Dr's Appointment--Success!! :). And Raw Lessons I learned today.

[L.]

Went to the doctor and my doctor is on my side.  She thought everything I was saying was totally logical and balanced, and she supports my decision to do this dietary lifestyle.  So relieved and so happy.

 

I told her that I'm fine with taking humira if it comes down to me not being able to heal from this diet, but I am young and resilient at 23 years old, and I'm fine with trying the diet alone for 3-4 months just to see if I'll improve.  If I don't see any noticable improvement in 4 months, then I'll go on the humira.  She thinks this is great because 4 months isn't enough for my arthritis to do any significant degeneration to my body (my spine already links up at the bottom >.<  Nothing major or crippling but every time I go to the doctor she demonstrates this to a different resident by having them watch me bend over.  I am a great candidate to do this because although I do stretches often, so my hip muscles are very flexible, my spine still links up, so when I bend over part of my back still stays straight, even with the stretches, making me an obvious choice to show how arthritis degenerates the spine), but a year, in my case, WOULD.  My progression is somewhat rapid for how young I am.  And I've got to be practical--I don't want to give the disease too much time to destroy me if it doesn't work, even though I do have a lot of faith in the raw diet--I do not know whether it'll help my arthritis or not.

 

Anyway, she supports raw for four more months :) (I've already been doing this a week and one month!)  She said that the medical field here doesn't know everything, and lots of other cultures practice therapeutic healing and they do just fine.  She thinks I'm being practical about this because I admit--I have no way to know that this is going to work--I just want to know that I tried all I could before going on such a hardcore medication.  She accepts this and said it makes sense.  And who knows--I could continue this diet while on the humira and try going off of it again in the future.  I just don't want to allow my body too much time to further cripple itself.

 

Very happy right now :)  You approach things in life balanced, you'll always get what you want.

Lyza

Raw things I learned today :)

You can make every plate look like a garden.

Don't put a library book in the same bag as a ripe banana (I think you guys can probably imagine what happened!! I feel just terrible about it because it's an autobiography written by someone I really admire too. Just a smudge on the side, but it was so perfect looking before!! I hope I don't get fined!)
Apples are often bland because they arent ripe yet. Leave them out of the fridge a couple days and the flavor may improve (i found this out today bc I packed an apple that I hadnt eaten for the last three days bc the one I had with it the day I packed it was super bland and hard to eat, and today's apple was nothing short of heavenly)

Don't look at photos of cute dogs while eating food that's crunchy because you might inhale all excitedly when you see ones that look like your dog and start choking on your carrot (true story).

Heehee.

[Kale Blossom]

its great that you have a doctor whom is western but very supportive of hollistic means!

[LaTricia E. Morris]

So good to see you have such a positive outlook about everything.

Thanks for the great pointer about looking at cute dogs while eating.  lol.

Have you seen an upper cervical chiropractor?  (not just a standard chiropractor)  Just mentioning because of your talking about the problem with your spine.  If c1/c2 are out of alignment around the brainstem, it throws all of it out of alignment.

Anyhow, very proud of you for taking great strides to improve your health and for sticking to the raw diet for 1mo+1wk.  Hopefully, you will have no need for the meds.  Keep up the great work and keep us posted on how it goes!