Zack & Robin's Words of Wisdom for the Day

[Guest guest]

Hi Zack!

When you said, " I have expected that as I overcome Candida I will have good

days and bad days, and I figure that the bad days will eventually get better

or farther

apart. I have a lot of patience and will just keep on doing what is

successful. "

Your words reminded me of how I got over Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 15 years

ago. I was much sicker than I am now with this Candida overgrowth. The

doctors all thought I was crazy. Half the time I thought I was too. I was

embarrassed in front of my friends so I just hid out. I had no choice but to

use simple common sense. Also, I simply couldn't move

My " cure " consisted of patience, rest, and a very simple healthy diet of

extra green vegetables and high quality protein. I showed absolutely no

progress for almost a year and then very gradually the good times got a

little bit longer and the bad times got a little bit shorter. It was an

agonizingly slow process but after a couple of years my body had worked it

out and I was just fine. In fact, I was fine enough to get crazy again and

make myself again pathetic as you see now!

Anyway, I know from that experience that it is ultimately time, patience and

adherence to a strict healthy diet that will cure all of us here.

Best regards,

~Robin

Ps. A quick look back at my note, I see the above words about " time and

patience " sound deceptively simple and peaceful. Within that framework, I

was often overcome with misery, fear, doubt, everything! Each hour seemed a

day long.

But I think that it is that experience that is helping me so much now: I can

separate myself a bit more from the illness and I know deep inside that no

matter how much I worry and despair, if I just stay the course and be

reasonable, I will get well again.

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From: Zack Widup [mailto:w9sz@...]

Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 8:26 AM

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Ordering Pau d'Arco and probiotics

Hi Steve,

Wow! That's a lot of great information. I am blood type O positive. I

have been doing mostly the right things for the last couple months or so.

I will try a couple extra supplements as you mentioned and see if they

help.

I have expected that as I overcome candida I will have good days and bad

days, and I figure that the bad days will eventually get better or farther

apart. I have a lot of patience and will just keep on doing what is

successful.

Zack

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, healthman552003 wrote:

> Zack, here's my two cents worht read and enjoy.

[Guest guest]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the offer of support (and contacts) on the book idea.

Sounds like you are surrounded by an intersting bunch. i gained from

reading about your CFS experience. Yeah people sure don't

understand. I am used to that now (it's been 5 years). I don't even

try to attempt to explain my illness. It's too hard and I find that

it's the only thing I ever end up talking about (boring!).Instead i

smile inside and think about how strong i am. It's certainly a great

way to build character.

I definatley plan to ride motorbikes again. One of my goals is for

my partner and I to tour the USA on sportsbikes. You will have to

join me for part of the trip. I will even find you a nice mechanic

ha ha.

I'm curious were you a TV presenter? or behind the scenes?. I used

to work in the costume/art departments of film and theater (did some

big films which was fun). With the amount of sparys etc I used it's

no wonder I got sick. It's shocking it's all about deadlines forget

the were health and saftey. (wish I knew what i do about chemicals

back then).

I assume you live in the states. Where abouts?. I've never been

there. I did plan to on my world travels but when I got to Austalia

I loved it so much I stayed.

Talk soon,

Baysfit

[Guest guest]

Hi Hazel! Hey, thanks for asking about me. My background was art and

production so I did a lot of different things in television; my main title

ended up as floor director which you probably know is like the stage manager

in theater. I ran live shows for NBC. They were done on location all over

the west coast and Hawaii. As far as I know I was the only female doing this

in the late seventies so I ended up getting some great crazy stuff like

beauty pageants and " celebrity windsurfing " and so on -- they found that

(besides my remarkable talents as one bossy chick) I could go into locker

rooms and yell at the girls to change from swimsuits into evening gowns.

Very stressful but I could work it off physically -- actually thrived on it

-- you know, climbing over rooftops dragging co-axial cable from the

satellite truck to the site. My problem came when they stopped doing so many

live shows on location. Too expensive to produce and so they started running

the stupid syndicated talk shows you see now.)

So then I did computer graphics for the 5,6 and 11 o'clock news when I

wasn't doing the live shows. I inhabited a little " office " they constructed

-- computers were a brand new thing! This tiny room full of huge computers

and little me had no ventilation. It was a former storage closet. After two

years of breathing that infected air while simultaneously surviving three

insane deadlines a day (people really get crazy in broadcast news) I became

gradually so sick I couldn't remember my own phone number. That was my

famous sign and that's when I quit. I went home and lay in bed for a year

with CFS. The illness was probably due to my breathing a good share of spray

glue myself during those frantic (everything was always frantic) shows.

You're on! about the motorcycles and if I get a Ducati I won't need the

mechanic

~Robin

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From: Hazel Trudeau [mailto:baysfit@...]

Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:26 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: Zack & Robin's Words of Wisdom for the Day

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the offer of support (and contacts) on the book idea.

Sounds like you are surrounded by an intersting bunch. i gained from

reading about your CFS experience. Yeah people sure don't

understand. I am used to that now (it's been 5 years). I don't even

try to attempt to explain my illness. It's too hard and I find that

it's the only thing I ever end up talking about (boring!).Instead i

smile inside and think about how strong i am. It's certainly a great

way to build character.

I definatley plan to ride motorbikes again. One of my goals is for

my partner and I to tour the USA on sportsbikes. You will have to

join me for part of the trip. I will even find you a nice mechanic

ha ha.

I'm curious were you a TV presenter? or behind the scenes?. I used

to work in the costume/art departments of film and theater (did some

big films which was fun). With the amount of sparys etc I used it's

no wonder I got sick. It's shocking it's all about deadlines forget

the were health and saftey. (wish I knew what i do about chemicals

back then).

I assume you live in the states. Where abouts?. I've never been

there. I did plan to on my world travels but when I got to Austalia

I loved it so much I stayed.

Talk soon,

Baysfit