE MAGNESIUM IN THE ASPIRIN, because Magnesium is a
natural blood thinner. You are also taking Mercury into
your system with each pill as ALL MEDICATION (aspirin is a medicine,
not a vitamin pill) is preserved with mercury. If you want a
cleaner, safer way to keep your blood thin and clean of clots, take
MAGNESIUM, A NATURAL NUTRIENT THAT COMES FROM FRESH VEGETABLES, A
NUTRIENT MOST PEOPLE, and ESPECIALLY WOMEN, ARE DEFICIENT IN.
I recently read an article about the dangers of aspirin from which I
will quote as I feel it is important to understand its use better.
“New research shows that aspirin is not for everyone and that in
some patients this so-called wonder drug is doing more harm than
good. “I stop a lot more aspirin than I start,” said Dr.
Alison Bailey, director of the cardiac rehabilitation program at the
Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky. “People
don’t even consider aspirin a medicine or consider that you can
have side effects from it. That’s the most challenging part
of aspirin therapy. They hear aspirin is good, so they take an
aspirin,” Bailey said. “They don’t think of it as something
that could potentially cause harm.”Researchers in London reported
that they had analyzed randomized studies of aspirin use in the US,
Europe and Japan that included more than 100,000 participants.
They found that regular aspirin users were about 30 percent more
likely to have a serious gastrointestinal bleeding event, a side
effect of frequent aspirin use. The overall risk of dying
during the study was the same among the aspirin users and those who
didn’t use the drug and had heart episodes. Overall, for
every 162 people who took aspirin, the drug prevented one non fatal
heart attack but caused about two serious bleeding episodes.
“We have been able to show quite convincingly that in people
without a previous heart attack, or stroke, regular use of aspirin
may be more harmful than it is beneficial,” said Dr. Sreenivasa
Seshasai of the Cardiovascular Sciences Research Center at St.
George’s University of London. However, as the risk of major
bleeding episodes increases proportionately with an increase in
benefit, physicians and patients must make carefully considered
choices regarding long-term aspirin treatment.”
I
have already had two bleeding ulcers (ulcers are basically caused
from bacteria, not acid). I have never taken acid blockers because I
don’t have an acid reflux problem and rarely ever take an aspirin
because our Nerve and Muscle Formula usually relieves most pain,
even headache, but when I do take aspirin, I take the coated,
buffered kind to protect my stomach. (By the way, for pain
control be careful of taking very much Tylenol as it can destroy the
liver like most medications can since they are all processed in and
through the liver. Without your liver, you will die). Even
though nearly every one of my siblings and parents has died of heart
disease, I take a daily dose of Magnesium as my natural blood
thinner. My checkups have been great. The only thing I
have is Premature Atrial Contractions, quite common in people as
they age and basically not dangerous. This is completely
controlled by taking one or two of my Heart and Blood Vessel
Capsules each day. This formula also contains Magnesium and
other ingredients to strengthen the heart and blood vessels.
RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS IN CATS
There
is nothing that clears up respiratory problems in cats faster, is
safer and better than Vitamin C. By giving them about 500 mg.
of Vitamin C per day, most of them will clear up within a few days.
Don’t worry about the source. Vitamin C is Vitamin C whether
it says human or pet, but if it says pet, you will pay twice the
amount for it. We make a powdered one that is buffered with
Calcium Ascorbate to make it more palatable, not sour. I/4th
teaspoon is 500 mg of Vitamin C, no fillers and easy to mix in food.
Remember to keep your litter boxes elevated so dogs can’t get into
them. Dogs love to clean the box because cat food is higher in
fat than dogs food, so it is a treat. You probably won’t
break them of eating it so just elevate it. Whatever you do,
NO NOT USE LYSOL OR PINESOL around cats, birds and small dogs.
IT IS VERY TOXIC TO THEM, even after it dries as it leaves a residue
on the surface. Animals lay on it, groom themselves and ingest
the toxins, so just use plain soap with a touch of bleach to kill
germs and odors and you will be fine. We have been using the
anionic surfactant (safely breaks the bond between dirt and the
surface it is on) cleaners such as Simple green. Leaves
everything smelling so clean, even makes the dog beds smell better
when we wash them in it, especially the new fragrance of Spring Air.
Another
thing you may want to consider doing for yourself and for your
animals in today’s world full of heavy metals in the air pollution
and toxins in our foods is to try adding Zeolite to their water.
It is a natural product derived from the Sea that removes all heavy
metals from the body, including Mercury, so common in the medicines
we take, the amalgams in our teeth and what is in the pet foods.
