– Appendix J – (from Appendix I, page 139) ’I believe Dad’s trauma never healed because his nerves didn’t properly heal. He didn’t eat raw meat. And he ate a lot of salt, which causes high blood pressure in the brain (the main reason for headaches).’ I worked with people who had long histories of…
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We Want To Live – Appendix I
– Appendix I – (from page 64) ’Ben and Margaret seem encouraged. Ben wipes the sweat off of Jeff’s brow. Jeff would love to be aware of this. He has always resented Ben’s aloofness.’ I remember my childhood and think how wonderful it would have been if aloofness were my only complaint about my father.…
We Want To Live – Appendix H
– Appendix H – (from page 53) ’One of Jeff’s neurologists arrives on morning rounds. We introduce ourselves. I suddenly realize my blood sugar is very low. My brain doesn’t have enough blood sugar to remember his difficult name from the instant it leaves his mouth. I go back to the anteroom and get some…
We Want To Live – Appendix G
– Appendix G – (from page 52) ’Willy returns and says good-bye. Everyone seems laconic. They are probably exhausted from six stressful days.’ To ensure that my high adrenaline level didn’t overtake, irritate or exhaust me, I ate some starch. I had a taste for raw pistachio nuts with raw butter, raw egg and unheated…
We Want To Live – Appendix F
– Appendix F – (from page 40) ’“I’m afraid, too. Yet, I’m certain that excellent health and raw (live) foods are as connected as falling and gravity. The doctor said if you ate anything it would make you worse. Your abdomen didn’t swell and bruise from the raw food mixture. It has given you strength.…
We Want To Live – Appendix E
– Appendix E – (from page 39) ’I blended one raw fertile egg, one tomato, 2 tablespoons unsalted raw butter and two heaping tablespoons of unheated honey. It also regulates fever.’ I would have substituted raw plain kefir (a liquid yogurt) in place of the butter, to replenish her intestinal flora destroyed by the antibiotics,…
We Want To Live – Appendix D
– Appendix D – (from page 27) ’I leave my blender and food in the car and we walk toward the hospital. The smell of wet grass and drying pavement remind me of the damp day I entered a hospital for my first traumatic stay. A chill passes through me. It was early spring, the…
We Want To Live – Appendix C
– Appendix C – (from page 20) ’The standard approach is to attack virus and germs (bacteria and other microbes) with medical drugs and poisons to stop them. These drugs simultaneously attack, destroy and deteriorate the body. Drugs are like bombs, they most often kill, cripple, harm or destroy everything within their influence. They cause…
We Want To Live – Appendix B
– Appendix B – (from page 12) ’I get up, get dressed, eat and drive to a health food store to get the survival supplies I know I won’t find in stores outside of California.’ Commercially available unpasteurized raw fresh dairy products are outlawed in most states except California. Every state health department is administered…
We Want To Live – Appendix A
– Appendix A – (from page 10) ’I wish we had known then that if a mother is on a healthy diet, breast-feeding would have resolved the problem. The doctors steered us away from breast-feeding. The consciousness seemed to be that breast-feeding was unsanitary, primitive and disgusting. Consequently Jeff suffered for twelve months. We suffered…