With the busy-ness of my life, I haven’t blogged in a while. Today, however, as I thought about Thanksgiving, my mind turned to MS.
On a personal level, it has been 13 years since my major MS attack which took me to full disability in nine short months. It is now over 12 years that I have been on the diet and 9 since I experienced full recovery. I still follow the diet, though not as carefully as I once did, reaping the benefit of greater health. I’ve fallen off my exercise regime, but plan to return to one since I feel the difference. In short, MS plays no particular role in my life now.
Except through the website and e-mails that Judi and I vowed to maintain and faithfully answer. It is very rewarding. One man recently wrote, “thank you for giving me my life back”, another wrote praising us for “starting a revolution.” Much as I would love to take credit for this, I can’t. The truth is that the first man reclaimed his own life and we did not start anything, rather with the book we are merely messengers about the MS Recovery Diet. The truth is that this is a movement of all of us, with a lot of momentum as seen in the still top selling status of the book after over 2 years on the market, despite having no institutional support. That means it is my word of mouth that so many people are finding their way to the diet, your recoveries are a big part of that grass roots message.
The miracle is all of us, everyone one of you who is reading this message. With each recovery word spreads, amazingly far and wide, inspiring more people to follow the diet to their own recovery and on it goes. We are hearing from people around the world and from the most surprising places. As more and more people recover, and it is happening now, the institutions can no longer ignore the diet. So, to all of you I say, let everyone know about how you recovered and name that much feared disease openly.
I am so grateful for my recovery and my daughters. In my imagination, I can see where the two of us would have been, nursing homes, if not for the diet. More, I am grateful for being a part of this movement which is bigger than any of us and which has already done so much good with more to come.