Improved speech at ANY age possible!

[Guest guest]

Dr. Leona Weiner, my Aunt Leona

My Aunt Leona at 88 years old fell a few months ago and broke her hip -and as I

let my nonprofit know it wasn't at all good after that. As the old saying goes

doctors make the worst patients. Sometimes old sayings are true.

My Aunt Leona has been the rock in our family. My mom and my Aunt Leona were

raised in an orphanage, so my mom looks to her sister, my Aunt Leona, as more of

a mother than a sister. Aunt Leona has been the one to turn to when you have a

question about just about anything. She's brilliant. I have written about her

for years through my nonprofit Cherab, she has her PhD in nursing, retired from

teaching at LIU, a retired Lieutenant colonel, an Army nurse, retired Hospice

nurse, still a member of Mensa… and perhaps not as huge to others but huge to

me, as I wrote in The Late Talker book, back in 1999 the first to approve fish

oils for my son Tanner back at the Rite Aid in NYC when I showed her a bottle of

it. Aunt Leona is one of my favorite people in the world to talk to –and

incredible to travel with as well. Her and I once backpacked across England and

spent some time in France and she amazed me with the stories and wisdom she has

for so many other cultures as well.

But that was all prior to breaking her hip a few months ago. Aunt Leona has a

library in her apartment in NYC. But not a normal library –just books all over,

up on shelves, on the chairs and the floor too. She was trying to reach a book

and was (at 88 years old) standing on a chair reaching up and the next thing she

knew she woke up on the floor. We don't know how long she was passed out because

Aunt Leona lives alone. She doesn't want help.

Aunt Leona lived in NYC all her life and always on her own, fiercely

independent, with a large amount of friends and an active social and educational

life. She never wanted to stop learning, was always taking new courses, studying

what is going on in medicine and the world today. She once shared with me that

today if things are not online they are lost and there is so much lost knowledge

in books that still has not made it online. She was my go to person for any

question that was out of the box. I run the Cherab Foundation and have parents

who have children who receive ABA therapy for autism; both those that are

autistic, as well as those that are misdiagnosed. Aunt Leona was the first to

discuss with me the original ABA therapy as she worked at the hospital where

they started it with autistic children from over 50 years ago when they used

electroshock therapy. She never approved of it then. She was horrified to learn

that just recently electroshock therapy is once again being used to " treat " some

autistic children. She also is the one that taught me the brilliant work of Dr.

Rosenthal which I have used to help my own children, and teach others the

same.

But again as much as I have learned from Aunt Leona, this broken hip was

changing her, and not in a good way.

Aunt Leona received top medical doctors and treatment after her broken hip, but

she changed after this fall. She became very agitated about needing any

assistance or help. She wanted to be alone, not that she minded family with her,

but she felt she was perfectly capable to live on her own still with no help. As

good as she has been at helping others heal, she refused tests, medications

every offer of help. She got angry and for the first time as long as I knew her,

she started yelling at people and complaining about everything no matter how

hard all tried to help her. And she started to waste away getting thinner and

thinner. She was eating organic foods and drinks –but in spite of that clearly

her body no longer was utilizing the food. In addition she developed issues with

severe constipation. Her appetite faded daily and getting food into her became

increasingly tougher. Others tried to tell me this is a normal part of dying.

And it wasn't just her health, it was her behavior. After all the years of being

the wise, calm, kind and knowing rock in all of lives, increasingly Aunt Leona

almost nonstop complained. My Aunt's behavior and comments were breaking my

mother's heart most. It appeared she was dying but nothing we did would make her

happy. She was angry about any help we tried to give her as she didn't want any,

but she couldn't live alone either. It was terrible and confusing for us as a

family.

Aunt Leona was going downhill fast.

I had been begging my Aunt Leona for months to try a whole food nutrition and

protein product called Nutriiveda that has had life changing benefits to my own

son Tanner and many others of various ages and conditions in my nonprofit. (here

are just a few of the testimonies and please feel free to contact me if you'd

like to speak to any of the following parents or professionals

http://pursuitofresearch.org/testimonials.html )

Aunt Leona refused repeatedly to even try nutriiveda, saying she'd perhaps try

it after she had time to research it. But unlike in the past where she'd jump on

the computer, she no longer went on to the computer; she had become a different

person.

Which leads us to when Aunt Leona was on her death bed; Hospice, clergy and

family were all there. Aunt Leona said goodbye to me, to everyone. I was crying

not yet willing to accept that Aunt Leona would be gone. I one last time

desperately pled to my Aunt Leona with tears running down my face. " Aunt Leona

for me will you PLEASE just try nutriiveda?! It's just whole food and I just

know it can help you " and went on to tell her more not knowing what she heard or

was listening to. I told her about all the essential amino acids, explained the

research today linking that to neuro repair. I told her about whole food

nutrition, slow growing vegetation, easily digestible aspect of why this could

help. I again didn't know if she listened or heard, but clearly she did.

