A doctor’s visit in May left me shocked and spurred me into action.
The doctor read my lab work and reported that I had diabetes and that medication would be needed immediately because my blood glucose numbers were in the 600s, the A1C was 7.1 and my cholesterol 226. I was in danger of a stroke.
He wanted me to lose weight because of the pressure it was putting on my heart and kidneys. I was not feeling well at that time, with many symptoms and pain. I was also under a lot of stress taking care of my mother, who was in the hospital also due to diabetic problems. They wanted to amputate her toe. Hearing the doctor diagnose me with the same disease was a reality-check that opened my eyes to immediate action.
In August, 1986, I had just turned 37 and was thoroughly enjoying my life. And then the bottom fell out. After a grand mal seizure that sent me sprawling onto an asphalt tennis court, many hospital tests, and two surgeries, I was diagnosed as having a grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma.
She visit Ginny Harper who is into macrobiotic cooking and shiatsu massage. After a few visits, Margaret noticed her energy coming back and her personality being revived.
A friend of mine, Mary Anderson, had been telling me for a while that I should give her best friend, Virginia Harper, a call as she felt sure that she would be able to offer me some hope through an alternative approach – Macrobiotics.
My regular visits to the chiropractor gave me temporary relief, but not lasting. One day the chiropractor gave me Virginia Harper’s name. I had met Ginny a year earlier at a Macrobiotic Seminar, and though receptive to her, I did not get involved at the time.
Words can’t even begin to express the overwhelming gratitude I feel towards you for sharing your experiences with Crohn’s and macrobiotics.
Seven years ago, this January, I began the greatest challenge of my life. My husband, Larry, our oldest daughter, Lauren, and I were sitting in an oncologist office at a prestigious cancer hospital in Boston, being told I have Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, an inoperable, metastatic, incurable disease of the lymph system.
“Why don’t you give it a name?” my friend suggested. Of course, I thought, this tumor has come to me as a teacher and we will get along better as partners than his adversaries. From that day on, the tumor in my brain became Maud.
She continues on her macrobiotic journey, a bit more committed than mine! We both may be on the (macrobiotic) cruise this year–she for the food, me for the cooking classes!
Since starting this diet, I have been able to lose 20lb that were near impossible to lose before this. I have had more energy and feel more peaceful and thankful for my blessings. And, best of all I have stayed in remission with my Crohn’s and was able to reduce or get off of most of my medications.
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