Re: What has happened here? Explanation maybe?

May 20, 2006

Dear a:

When I first started writing letters in my career., the first thing I noticed

was how you cannot write the way one might talk because of a variety of reasons

which is too time consuming to go in to. When I ask a stupid question, (I still

do even at 17 months and have complied with the diet fanatically), I try to

remember this when reading the emails. 1) that I cannot tell what the sound or

tone of their voice; and 2) I give them the benefit of the doubt and feel

blessed that they are taking the time to help me (just to help and for no

money). Whenever I write a letter or email I try to always be aware of the tone

but with everyone lives so busy I try not to have this expectation from others.

I hope you consider staying. For me, this list serve has been so helpful in

keeping me going. Take Care, Eileen Brown

UC SCD 17 months

daughter ADHD 7months

May 20, 2006

I'm not " leaving " . I just wanted to express why I, early on, felt

that this board was not as inviting as I had hoped it could be. I

may join " open blooms " . That does not mean that I will not visit

this board. I like hearing different opinions. One of my favorite

quotes is, " When you know better, you do better " . While I know that

this board only involves SCD legal discussions, I want the

opportunity to hear other opinions. Is one way right and the other

wrong? No. Different things work for different people. I just

wish that sentiment was felt through the language expressed here.

We are all adults. We are entitled to our own opinions. I just

wish that we all expressed them in a thoughtful, caring manner.

FWIW, I think that these issues happen all of the time with

internet boards. If we all knew each other in real life, I think

we'd choose our words more carefully.

a, mama to Graham, 20 mos, 5 months SCD

a

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> Dear a:

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> When I first started writing letters in my career., the first

thing I noticed was how you cannot write the way one might talk

because of a variety of reasons which is too time consuming to go in

to. When I ask a stupid question, (I still do even at 17 months and

have complied with the diet fanatically), I try to remember this

when reading the emails. 1) that I cannot tell what the sound or

tone of their voice; and 2) I give them the benefit of the doubt

and feel blessed that they are taking the time to help me (just to

help and for no money). Whenever I write a letter or email I try to

always be aware of the tone but with everyone lives so busy I try

not to have this expectation from others. I hope you consider

staying. For me, this list serve has been so helpful in keeping me

going. Take Care, Eileen Brown

>

> UC SCD 17 months

> daughter ADHD 7months

>

May 21, 2006

a,

I just want to chime in with you, I agree. I am not leaving my pecanbread

either.

A few words about Open Blooms, it was not started to suggest any protocols,

nor any specific strategies, and there is no such thing as competition when it

comes to knowledge of ones health, but rather, to take some of the Off Topic

discussions elsewhere that seemed to be so predominant on pecanbread lately, in

which many parents, including myself would like to continue to indulge in. The

plan to start Open Blooms was not a new one, one in which and myself have

discussed for some time, as there are times, between the two of us, we easily

receive a hundred or so emails a month. Much of it by people who are either

thinking the diet is not for them, or people who have an additional health

problem not being addressed or handled by SCD alone, such as a yeast flare, mold

reaction, regression, and so on.

Do I or have the answer for everyone? No, but we have " fanatically

adhered " to SCD, and found techiniques that worked for us, and we simply share

them, it may work for someone else, may not. We share recipes, alot of people

ask me about the 24 hour bone marrow broth I make, SCD legal, which has been a

boon to our healing.

Rarely is anything either/or in this life. You have to question why I am even

here writing on the internet at all. For me, I am managing some, what can be

very severe health problems, and it is my duty to pull two amazing kids through

a nightmare of superfund metal poisoning, autism, immune and digestive

disturbance. I continue to research, take classes, work on an apprenticeship to

keep their quick pace of progress happening, including enzymes and fresh foods.

I continue, through my own music therapy I have experimented on with myself, to

learn about using this tool for bridging the gaps between right and left brain,

and the old brain, as a pianist, saxophonist and flutist who lost the left side

of her body and was told she would never play again, plays again, and I use many

of these same techniques in experimental therapies for my own young ones.

So, Open Blooms is just getting started, and it is just a place where quite a

few of us intend to share off topic discussions. We each are responsible for our

own healing, since when did information exchange become such a bad thing?

Through the questioning, the experience, and yes, the mistakes, all this is just

what it is, a bunch of human beings talking to each other.

I do hope that everyone here will make more of a go at it of getting along. We

are only alive so long. As a friend of mine always says, Death is the only

permanent cure.

Summer and Family, SCD 08/04

erica lelle wrote: