Wow Azurite, thank you so much for your encouragement. I know we go through things for a reason- but getting to this point of learning has come with a large price tag...financially, as well as physically, emotionally, and mentally. With no health insurance, close to $30,000 in medical bills (including gall bladder surgery, which I'm now sure was unnecessary, had I known what to do then); medical Dr's telling me "you just have a fatty liver, go home and lose 20# and come back in 4 months", the medical Dr. that told me the stones I'd flushed "couldn't have come from the liver, and couldn't have been gall stones", but wanted to put me on anti-depressant's; extreme chronic fatigue; and the frustration of knowing my liver hurt, but no one being able to tell me the reason...to the point of feeling like maybe I was just a hypochondriac, and that I should just live with it, and that having a healthy, active life was a thing of the past.

Yet, that spirit inside that you mentioned, knew different. I knew I was in bad shape, and I knew I was at a critical point. And when you hit that point that you are willing to do whatever it takes, it's a definite, conscious decision. It's amazing how strong-willed you can be when you know it's a matter of survival. For 10 weeks, after discovering the foods/drinks that could be adding to the toxic state of the liver, I made a definite, conscious decision, that I was going to be aware of everything I was eating/drinking, and if it wasn't "liver friendly", it wouldn't go into my body.

We're literally watching my husband's ex-wife dying ever so slowly right now. 51 years of age- she knew she'd been full of gallstones for years- had her gall bladder out 2 years ago- they told her she'd been so full of stones that they floated out when the laproscopic surgery was done..thought one was stuck in the bile duct, so the next day they went in and slit the bile duct..yet found no stone. She has acute Pancreatitis- and she's literally starving to death, can't keep anything down, or if she does eat anything it goes right through her. She drinks one or two things of Ensure a day, and even in the state she's in, would never give up her diet Pepsi.. weighs about 70#. Because of Medical Dr's about killing her, literally, she has no faith in anyone. Medical Dr's had a latex feeding tube in her...she reacted to the latex, got a horrible infection..they put sulpha intervenously...it said right in her charts that she was allergic to sulpher. She's been in and out of the hospitals regularly. She was accepted to the Mayo Clinic, but insurance fought it. What she said the Mayo Clinic thought the problem was- was that when the gallstones had floated out during the surgery- that she has embedded gall stones in her liver..and even though we've told her about the liver flush results I've had, with no gall bladder and definite stones in my liver, we couldn't get her to try it. It may have saved her life, literally.

I think it's a sad example of a person not willing to take care of themselves before it turns into a medical situation that probably could have been turned around years ago
....but then when it did turn into a medical crisis, in trying to get help through the medical Dr's, what they did do only made things worse, not better. Once a person has lost that will to survive, it's pretty hard to convince them to try the "Alternatives" that may have prevented the whole catastrophe to begin with. But, there's alot of stubborness in people...unwillingness to make any kind of changes, or "give up" things. Like my Grandmother...who would take off her oxygen because of emphysema, to smoke her cigarette.


Thank goodness the body can heal, with the right tools, and with the understanding, but there definetly has to be the will to make the necessary changes too.

Azurite - you do know a lot - I guess I will just continue what I am doing and complete the pre cleanse kit and then proceed to a liver flush - then I intend to go on the O.J. fast except AI will use apple cider instead since oranges don't grow around here and I'm trying to stay as local as possible.

I was never constipated or anything and I usually have had one or two eliminations a day but barefoot suggests one for each meal and I used to have that ten years ago or so.

I have a friend who uses a rife machine - does it kill all the bacteria and parasites including the good with the bad? I know barefoot has a film about it on his web site - I am curious... Barefoot says that the Hulda Clark machine does that I think.

There is so much to learn about all this!

thanks for your responses.

awebaby