Thanks! so much. I am reading your dietary posts with great interest and I will tell you why. I have already eliminated a lot of foods from my life yet I still feel that there are dietary things which are irritating me. Since I have to assume that if something dietary is irritating me it is probably something I like and eat alot of. DAMN YOU FOOD!

I am going to Mayo clinic on Dec. 20 where I really feel like I am getting the best care possible. I will get a prescription for a nutritionist.

I think the Mayo Clinic is doing a good job. That is despite the fact that the operation was largely a failure. At least I can get a coordinated response from a group of specialists who are on a salary. After their direction I can come back to the island and have my therapy more directed. Any serious therapy is two hours from here.

I will have no problem eating a different food or largely just one food if it will help. The only problem I have is caffeine with is the only only dependable and easy to regulate analgesic that I can depend on. Other than that I have no fear of orthodoxy.

I know that spiritual orthodoxy and discipline are the things I have to instill myself with to maintain my mortal frame now.

The theory that is working for me is that discipline and orthodoxy is what cures the spiritual person despite faith. Faith is what keeps that person on track and believing in the good results and faith itself is "a cure in and of itself" because faith makes disease irrelevant. But when you are looking for a cure, orthodoxy and discipline to some extent make faith irrelevant.

So in my world adopting the best diet and nutrition for myself is key and after that I am more free meet whatever dour god visited this dilemma on me on more equal terms.