Health update

Saw Doc Holly again on Monday. We spent two hours with her, going over my options, checking my symptoms, and talking about remedies and diet. Unfortunately, I can't start my regular regiment yet b/c I have a head cold (same as Kate) and she wanted to treat my acute symptoms first before giving me other things. She sent me home with two Chinese herbal formulas and told me to buy Super 8 Probiotic at the health food store. We also talked about Kate and her frequent colds. For Kate, Holly gave us a child's herbal called Windbreaker. It is a liquid - we are dosing her 4x a day. Plus she said to get a probiotic for Kate also.

For diet recommendations, for both Kate and myself, she said to cut WAY BACK on sugar and get all the antibiotics out of our diet, ie. eat only organic meats and dairy. She told us to really read labels and look at how many grams of sugar various things have in them. She told us yogurt with added fruit is as bad as ice cream and suggested we feed Kate plain yogurt sweetened with applesauce instead. Also, she would like us to get juice out of Kate's diet. She gets it at school, so not much we can do there, but we can cut way back at home.

For me, she suggested lots of fresh vegetables and less fruit and less dairy. Plus of course all really bad sugar like cookies or Coke must go.

After less than 48 hours of dosing myself with the herbs for my cold, I started to feel better. Kate has not gotten as sick as she usually does. There has been no nighttime coughing, which she usually gets with these colds.

I am very excited about going forward. I see Holly again next Wed the 4th - will get a 3rd accupunture treatment and hopefully be ready for some other herbs.