No problem. 🙂 When it stops raining (finally! Rain! First time this month!) I’ll hunt through my archive boxes in the shed. Looks like the rain is here for a couple days.

As for seeds and gardening generally… I’ll defer to the expert, LadyMin! I’ll point her to this thread when I see her later. 🙂

Prevention is always better than cure! And there are many good reasons for a healthy good-food diet. And having your own is good exercise too. Of course, it does depend a lot on where you are. If you get long freezing winters like LadyMin…. it’s pretty tough! But doable. 🙂

Cheers! 😀

(Of course – no offense given, none taken. Different equipment, same clay)

And Bryan (again, sorry to be a comment-thread-hog) – any sites you especially recommend? I don’t even know IF my kidneys are trashed yet, but If not – I’d like to prevent it. I’ve taken advantage of their good services too much already to mess around. Same request to anyone, of course.

One thing about organic gardening – most seeds I’ve run across anywhere seem to be ‘treated’ with something or other. Good, bad, stupid, smart? I have no clue – Mr. Andante always just grabs something on display at the local hardware store.

I think it’s a good idea these days to grow your own food anyway. From an economic and nutritional (and even a therapeutic) standpoint, it can’t be beaten. 🙂

BTW, Stress is the 2nd biggest problem. So try not to get stressed about it all! Many people have survived these problems. Take time out to be normal and have a laugh! 🙂

Ummm… Good luck Grrrl? 😉 😀

I did find a workable solution (kinda!) 😀

I got some of those big plastic drums (making SURE they had nothing toxic in them!) that you can buy cheaply, cut about a half section off (leaving the ends intact), and made a wooden stand for the drum on the side. I planted tomato’s, bean’s and cucumbers in two of them. 🙂

Best thing you can do is get a good worm farm! Seriously! LOL

You can also grow herbs and small things in hanging planters etc. Parsley is very good. 🙂

I’ll see if I can find my old (written) notes for you. 🙂

You’ll do fine! 🙂

And yeah – diet. The garden is in it’s planning stages. Without more land, we can’t raise much, but I can be on the lookout for some good source of organic, natural foods. A little difficult in this area.

And as long as I leave the gardening alone and leave it to Mr. Andante, we may get something out of it. I am a gardening jinx of the highest order.

I’d had a BMT (bone marrow transplant) in the early ’90’s. What they don’t mention until later is that you only have (or had back then) an average of 7 to 9 years to live. It’s the drugs mainly they put me on after. They caused a great strain on the liver etc.

The thing I learned is… ALWAYS get a 2nd and 3rd opinion! Do your own research (believe me… some Doctors are useless and out of date), and don’t ignore alternative therapies with a proven track record.

When I found out how bad things were, I stopped drinking anything other than pure water, and ate organic foods as much as possible. I eventually found a good (but expensive) Naturopath, who put me on a whole new diet regime. It worked. I’m still here. The liver will repair itself if you give it a chance. The Doctors will say the the kidneys won’t, but that’s not true. Mine did, and my thyroid also. 🙂

I have a very dear friend who is the chief Pharmacist at a large Hospital here, she’s been there 30 years. She says she and her staff spend most of their time following Doctors to make sure they aren’t going to kill a patient with the wrong medication or dose. Seriously. The drug companies lie to Doctors, and the Doc’s believe them. Pharmacists know better! 🙂

Hope that helps a bit. 🙂

Good luck man! It’s a hard road, but you can do it! You just need to have great reason to live. 🙂

No clue yet what damage might have occurred – of course, I am hoping for “none”. I have one of those 2-cup Pyrex measuring cups, and I measure every drop I put in my mouth.

I’ve already lost five pounds. I’m eating the normal too-much food. It’s all that extra fluid that my kidneys couldn’t handle. That’s what I call a ‘bonus’!

Bryan: LOL Well, I am sure you could write a book on the subject! I know I read many reports about it all! I have a few stories myself. 😉 Eg, I learned how to drink vodka and give the proper toast to Markovitz’s etc. by a Russian diplomat in exchange for teaching him some of the Aussie rules of etiquette! He would take me to a wonderful Russian family owned restaurant in Sydney called Rasputin’s, and I’d take him to one of my favorite places. Thankfully, due to a misspent youth and my Grandfather, I could drink like a Russian without getting drunk (which was forbidden of course!) We both knew where and how that information would be used, but figured it was a fair trade. And it was fun trying to catch each other out! As it happened, he wanted to live here, so he was very useful. To paraphrase my Mother, “you get more useful info from a foreign agent with kindness, patience and honesty than with torture”. LOL Yep! The good ol’ days indeed!