Parkinson's Shmarkinson's

My dad was a mid-western farm boy and basketball player. He has spent his whole life being active and living a healthy lifestyle and two years ago, at age 71, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. We had suspected as much a lot sooner but he is not one to go to doctors so it wasn't until he was forced into reality that he had a name to go with his condition.

The progression of the disease has my father where he has a tremor on half his body, he shuffles when he walks, has difficulty with balance and swallowing poses a real problem as he says that his mouth is always dry. The medication he must take causes severe constipation. It gives him hallucinations as well so sleep is difficult and with prostate problems too, he has to get up multiple times during the night. His body never does get complete rest so he is tired all day....tired and weak. He had lost a considerable amount of weight and he no longer went out for morning walks with his buddies. I was watching my once vibrant father wither away and I felt like there was nothing that I could do.

By now you all know that Reliv came into my life. It had done such wonderful thing for my health that I convinced my dad that he should give it a try. After all, what did he have to lose? Along with his Parkinson's he has a pacemaker and arthritis (bone on bone) so he is dealing with multiple issues. With even the slightest bump he bruises terribly too. Those awful black marks that so many elderly people get.

Well, I put him on Reliv's basic nutrition and then added ProVantage (for his weakened muscles), Reversage (it covers SO much) and Arthaffect. That is quite a lot of product to be taking but he wanted to feel better so rather than complain, he mixes it with ice cream and really ENJOYS his two shakes a day!!! The results to date, and it's been four months,are that his energy is way up and his balance is restored. He no longer bruises as he used to, the color is back in his cheeks, he is swallowing better and has gained 4 pounds and he is back walking with his park buddies again. Now Reliv does not claim to cure anything, but my dad has a quality of life that he did not have a few months ago. At this stage of the game, that is everything.

If you give the body the 'food' that it needs, the body works with all of it's power to try to heal itself. Sometimes the body is too far gone to reverse the damage, but in this case, it helped. If you ask my dad, he is happy again. That is huge!!!!

Why do many people wait until their health is so far gone? Why, when we are in our middle years, do we ignore what our bodies are telling us? When there is something that we can do to prepare our bodies for the aging process, why don't we? You tell me. I can help and I get great pleasure from doing it.

Zippity Do Da

Yesterday Paul and I did our Reliv training in the morning and then headed on out to vist my folks in Congress. My dad has Parkinson's Disease and takes his shakes faithfully to help with all of his symptoms. He was looking pretty good too and had even been out trimming his citrus trees and picking grapefruit. Mama was having trouble with her computer again so got that back on track and it made for a very nice afternoon. She had baked a lemon meringue pie for a treat and after having been on a diet (and losing 35 pounds) it tastes especially good!! My folks have been helping us sell our ATV and since they live in a little retirement community they had us come park it out there for a week to see if we'd have any luck. Well, no takers, but it did give us an excuse to visit a few more times and was not a problem to bring it home and try selling it on Craig's List from here. My dad still likes to get out and have fun and yesterday was no different. Getting that quad in the backend of our truck takes some doing and, zippity do da, they did it!!!

So grateful for any time spent with my loving folks. Life is short so capture each and every moment we can and hold it dearly.....