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| Lucy |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 12:06:34 AM
Hi, this is Lucy again. Someone asked how I found Farmgirl. I typed in "sharing organic kefir grains", hit "search", and presto, about 5 sites down was Farmagirl, looked good, clicked on it, the rest is history. GGOOOOOODDD history! Ahhh! I can almost feel the sunshine and smell the country air! signing off, your sister Lucy
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| Kim |
Posted - Feb 09 2007 : 03:30:56 AM
My 2 cents, I have IBS and I buy the Kefir drink and it helps A LOT! Plus. lots of water. They make the Kefir drink in lots of yummy flavors.
Blessed Be!
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| Lucy |
Posted - Feb 09 2007 : 01:32:45 AM
Let's see..thanks to all of your comments and welcomes, I am so busy working 40 hours a week, I just got back to the computer here! Don't know how working dad's and mom's ever make it! Maybe I will retire one of these years. 75 is coming up in April, but I feel good, may keep going for a while. Lamamama, I only discovered kefir a few years ago, while studying it on a shelf in the grocery store!, so I can't attribute my beauty (?) and energy secrets to it, but I surely enjoy it. I think my physical well being is due to genetics, learning how to work and work hard when necessary, enjoying life - hubby -relatives - kids - friends - gardening - sailing - traveling - and chiefly blessings from God, etc. I'm suprized I forgot to list, in my ramblings on about myself, what I consider to be a great achievment (as great as conquering the polio), and that was conquering Bells Palsy - that's where the nerve running through your ear that controls your facial muscles gets paralized. You can have babies, recover from a broken arm (broke it at Wal Mart last year- got too gung ho moving the flowers and got a foot in an argument with a table leg - the table won! & tripped myself up), recooperate from major surgery in my 40's, recover nicely from polio, but nothing compares, nothing at all, to getting your face messed up! I was surprised myself at my inner gut reaction. I wonder if I could have taken an accident better. When something sneaks up on you in the night, or broad daylight, and puts your whole mouth off on one side of your face and your eye unable to close, it gets you down deep. I had to fight that monster. Was told by Mayo docs I'd never smile again! I wish they could see me now after me and God got through with me! Ha! It took more than a year, but I made it! If anyone reading this ever finds yourself with Bells Palsy, get yourself to the doc or hospital within 24 hours and get the "shot". I read in documents at Mayos that there is nearly 100% recovery of those who get the shot within 24 hours. Back to kefir! Here I told you all about it and you've been drinking it for about 30 years!
Cindy Lee. Hadn't read your comment and question until tonight, I have a tendency to get addicted to this type of communication especially with people of my own kin! Smile! So I have to cool it now and then! SIiiiggghhh! Yes, yes, yes! Give kefir a chance. I know about irritable bowel syndrom, also crones, which often is first misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrom. Don't mean to scare you to death. Just giving you a head's up. I'm glad, too, that you didn't get diagnosed with cancer! Sometimes the meds they give you for either of those two maladys raise cane with your digestive system by themselves. I'd suggest you go to the store and see if they have it, or try a health food store, and get vanilla flavor, or whatever you like. Peach. Strawberry. Not choclate, if they have it. I suggest you start out with just a tablespoon 3 times aday. You'll have to work hard at not wanting to consume the whole thing in one day! Then increase that to 2 tablespoons the next day. 3 the next, and so on. The reason being to give your stomach and intestines a chance to get used to it. If you didn't have your problem, I'd say help yourself! Smile. You can type in "kefir" in your search line on your computer, and get more info than you can absorb in a whole night and day! I have read testimony that it does help with problems like that. We have good bacteria in our intestines that do all kinds of good stuff, and when they get killed off with antibiotics or flu or some such thing, we get diorhhea, because one of their functions is to keep that from happening! So after a bout of such an illness, they have to get re-established. I have heard that yogurt and kefir do a good job of that. There's a lot more technical stuff to it than that, but if you get into your research on it, you will more than know, or I should say you'll know more that I do! Ha! Also, another heads up: if you smoke, it would be good to stop. Smoking keeps the body from healing very well, and some surgeons in certain types of intricate surgery will make their patients swear on bended knee that they won't smoke - like with limb replacements, etc. So it only stands to reason, that not smoking would help any irritation or rawness of nose, throat, stomach, intestines, etc.
Hey, gals, I gotta go to bed. Now Lamamama and Cindy Lee, I would like you to let me know, via my email, if you have read this. If I don't hear from you very soon, I'll try to email you personally, sometime within the next 2 or 3 years! (smile a LOT!)
This is Lucy signing off one more time.
May the good Lord take a likin' to ya! |
| Cindy Lee |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 5:09:09 PM
I'm always amazed that this group is always talking about subjects that I've been yackin' about with friends or my husband! My husband and I were talking about kefir just last night, I have been having tons of stomach problems (lots of tests being run and they have not found anything) and we think maybe kefir might help. They are thinking maybe irritable bowel or something. The tests that indicated Cancer came out neg. Thank the Lord! What do you guys know about taking it and stomach problems?
Also, WELCOME Lucy!!! Cindy |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 11:29:47 AM
Hey Lucy, welcome aboard.Glad to have you here.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
| lamamama |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 10:54:07 AM
Sorry, Lucy, about that typo! I'd never apply for a job as a typist or secretary..........and yes, I've been looking for the Farmgirl's spell-checker, too. ;)
Well, I've been drinking kefir - off & on - for over 30 years, but had never heard of kefir GRAINS. So, now thanks to you, Lucy, I learned something new today. And you're right - it is great, & better than yogurt. Maybe that is one of your little beauty & energy secrets, eh? I've been in my off phase recently (not surprisingly, got the crud this winter,too), so I think I go get some kefir.
I agree with your words on the idea of luck vs. blessings. So true. And obviously you are a brave soul & supreme survivor! Quite impressive, Lucy! I know we Farmgirls will benefit from your experience & wisdom. |
| Lucy |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 12:09:52 PM
Hey Lamamama, I see you made a typo and typed my name Lucky. Not bad! However, though I don't cotton much to "luck", I surely do believe in blessings, and that I have had abundantly, shaken down, pressed together, and running over. By the way, I survived a SEVERE bout with polio in 1946, had a basicly useless arm (age 14) after 4 1/2 months of intensive therapy and treatment in a hospital, now have full use of my arm. Survived cancer via surgery in my late 40's. Have had minor cancer since. Survived an attack on my husband by intruders in our home in which I drove them off and saved his and all of our lives (won't tell you how right now or everyone would be afraid of me!); survived Alaska (smile!); Survived, survived, survived. Many times, always. But hey! Are they valleys or mountain peaks? I say mountain peaks. The finest of steel is made of the hammer and high heat. I'm sure we'd all like a little less heat and hammering at times, but hey, I like to think of it as the makings of a fine product! That's not too bad to think of ones self as such, however, we are cautioned in life to not toot your own horn but let someone else do it! But all that stuff, you can let it make you or break you. I choose to stay intact! So, I better stop with that, but life's been GOOD! REAL Good! So many many blessings. Every day, day in and day out. Take care now. Lucy signing out once again!
May the good Lord take a likin' to ya! |
| Lucy |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 11:57:03 AM
Hello Lamamama, my niece in Minnesota is a lamamama too, plus turkey mama, midget horsemama, and a lit ---hmmm- don't know how to spell that word, littany? - of mamas of various sorts and sundries. Is there a spell checker on this site somewhere, anyone? Anyhooo, search on your computer, type in kefier, and you will have more than you can handle. If you want to narrow it down, type in "Sharing organic kefir grains". Somewhere in there you will find a guy's name. Shoot! I can't remember it now, but you can tell by looking at the list that he looks pretty knowlegeable, and he is. Hails from Europe, I believe. Otherwise, kefir tastes a bit and feels a bit like yogurt thinned out a bit, only it is supposed to be better for you. Man, things are going too fast here, but again, if you click on my name and get my profile, I believe there is a post in there relating to kefir. Other than that, go to the store (go to the bank first), and buy a quart of kefir. Better try a good foods or health foods or organic foods first or make a call to the general store and see if they carry it. Buy a quart. $5. Don't just zap it down, let each mouthful linger and savor its feel and mild tangy --mmmmMMMM! flavor! Again, you will have more than you can handle, and guarantee, you will become addicted! So unless you are a millionaire or want to make your own, SSTAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY AWWAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! Don't say I didn't warn you! By the way, you shouldn't engage in more than 1/4 cup a day until you see how your tummy goes along with it. After the firt 1/4 cup, lock the rest in a cabinet and send the key away, or throw it away so you will have to wait until the next day for more. You better make sure that's a disposable cabinet, in case you won't be able to control yourself! But don't say I didn't warn you! ;) :) Love ya all, your sis Lucy signing out. Have a good day. Better yet, MAKE it a good day!
May the good Lord take a likin' to ya! |
| lamamama |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 09:11:11 AM
Hello again, Lucky!
Thanks for telling us how you found the Farmgirls :) Now I have to ask, what are organic kefir grains, & what do you do with them?
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Jan 28 2007 : 06:39:42 AM
Hi Sister Lucy, good you found us. Always great to find a sister. MB
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