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[Claire]

Robin, efgh, jean, ronna

 

Robin,

 

That is so funny about your son wanting to email me!

 

You can tell him that my son gets a lot to substitute for the TV time. That his friends actually think he is a little spoiled because I took him to Great America (no. Calif. amusement park) 23 times last season (season's pass made it affordable) and I drive him to skate parks every weekend. Plus I have bought him a ton of CD's/book tapes, and comic books. I constantly set up meetings with his friends or invite them over. We play a lot of family games too. In other words, we 'overcompensate' for no TV.

 

I told my son of your son's comment about sending me an email and he said 'All right!" Then I told him that your son couldn't have wheat OR corn and he said he felt sorry for him too (my son really misses wheat). Also please let you son know that while my son watched TV, he couldn't have chocolate (due to a ticcing reaction), but with the TV change, he can now have it without any problems.

 

Anyway, soon enough they will have 100 hz TV's (Philips is making them), and everyone will have LCD monitors on their computers and it may not matter anymore.

 

efgh, jean, ronna

 

efgh, jean--Speaking of TV, How are your sons doing with no TV? Do they mind? Glad your son is getting better Jean, sorry you seem to have caught something too. My stomach flu should be gone by tomorrow morning--I actually ate a small dinner. My son lost 5 pounds, and he is a trim kid! (some is only water but I don't like that either)

 

Ronna, How limited is Kurt's TV these days? Also, you said your practioner suspected leaky gut due to the antibiotics Did treating for yeast show some improvement, or was in more the food/TV elimination?

 

My goodness, so many sons, just like the statistics say!!

 

Claire

[Guest Jean]

Clarie,

 

If I would give my son choices, he definitely would choose watching TV. BUT, he never asks for it these days. I let him watching TV 3 days during his sick time. His eye rolling got worse. So I stopped it. I told him that I still don't like him to watch TV. He said he understood. I feel sorry for him. I have to keep buying new stuff for him (i.e., board games, pokemon cards, books, etc.).

 

Good to hear that both you and your son are doing fine now. Yes, I'm having very bad cough especially at night (but it's not pneumonia). I visited my doctor today and was told that I'm having sinus infection (funny, I don't feel anything). I'm on antibiotics now. I guess that I have been concerning about my son too much, so that I totally ignore myself. All mothers here should also take care of yourself!

[Guest ronna]

Hi Claire,

 

Kurt is doing well. The BIGGEST differnce is for sure eliminating dairy, eggs, chocolate and corn. My overall feeling is that the "allergies" are a result of the year of antibiotics so I am hopeful that someday he can tolerate these foods again. I have not noticed much difference from using the herbal GI or grape seed extract. In the next few weeks we are going to do some stool samples to see if he does have an overgrowth of something.

 

Kurt watches a limited amount of TV and it for sure makes a difference. Mostly, I just don't turn the TV on and he doesn't ask for it. I try and keep him busy with other stuff. He was never a big TV watcher in the first place. I really appreciated your posts on this subject as I don't think I would have thought of it otherwise.

 

Ronna