It is safe, non toxic and does the job.
COCONUT
OIL, FOLIC ACID AND HYALURONIC ACID
Coconut
water (a natural anti-biotic used during the war in the South
Pacific because medicine was unavailable) and coconut oil are two
nutrients that should be added to everyone’s daily diet.
There is a lot of new information pointing to the oil’s ability to
stop Alzheimer’s and in some cases, has even reversed it. It
is wonderful for helping restore memory loss of all kinds. I
put some in my coffee every morning which gives it a wonderful
taste. Because of all its benefits it is certainly worth trying
especially as we age and experience memory loss. I’m not sure how
it works in the brain, but it seems to work. As we age, our
brains shrink and so do our eyeballs adding to memory problems.
This is because we produce less and less Hyaluronic acid that keeps
fluids in our body cells. One sign that you are losing it is paper
thin skin that cuts and bruises easily. This nutrient is important
because our brains and eyes consist mostly of Hyaluronic Acid.
As the eyes balls shrink, you will often see flashes of light in
your peripheral vision which is cleared up when the Hylavision
restores hydration to the eye ball. If we don’t keep the
brain hydrated, and one falls or hits their head, the brain will
bang against the skull and cause brain damage. As we age, we
need to prevent and restore nutrients our bodies no longer make.
We often become deficient in Folic Acid which can cause restless leg
syndrome a condition easily corrected with one or two tiny pills a
day, found in most stores that sell vitamins. The doctors will just
give you muscle relaxers instead of what your body really needs.
EXCITING
SAFE CLEANING TIPS FOR TOILETS
We
have wonderful, clean water where I live in the country, no one uses
pesticides anywhere in the area, but it is hard water which leaves
stains in the toilet. I have used lime away and other
cleaners, but that and bleach is just bad for our septic tanks, so I
thought if Oxy clean removes stains from clothes, I wonder what it
would do for the toilet! Besides, those cleaners that color
the water and cover up the stains and harsh cleaning chemicals
aren’t good for dogs that get in there and drink that cool, fresh
water that comes in when you flush it, so I put Oxyclean in there
and let it soak overnight. I was amazed to find the bowl
clean, even of the lime stains. The only thing left was a
small, almost invisible ring around the top where the Oxyclean
didn’t go, but as far as I am concerned, that is clean to me and
SAFE for everyone, including my septic tank. Try it, you’ll
be amazed.
In
closing, just a note to all dog lovers everywhere. It seems
that the authorities that Be are on witch hunts lately looking for
animal hoarders. The problem that is arising is that they are
no longer looking just for hoarders, but are targeting all animal
owners, especially kennel owners. They are going about it with
intimidation, strong arm tactics and with disregard for animal care,
looking to see how they can extort more money from us. If you
are having problems, contact me and I will tell you your rights and
give you the laws that make their number and breed limits
Unconstitutional. Put up no trespassing signs on your property
and they cannot enter without a court order. YOU DO NOT HAVE
TO LET THEM IN. When you do, many of them are filing false
reports and tricking kennel owners into false records. Be
careful. Call if you need help or want to band with us as we
go after the dog control officers (I have a $50,000 lawsuit pending
against them and am filing one against our county commissioners) and
the county and state officials doing this to us.
Well, until next time, Beatrice Lydecker-Hayford
END
OF SUMMER 2011 SPECIAL EDITION
GREETING
FALL 2011
I’m sorry it
has been a long time since you have heard from me but a lot has been
happening, mostly with my husband. Before I go in to all that
, I want to announce a big Sale on our products.
From now through
the month of September, if you buy two products or more, you will
receive 10% off your order whether you are a retail customer,
current subscriber or a wholesale client. All items are
included in the sale except for test strips, Yunnan Paiyao and
Stabilized Oxygen so hurry and get your supplies while they last.
For you whose subscriptions are current, that will mean a 20%
savings so this is a good time to stock up.
