Moving

Yep, Moving..............that wonderful time of everyone's life.  NOT!!

I'm pretty happy to be moving back to Kansas and see my other 3 Children and 5 grandbabies.  I will be one busy camper when I get there with all the fixing up my fixer upper house needs. The sale of my bracelets are going super slow in it's start up so I will be trying to get a job of some sort when I get there. First priority will be gutting the basement, then rain guttering for the roof (praying roof doesn't need replaced), the main water line to the house replaced and about a thousand other things including tearing down the garage before it falls over.  I may or may not get internet for quite a while, depends on income of course.  Everyone will be hearing less and less from me over the next couple of weeks but be assured I will be back somehow.  I'm so going to miss the east coast, well not the hurricanes or the damp gloomy wet cold winters, but I really love the people in this area.

When my house becomes livable again I'll be back to my lyme disease awareness projects and hopefully my hobby of making beads will finally take off.

Love peace and much happiness to all,
                                                             
                                                                             Cheryl 

 

  Well here we go, just in time for Lyme disease awareness month. For just a moment lets forget all about Lyme disease and how it is proven to cause brain infection and damage.

   What this study suggests is the same old "if you don't see it, it's not the cause". ANY infection to the brain can cause Autism Symptoms. They campaigned hard and won over the scientific community when they "proved" no link between Autism and vaccines.

   Blows my mind, and I'm sure many others are also scratching their heads in this logic. "We don't know the cause of Autism, MS, ALS, FM etc etc but we do know it's not caused by vaccines or Lyme Disease"

   Pray tell how they are determining what doesn't cause Autism but can't say what it is causing it? These Infectious Disease researchers (whom, we could guess who they are) are hell bent on deny deny deny. If they deny Lyme disease could cause the damage that any other spirochete bacteria can do then just maybe it will go away?

   There's a problem with that thinking and that is the longer they deny the more people become infected and crippled. The more people in that boat the louder they will get. Why not just roll up the sleeves and work with the ILADS experts and drop that game of "me first".

Study Debunks Lyme Disease-Autism Link – WebMD

www.webmd.com

Children with autism no likelier than others to have signs of tick-borne infection

Gotta Love Beads by Cheryl

Beads by Cheryl:

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   Starting this little business to help me raise funds for further treatment of Lyme disease and the co-infections that came with it.  Each and every bead is lovingly hand colored, cut, rolled and glazed.
   With each bracelet purchased comes light and love as I only think happy thoughts while making them.  I want to share my happy past time with you and I hope you love my work.

Click the Link at the Top of this page and check them out.  Every order helps me get closer to my goal.

Love, Light and Happiness to all my friends out there,

                                                                              Cheryl   

Adding to your diet instead of taking away.

Most lyme disease patients are told No to many foods. 

No Sugar, No Dairy, No Gluten, No Caffeine, and no carbs. I think our focus should be the yes foods and the foods that will help us heal faster. I can't promote going 100% without dairy or healthy sugars or carbs. 

Yes, while taking antibiotics you want to maintain the balance in your gut so that systemic yeast doesn't take over but our bodies still require good and balanced nutrition regardless what bacteria, worms or other critters are living in us. 

We are naturally host to billions of bacteria that play a healthy role and very little is really understood about what our bodies rely on. We strive to be sanitary but that is not possible. I suspect that those that end up worse after treatments have destroyed too much of that healthy balance.

Anyways, to stay positive look for the can do things. Instead all those no no's let's focus on the yes yes. :D

We can add healthy items to our diet and make sure they are eaten before any thing else or we can just substitute items in our favorite meals.

Here's one example I discovered. I love chilli, all kinds and loaded with cheese, some with hamburger and some with steak. I found that kidney beans for me is not the musical food like pinto beans.

Also, I actually like ground beef in my chilli over shredded meats. Substitute regular for the lowest amount of fat content or have butcher grind some for you with what meat you choose without the fat added.

I found that if I make brown rice (organic of course) and put about a cup full of cooked brown rice in the bottom of my bowl before dishing out the chilli into the bowl I get quite a meal that keeps me full longer. I'm actually cutting in half the amount of chilli I used to eat in one sitting.

That was only one example of how to continue to eat the foods you love so that they love you back.

Good 'ol Romaine lettuce is a fantastic bread substitute. What ever you put in your sandwich can be wrapped with a leaf of lettuce instead. Mustard though didn't strike my tasty buds very well.

One thing that I can not handle is fake food, imitation mayo, cheese, fat free, etc. some how in their messing with products to make it seem like the real thing that stuff tastes awful. I'm still learning what real foods can make good substitutes.

Here's a great site with some healthy add in foods for natural detox foods.  Top 15 Cleansing Foods

Hoping everyone has a healthy and delicious day,  Cheryl

NYC Forum on Silent Epidemic of Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases

NYC Forum on Silent Epidemic of Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases:

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This is one of the best examples of what we as patients need to see more of.  The Tick Borne Diseases Alliance is promoting conversation and that conversation will lead to more answers for us.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America representative did an excellent job of stating his opinion with out belittling patients and the doctors we use for treatment.  All I can really say here is BRAVO and ask that when we descend on Washington DC on May 25th this year that we also remember to keep the conversation going.

This is an excellent video to watch and share and I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to the TBDA for all their work in bringing awareness and keeping the doors of progress open.


Wishing everyone a bright and beautiful day,