Chemar Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 I am thrilled to hear that Sheila will be the speaker at the next general Florida chapter meeting of the Tourette Syndrome Association. The topic will be "Nutritional Supplements and Complementary/Alternative Medicine in Tourette Syndrome" so for those of you in Florida.......here is a chance to hear & learn from Sheila firsthand and thank her personally for this great website and her upcoming book "Tics and Tourette's: Breakthrough Discoveries in Natural Treatments" (scheduled for release in July 2005) You dont have to be a TSA member to attend these meetings Saturday June 18th 2005 @ 1.30pm Howard Johnson Maingate Resort West 8660 West Irlo Bronson Memorial HWY (US 192 west) Kissimmee, FL 34747 The hotel's website is at http://www.orlandohojomaingate.com if anyone needs directions, let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 Thank you for posting about the TSA meeting, Chemar! I'm so looking forward to meeting you after years of an Internet connection. I do hope any other readers who are in the area will try to make it also. Chemar and her son Aaron will be there for a testimonial that should knock the socks off a few people! Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Thank you for posting about the TSA meeting, Chemar! I'm so looking forward to meeting you after years of an Internet connection. I do hope any other readers who are in the area will try to make it also. Chemar and her son Aaron will be there for a testimonial that should knock the socks off a few people! Sheila 8492[/snapback] I would love to make the drive but my wife is working that weekend and we only have one car. Treatments, supplements and alternative diets are expensive. Lucky for me I can walk to work. Now if I only had the energy to power walk to Orlando! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Chemar, How wonderful you and your son will be speaking. You have been such a blessing to so many on this forum, and now sharing your story with many more I hope. Your son must be a remarkable young man to do this. If there is any kind of a video of this event available, I sure would sign up. I hope this event attracts a few from the mainstream medical community! Sheila is right, you'll knock their socks off. Kim Oh mostly mainstream, dah That makes this even better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJS Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Yes, Sheila & Chemar - if there's a video or transcript available after the meeting please let us all know how to access it. Break a leg. Karen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chemar Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Thanks everyone, and a special thanks to Sheila for inviting us to give a testimonial to the effectiveness of alternative treatments. What is going to be most interesting is the fact that my son actually was invited to speak at the 2002 meeting as well.....it was just a few months after he had come off the meds and we had started the alternative therapies....so he was still recovering from those awful med side effects and still ticcing pretty severely, still carrying much of the mass of weight that the haldol had piled on him etc etc...... hee hee just wait till they see him now I so clearly remember that day having parents come up to me and ask if I wasnt scared to risk him off the meds, and how brave we were to try these uncharted courses. I had only recently discovered Latitudes magazine and the ACN website and so gave a number of people the info about it. The forum here was pretty quiet in those days and I didnt actually start posting till some time after that, and only joined as a member almost a year later, once we had seen such dramatic improvement in Aaron that I really wanted to be able to point others in this positive direction. Those were the days even before Bonnie had formulated her own supplement products, and I was developing, with the help of our integrative team of physicians, the supplement program for Aaron based on Bonnie's original plan for her own son....... How far we have come in just 3 years!!!!! I am really looking forward to meeting Sheila and hearing her speak. I am just soooo delighted that the TSA, usually pretty med focussed, is taking this step in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quan_daniel Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 I have spoken to TSA people, nice concern people.. all literatures have only 2 alternative medicine.. biofeedback and brain surgery.. otherwise learn to accept fate as is.. all of us here I am sure would disagree... This should be a wake up call to the rest of the world.. how important our food/water/air supplies are being polluted every days for our next generation to use.. we should buy more organic..eat out less..and treats are not ice creams but carrots.. only then will our kids be better.. I pray for a better future!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear that Sheila, Cheri, Cheri's son will be speaking at the TSA meeting - especially with the real-life success stories they have to offer. TSA is so much about meds, that this is a great, great opportunity to share some other alternatives. If you can open one more mind to the alternatives, then you'll have been successful. But I have a feeling that you will open a lot of minds. I thank you all for doing this, and I so look forward to hearing all about it. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chemar Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Sheila was very warmly received and it was a real treat to hear her speaking firsthand on the many things that we discuss here. She is probably still making the long drive back to her home, but she was surrounded by folks wanting to know more after the meeting, and graciously stayed on to speak to them one on one. So nice too to meet a really nice lady who reads here tho she doesnt post...HI Lurker To sum it up, a smalll turnout but a BIG impact. I am so delighted to have met Sheila and for my son and I to have been able to give testimony to the truth that there is hope and success to be found in complementary and alternative treatments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted June 20, 2005 Report Share Posted June 20, 2005 The session went well, and Chemar and her son provided the perfect balance with their great story. She also has local contacts for Orlando practitioners which was just what people needed. We could have used hours more--it was a short session, and it takes time just to open people's minds and set the stage. . . but the group was the most receptive I have found. Maybe the time has finally come for larger numbers of people to start understanding this approach! The response was quite encouraging. Sheila (THANKS CHEMAR!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted June 21, 2005 Report Share Posted June 21, 2005 Sounds like a really positive outcome. Thanks a ton to all 3 of you for making the effort. Who knows what impact you might have had on at least several individuals, if not the entire organization...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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