For
months now my husband Paul has been experiencing weird symptoms, but
no one could determine what it was. I never connected it to
the Omeprazole and Prilosec for acid reflux that he had been taking
for two years. I foolishly just did what the doctor said
without looking at the side effects, all of which Paul had been
increasingly suffering. When I read the warnings, it clearly
stated that anyone over 60 should ONLY TAKE THOSE PRODUCTS FOR NO
MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS AND THE DOCTOR HAD PUSHED HIM TO TAKE IF FOR
TWO YEARS, OFTEN DOUBLING THE DOSAGE. Finally, this spring
right after his 80th birthday, he had a mild heart
attack. While doing an angiogram, they found a small branch
blood vessel that had collapsed, but once they opened it, he was
fine and came home. While in the hospital, they started giving
him aspirin, but little did they know that he was already getting
the magnesium which is the ingredient in the aspirin that thins the
blood, not the aspirin itself. I use the natural nutrient
rather than take a chance of it burning his stomach as aspirin will,
causing you to bleed about a teaspoon of blood every time you take
them. I was against it, but there is little one can do when
the patient is under their control. They also started giving
him Lipitor (which can destroy the liver), for high blood pressure
and high cholesterol, neither of which he has. They say it is
a preventive, but do you take an antibiotic every day just in case
you get an infection? Why risk damage to your liver if you
don’t have a problem? Taking Lecithin every day and drink
oolong tea often, are safe and natural preventatives that dissolve
and chelate fat from the bloodstream without damaging the liver.
Well, he was home for two days when he started vomiting and passing
copious amounts of blood. When we rushed him back to the
hospital, they found a bleeding duodenal ulcer. One of the
side effects of taking Omeprazol for so long is that it wears away
the lining wall of the stomach and I’m sure the duodenum so when
they gave him aspirin, the worse thing they could have done, it just
precipitated the ulcer to open up and bleed. Not only that,
the angiogram gave him a blood infection that nearly killed him as
they caught it just as he was going in to sepsis. Intensive
care, lots of transfusions and the hospital counseling us on how to
end Paul’s life didn’t stop the problem. He was in great
pain, dropped a lot of weight, (just what this little guy didn’t
need to do as he is already to thin) meanwhile he kept telling them
his throat hurt. No one would address that so I started him on
a product called Lily of the desert, aloe herbal stomach formula to
coat the stomach and throat. It doesn’t just contain Aloe
Vera, but other things to heal the stomach like Peppermint for
digestion and balancing stomach acidity, Chamomile, an anti
inflammatory, Fennel to balance and support the relief of abdominal
pain, Slippery Elm to heal the inflamed mucous membranes of the
bowels and stomach, and Ginger root which helps with digestion and
to relieve nausea and vomiting. He started to improve, but very
little. After several more trips to the emergency room to
reverse the vomiting and dehydration, and taking the Lily of the
desert he was gradually able to hold things down. He was weak, but
able to leave on the trip with us. I knew we couldn’t afford
to take the trip to Canada and Alaska, but I felt very strongly that
he needed to go, so after praying and the generous gift from a
friend to help pay for the gas, we went. I am so grateful God
impressed on us to do it as Paul ended up in a hospital in
Fairbanks, AK. There he finally met the right doctors who found the
ulcerated Esophagus and properly treated him for that and the H
Pylori bacteria that were causing his duodenal ulcer; something our
local doctors said was no longer present. Within 2 days he was
eating normal meals and pain free. I am totally convinced that
if we had cancelled the trip and he had stayed home, he would not be
alive today as their answer to his problems was to give him more of
the same stuff as Omeprazol and ignored the ulcers in the throat
that caused him to go into uncontrollable vomiting whenever food hit
it on the way down. On a fun note, when I asked the doctors
why such good men lived in such a remote place. I loved their
answer. “We love the winters when we can run our dog teams
as we are Mushers” They are sure in the right place for that.
LET
THIS EXPERIENCE BE A WARNING TO YOU, OMEPRIZOL AND PRILOSEC AREN’T
CANDY. IF YOUR DOCTOR KEEPS PUSHING YOU TO TAKE IT AND YOU ARE
OVER 60 YOU BETTER RETHINK WHAT IS GOING ON. READ THE WARNINGS
AND SIDE EFFECTS. THERE ARE OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO THAT ARE
MILDER SUCH AS TUMS, ZANTAC AND OTHER THINGS YOU CAN GET OVER THE
COUNTER. QUESTION WHAT IS HAPPENING. IT IS YOUR BODY AND
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO CONTROL WHAT IS GOING INTO IT AND YOU’RE RIGHT
TO QUESTION WHAT THE DOCTOR WANTS YOU TO TAKE. THE SIDE
EFFECTS CAN KILL YOU AS WE SURE LEARNED THIS SUMMER. HAD I READ THEM
WHEN HE FIRST STARTED TAKING THOSE PRODUCTS, HE WOULDN’T HAVE
SUFFERED FOR MONTHS BEFORE IT NEARLY KILLED HIM. Some of them
are dizziness, difficulty breathing, mental confusion, wearing away
the lining of the stomach, nausea, and much, much more. Look
it up. The internet gives you even more symptoms than the
product pamphlet.
