Spirit
12-13-2008, 04:22 AM
Hello everyone
I'm not quite sure where to begin so I hope that you'll bear with me if my post is a little unorganized and very long. I'm a little overwhelmed right now as I explain below. I haven't been here on the boards for quite some time, but fortunately it still feels like home.
Several years ago, my mother was diagnosed with sarcoidosis that primarily affects her lungs. (Briefly, it's an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation and formation of granulomas in the lungs and/or other organs. It's not cancer, but the effects/manifestations of it in the lungs and other organs can be similar). Recently, her shortness of breath, dry cough, wheezing, fatigue, and other symptoms have worsened. She is still able to work, drive, care for herself, and (more or less) function normally at this point. However, two days ago she sat our family down and basically told us she knows her time is limited. I mean, she went so far as telling us where to find her important documents, how she would like her finances handled, who she wants to care for the younger children, etc. To say that I was devastated doesn't even begin to describe how I've been feeling. I've been like a zombie during the day and literally just curled up in a ball and cried myself to sleep the past two nights.:(
I immediately brought up raw foods and told her "mom you need to detox!" (She is familiar with the raw lifestyle and did a raw detox before, after which she felt amazing, but I suppose didn’t become a 100% believer). She accused me of having false hope and not wanting to accept the inevitable. Well of course I don’t want to lose the person I love more than anything and I want her to at least try, but I don’t think that’s false hope. I’ve seen the power of a living diet with my own eyes. I’ve felt it in my own body. I’ve seen the glow raw vegans have. I’ve read the testimonies and seen the photos. I know that people have healed themselves of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, almost every disease under the sun with a living food diet. I know and accept that death is an inevitable part of life for all of us. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do all in our power to heal ourselves and have the best quality of life we possibly can while we’re here!
Anyway, to get to the point of my post, I’m reaching out to you in the raw community for ANY information you might have regarding healing/managing sarcoidosis with a raw vegan diet. I’d especially like any testimonials or personal stories that I could share with my mom. She’s incredibly strong-willed which is a gift and curse because she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to, but once she does decide to do something, she’s a force to be reckoned with. So I know that if I can just convince her that raw may just help her heal, we can get started. Information doesn’t just have to be sarcoidosis either. Any autoimmune or inflammatory diseases (lupus, some types of arthritis…) or lung diseases. Any links or places I could possibly find information. No matter how obscure the information so long as it’s related to raw foods. I’m not looking for traditional medical stuff which I already know too much of.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this (if you’ve made it this far LOL). And thank you in advance for helping. Please keep our family in your prayers :)
I'm not quite sure where to begin so I hope that you'll bear with me if my post is a little unorganized and very long. I'm a little overwhelmed right now as I explain below. I haven't been here on the boards for quite some time, but fortunately it still feels like home.
Several years ago, my mother was diagnosed with sarcoidosis that primarily affects her lungs. (Briefly, it's an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation and formation of granulomas in the lungs and/or other organs. It's not cancer, but the effects/manifestations of it in the lungs and other organs can be similar). Recently, her shortness of breath, dry cough, wheezing, fatigue, and other symptoms have worsened. She is still able to work, drive, care for herself, and (more or less) function normally at this point. However, two days ago she sat our family down and basically told us she knows her time is limited. I mean, she went so far as telling us where to find her important documents, how she would like her finances handled, who she wants to care for the younger children, etc. To say that I was devastated doesn't even begin to describe how I've been feeling. I've been like a zombie during the day and literally just curled up in a ball and cried myself to sleep the past two nights.:(
I immediately brought up raw foods and told her "mom you need to detox!" (She is familiar with the raw lifestyle and did a raw detox before, after which she felt amazing, but I suppose didn’t become a 100% believer). She accused me of having false hope and not wanting to accept the inevitable. Well of course I don’t want to lose the person I love more than anything and I want her to at least try, but I don’t think that’s false hope. I’ve seen the power of a living diet with my own eyes. I’ve felt it in my own body. I’ve seen the glow raw vegans have. I’ve read the testimonies and seen the photos. I know that people have healed themselves of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, almost every disease under the sun with a living food diet. I know and accept that death is an inevitable part of life for all of us. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do all in our power to heal ourselves and have the best quality of life we possibly can while we’re here!
Anyway, to get to the point of my post, I’m reaching out to you in the raw community for ANY information you might have regarding healing/managing sarcoidosis with a raw vegan diet. I’d especially like any testimonials or personal stories that I could share with my mom. She’s incredibly strong-willed which is a gift and curse because she doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want to, but once she does decide to do something, she’s a force to be reckoned with. So I know that if I can just convince her that raw may just help her heal, we can get started. Information doesn’t just have to be sarcoidosis either. Any autoimmune or inflammatory diseases (lupus, some types of arthritis…) or lung diseases. Any links or places I could possibly find information. No matter how obscure the information so long as it’s related to raw foods. I’m not looking for traditional medical stuff which I already know too much of.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this (if you’ve made it this far LOL). And thank you in advance for helping. Please keep our family in your prayers :)