Thank You

[Guest guest]

, Debbie and Dale--

Thank you so much for the encouragement and information you've given me so far.

I'm glad I participated in the list .

In my first note I failed to mention that I've been wondering about a parasite,

and Dale seems to have hit the nail on the head. I spent time in China in 1988

and became very ill for

about a week. At first I thought I was coming down with the flu, but then in

the middle of the night I had to run to the bathroom and lets just say I had the

strangest BM of my life to

date. It's hard to talk about this, but I think you all can handle it, and I

want your opinions on it. It was like turning on a fire hose--I had no idea

where all this brown water was

coming from. There was nothing solid about it. It seemed like gallons of

water, with intese cramps. It also had a rotten egg smell, which I was told

later by someone is associated

with a " bug " .

At this particular hotel I was the only one to make tea from the thermos of

water in the room. Normally it was really hot, but this time I noticed it was

only warm. I just thought it

had been there all day and had cooled down by the time we checked in that

evening, but afterward I realized it probably had never been boiled in the first

place and had just been filled

with warm water before we arrived. The other people never became ill. We were

very careful about what we ate and this thermos of water is the only thing I can

think of where I may have

picked something up.

For about a solid year after I returned from China I suffered with the rotten

egg, loose bowel mess. I had to relieve myself almost immediately following a

meal. ( I was only 23 years

old). Since then it hasn't bothered me. I always thought I had " passed "

whatever it was. After reading things these past few weeks, however, I'm led to

believe " it " is still there.

Whatever I read seems to apply to me--Leaky Gut, liver congestion......maybe I'm

really a hypochondriac.

Things I have done so far: quit drinking Coke(my only vice), eat mostly raw

foods, psyllium husk to stay regular, occasional enemas in conjuction with juice

fasts of Apple/Beet juice.

My psoriasis is doing great. I'm wondering if my sulfur-tasting breath is

because until recently I was a daily coke drinke, or if it's still from that

chinese bug that smelled of rotten

eggs.....hmmmm.

I always write more than I intend to. Sorry, just really getting into this new

lifestyle.

Janet