Having
a problem with rashes? Try taking 40 mg. of Zinc twice a day.
It is very healing to the skin. Be sure to rub Preparation H into
the inflamed tissue too. It works great to reduce inflammation
for more than the one place where it is recommended. Try it.
I
can’t emphasize enough the importance of being sure you are
getting enough magnesium. Most women are already deficient in
magnesium so should be sure they are taking extra. It is one
nutrient that is easy to gage when you have enough because it also
regulates your stools. If you are deficient, you will suffer
from constipation. Along with the Magnesium, you need to be
sure you are sipping enough water throughout the day as the body can
only absorb about 2 ounces of water every half hour. If you
don’t have enough water for the body to pull out of the intestines
where it maintains the water balance in the body itself, you can
take a lot of magnesium, but you will still suffer from
constipation. Water with the proper amount of Magnesium will
correct that problem. Start taking a low dose and keep
increasing that amount every other day until your stools get loose.
That is the point where your body says, “This is the amount I
need”. Stay at that level of dosage unless you develop
diarrhea then cut back a bit until it stops again. Let your
body speak to you, not some book and especially not the doctor as
they are not trained in nutrition (unless he is a naturopathic
physician or possibly a Doctor of Osteopathy); they are trained in
medicine as the answer for everything.
Magnesium
helps ward off mental deterioration, guard against inflammation and
cardiovascular disease. If you know anyone with Alzheimer’s
or Diabetics try adding Magnesium to their diet and see what
happens! You may be surprised. Diabetics and the elderly
notoriously already have low levels of magnesium which if
uncorrected can make the heart muscle irritability and leave a
person prone to sudden cardiac death, can cause seizures and brain
injury. Ninety nine percent of this vital nutrient is found in
the cells, so a deficiency is hard to detect from a simple blood
test. Most of the time, to dehydrate especially an elderly
person, the patient is started on an IV drip contain water and
glucose. This can often cause the patient to lapse into a coma
and begin having uncontrollable seizures due to the fact that it
dilutes the magnesium even further in the bloodstream. When
magnesium is added, the patient will usually awaken from the coma
and the seizures will stop. If this vital nutrient isn’t added to
the IV, the condition described above could lead to death. Magnesium
is also completely depleted by the carbonation in sodas.
Carbonation is high in phosphorous which will throw off the
calcium-phosphorous balance in the body, making the body draw the
calcium from the bones to maintain the balance in the bloodstream
and prevent the heart from going into arrhythmia. This creates a
very acidic condition in the body thus is a great contributing
factor to osteoporosis. If you already have a deficiency in
Magnesium and are drinking sodas, you are a walking time bomb.
I
have recently become aware of the wonderful properties of pure
coconut water. It has wonderful healing and anti biotic
properties and was used extensively during the wars on the South
Pacific Islands when medicine wasn’t available. It is still
used for that in many of the more remote places. It tastes
good too. You can get it quite easily now since stores are now
carrying it.
Yes
we had a wonderful cruise to the South Pacific last December, again,
a generous gift from a friend, but sad to say, I would never go back
again. I have a very hard time seeing the beauty of a place
when I see starving animals all around me and women and children
suffering and abused. Every place we went, the animals were
skeletons. If someone mercifully opened a cocoanut, they ate,
if they didn’t, there was no food anywhere for them. In
Costa Rica I saw animals starving everywhere and most girls, by the
time they 15, have a baby. This is not beauty to me. Sad
to say, all the beaches are privately owned. When we got off
the ship to enjoy a swim, we had to wear shoes as the public beaches
were nearly solid choral. Without shoes, you couldn’t go in
the water or you had to pay the private beaches to swim. The
water was gorgeous, but hard to get to. The flowers were
beautiful and the people somewhat friendly, but oh everything was so
expensive. We find better beaches on the Gulf Coast, in
Florida, and in the Caribbean than in the Pacific although the water
is nicer in the Pacific. Of course there is no comparing the
beauty of Hawaii. That was special even if Paul did end up in
the hospital one day with that duodenal ulcer, but when treated with
the proper antibiotic, he was instantly fine. Unfortunately
the symptoms of the side effects didn’t go away as he continued on
the Omeprazole until we recently learned that what he was suffering
was coming from that medication. Remember too, that all
medication is preserved with Mercury, so when you are taking any
medicine, even Aspirin, you are putting Mercury into your system.
Well,
I promise to write more frequently as things are finally
calming down around here. I hope you have had a wonderful summer and
looking forward to a bright Holiday Season.
Beatrice
Lydecker-Hayford, and Staff, Paul, Rebecca and AnnMarie