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Saved From Dialysis
One day Lauri, a young mother in her early
twenties, came to our meeting with a heavy heart. "I've just been to
the doctor and they want to put me on a dialysis machine. One of my
kidneys is barely functioning."
Ever since she heard the news, Lauri has
been troubled with thoughts of dying and leaving her husband and
three-year-old daughter behind. "The doctors aren't very hopeful. They
want me to resign myself to a life of dependency on a machine. There
must be an alternative to just growing steadily worse."
"What about eating large quantities of
parsley?" we asked. "It is a natural cleanser for the kidneys and a
great diuretic."
"No, I don't think a diuretic is what I
need," Lauri said sadly. "The doctor has had me on prescription
diuretics for over a year and they are just not doing any good."
We kept talking with Lauri and finally at
one point she said, "What do I have to lose? What if I just start
feasting on parsley. It couldn't hurt."
 After the meeting, she was inspired to buy
a dozen bunches of parsley. Lauri told us, "Parsley is cheap and I
didn't really have an appetite to eat much of anything else. I
started eating parsley morning, noon and night. I washed it and
then just ate it raw, except for the tough stems. I tried to drink at
least a half gallon of water every day, too. Someone told me about
Green Drinks, which would probably have been good, but I just didn't
have the energy or desire to blend up even a simple drink."
After a week of eating parsley, drinking
lots of water, and eating an occasional apple or banana, she arrived
at the doctor's office. The doctor was amazed. "Your kidneys have
certainly improved. They are functioning much better, but we still
have you scheduled for the dialysis machine. We better put you on,
just as a precaution," explained the doctor.
Lauri refused the machine and walked out of
the doctor's office, never to return. She went home and just kept
eating parsley, parsley and more parsley.
The next month when she came to our
meeting, she was still eating several bunches of parsley a day. "I
just sit down and eat a bunch of parsley with every meal. Each day my
energy levels are increasing. I'm no longer taking medication. The
doctor gave me a scare that motivated me to change my diet. I quit
drinking coffee and abandoned my addiction to chocolate. Now I
have hope again, after I thought I was on death row." |
