Lesa and Pam 9-10-08

This picture was taken today. Lesa has come to stay with me for a little while. She arrived at my home with Vicky one of her friends on Saturday 9-6-08 barely able to walk and was really stressed out. I think that being stressed out and food diet had  a lot to do with her MS attack. Today is Wednesday, and Lesa is walking and signing so much better. I thought it was the coolest thing to see her walk up 5 steps today without using her hands to move her legs up each step. Every day is a good day.

I changed Lesa’s diet completely. Sunday I did not serve anything with Gluten or Dairy in it basically it was not planned, just happened that way. On Monday, I served breakfast, gave Lesa gluten free granola cereal mix with organic skim milk and when she was done eating, she became very stiff and was not walking hardly at all. I thought oh boy. She said that she felt her legs were swollen but they did not look swollen. I told Lesa that I think she is having an allergy reaction to dairy and that she needed to stop drinking and eating anything with dairy in it.

Today I served breakfast, gluten free granola cereal with rice milk and Lesa was fine. I eliminated all dairy from her diet and she is eating no gluten. I noticed such a big difference in her already. I still believe that food allergies can cause MS attacks. As I have said this before, it is so important to keep a journal of everything that you eat, and how you are feeling by the end of the day. Very crucial.

Lesa admitted to me that she does eat a very poor junk-food diet. She realizes now that staying with me for a little while, a big difference in the way she is feeling. I think that eliminating stress and the wrong foods can make all the difference in the world.

Another thing I told her that she needs to think about herself. No more worrying about what other people are doing and what other people think. I think it is so important to eliminate all the negativity and stress and this helps release tension and makes the body relax. When someone is so stressed out it causes the body to tense up and things do not function right. I think she is realizing this now.

Hopefully Lesa will be on the path to healing and by staying with me for a couple of weeks might just change things. I am learning about this myself. I think helping her is helping me to realize how important taking care of yourself is especially when you have MS.