That day she agreed to have what she called nutriiveda –the " drink " (which

is what she still calls nutriiveda to this day) She was given a small Dixie cup

and liking it she held out her hand for more, again and again. This was the day

she said " goodbye " to me and everyone. That day all were convinced that she only

agreed to drink nutriiveda because she was dying and I guess because I begged

her as a last wish from me. But here's the good news! Aunt Leona not only didn't

die, but she got stronger, asking for the " Drink " many times a day. I got a

few calls from the aids " Is it OK to give her this many drinks of nutriiveda a

day? " Two days later it was Aunt Leona's 89th birthday and she requested an

Angel food cake which my sister and my niece and nephew took hours to try to

bake perfect for her.

Just days after being on her death bed, and one day after her 89th birthday,

strong willed Aunt Leona wanted to try to walk a bit. She had that much of a

turnaround. All were shocked and thrilled. She went with her aid and a

wheelchair and walker to the courtyard below her apartment outside. Aunt Leona

was slowly taking steps, walking! She was happy and smiling. But something went

terribly wrong. Nobody knows if it was the walker, too soon after, the wind, but

Aunt Leona fell again, this time straight back! And not just my still fragile

Aunt Leona, but also her aid, and the walker all went backwards! The people

outside in NYC who witnessed this all gathered around to help my Aunt and the

aid back up. But not much could be done, and we believe Aunt Leona this time hit

her head because suddenly her speech was slurred.

Once again Aunt Leona refused testing and only wanted Hospice. Due to ignorance

about nutriiveda, for a few days the one hospice nurse who didn't know what the

" Drink " was said she didn't want Aunt Leona to have nutriiveda saying she

wanted her to have " real food " instead, not realizing that nutriiveda not only

is " real food " but easily digestible! It was horrible once again. Each time the

aids tried to feed her " real food " she threw it up, once again she had lost her

appetite, once again was constipated and once again for the second time in a

short period all thought Aunt Leona was going to die.

During those few days after the fall and while off Nutriiveda Aunt Leona's

speech was difficult for anyone to understand anything. From her clear speech

before her speech suddenly was slurred, almost sounded like babble at times, and

also quite soft. She stopped trying to talk much too. It was so frustrating and

sad because my once brilliant Aunt could no longer communicate. In those days

she started to sleep more and more, day and night. During this time when I did

speak to her at any point I strained to understand what she was trying to say to

me, thinking these slurred words can be her last to me.

It was just a few days before I realized that my Aunt Leona was off of

nutriiveda and pleaded with all to put Aunt Leona back on, and once again a

complete turn around.

Once back on nutriiveda, this time for the second time, Aunt Leona started to

bounce back. She got her appetite back, and her smile. I'll never forget a few

days after she was back on nutriiveda that I spoke to Aunt Leona and asked her

how she felt and instead of " not good " as she would typically say, she said

" better " . Her voice was choppy, her words were said slowly, but I was able to

once again understand her better than the week before. It was around this time

that the Zrii corporation graciously flew me to NYC to once again visit with my

Aunt Leona (see photos).

It's now been a few weeks since the last fall, and Aunt Leona has been on

nutriiveda a few times a day and it's brought back her appetite! Aunt Leona is

gaining weight which is incredible and is no longer constipated which is

wonderful too for many reasons! Aunt Leona since being back on nutriiveda

requests the " Drink " a few times a day, in fact her aid Jacky posted to my

facebook page one night at 1:30 AM that Aunt Leona was requesting the Drink

at that time! The aids complain that it's all she wants to drink. But to me the

most amazing and incredible in addition to all else, is just like my son Tanner

and many speech impaired children in my nonprofit, my Aunt Leona's speech has

come back clear and quicker! She is getting stronger, and is able to talk and

understood again!

And there is something else that is remarkable … Aunt Leona has once again just

recently become positive. All the nurses from Hospice and her aids and family

and friends notice it as it's so dramatic. Aunt Leona no longer complains, no

longer yells " NO! " to offers of help, she talks and you can see the Aunt Leona

that was gone for so long is back again! Still getting stronger after the last

fall Aunt Leona is a bit afraid to try to walk again, but that is the plan.

That's what Aunt Leona wants.

We know from both parental and professional anecdotal feedback through my

nonprofit that nutriiveda is helping children with various neurologically based

conditions including autism, apraxia, seizure disorders, ADHD, TBI etc. But I'm

curious if more people tried it for neurologically based conditions of speech on

the older population if it would be effective as well for large amounts…or just

my Aunt Leona. Right now I'm happy in what's going on with Aunt Leona, and just

wanted to share. If anyone wants to speak with me or the professionals working

with my Aunt Leona –please email me at lisa@... For more information

about nutriiveda and theories as to why it's helping the children using it

please visit http://pursuitofresearch.org/science.html

Thank you Mr. Bill Farley, and all the doctors behind Nutriiveda

http://pursuitofresearch.org/advisors.html You have no idea how thankful I am

for you now not only helping my son Tanner, but helping my Aunt Leona too!

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