About gall stones

In a message dated 8/28/2004 2:30:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
holistic@… writes:
Dear Will:
Congratulations on your one year anniversary and your trip to the State Fair.
I went to Washington Georgia yesterday for lunch in a 1790’s grande dame of a
house complete with 18 massive columns. We ate chicken salad, mixed greens
with nuts, heirloom tomatoes and brownies (I passed on the latter).
I mention this since you enjoyed the Fair with a variety of foods and I have
not eaten either mayo or sour cream (in the chicken salad) without incident
since Jan 04 when I had my initial GB problems. I slept like a baby last night.
My point is that you were given an opportunity for a gift of service with
your GB/pancreatitis issues. You have learned valuable lessons which unlearned
would have killed you earlier than you needed to die. And more importantly, you
have shared what you have learned with tens of thousands of people. That is a
major and important contribution and a good method of spiritual service.

You have used this forum and your knowledge of chemistry AND alternative
medicine to debunk much of the medical establishment’s hocus pocus and you have
crafted a reasonable workable dissolving plan which you can use for decades or
until you figure out where gallstones come from (NO ONE in science has gotten
that one sorted out yet).
You have generously taken your time to write well crafted clear letters (or
small essays) on the components of a healthy life. Those gems lie in the
archives for posterity and I bet Suzanne or whomever is responsible, could put
together a file with your main emails collected together so newcomers can get
easy
access to this information. No one can predict how many people unknown to you,
across the globe, you have empowered and saved from a surgeon’s knife.
You have offered hope to those of us who felt hopeless; you have offered
courage to those of us who were scared; you have offered self-empowerment when
our
lives felt out of control; you have offered grounding to all of us when the
overwhelm broke our tether to reasonableness. And you offered these gifts with
strong information, tough love and great humor (laughter always being the best
medicine).
Your horrifying 11 days last year gave you a chance to be of service to a
much larger group than those you serve in Minneapolis. It gave you a chance to
serve a large suffering population and you stepped up to the plate and I have
watched you serve ably for the last 6 months.
I am pretty savvy about many of these things (and more savvy thanks to this
group). I avoided the allopathic medical establishment for 11 months in 2003
while I worked through an illness that brought me to my knees, so I entered this
GB/Liv arena armed with more information than most people who have not had
that experience.
That being said, you have taught me something with every one of your posts –
starting with “make the suckers show you and GIVE you the lab tests–”duh”.
When you have those pieces of info YOU can then monitor your progress and the
trends in your health.
Your diet suggestions for liver/GB disease run counter to ALL the medical
establishments — allopathic and alternative. I know the Weston Price foundation
and have tremendous respect for them and I believe that their ideas are
intelligent and their diet works for a percentage of the population. While a
half of
stick of raw butter a day is not something I am willing to experiment with
right now, I sure am in pursuit of better meat sources for my family and I have
several other families standing by to see what I come up with. Your emails
have sent me on that search.
In today’s email you are took on the subject of relationships and their
impact on our health and how we need to heal our relationships to heal our
bodies.
Now, that is no small subject is it? How many of us found ourselves in
hospitals from RELATIONSHIP stress? I bet statistically that may be the #1 cause
of
GB disease, if anyone had the intelligence to design a study to isolate it.
Take a bow for how well you have fulfilled the vow I suspect you made in that
hospital a year ago..”if I get out of this thing alive, I am going to clean
up my act and God, I promise I will share what I know to keep everyone I can
out of this situation I find myself in.”
Have a liver and buttered French bread sandwich, a glass of red wine where
you toast IN GRATITUDE the gifts you have recd as a result of the ENTIRE
GB/pancreatitis experience (doctors and all).
When you are finished with your celebration (try toasting your wife who slept
there WITHOUT painkillers, protecting you for that week, she deserves a
couple of dozen roses as a thank you), then get back to your Google search
engine
or under the tree in your yard where you are reading your books and thinking
about this whole subject.
I await your next essay.
In gratitude, Susan (Atlanta)