Introduction + Question

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone from Moon Hill Highland Farm where the cows are hairy and the

sheep are

bald. Having read the most recent 500 posts I can only wish I hadn't flunked my

chemistry and

science classes - sad to say it was all greek to me and it still is.

I've long held the belief that modern-day food and environment are the main

causes of what ails

people and was happy to finally discover the WAPF website and, subsequently, the

Beyond

Price board and this one. I have my work cut out for me!

My main focus will be on getting myself and my husband healthy. Once that's

accomplished I'd

like to move the focus to steering others in the same direction through example

and education.

My first question to you all is super simple but I have to start somewhere so

please humor me.

What method or item do you advocate to obtain clean water?

We're on city water and, over the years, have lugged home thousands of gallons

of

osmosis-treated water from the supermarket for straight drinking purposes - we

cook and make

coffee and tea with the city water. Our animals are on city water as well. I'd

like for all of us to

have a continuous supply of clean water but my research stops at the domestic

under-the-sink

osmosis contraption which, I've read, goes through six gallons of water to

manufacture one

gallon of clean water. This would take our water bill to about the same level as

our mortgage -

not a good thing.

I'm looking forward to getting to know you all a bit better and will be happy to

follow up on any

or all suggestions. :-)

Marjon

[Guest guest]

>We're on city water and, over the years, have lugged home thousands of gallons

of

>osmosis-treated water from the supermarket for straight drinking purposes - we

cook and make

>coffee and tea with the city water. Our animals are on city water as well. I'd

like for all of us to

>have a continuous supply of clean water but my research stops at the domestic

under-the-sink

>osmosis contraption which, I've read, goes through six gallons of water to

manufacture one

>gallon of clean water. This would take our water bill to about the same level

as our mortgage -

>not a good thing.

Hello Marjon! Welcome to this rowdy group!

We have a well, and our land is soaked so there is just no shortage

of water. So we have an osmosis system. Yeah, it wastes water --

which goes into the septic system and back into the yard, so it's hard

to say what is really " wasted " . Maybe some electricity, but the

well doesn't draw much.

However, the well water is rather ecchy when it comes out, so we

have a Culligan system too. I don't know if it is the best, but it came

with the house and it pulls out the extra minerals.

I think if I lived in the city I'd want to build a cistern .. collect the

water from the roof and keep it in a big underground tank. Which

would cost a lot, unfortunately. I heard they do that in India, where

they commonly build a big underground tank under the house

for the dry season, and fill it up in the monsoon season.

Our neighbor looked into getting an ozone system, and those

do look nice. Ozone does a good job of killing buggies, but it

doesn't really leave any chemicals in the water.

-- Heidi

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Welcome to the group! How is coming along with his helmet

since yesterday? I hope he is doing well. I hear that there can be

an adjustment or two required in the beginning of treatment to get

that first initial fit just right, so do give your ortho a call if

you have any concerns about his fit! I do know that it can be

agonizing making that decision on whether or not to band, but now

that it is behind you, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for to

have a great treatment and excellent correction.

I haven't heard of scotchguarding a helmet before, but perhaps one

of the other group members has heard of this. I do know that the

products (cleaning/decorationg/etc.) permitted on helmets/bands vary

from brand to brand, owing to the different materials that might be

used. What brand of band are you using? Have you already tried the

scotchguard, and how is it working?

Take care,

Christie (Mom to Repo'd Remy)

--- In Plagiocephaly , " " <sarahhj1222@y...>

wrote:

> Hi,

>

> My name is and my son (born 12/22/03) just started

wearing his helmet

> yesterday. It's great to have this group to go to for information

and to see pictures.

> We agonized over this decision for months before finally deciding

that our son's head

> was not going to just fix itself. I hope to get to know some of

you a bit better and to

> hear some more of your stories.

>

> Question: our orthotist mentioned scotchgarding our helmet, but I

can't recall reading

> anything about that in any of the files on this site. Has anyone

else scotchgarded their

> child's helmet?

>

> Thanks,

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Christie,

We're using the star band and we haven't used anything on it yet. seems to

be

doing fine so far. He plays and crawls around as if he wasn't wearing it at all.

He

sweats quite easily (even without the helmet) so I started him out just wearing

it for

30 minutes at a time. We're going up to an hour at a time today. It's supposed

to be

quite warm here in the bay area (California) today, so we'll see how it goes.

Maybe

we'll head up to San Francisco or to the coast if it gets too warm this weekend.

I'm

really looking forward to Fall.

Thanks,

> > Hi,

> >

> > My name is and my son (born 12/22/03) just started

> wearing his helmet

> > yesterday. It's great to have this group to go to for information

> and to see pictures.

> > We agonized over this decision for months before finally deciding

> that our son's head

> > was not going to just fix itself. I hope to get to know some of

> you a bit better and to

> > hear some more of your stories.

> >

> > Question: our orthotist mentioned scotchgarding our helmet, but I

> can't recall reading

> > anything about that in any of the files on this site. Has anyone

> else scotchgarded their

> > child's helmet?

> >

> > Thanks,

> >