Re: Re: rooibos

[Guest guest]

Carol,

I'll address this one comment. Other than I'm also sorry we seem to have

gotten off on the wrong foot.

The diet needs to be expanded for one reason and one reason only - and I am

speaking selfishly...I cannot stay adequately hydrated with only the fluids

that are " legal. "

It is as simple as that.

So your comment of " why not go along with SCD for a trial period " is

tantamount to saying - hey, why not invite yourself to being hospitalized

for dehydration...not really an option as far as I'm concerned.

So, if I examine Rooibos and see that it has NOTHING in it that SEEMS

illegal " then it adds one more fluid to my repertoire. I already know there

are other people on the list with the same water issue that I have. (from

private email)

Maybe the information could help them too.

I'm grateful that the vast majority of people do NOT have my problem.

Believe me it is not one I would wish on anyone - but, at the same time the

issue does exist for me. I don't want it to be a large enough issue to keep

me from giving the diet a chance - but it does require me to be flexible.

Or, be hospitalized.

Without meaning to be sarcastic, because I'm really not, which do you think

I should choose?

-- Re: rooibos

Since you have only recently started your healing journey, why not go along

with SCD for a

trial period while continuing your research and journaling your findings and

questions

instead of inviting yourself to be kicked off the list?

Just a suggestion.

Carol F.

[Guest guest]

So many people have applauded me for standing up to you on list.

Unfortunately they have only said that to me off list.

I've been told to just ignore you.

But, I thought that I gave you a perfectly sound, reasonable, level-headed

response and yet you decided to totally (maybe deliberately) misunderstand

me one more time.

So be it. I get it now, there is no pleasing you. You just have to be

right!

You see anything I say as a desire to want to change the SCD. Not as a

willingness to follow the diet as closely as possible (within my own

physical limitations) while wanting to acquire the best information possible

on how to do so.

You are like my Asperger's daughter - always seeing the negative side of

every conversation. Never concentrating on how the positive can be explored

I have explained myself until I am blue in the face and you still don't seem

to get it. That's your issue. I guess it isn't all right to you that

people have more than one physical affliction that they have to work around

and you are only willing to address the one that can be corrected by the

strictest interpretation of the SCD. Well, that's just being cruel to your

fellow human being. You know, I understand Patti's comments about other

people on the list being at their wit's end and having a 1000 other things

to deal with. Interestingly, I'm one of them.

I won't list my own ailments - no one cares. I won't talk about how much

care my daughter needs on a daily basis, or my disabled husband or how much

money we don't have...opps, already did.

The fact of the matter is that anyone who comes to this list is already

overburdened because if even one person in their family has health problems

bad enough for them to seek this level of assistance - the family is already

suffering at a structural level.

For me to want the best level of support available and have you say - gee,

sorry, not available to you because you physically cannot adhere to this

trademarked diet - is a slap in the face to my humanity. But, you are so

full of your righteous indignation that you just don't even see that.

All I'm wanting to do is heal, all you're wanting to do is protect something

that is not flesh and bone. Which, in all reality is more importantf?

Maybe providing suggestions to someone who has a genuine need, or quoting

pages from a book?

Deciding that I might want to drink Diet Coke as a way to stay hydrated -

are you really that delusional?

Jazz

-- Re: rooibos

It appears you want the diet changed to your personal requirements and

possibly be made

widely available. ( An example would be if you decided you can tolerate Diet

Coke for

hydration, something we can have once in a while but not everyday.)

Patti explained quite succinctly why that cannot happen. There are other

lists that will not

take such a strict view. and you can belong to more than one list if you

still want to be

here with the herd :-).

All this wrangling is causing aggravation that isn't helping you.

You have to weigh if the majority of SCD protocols stand to benefit you and

make that

your basis for continuing. But expecting the diet istelf to be modified for

all to your

specifications is unreasonabkle and untenable in my opinion.

You know what this reminds me of?

We have a bylaw here that people can't ride bicycles on the sidewalk. But

they do. And

when you ask them not to they say, " Do you want me to ride in the street and

get killed? "

Carol F.

[Guest guest]

Sadly, no... not at this time. -Patti

Re: rooibos

Is someone continuing Elaine's work? Just curious.

Michele

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